Formed when water pours over the top of a submerged object, or underwater ledges, causing the surface water to flow back upstream toward the object.
Synonyms
Examples for "trap"
Examples for "trap"
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The Roman opened the trap-door in the ground in order to descend.
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Conclusions: Results strongly encourage the use of BG-trap for collecting host-seeking An.
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So let us also use him to help us set our trap.
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They often booby trap areas under their control before leaving, complicating return.
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He closed and bolted the trap-door in the floor of the tower.
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Side brushes theoretically help bring debris closer into the vacuum's hungry maw.
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So much for the measure of the maw of the circulating library.
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It was bad enough seeing the open maw for the first time.
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It had been swallowed up in China's cavernous maw, that was all.
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The grinding of stone announced the jackal's maw grating open once more.
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The pug caught sight of his pyjama legs and began to yap.
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Toby started barking, not his usual annoying yap but proper furious barks.
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I keep it nice because if I didn't, the neighbors would yap.
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He certainly behaved like a yap then, if you get my meaning.
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Nothin' to talk about here much more excitin' than a coyote's yap.
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As it happens, we're still looking at Jagger's gob 50 years on.
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You were looking at at a pretty gob stopping endurance event, right?
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He sprang from concealment, almost embracing the young gob in his delight.
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It showed the utter unselfishness of the American doughboy, gob, and leatherneck.
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There it was, simple and painful as a smack in the gob.
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And he stuffed the rest down his cakehole quick smart.
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Lolz, shizzle and cakehole are among 6,500 new words added to the existing quarter of a million in the latest Collins Scrabble word list.
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Note the entrance; a vertical hole in the snow in the foreground
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Not a break in the ceiling; not a hole in the floor.
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At the bottom cut a hole in the edge, about 4 in.
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In the country the after-birth can be buried in a deep hole.
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I'll insult him; drill a hole in him; my honour requires it.
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The bow-string holding the stick made it whirl in the hole beneath.
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The rest he folded and placed in the hole under the money.
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Through the hole I saw the oil-lamp shining in the outer room.
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Then the gaze of Eradicate traveled to the hole in the roof.
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Egypt's black-hole economy is potentially the kingdom's most expensive foreign policy commitment.
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Then all the mice came scampering from the hole in the wall.
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I groped in the direction of the sounds, feeling for the hole.
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The hole slanted downward, and the bullet was embedded in the porch.
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A coke fire can be made in a hole in the ground.
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He observed a little hole rusted in the running-board of the motor.
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He looked again at the hole in the ground and swore painedly.
