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TRAPPING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Stable gear consisting of a decorated covering for a horse, especially (formerly) for a warhorse
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("trapping" is a kind of...):
saddlery; stable gear; tack (gear for a horse)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "trapping"):
bard (an ornamental caparison for a horse)
horsecloth (a cloth for the trapping of a horse)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb trap
Context examples:
In addition, Cassini's Composite Infrared Spectrometer instrument will map areas on the icy moon that have unusual thermal anomalies — those regions are especially good at trapping heat.
(Cassini to Make Last Close Flyby of Saturn Moon Dione, NASA)
In a business-as-usual scenario where heat-trapping carbon emissions are left uncontrolled, the glacier loss could extend to two-thirds, exposing the black rock of the ice-covered mountains.
(Bulk of Himalayan glaciers could vanish by 2100, SciDev.Net)
However, the presence of hydrogen led to a faster cooling of the shock-heated gas, trapping nitric oxide, the precursor of nitrate, at elevated temperatures where its yield was higher.
(Asteroids, Hydrogen Make Great Recipe for Life on Mars, NASA)
In frontotemporal dementia and ALS, the proteins become permanently stuck as abnormally dense gels, trapping the RNA and making it unavailable for use.
(Mechanism behind neuron death in motor neurone disease and frontotemporal dementia discovered, University of Cambridge)
Although there is much less of it in the air, it is 33 times more effective than carbon dioxide at trapping heat in the atmosphere and adding to greenhouse warming.
(Alaska Shows No Signs of Rising Arctic Methane, NASA)
The team then incorporated graphene oxide (GO) flakes into the bacterial nanocellulose while it was growing, essentially trapping GO in the membrane to make it stable and durable.
(Novel Technology Uses Bacteria for Cleaning Water, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
He worked on in the daze, strangely detached from the world around him, feeling like a familiar ghost among these literary trappings of his former life.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
The origami pattern "has structural bistability that could be harnessed for metamaterials used in energy trapping or other microelectronic devices."
(Saddle-shaped origami enables new microelectronic applications, National Science Foundation)
You want love to have long-term implications, for you are ready to build a loving foundation for your life with all the trappings that come with commitment—a loving marriage, the purchase of property, greater security, and possibly the arrival and joy of children.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
I would as soon see you, Mr. Rochester, tricked out in stage-trappings, as myself clad in a court-lady's robe; and I don't call you handsome, sir, though I love you most dearly: far too dearly to flatter you.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
