Difference between Bunker and Trap

What is the difference between Bunker and Trap?

Bunker as a noun is a hardened shelter, often buried partly or fully underground, designed to protect the inhabitants from falling bombs or other attacks. while Trap as a noun is a machine or other device designed to catch (and sometimes kill) animals, either by holding them in a container, or by catching hold of part of the body.

Bunker

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A hardened shelter, often buried partly or fully underground, designed to protect the inhabitants from falling bombs or other attacks. A large container or bin for storing coal, often built outside in the yard of a house. Now rare, as different types of fuels and energy sources are being used. A container for storing coal or fuel oil for a ship's engine. A sand-filled hollow on a golf course. An obstacle used to block an opposing player's view and field of fire.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To load a vessel with oil or coal for the engine. To hit a golfball into a bunker. To fire constantly at a hiding opponent, preventing them from firing at other players and trapping them behind the barrier. This can also refer to eliminating an opponent behind cover by rushing the position and firing at extremely close range as the player becomes exposed.

Example sentence: From a good lie in the middle of a fairway bunker, I'll make the same swing as I do from an average fairway lie. I'll dig my feet in slightly and keep my lower body stable so I won't slip, but I don't change my club selection or setup. It's only when the ball is sitting down in the sand that I'll make some modifications.

Trap

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To catch in a trap or traps; as, to trap foxes.To ensnare; to take by stratagem; to entrap.To provide with a trap; as, to trap a drain; to trap a sewer pipe.To set traps for game; to make a business of trapping game; as, to trap for beaver.To leave suddenly, to flee.To capture (e.g. an error) in order to handle or process it.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A machine or other device designed to catch (and sometimes kill) animals, either by holding them in a container, or by catching hold of part of the body.A trick or arrangement designed to catch someone in a more general sense.A covering over a hole or opening; a trapdoor.A wooden instrument shaped somewhat like a shoe, used in the game of trapball; the game of trapball itself.Any device used to hold and suddenly release an object.A bend, sag, or other device in a waste-pipe arranged so that the liquid contents form a seal which prevents the escape of noxious gases, but permits the flow of liquids.A place in a water pipe, pump, etc., where air accumulates for want of an outlet.A light two-wheeled carriage with springs.A kind of movable stepladder.A persons' mouth.(plural) belongingsA transvestite, a man that one engages in a relationship with, believing him to be a woman.An exception generated by the processor.A mining license inspector during the Australian gold rush.A dark coloured igneous rock, now used to designate any non-volcanic, non-granitic igneous rock; trap rock.

Example sentence: I remember very vividly, as a child growing up in England, living through the Cuban Missile Crisis. For a few days, the entire biosphere seemed to be on the verge of destruction. And the same weapons are still here, and they're still armed. If we avoid that trap, others are waiting for us.

We hope you now know whether to use Bunker or Trap in your sentence.

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