Snare
Part of speech: noun
Definition: A trap made from a loop of wire, string, or leather. A mental or psychological trap; usually in the phrase a snare and a delusion. A loop of cord used in obstetric cases, to hold or to pull a fetus from the mother animal. A set of chains strung across the bottom of a drum to create a rattling sound. A snare drum.
Part of speech: verb
Definition: to catch or hold, especially with a loop.
Example sentence: A man who fails is funny... if my sketches teach anything, it is that, for the male, sex is a snare and a delusion. What's so corrupting about that?
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: In life there is nothing more unexpected and surprising than the arrivals and departures of pleasure. If we find it in one place today, it is vain to seek it there tomorrow. You can not lay a trap for it.