Synonyms of the word

snare

• n. A trap made from a loop of wire, string, or leather.
• n. (rare) A mental or psychological trap; usually in the phrase a snare and a delusion.
• n. (veterinary) A loop of cord used in obstetric cases, to hold or to pull a fetus from the mother animal.
• n. (music) A set of chains strung across the bottom of a drum to create a rattling sound.
• n. (music) A snare drum.
• v. To catch or hold, especially with a loop.

capture

• n. An act of capturing; a seizing by force or stratagem.
• n. The securing of an object of strife or desire, as by the power of some attraction.
• n. Something that has been captured; a captive.
• n. The recording or storage of something for later playback.
• n. (computing) A particular match found for a pattern in a text string.
• v. To take control of; to seize by force or stratagem.
• v. To store (as in sounds or image) for later revisitation.
• v. To reproduce convincingly.
• v. To remove or take control of an opponent’s piece in a game (e.g., chess, go, checkers).

catch

• n. (countable) The act of seizing or capturing.
• n. (countable) The act of catching an object in motion, especially a ball.
• n. (countable) The act of noticing, understanding or hearing.
• n. (uncountable) The game of catching a ball.
• n. (countable) A find, in particular a boyfriend or girlfriend or prospective spouse.
• n. (countable) Something which is captured or caught.
• n. (countable) A stopping mechanism, especially a clasp which stops something from opening.
• n. (countable) A hesitation in voice, caused by strong emotion.
• n. (countable, sometimes noun adjunct) A concealed difficulty, especially in a deal or negotiation.
• n. (countable) A crick; a sudden muscle pain during unaccustomed positioning when the muscle is in use.
• n. (countable) A fragment of music or poetry.
• n. (obsolete) A state of readiness to capture or seize; an ambush.
• n. (countable, agriculture) A crop which has germinated and begun to grow.
• n. (obsolete) A type of strong boat, usually having two masts; a ketch.
• n. (countable, music) A type of humorous round in which the voices gradually catch up with one another; usually…
• n. (countable, music) The refrain; a line or lines of a song which are repeated from verse to verse.
• n. (countable, cricket, baseball) The act of catching a hit ball before it reaches the ground, resulting…
• n. (countable, cricket) A player in respect of his catching ability; particularly one who catches well.
• n. (countable, rowing) The first contact of an oar with the water.
• n. (countable, phonetics) A stoppage of breath, resembling a slight cough.
• n. Passing opportunities seized; snatches.
• n. A slight remembrance; a trace.
• v. (heading) To capture, overtake.
• v. (heading) To seize hold of.
• v. (heading) To intercept.
• v. (heading) To receive (by being in the way).
• v. (heading) To take in with one's senses or intellect.
• v. (heading) To seize attention, interest.
• v. (heading) To obtain or experience.

design

• n. A plan (with more or less detail) for the structure and functions of an artifact, building or system.
• n. A pattern, as an element of a work of art or architecture.
• n. The composition of a work of art.
• n. Intention or plot.
• n. The shape or appearance given to an object, especially one that is intended to make it more attractive.
• n. The art of designing.
• v. (transitive) To plan and carry out (a picture, work of art, construction etc.).
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To plan (to do something).
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To assign, appoint (something to someone); to designate.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To mark out and exhibit; to designate; to indicate; to show; to point out; to appoint.

drum

• n. A percussive musical instrument spanned with a thin covering on at least one end for striking, forming…
• n. Any similar hollow, cylindrical object.
• n. In particular, a barrel or large cylindrical container for liquid transport and storage.
• n. (obsolete or historical) A social gathering or assembly held in the evening.
• n. (architecture) The encircling wall that supports a dome or cupola.
• n. (architecture) Any of the cylindrical blocks that make up the shaft of a pillar.
• n. A drumfish.
• n. (slang, Britain) A person's home.
• n. (Australia slang) A tip, a piece of information.
• v. (intransitive) To beat a drum.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To beat with a rapid succession of strokes.
• v. (transitive) To drill or review in an attempt to establish memorization.
• v. To throb, as the heart.
• v. To go about, as a drummer does, to gather recruits, to draw or secure partisans, customers, etc.; used…

ensnare

• v. To entrap; to catch in a snare or trap.
• v. To entangle; to enmesh.

entice

• v. (transitive) To lure; to attract by arousing desire or hope.

entrap

• v. (transitive) To catch something in a trap or snare.
• v. (transitive) To lure someone, either into a dangerous situation, or into performing an illegal act.

gin

• n. A colourless non-aged alcoholic liquor made by distilling fermented grains such as barley, corn, oats…
• n. (uncountable) Gin rummy.
• n. (poker) Drawing the best card or combination of cards.
• n. (obsolete) A trick; a device or instrument.
• n. (obsolete) Contrivance; artifice; a trap; a snare.
• n. A snare or trap for game.
• n. A machine for raising or moving heavy objects, consisting of a tripod formed of poles united at the top,…
• n. (mining) A hoisting drum, usually vertical; a whim.
• n. A pile driver.
• n. A windpump.
• n. A cotton gin.
• n. An instrument of torture worked with screws.
• v. (transitive) To remove the seeds from cotton with a cotton gin.
• v. (transitive) To trap something in a gin.
• v. (archaic) To begin.
• n. (Australia, now considered offensive) An Aboriginal woman.

hook

• n. A rod bent into a curved shape, typically with one end free and the other end secured to a rope or other…
• n. A fishhook, a barbed metal hook used for fishing.
• n. Any of various hook-shaped agricultural implements such as a billhook.
• n. (informal) A ship's anchor.
• n. That part of a hinge which is fixed to a post, and on which a door or gate hangs and turns.
• n. A loop shaped like a hook under certain written letters, e.g. g and j.
• n. (music) A catchy musical phrase which forms the basis of a popular song.
• n. A brief, punchy opening statement intended to get attention from an audience, reader, or viewer, and make…
• n. A tie-in to a current event or trend that makes a news story or editorial relevant and timely.
• n. (informal) Removal or expulsion from a group or activity.
• n. (cricket) A type of shot played by swinging the bat in a horizontal arc, hitting the ball high in the…
• n. (baseball) A curveball.
• n. (software) A feature, definition, or coding that enables future enhancements to happen compatibly or more…
• n. (golf) A golf shot that (for the right-handed player) curves unintentionally to the left. See draw, slice,…
• n. (basketball) A basketball shot in which the offensive player, usually turned perpendicular to the basket,…
• n. (boxing) A type of punch delivered with the arm rigid and partially bent and the fist travelling nearly…
• n. (slang) A jack (the playing card).
• n. (typography, rare) A háček.
• n. (Scrabble) An instance of playing a word perpendicular to a word already on the board, adding a letter…
• n. (bowling) A ball that is rolled in a curved line.
• n. (bridge, slang) A finesse.
• n. A snare; a trap.
• n. A field sown two years in succession.
• n. (in the plural) The projecting points of the thighbones of cattle; called also hook bones.
• n. (geography) A spit or narrow cape of sand or gravel turned landward at the outer end, such as Sandy Hook…
• v. (transitive) To attach a hook to.
• v. (transitive) To catch with a hook (hook a fish).
• v. (transitive) To work yarn into a fabric using a hook; to crochet.
• v. (transitive) To insert in a curved way reminiscent of a hook.
• v. (transitive) To ensnare someone, as if with a hook.
• v. (Britain, US, slang, archaic) To steal.
• v. (transitive) To connect (hook into, hook together).
• v. (usually in passive) To make addicted; to captivate.
• v. (cricket, golf) To play a hook shot.
• v. (rugby) To succeed in heeling the ball back out of a scrum (used particularly of the team's designated…
• v. (field hockey, ice hockey) To engage in the illegal maneuver of hooking (i.e., using the hockey stick…
• v. (soccer) To swerve a ball; kick a ball so it swerves or bends.
• v. (intransitive, slang) To engage in prostitution.
• v. (Scrabble) To play a word perpendicular to another word by adding a single letter to the existing word.
• v. (bridge, slang) To finesse.
• v. (transitive) To seize or pierce with the points of the horns, as cattle in attacking enemies; to gore.
• v. (intransitive) To move or go with a sudden turn.

lure

• n. Something that tempts or attracts, especially one with a promise of reward or pleasure.
• n. (fishing) An artificial bait attached to a fishing line to attract fish.
• n. A bunch of feathers attached to a line, used in falconry to recall the hawk.
• n. A velvet smoothing brush.
• v. To attract by temptation etc.; to entice.
• v. To recall a hawk with a lure.

membranophone

• n. (music) Any musical instrument that produces sound via the vibration of a stretched membrane.

noose

• n. An adjustable loop of rope, e.g. the one placed around the neck in hangings, or the one at the end of…
• v. (transitive) To tie or catch in a noose; to entrap or ensnare.

plan

• n. A drawing showing technical details of a building, machine, etc., with unwanted details omitted, and often…
• n. A set of intended actions, usually mutually related, through which one expects to achieve a goal.
• n. A two-dimensional drawing of a building as seen from above with obscuring or irrelevant details such as…
• n. A method; a way of procedure; a custom.
• n. A subscription to a service; e.g., a phone plan, an internet plan.
• v. (transitive) To design (a building, machine, etc.).
• v. (transitive) To create a plan for.
• v. (intransitive) To intend.
• v. See plan on.
• v. (intransitive) To make a plan.

string

• n. (countable) A long, thin and flexible structure made from threads twisted together.
• n. (uncountable) Such a structure considered as a substance.
• n. (countable) Any similar long, thin and flexible object.
• n. A thread or cord on which a number of objects or parts are strung or arranged in close and orderly succession;…
• n. (countable) A cohesive substance taking the form of a string.
• n. (countable) A series of items or events.
• n. (countable) In various games and competitions, a certain number of turns at play, of rounds, etc.
• n. (countable, computing) An ordered sequence of text characters stored consecutively in memory and capable…
• n. (music, countable) A stringed instrument.
• n. (music, usually in the plural) The stringed instruments as a section of an orchestra, especially those…
• n. (in the plural) The conditions and limitations in a contract collecively.
• n. (countable, physics) The main object of study in string theory, a branch of theoretical physics.
• n. (slang) Cannabis or marijuana.
• n. Part of the game of billiards, where the order of the play is determined by testing who can get a ball…
• n. The points made in a game of billiards.
• n. (billiards, pool) The line from behind and over which the cue ball must be played after being out of play,…
• n. A strip, as of leather, by which the covers of a book are held together.
• n. (archaic) A fibre, as of a plant; a little fibrous root.
• n. (archaic) A nerve or tendon of an animal body.
• n. (shipbuilding) An inside range of ceiling planks, corresponding to the sheer strake on the outside and…
• n. (botany) The tough fibrous substance that unites the valves of the pericarp of leguminous plants.
• n. (mining) A small, filamentous ramification of a metallic vein.
• n. (architecture) A stringcourse.
• n. (dated, slang) A hoax; a fake story.
• v. (transitive) To put (items) on a string.
• v. (transitive) To put strings on (something).
• v. (intransitive) To form into a string or strings, as a substance which is stretched, or people who are…

tempt

• v. (transitive) To provoke someone to do wrong, especially by promising a reward; to entice.
• v. (transitive) To attract; to allure.
• v. (transitive) To provoke something; to court.

trammel

• n. Whatever impedes activity, progress, or freedom, as a net or shackle.
• n. A fishing net that has large mesh at the edges and smaller mesh in the middle.
• n. A kind of net for catching birds, fishes, or other prey.
• n. A set of rings or other hanging devices, attached to a transverse bar suspended over a fire, used to hang…
• n. A net for confining a woman's hair.
• n. A kind of shackle used for regulating the motions of a horse and making him amble.
• n. (engineering) An instrument for drawing ellipses, one part of which consists of a cross with two grooves…
• n. A beam compass.
• v. To entangle, as in a net.
• v. (transitive) To confine; to hamper; to shackle.

trap

• n. A machine or other device designed to catch (and sometimes kill) animals, either by holding them in a…
• n. A trick or arrangement designed to catch someone in a more general sense; a snare.
• n. A covering over a hole or opening; a trapdoor.
• n. A wooden instrument shaped somewhat like a shoe, used in the game of trapball.
• n. The game of trapball itself.
• n. Any device used to hold and suddenly release an object.
• n. A bend, sag, or other device in a waste-pipe arranged so that the liquid contents form a seal which prevents…
• n. A place in a water pipe, pump, etc., where air accumulates for want of an outlet.
• n. (historical) A light two-wheeled carriage with springs.
• n. (slang) A person's mouth.
• n. (in the plural) Belongings.
• n. (slang) A cubicle (in a public toilet).
• n. (sports) Trapshooting.
• n. (computing) An exception generated by the processor or by an external event.
• n. (Australia, slang, historical) A mining license inspector during the Australian gold rush.
• n. (US, slang, informal, African American Vernacular) A vehicle, residential building, or sidewalk corner…
• n. (slang, informal, chiefly derogatory, offensive) A non-op trans woman or (femininely dressed) transvestite.
• n. A kind of movable stepladder.
• n. (music) A fusion genre of hip-hop and electronic music.
• v. (transitive) To physically capture, to catch in a trap or traps, or something like a trap.
• v. (transitive) To ensnare; to take by stratagem; to entrap.
• v. (transitive) To provide with a trap.
• v. (intransitive) To set traps for game; to make a business of trapping game.
• v. (intransitive) To leave suddenly, to flee.
• v. (US, slang, informal, African American Vernacular, intransitive) To sell narcotics, especially in a public…
• v. (computing, intransitive) To capture (e.g. an error) in order to handle or process it.
• n. A dark coloured igneous rock, now used to designate any non-volcanic, non-granitic igneous rock; trap…
• v. To dress with ornaments; to adorn (especially said of horses).
• n. (slang, bodybuilding) The trapezius muscle.

tympan

• n. (printing) A piece of cloth padding placed under the platen of a letterpress to distribute the pressure…
• n. (music) The stretched membrane of a drum.
• n. (music) A percussion instrument consisting of a hollow cylinder with such a membrane at each end.
• n. (architecture) A tympanum.