mouse trapとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

mousetrap (複数形 mousetraps)

1. Device for capturing or killing mice and other rodents.
2. (computing) A website designed to open another copy of itself when the user tries to close the webpage. Frequently used by advertisers and pornographers.
3. (Business studies) Hypothetical product used in economic projections.

   But what happens if they build a better mousetrap?

4. (主に英国用法) Ordinary, everyday cheese

動詞

to mousetrap (三人称単数 現在形 mousetraps, 現在分詞 mousetrapping, 過去形および過去分詞形 mousetrapped)

1. (figuratively) To trap; to trick or fool (someone) into a bad situation.
   • 1988, James McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom, Oxford 2004, p. 724:

     He hoped to bring the rebels out of their trenches for a showdown battle somewhere south of the Wilderness, that gloomy expanse of scrub oaks and pines where Lee had mousetrapped Joe Hooker exactly a year earlier.

アナグラム

• superatom

語源

From Middle English mouse-trappe, mous trappe, mouse trape, equivalent to mouse +‎ trap. Cognate with Dutch muizetrap, muizentrap (“mousetrap”), German Low German Muustrappe, Muustrapp (“mousetrap”). In the Internet sense, refers to a computer mouse.

発音

• enPR: mous'trăp, IPA^(key): /ˈmaʊsˌtɹæp/

名詞

mousetrap (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 mousetraps)

1. (countable) A device for capturing or killing mice and other rodents.
2. (countable, Internet) A website designed to open another copy of itself when the user tries to close the webpage. Frequently used by advertisers and pornographers.
3. (chiefly Britain, informal, uncountable) Ordinary, everyday cheese.
4. (New Zealand) A slice of bread or toast topped with cheese and then grilled or microwaved.
5. (military, historical) An antisubmarine rocket used mainly during World War II by the US Navy and US Coast Guard.
   • 2003, Nautical Research Journal, volume 48, page 199:

     Besides depth charges, they were armed with smaller forward firing antisubmarine rocket launchers called mousetraps. Fired in groups, these rockets detonated when they contacted a submarine.

同意語

• (device for capturing または killing mice または rodents): mousefall

派生語

• build a better mousetrap

動詞

mousetrap (三人称単数 現在形 mousetraps, 現在分詞 mousetrapping, 過去形および過去分詞形 mousetrapped)

1. (figuratively) To trap; to trick or fool (someone) into a bad situation.
   • 1988, James McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom, Oxford, published 2004, page 724:

     He hoped to bring the rebels out of their trenches for a showdown battle somewhere south of the Wilderness, that gloomy expanse of scrub oaks and pines where Lee had mousetrapped Joe Hooker exactly a year earlier.

2. (Internet, transitive) To prevent (the user) from leaving a website by opening another copy when it is closed.
   • 2005, Armando Ang, Greed & Scams, Inc:

     The scammer is paid for each new visitor directed to his site. There is nothing wrong except that the user finds it impossible to leave the site because he is mousetrapped.

アナグラム

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