trapping

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A: I am not a cardiologist, but your cat-trapping is at best premature.

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  1. noun An ornamental covering or harness for a horse; a caparison. Often used in the plural.
  2. noun Articles of dress or adornment, especially accessories.
  3. noun Characteristic or symbolic signs: all the trappings of power.

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  • The machine did show some electron trapping, and made some pretty glows, but suffered high electron losses due to the fact that magnets of this type have lines of flux going into their faces. —  AnalogSFF,January-February2008
  • A: I am not a cardiologist, but your cat-trapping is at best premature. —  RutlandHerald.com
  • Until camera trapping is an ongoing process, the usefulness of this amazing software will be limited —  BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition
  • Although, you could probably act on the exception with a distributed call, the error-trapping is always essentially performed in the same process. —  Ian Bicking: a blog
  • He does a little trapping, they say, but spends most of his time studying animated nature. —  The Boy Scouts of Lenox
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