TRAPPING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does trapping mean? 

• TRAPPING (noun)
  The noun TRAPPING has 1 sense:

1. stable gear consisting of a decorated covering for a horse, especially (formerly) for a warhorse

  Familiarity information: TRAPPING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TRAPPING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Stable gear consisting of a decorated covering for a horse, especially (formerly) for a warhorse

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

caparison; housing; trapping

Hypernyms ("trapping" is a kind of...):

saddlery; stable gear; tack (gear for a horse)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "trapping"):

bard (an ornamental caparison for a horse)

horsecloth (a cloth for the trapping of a horse)

 Context examples 

Even so, the concentration of heat-trapping carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is still on the rise.

(World's forests increasingly taking up more carbon, National Science Foundation)

Overall, emissions of all heat-trapping greenhouse gases have amplified the warming impact on the planet by more than one third since 1990.

(Warming due to carbon dioxide jumped by half in 25 years, NOAA)

Speech produced by trapping air in the esophagus and forcing it out again.

(Esophageal speech, NCI Dictionary)

The trapping efficiency — the ability to accumulate water ice — is also comparable.

(Dawn Maps Ceres Craters Where Ice Can Accumulate, NASA)

Interacting with p65 (RELA), widely expressed 36-38kDa unphosphorylated cytoplasmic ANK-repeat human I Kappa B Proteins A/B/E (NFKBI Family) inhibit NF-Kappa-B, trapping it in the cytoplasm.

(I Kappa B, NCI Thesaurus)

By complexing with and trapping NF-Kappa-B in the cytoplasm, unphosphorylated NFKBIB inhibits and likely regulates NFKB.

(I-Kappa-B-Beta, NCI Thesaurus)

It was easy to see, as he approached, from the quality of his dress and the richness of his trappings, that he was a man of some wealth and position.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

NF-kB is inhibited by IkB proteins (NFKBIA or NFKBIB), which inactivate NF-kB by trapping it in the cytoplasm.

(NF-kB, NCI Thesaurus)

By complexing with and trapping NF-Kappa-B in the cytoplasm, NFKBIE inhibits and likely regulates NFKB.

(I-Kappa-B-Epsilon, NCI Thesaurus)

By complexing with and trapping NFKB in the cytoplasm, unphosphorylated NFKBIA inhibits NFKB target gene transcription in cell adhesion, immune and proinflammatory responses, apoptosis, differentiation, and growth.

(I Kappa B-Alpha Protein, NCI Thesaurus)