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# honeypot

«honeypot» in Mova's school dictionary: **A pot for keeping honey** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a honeypot, honeypots)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A pot for keeping honey. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/honeypot/#m1)

2) (informal) A place or thing that attracts lots of people, like bees to honey: a tourist honeypot. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/honeypot/#m2)

3) (computers) A trap set up to catch hackers by pretending to be an easy target. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/honeypot/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In stories Winnie-the-Pooh keeps his honey in honeypots. In geography lessons a «honeypot site» is a popular place that gets crowded with visitors, which can cause traffic, litter and damage. Phrases: «honeypot site», «tourist honeypot».

### examples

- Pooh had his head stuck in a honeypot. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/honeypot/#x1)
- The village is a honeypot for tourists in summer. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/honeypot/#x2)
- Honeypot sites need car parks and bins. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/honeypot/#x3)
- The bear licked the honeypot clean. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/honeypot/#x4)
- The company set up a honeypot to catch hackers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/honeypot/#x5)

### note

One word (sometimes «honey pot»). In geography «honeypot» is a key term for tourism problems.

### In the corpora

- [Some honeypot ant workers swell with sweet liquid and hang from the nest roof like living jars, storing food for hard times.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/238-ants-colonies-queens-farmers-and-living-bridges/16/)
- [Honeypot ants turn some workers into living jars of sweet liquid.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/304-ants-of-the-world-weaver-ants-bullet-ants-honeypot-ants-and-trap-jaw-ants/3/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «honeypot» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/honeypot/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.