snap
from
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
snap
n 1: the act of catching an object with the hands; "Mays made
the catch with his back to the plate"; "he made a grab for
the ball before it landed"; "Martin's snatch at the bridle
failed and the horse raced away"; "the infielder's snap and
throw was a single motion" [syn: {catch}, {grab}, {snatch},
{snap}]
2: a spell of cold weather; "a cold snap in the middle of May"
3: tender green beans without strings that easily snap into
sections [syn: {snap bean}, {snap}]
4: a crisp round cookie flavored with ginger [syn: {gingersnap},
{ginger snap}, {snap}, {ginger nut}]
5: the noise produced by the rapid movement of a finger from the
tip to the base of the thumb on the same hand; "servants
appeared at the snap of his fingers"
6: a sudden sharp noise; "the crack of a whip"; "he heard the
cracking of the ice"; "he can hear the snap of a twig" [syn:
{crack}, {cracking}, {snap}]
7: a sudden breaking
8: the tendency of a body to return to its original shape after
it has been stretched or compressed; "the waistband had lost
its snap" [syn: {elasticity}, {snap}] [ant: {inelasticity}]
9: an informal photograph; usually made with a small hand-held
camera; "my snapshots haven't been developed yet"; "he tried
to get unposed shots of his friends" [syn: {snapshot},
{snap}, {shot}]
10: a fastener used on clothing; fastens with a snapping sound;
"children can manage snaps better than buttons" [syn:
{snap}, {snap fastener}, {press stud}]
11: any undertaking that is easy to do; "marketing this product
will be no picnic" [syn: {cinch}, {breeze}, {picnic},
{snap}, {duck soup}, {child's play}, {pushover}, {walkover},
{piece of cake}]
12: the act of snapping the fingers; movement of a finger from
the tip to the base of the thumb on the same hand; "he gave
his fingers a snap"
13: (American football) putting the ball in play by passing it
(between the legs) to a back; "the quarterback fumbled the
snap" [syn: {centering}, {snap}]
v 1: utter in an angry, sharp, or abrupt tone; "The sales clerk
snapped a reply at the angry customer"; "The guard snarled
at us" [syn: {snap}, {snarl}]
2: separate or cause to separate abruptly; "The rope snapped";
"tear the paper" [syn: {tear}, {rupture}, {snap}, {bust}]
3: break suddenly and abruptly, as under tension; "The pipe
snapped" [syn: {snap}, {crack}]
4: move or strike with a noise; "he clicked on the light"; "his
arm was snapped forward" [syn: {snap}, {click}]
5: close with a snapping motion; "The lock snapped shut"
6: make a sharp sound; "his fingers snapped" [syn: {snap},
{crack}]
7: move with a snapping sound; "bullets snapped past us"
8: to grasp hastily or eagerly; "Before I could stop him the dog
snatched the ham bone" [syn: {snatch}, {snatch up}, {snap}]
9: put in play with a snap; "snap a football"
10: cause to make a snapping sound; "snap your fingers" [syn:
{snap}, {click}, {flick}]
11: lose control of one's emotions; "When she heard that she had
not passed the exam, she lost it completely"; "When her baby
died, she snapped" [syn: {break down}, {lose it}, {snap}]
12: bring the jaws together; "he snapped indignantly"
13: record on photographic film; "I photographed the scene of
the accident"; "She snapped a picture of the President"
[syn: {photograph}, {snap}, {shoot}]
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Snap \Snap\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Snapped}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Snapping}.] [LG. or D. snappen to snap up, to snatch; akin
to G. schnappen, MHG. snaben, Dan. snappe, and to D. snavel
beak, bill. Cf. {Neb}, {Snaffle}, n.]
1. To break at once; to break short, as substances that are
brittle.
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Breaks the doors open, snaps the locks. --Prior.
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2. To strike, to hit, or to shut, with a sharp sound.
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3. To bite or seize suddenly, especially with the teeth.
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He, by playing too often at the mouth of death, has
been snapped by it at last. --South.
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4. To break upon suddenly with sharp, angry words; to treat
snappishly; -- usually with up. --Granville.
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5. To crack; to cause to make a sharp, cracking noise; as, to
snap a whip.
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MacMorian snapped his fingers repeatedly. --Sir W.
Scott.
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6. To project with a snap.
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7. (Cricket) To catch out sharply (a batsman who has just
snicked a bowled ball).
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{To snap back} (Football), to roll the ball back with the
foot; -- done only by the center rush, who thus delivers
the ball to the quarter back on his own side when both
sides are ranged in line.
{To snap off}.
(a) To break suddenly.
(b) To bite off suddenly.
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from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Snap \Snap\, v. i.
1. To break short, or at once; to part asunder suddenly; as,
a mast snaps; a needle snaps.
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But this weapon will snap short, unfaithful to the
hand that employs it. --Burke.
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2. To give forth, or produce, a sharp, cracking noise; to
crack; as, blazing firewood snaps.
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3. To make an effort to bite; to aim to seize with the teeth;
to catch eagerly (at anything); -- often with at; as, a
dog snapsat a passenger; a fish snaps at the bait.
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4. To utter sharp, harsh, angry words; -- often with at; as,
to snap at a child.
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5. To miss fire; as, the gun snapped.
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6. Of the eyes, to emit sudden, brief sparkles like those of
a snapping fire, as sometimes in anger.
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from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Snap \Snap\, n. [Cf. D. snap a snatching. See {Snap}, v. t.]
1. A sudden breaking or rupture of any substance.
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2. A sudden, eager bite; a sudden seizing, or effort to
seize, as with the teeth.
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3. A sudden, sharp motion or blow, as with the finger sprung
from the thumb, or the thumb from the finger.
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4. A sharp, abrupt sound, as that made by the crack of a
whip; as, the snap of the trigger of a gun.
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5. A greedy fellow. --L'Estrange.
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6. That which is, or may be, snapped up; something bitten
off, seized, or obtained by a single quick movement;
hence, a bite, morsel, or fragment; a scrap.
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He's a nimble fellow,
And alike skilled in every liberal science,
As having certain snaps of all. --B. Jonson.
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7. A sudden severe interval or spell; -- applied to the
weather; as, a cold snap. --Lowell.
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8. A small catch or fastening held or closed by means of a
spring, or one which closes with a snapping sound, as the
catch of a bracelet, necklace, clasp of a book, etc.
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9. (Zool.) A snap beetle.
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10. A thin, crisp cake, usually small, and flavored with
ginger; -- used chiefly in the plural.
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11. Briskness; vigor; energy; decision. [Colloq.]
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12. Any circumstance out of which money may be made or an
advantage gained. [Slang]
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13. Any task, labor, set of circumstances, or the like, that
yields satisfactory results or gives pleasure with little
trouble or effort, as an easy course of study, a job
where work is light, a bargain, etc. [Slang, Chiefly U.
S.]
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14. A snap shot with a firearm.
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15. (Photog.) A snapshot.
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16. Something of no value; as, not worth a snap. [Colloq.]
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17. (Football) The action of snapping the ball back, from the
center usu. to the quarterback, which commences the play
(down), and, if the clock had stopped, restarts the timer
clock; a {snap back}.
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{Snap back} (Football), the act of snapping back the ball.
{Snap beetle}, or {Snap bug} (Zool.), any beetle of the
family {Elateridae}, which, when laid on its back, is able
to leap to a considerable height by means of a thoracic
spring; -- called also {snapping beetle}.
{Snap flask} (Molding), a flask for small work, having its
sides separable and held together by latches, so that the
flask may be removed from around the sand mold.
{Snap judgment}, a judgment formed on the instant without
deliberation.
{Snap lock}, a lock shutting with a catch or snap.
{Snap riveting}, riveting in which the rivets have snapheads
formed by a die or swaging tool.
{Snap shot}, a quick offhand shot, without deliberately
taking aim.
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from
Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003)
snap
v.
To replace a pointer to a pointer with a direct pointer; to replace an
old address with the forwarding address found there. If you telephone
the main number for an institution and ask for a particular person by
name, the operator may tell you that person's extension before
connecting you, in the hopes that you will snap your pointer and dial
direct next time. The underlying metaphor may be that of a rubber band
stretched through a number of intermediate points; if you remove all
the thumbtacks in the middle, it snaps into a straight line from first
to last. See {chase pointers}.
Often, the behavior of a {trampoline} is to perform an error check
once and then snap the pointer that invoked it so as henceforth to
bypass the trampoline (and its one-shot error check). In this context
one also speaks of snapping links. For example, in a LISP
implementation, a function interface trampoline might check to make
sure that the caller is passing the correct number of arguments; if it
is, and if the caller and the callee are both compiled, then snapping
the link allows that particular path to use a direct procedure-call
instruction with no further overhead.
from
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)
SNAP
<language> 1. An early ({IBM 360}?) interpreted
text-processing language for beginners, close to basic
English.
["Computer Programming in English", M.P. Barnett, Harcourt
Brace 1969].
2. ["Some Proposals for SNAP, A Language with Formal Macro
Facilities", R.B. Napper, Computer J 10(3):231-243, 1967].
[Same as 1?]
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from
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)
snap
1. <programming> To remove indirection, e.g. by replacing a
{pointer} to a pointer with a pointer to the final target (see
{chase pointers}).
The underlying metaphor may be a rubber band stretched through
a number of points; if you release it from the intermediate
points, it snaps to a straight line from first to last.
Often a {trampoline} performs an error check once and then
snaps the pointer that invoked it so subsequent calls will
bypass the trampoline (and its one-shot error check). In this
context one also speaks of "snapping links". For example, in
a {Lisp} implementation, a function interface trampoline might
check to make sure that the caller is passing the correct
number of arguments; if it is, and if the caller and the
callee are both compiled, then snapping the link allows that
particular path to use a direct procedure-call instruction
with no further overhead.
[{Jargon File}]
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2. <operating system> {snap dump}.
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from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
609 Moby Thesaurus words for "snap":
Photostat, Telephoto, Wirephoto, X-ray, Xerox, a continental,
a curse, a damn, a darn, a hoot, abrupt, ad-lib, adaptability,
aerial photograph, aggressiveness, alertness, animation,
articulate, attack, automatic, awaken, bagatelle, bang, bar, bark,
bark at, barricade, bash, bat, batten, batten down, bauble, bawl,
beak, bean, bellow, belt, bibelot, biff, bit, bite, bitter weather,
black-and-white photograph, blare, blat, bleak weather, blubber,
bolt, bolus, bonk, boom, bounce, bounciness, bowl, brass farthing,
bray, breach, break, break off, break open, break up, breathe,
breeze, briskness, brush, buckle, bunt, buoyance, buoyancy, burst,
bust, butt, button, button up, buzz, cackle, calotype,
candid photograph, capture, capture on film, cast, casual,
catapult, catch, caught napping, caught off balance, caught short,
cent, champ, chant, chaw, check, cheer up, cheesecake, chew, chip,
chirp, choke, choke off, chomp, chronophotograph, chuck, chunk,
cinch, clack, clap, clasp, cleat, cleave, click, clip, clobber,
close, close up, clout, clump, clutch, cold snap, cold wave,
cold weather, coldcock, color, color photograph, color print,
come apart, come around, come round, come unstuck, constrict,
contain, contemn, contract, coo, cover, crack, cracking, crackle,
crackling, crepitate, crepitation, crow, cud, curio, cursory, cut,
dab, dart, dash, deal, deal a blow, deck, decrepitate,
decrepitation, defy, depth of winter, deride, diapositive, disdain,
disintegrate, dismiss, disregard, dovetail, drawl, drive,
easy target, easy thing, elan, elasticity, energy, enterprise,
exclaim, exfoliate, expeditious, extemporaneous, extemporized,
extensibility, fall to pieces, farce, farthing, fasten, fastening,
feather, festinate, fetch, fetch a blow, feverish, fig, fillip,
film, fire, fissure, fleabite, flexibility, flick, fling, flip,
flirt, flout, flush, flute, flying, fold, fold up, folderol, fork,
fracture, freeze, freezing weather, fribble, frippery, frost,
frown, furious, gasp, gaud, get, get-up-and-go, gewgaw, gimcrack,
ginger, give, give away, give way, glare, glower, gnarl, gnash,
gob, grab, grasp, graze, growl, grumble, grunt, gut, guts, hair,
halfpenny, haphazard, hard winter, hasp, hasty, heave, heliochrome,
heliograph, hill of beans, hinge, hiss, hit, hit a clip, hitch,
hook, hotness, hurl, hurried, hurtle, ignore, ill-advised,
ill-considered, ill-devised, immediate, impromptu, improvised,
inadvertent, incautious, indeliberate, initiative, instant,
instantaneous, interval, involuntary, jab, jam, jerk, jest, joint,
joke, keen, key, kick, kickshaw, knickknack, knickknackery, knock,
knock cold, knock down, knock out, lance, lash out at, last-minute,
latch, launch, let fly, let have it, lilt, liveliness, lob, lock,
lock out, lock up, look daggers, lower, lug, lunge at, lurch,
make off with, makeshift, mantle, microfilm, minikin, miter, mock,
mockery, molehill, montage, morsel, mortise, mouthful, mug,
mug shot, mumble, munch, murmur, mutter, nail, nibble, nip,
nippiness, occlude, on the spot, padlock, pan, pant, part, pass,
passing, paste, pat, peck, peg, pelt, pep, pepper, peppercorn,
pepperiness, period, perk up, photo, photobiography,
photochronograph, photograph, photomap, photomicrograph,
photomontage, photomural, picayune, pick, picnic, picture, pie,
piece of cake, pin, pinch of snuff, pinprick, pinup, pipe,
piss and vinegar, pitch, pitchfork, pizzazz, pluck, plumb, plunk,
poke, poop, pop, portrait, pounce on, pounce upon, precipitate,
prompt, punch, push, pushover, put, put the shot, quick, quid,
rabbet, raciness, radiograph, rap, rash, raw weather, rebound,
recover, red cent, redden, reflex, reflexive, relish, resilience,
resiliency, responsiveness, revive, rivet, roar, roentgenograph,
rough-and-ready, row of pins, rumble, rupture, rush, scale, scarf,
scorn, scowl, scream, screech, screw, seal, seal off, seal up,
secure, seize, separate, serve, setup, sew, shit, shoot, shot,
shriek, shut, shut the door, shut up, shy, sibilate, sigh,
sinecure, sing, sitting duck, sizzling, skewer, slam, slap-bang,
slapdash, slide, sling, slog, slug, smack, smite, snap at,
snappiness, snapping, snapshoot, snapshot, snarl, snatch,
snatch at, sneeshing, snip, snort, soak, sob, sock, soft,
soft touch, sou, sparkle, speedy, spell, spice, spiciness, spit,
spitting, split, spontaneous, sprightliness, spring, spring a leak,
springiness, spunk, squall, squawk, squeal, squeeze shut, staple,
starch, start, stick, still, still photograph, stitch, strangle,
straw, stretch, stretchability, stretchiness, strike, strike at,
subzero weather, sudden, superficial, surprised, swallow, swat,
swift, swipe, tack, take a photograph, take away, taken aback,
taken by surprise, taken unawares, talbotype, tang, tanginess, tap,
telephotograph, throw, thrust, thump, thunder, thwack, tickle,
tilt, tip, toggle, tone, tonicity, tonus, toss, touch, toy,
transparency, trifle, trinket, tripped up, triviality, trumpet,
tuppence, twang, twitch, two cents, twopence, unadvised,
unarranged, unbegun, uncalculated, unconcocted, unconscious,
unconsidered, uncontrived, undeliberate, undeliberated, undesigned,
undevised, unhatched, unintended, unintentional, unmade,
unmanufactured, unmeditated, unorganized, unplanned,
unpremeditated, unprepared, unprimed, unready, unstudied, unwilled,
urgent, vellicate, velvet, verve, vigor, vim, vitality, wail,
wake up, wallop, warble, wave, wedge, whack, wham, whim-wham,
whine, whisk, whisper, whop, winter, wintry weather, wintry wind,
yank, yap, yawp, yell, yelp, yerk, zero weather, zest, zestfulness,
zing, zip, zip up, zipper
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