snap, crack
(verb) break suddenly and abruptly, as under tension; “The pipe snapped”
snap
(verb) close with a snapping motion; “The lock snapped shut”
snap, snarl
(verb) utter in an angry, sharp, or abrupt tone; “The sales clerk snapped a reply at the angry customer”; “The guard snarled at us”
photograph, snap, shoot
(verb) record on photographic film; “I photographed the scene of the accident”; “She snapped a picture of the President”
snap, click, flick
(verb) cause to make a snapping sound; “snap your fingers”
snap
(verb) put in play with a snap; “snap a football”
snatch, snatch up, snap
(verb) to grasp hastily or eagerly; “Before I could stop him the dog snatched the ham bone”
snap
(verb) bring the jaws together; “he snapped indignantly”
tear, rupture, snap, bust
(verb) separate or cause to separate abruptly; “The rope snapped”; “tear the paper”
snap, click
(verb) move or strike with a noise; “he clicked on the light”; “his arm was snapped forward”
snap
(verb) move with a snapping sound; “bullets snapped past us”
snap, crack
(verb) make a sharp sound; “his fingers snapped”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
snapping
present participle of snap
snapping (plural snappings)
The sound or action of a snap.
The act of snapping at, or speaking sharply to, somebody.
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Source: Wiktionary
Snap"ping,
Definition: a. & n. from Snap, v. Snapping beetle. (Zoöl.) See Snap beetle, under Snap.
– Snapping turtle. (Zoöl.) (a) A large and voracious aquatic turtle (Chelydra serpentina) common in the fresh waters of the United States; -- so called from its habit of seizing its prey by a snap of its jaws. Called also mud turtle. (b) See Alligator snapper, under Alligator.
Snap, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Snapped; p. pr. & vb. n. Snapping.] Etym: [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. Breaks the doors open, snaps the locks. Prior.
2. To strike, to hit, or to shut, with a sharp sound.
3. To bite or seize suddenly, especially with the teeth. He, by playing too often at the mouth of death, has been snapped by it at last. South.
4. To break upon suddenly with sharp, angry words; to treat snappishly; -- usually with up. Granville.
5. To crack; to cause to make a sharp, cracking noise; as, to snap a whip. MacMorian snapped his fingers repeatedly. Sir W. Scott.
6. To project with a snap. 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.
Snap, v. i.
1. To break short, or at once; to part asunder suddenly; as, a mast snaps; a needle snaps. But this weapon will snap short, unfaithful to the hand that employs it. Burke.
2. To give forth, or produce, a sharp, cracking noise; to crack; as, blazing firewood snaps.
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.
4. To utter sharp, harsh, angry words; -- often with at; as, to snap at a child.
5. To miss fire; as, the gun snapped.
Snap, n. Etym: [Cf. D. snap a snatching. See Snap, v. t.]
1. A sudden breaking or rupture of any substance.
2. A sudden, eager bite; a sudden seizing, or effort to seize, as with the teeth.
3. A sudden, sharp motion or blow, as with the finger sprung from the thumb, or the thumb from the finger.
4. A sharp, abrupt sound, as that made by the crack of a whip; as, the snap of the trigger of a gun.
5. A greedy fellow. L'Estrange.
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. He's a nimble fellow, And alike skilled in every liberal science, As having certain snaps of all. B. Jonson.
7. A sudden severe interval or spell; -- applied to the weather; as, a cold snap. Lowell.
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.
9. (Zoöl.)
Definition: A snap beetle.
10. A thin, crisp cake, usually small, and flavored with ginger; -- used chiefly in the plural.
11. Briskness; vigor; energy; decision. [Colloq.]
12. Any circumstance out of which money may be made or an advantage gained. [Slang] Snap back (Football), the act of snapping back the ball.
– Snap beetle, or Snap bug (Zoöl.), any beetle of the family Elateridæ, 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.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
27 December 2024
(adjective) restricted to a particular condition of life; “an obligate anaerobe can survive only in the absence of oxygen”
According to Guinness World Records, the largest iced coffee is 14,228.1 liters and was created by Caffé Bene (South Korea), in Yangju, South Korea, on 17 July 2014. They poured iced black Americano on the giant cup that measured 3.3 meters tall and 2.62 meters wide.
