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Snap

verb
(past & past part. snapped; pres. part. snapping)
1.
Utter in an angry, sharp, or abrupt tone.  Synonym: snarl.  "The guard snarled at us"
2.
Separate or cause to separate abruptly.  Synonyms: bust, rupture, tear.  "Tear the paper"
3.
Break suddenly and abruptly, as under tension.  Synonym: crack.
4.
Move or strike with a noise.  Synonym: click.  "His arm was snapped forward"
5.
Close with a snapping motion.
6.
Make a sharp sound.  Synonym: crack.
7.
Move with a snapping sound.
8.
To grasp hastily or eagerly.  Synonyms: snatch, snatch up.
9.
Put in play with a snap.
10.
Cause to make a snapping sound.  Synonyms: click, flick.
11.
Lose control of one's emotions.  Synonyms: break down, lose it.  "When her baby died, she snapped"
12.
Bring the jaws together.
13.
Record on photographic film.  Synonyms: photograph, shoot.  "She snapped a picture of the President"
noun
1.
The act of catching an object with the hands.  Synonyms: catch, grab, snatch.  "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"
2.
A spell of cold weather.
3.
Tender green beans without strings that easily snap into sections.  Synonym: snap bean.
4.
A crisp round cookie flavored with ginger.  Synonyms: ginger nut, ginger snap, gingersnap.
5.
The noise produced by the rapid movement of a finger from the tip to the base of the thumb on the same hand.
6.
A sudden sharp noise.  Synonyms: crack, cracking.  "He heard the cracking of the ice" , "He can hear the snap of a twig"
7.
A sudden breaking.
8.
The tendency of a body to return to its original shape after it has been stretched or compressed.  Synonym: elasticity.
9.
An informal photograph; usually made with a small hand-held camera.  Synonyms: shot, snapshot.  "He tried to get unposed shots of his friends"
10.
A fastener used on clothing; fastens with a snapping sound.  Synonyms: press stud, snap fastener.
11.
Any undertaking that is easy to do.  Synonyms: breeze, child's play, cinch, duck soup, picnic, piece of cake, pushover, walkover.
12.
The act of snapping the fingers; movement of a finger from the tip to the base of the thumb on the same hand.
13.
(American football) putting the ball in play by passing it (between the legs) to a back.  Synonym: centering.



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"Snap" Quotes from Famous Books



... superiority over me—you could make a fine lady of her. From that fact sprang the ambition which all my influence, dating as it did from her childhood, could not destroy. There, was fastened the main-spring which regulated her selfish devotion to you, and which it was next to impossible to snap asunder. I never made ...
— Basil • Wilkie Collins
... us and waited. We could hear the water sloshing around very close to us. Once when I put out my hand it went right into a cold pool. It was then that Jerry had a most wonderful idea. I heard his knife snap open again and asked him what it was ...
— Us and the Bottleman • Edith Ballinger Price
... overseers, who are continually moving around among them, on the watch for delinquencies of all kinds. Some of these minor potentates are white and some black. As a rule, Mr. Young gives the blacks the preference and on strictly business principles, too. "The colored men have more snap, and can get more work out of their own people," he says. By means of these sub- overseers, large numbers can be transferred from one part of the ...
— Success With Small Fruits • E. P. Roe
... not like a man whose very life hangs but on a thread that the next minute may snap asunder. Whither would you lead me? Is it to the ...
— The Pilot • J. Fenimore Cooper
... army sent by Omar bin al-Nu'uman to succour the King of Constantinople, a stronger than thou, send him hither and tell him of me: for in wrestling there are shifts and trips, catches and holds, such as the feint or falsing and the snap or first grip, the hug, the feet-catch, the thigh Lite,[FN175] the jostle and the leg-lock." "By Allah, O my lady," quoth Sharrkan (and indeed he was highly incensed against her), "had I been Master al-Safdi, Master ...
— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 2 • Richard F. Burton


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