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noun

Snap shot, Snapshot n.

(a)

A quick offhand shot, made without deliberately taking aim over the sights.

(b)

(Photog.) Act of taking a snapshot (in sense 2).

An instantaneous photograph made, usually with a hand camera, without formal posing of, and often without the foreknowledge of, the subject.

A brief summary or appraisal, especially one that describes the state of a situation at one particular time; as, a snapshot of the moon project in 1966.

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Etymology of 'Snapshot'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Snapshot" Quotes from Famous Books

... days in a forest one wearies of it; and after all it wasn't very likely that I should have got a snapshot. The camera ...

— Sister Teresa • George Moore

... ever been permitted to read it; and she had shrewdly judged that it was not in her line, for though she knew perfectly well where he kept it (together with his life insurance policy, some Liberty Bonds, an autograph letter from Charles Spencer Chaplin, and a snapshot of herself taken on their honeymoon) she had never made ...

— The Haunted Bookshop • Christopher Morley

... information about our going leaked out," Ned said, gravely. "As boy snapshot friends we might have been able to do things which the Secret Service men could not do. No one would pay much attention to a group of boys roaming over the mountains. But now I'm afraid our investigations will be ...

— The Boy Scout Camera Club - The Confession of a Photograph • G. Harvey Ralphson

... Kruger was splendid, and simply went through by main force, though he eventually sank close to the shore. I had carried over some of the loading, amongst it my camera, and was just in time to take a snapshot as he was sinking. Shiddi, the cunning old rogue, could not be persuaded across; he would try the ground with one foot and then draw back like a timid bather. We left him roaring to his mates and yet afraid to join them, until we were ready to start again. As soon as he saw the caravan disappear ...

— Spinifex and Sand - Five Years' Pioneering and Exploration in Western Australia • David W Carnegie

... of a woman who is born with a very 'intense,' although not a very deep, nature.... There is in Mr Vert's work a certain tendency towards realism which has its due effect in making his characters real. They are no loosely-built fancies of the journalistic brain, but portraits—almost snapshot portraits—of men ...

— Ringan Gilhaize - or The Covenanters • John Galt

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