Definition of Snap

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Definition of Snap

Snap

To catch out sharply (a batsman who has just snicked a bowled ball).

Of the eyes, to emit sudden, brief sparkles like those of a snapping fire, as sometimes in anger.

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.

A snap shot with a firearm.

A snapshot.

Something of no value; as, not worth a snap.

Done, performed, made, executed, carried through, or the like, quickly and without deliberation; as, a snap judgment or decision; a snap political convention.

To break at once; to break short, as substances that are brittle.

To strike, to hit, or to shut, with a sharp sound.

To bite or seize suddenly, especially with the teeth.

To break upon suddenly with sharp, angry words; to treat snappishly; -- usually with up.

To crack; to cause to make a sharp, cracking noise; as, to snap a whip.

To project with a snap.

To break short, or at once; to part asunder suddenly; as, a mast snaps; a needle snaps.

To give forth, or produce, a sharp, cracking noise; to crack; as, blazing firewood snaps.

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.

To utter sharp, harsh, angry words; -- often with at; as, to snap at a child.

To miss fire; as, the gun snapped.

A sudden breaking or rupture of any substance.

A sudden, eager bite; a sudden seizing, or effort to seize, as with the teeth.

A sudden, sharp motion or blow, as with the finger sprung from the thumb, or the thumb from the finger.

A sharp, abrupt sound, as that made by the crack of a whip; as, the snap of the trigger of a gun.

A greedy fellow.

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.

A sudden severe interval or spell; -- applied to the weather; as, a cold snap.

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.

A snap beetle.

A thin, crisp cake, usually small, and flavored with ginger; -- used chiefly in the plural.

Briskness; vigor; energy; decision.

Any circumstance out of which money may be made or an advantage gained.

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Snap Quotations

And the nice thing about writing a novel is you take your time, you sit with the character sometimes nine years, you look very deeply at a situation, unlike in real life when we just kind of snap something out.
Sandra Cisneros

Number two, we're going to play with a lot of effort. Our guys are going to be in such good shape that fatigue is not going to be a problem. We're going to play with full effort from snap to whistle on every play the entire game.
Steve Spurrier

So my idea of neurotic is spending too much time trying to correct a wrong. When I feel that I'm doing that, then I snap out of it.
Gene Wilder

The one thing about Billie is he will snap and rip your head off if you point anything out at all other than how beautiful he is and how nice he looks today.
Tre Cool

The second we see somebody on the street or meet someone, we make snap judgments about them, about who they are and why we wouldn't necessarily sit with them or why we would or what's cool or not cool.
Max Cannon

To snap my fingers and let it go away. Even if it takes the 3,000th hit with it, just let it all go away.
Rafael Palmeiro

Of course I realize that photography is not the technical facility as much as it is the eye, and this decision that one makes for the moment at which you are going to snap, you know.
Ben Shahn

Jerusalem Syndrome is actually a rare psychological condition that occurs to some visitors to the Middle East. They get to Israel and just snap.
Marc Maron

If we could only snap the fetters of the body that bind the feet of the soul, we shall experience a great joy. Then we shall not be miserable because of the body's sufferings. We shall become free.
Vinoba Bhave

Good roles are hard to come by, and whether they're a few lines or a lead, you snap 'em up when they come along.
Charlie Hunnam

Snap Translations

snap in German is knipse, ermitteln, schnappen, schnappen
snap in Italian is dipinto, accertare, accettazione
snap in Spanish is ingreso, chasquido

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