Definition of Snare

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Definition of Snare

Snare

A contrivance, often consisting of a noose of cord, or the like, by which a bird or other animal may be entangled and caught; a trap; a gin.

Hence, anything by which one is entangled and brought into trouble.

The gut or string stretched across the lower head of a drum.

An instrument, consisting usually of a wireloop or noose, for removing tumors, etc., by avulsion.

To catch with a snare; to insnare; to entangle; hence, to bring into unexpected evil, perplexity, or danger.

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Snare Quotations

The truth is a snare: you cannot have it, without being caught. You cannot have the truth in such a way that you catch it, but only in such a way that it catches you.
Soren Kierkegaard

It's been years and years and years I've been playing the drums, and they're still a challenge. I still enjoy using drumsticks and a snare drum.
Charlie Watts

I'm a freak, everything has to be totally flat when I play. Ed Will, my jazz teacher, set up everything completely flat, and then you'd tilt your snare drum away from you, so I do that too. So my snare tilts away from me.
Travis Barker

Then I tried out for the Fontana High School drum line, in Riverside, and I did really well. I got second chair, and played snare in that drum line for three years.
Travis Barker

Old-fashioned ways which no longer apply to changed conditions are a snare in which the feet of women have always become readily entangled.
Jane Addams

Literature is a toil and a snare, a curse that bites deep.
David Herbert Lawrence

Sometimes I like them artificial and sometimes I like them real. And the reason is because sometimes I like a real close sound. And I like a very specific snare sound and I can't get that in the big room.
Danny Elfman

Well one of the times I did a stunt was in the devil's snare room and they lifted me up on a harness and a safety rope really, really high, and they just dropped me down into the devil's snare.
Rupert Grint

Playing well with others is important - not being too flashy, just keeping good time and of course coming up with cool beats. A good snare drum, kick drum, high hat. Just getting good at the hand feet coordination.
Chad Smith

I played in the percussion section 4th grade through high school - snare and timpani mostly.
Suzy Bogguss

Snare Translations

snare in Dutch is valstrik, hinderlaag, arglist
snare in German is fangen, Fallstrick, Schlinge
snare in Italian is accalappiare, tranello
snare in Latin is laqueum, laqueus, forca
snare in Spanish is trampa, capturar

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