snap : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: snap	by the DICT Development Group
10 results for snap
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
snap n the act of catching an object with the hands; "Mays made the catch with his back to the plate"; "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" Synonym(s): catch, grab, snatch, snap a spell of cold weather; "a cold snap in the middle of May" tender green beans without strings that easily snap into sections Synonym(s): snap bean, snap a crisp round cookie flavored with ginger Synonym(s): gingersnap, ginger snap, snap, ginger nut the noise produced by the rapid movement of a finger from the tip to the base of the thumb on the same hand; "servants appeared at the snap of his fingers" a sudden sharp noise; "the crack of a whip"; "he heard the cracking of the ice"; "he can hear the snap of a twig" Synonym(s): crack, cracking, snap a sudden breaking the tendency of a body to return to its original shape after it has been stretched or compressed; "the waistband had lost its snap" Synonym(s): elasticity, snap Antonym(s): inelasticity an informal photograph; usually made with a small hand-held camera; "my snapshots haven't been developed yet"; "he tried to get unposed shots of his friends" Synonym(s): snapshot, snap, shot a fastener used on clothing; fastens with a snapping sound; "children can manage snaps better than buttons" Synonym(s): snap, snap fastener, press stud any undertaking that is easy to do; "marketing this product will be no picnic" Synonym(s): cinch, breeze, picnic, snap, duck soup, child's play, pushover, walkover, piece of cake the act of snapping the fingers; movement of a finger from the tip to the base of the thumb on the same hand; "he gave his fingers a snap" (American football) putting the ball in play by passing it (between the legs) to a back; "the quarterback fumbled the snap" Synonym(s): centering, snap v utter in an angry, sharp, or abrupt tone; "The sales clerk snapped a reply at the angry customer"; "The guard snarled at us" Synonym(s): snap, snarl separate or cause to separate abruptly; "The rope snapped"; "tear the paper" Synonym(s): tear, rupture, snap, bust break suddenly and abruptly, as under tension; "The pipe snapped" Synonym(s): snap, crack move or strike with a noise; "he clicked on the light"; "his arm was snapped forward" Synonym(s): snap, click close with a snapping motion; "The lock snapped shut" make a sharp sound; "his fingers snapped" Synonym(s): snap, crack move with a snapping sound; "bullets snapped past us" to grasp hastily or eagerly; "Before I could stop him the dog snatched the ham bone" Synonym(s): snatch, snatch up, snap put in play with a snap; "snap a football" cause to make a snapping sound; "snap your fingers" Synonym(s): snap, click, flick lose control of one's emotions; "When she heard that she had not passed the exam, she lost it completely"; "When her baby died, she snapped" Synonym(s): break down, lose it, snap bring the jaws together; "he snapped indignantly" record on photographic film; "I photographed the scene of the accident"; "She snapped a picture of the President" Synonym(s): photograph, snap, shoot
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Snap \Snap\, a. Done, performed, made, executed, carried through, or the like, quickly and without deliberation; as, a snap judgment or decision; a snap political convention. [Colloq.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Snap \Snap\, v. t. (Cricket) To catch out sharply (a batsman who has just snicked a bowled ball).
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Snap \Snap\, v. i. Of the eyes, to emit sudden, brief sparkles like those of a snapping fire, as sometimes in anger.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Snap \Snap\, n. 1. 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. [Slang, Chiefly U. S.] 2. A snap shot with a firearm. 3. (Photog.) A snapshot. 4. Something of no value; as, not worth a snap. [Colloq.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Snap \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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Snap \Snap\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Snapped}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Snapping}.] [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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Snap \Snap\, n. [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.
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]:
snap v. To replace a pointer to a pointer with a direct pointer; to replace an old address with the forwarding address found there. If you telephone the main number for an institution and ask for a particular person by name, the operator may tell you that person's extension before connecting you, in the hopes that you will `snap your pointer' and dial direct next time. The underlying metaphor may be that of a rubber band stretched through a number of intermediate points; if you remove all the thumbtacks in the middle, it snaps into a straight line from first to last. See {chase pointers}. Often, the behavior of a {trampoline} is to perform an error check once and then snap the pointer that invoked it so as henceforth to bypass the trampoline (and its one-shot error check). In this context one also speaks of `snapping links'. For example, in a LISP implementation, a function interface trampoline might check to make sure that the caller is passing the correct number of arguments; if it is, and if the caller and the callee are both compiled, then snapping the link allows that particular path to use a direct procedure-call instruction with no further overhead.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
SNAP 1. Early (IBM 360?) interpreted text-processing language for beginners, close to basic English. ["Computer Programming in English", M.P. Barnett, Harcourt Brace 1969]. 2. ["Some Proposals for SNAP, A Language with Formal Macro Facilities", R.B. Napper, Computer J 10(3):231-243 (1967)]. [same as 1?] 3. To replace a pointer to a pointer with a direct pointer; to replace an old address with the forwarding address found there. If you telephone the main number for an institution and ask for a particular person by name, the operator may tell you that person's extension before connecting you, in the hopes that you will "snap your pointer" and dial direct next time. The underlying metaphor may be that of a rubber band stretched through a number of intermediate points; if you remove all the thumbtacks in the middle, it snaps into a straight line from first to last. See {chase pointers}. Often, the behaviour of a {trampoline} is to perform an error check once and then snap the pointer that invoked it so as henceforth to bypass the trampoline (and its one-shot error check). In this context one also speaks of "snapping links". For example, in a {Lisp} implementation, a function interface trampoline might check to make sure that the caller is passing the correct number of arguments; if it is, and if the caller and the callee are both compiled, then snapping the link allows that particular path to use a direct procedure-call instruction with no further overhead. [{Jargon File}]