snap
verb
[ snap ]
• break suddenly and completely, typically with a sharp cracking sound.
• "guitar strings kept snapping"
Similar:
break,
break in/into two,
fracture,
splinter,
separate,
come apart,
part,
split,
crack,
bust,
• (of an animal) make a sudden audible bite.
• "a dog was snapping at his heels"
Similar:
bite,
gnash its teeth,
try to bite,
try to nip,
• suddenly lose one's self-control.
• "she claims she snapped after years of violence"
Similar:
lose one's self-control,
crack,
freak,
freak out,
get overwrought,
go to pieces,
get hysterical,
get worked up,
flare up,
crack up,
lose one's cool,
blow one's top,
fly off the handle,
throw a wobbly,
• take a snapshot of.
• "he planned to spend the time snapping rare wildlife"
Similar:
photograph,
take/get a photograph/photo of,
take someone's picture/photo,
take/get a picture of,
picture,
take/get a snapshot/snap of,
take,
shoot,
take/get a shot of,
take a likeness of,
record,
film,
• put (the ball) into play by a quick backward movement.
• "time will not be resumed until the ball is snapped on the next play"
snap
noun
• a sudden, sharp cracking sound or movement.
• "she closed her purse with a snap"
• a hurried, irritable tone or manner.
• "‘I'm still waiting,’ he said with a snap"
• a snapshot.
• "holiday snaps"
Similar:
photograph,
picture,
photo,
shot,
snapshot,
likeness,
image,
portrait,
study,
print,
slide,
transparency,
negative,
positive,
plate,
film,
bromide,
frame,
exposure,
still,
proof,
enprint,
enlargement,
• a card game in which cards from two piles are turned over simultaneously and players call ‘snap’ as quickly as possible when two similar cards are exposed.
• a sudden brief spell of cold or otherwise distinctive weather.
• "a cold snap"
• food, especially food taken to work to be eaten during a break.
• an easy task.
• "a control panel that makes operation a snap"
• a quick backward movement of the ball from the ground that begins a play.
• a small fastener on clothing, engaged by pressing its two halves together; a press stud.
• "a black cloth jacket with a lot of snaps and attachments"
snap
adjective
• done or taken on the spur of the moment, unexpectedly, or without notice.
• "a snap decision"
Origin:
late 15th century (in the senses ‘make a sudden audible bite’ and ‘quick sharp biting sound’): probably from Middle Dutch or Middle Low German snappen ‘seize’; partly imitative.
