snap
Meanings
- A quick breaking or cracking sound or the action of producing such a sound.
- A sudden break.
- An attempt to seize, bite, attack, or grab.
- The act of snapping the fingers; making a sound by pressing a finger against the thumb and suddenly releasing to strike the hand.
- A fastening device that makes a snapping sound when used.
- A photograph; a snapshot.
- The sudden release of something held under pressure or tension.
- A thin circular cookie or similar baked good.
- A brief, sudden period of a certain weather; used primarily in the phrase cold snap.
- A very short period of time (figuratively, the time taken to snap one's fingers), or a task that can be accomplished in such a period.
- A snap bean such as Phaseolus vulgaris.
- A backward pass or handoff of a football from its position on the ground that puts the ball in play; a hike.
- To fracture or break apart suddenly.
- To give forth or produce a sharp cracking noise; to crack.
- To attempt to seize or bite with the teeth, beak, etc.
- To attempt to seize with eagerness.
- To speak abruptly or sharply.
- To give way abruptly and loudly.
- To suffer a mental breakdown, usually while under tension.
- To flash or appear to flash as with light.
- To fit or fasten together with a snapping sound.
- To jump to a fixed position relative to another element.
- To snatch with or as if with the teeth.
- To pull apart with a snapping sound; to pop loose.
- The cry used in a game of snap when winning a hand.
- "I've got one the same!", "Me too!"
- Used to express agreement.
- Used in place of an expletive to express surprise, usually in response to a negative statement or news; often used facetiously.
- Used after something is said by two people at exactly the same time.
- Done, made, performed, etc., quickly and unexpectedly, or without deliberation.
- Acronym of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.
- Acronym of Subnetwork Access Protocol.
- Acronym of Scalable Network Application Package.
- Acronym of Symbolic Network Analysis Program.
- Acronym of soluble NSF attachment protein.
- Clipping of Snapchat.
- A visual message sent through the Snapchat application.
- Clipping of Snapchat (“user account on Snapchat”).
- To send a visual message through the Snapchat application.
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Etymology
Etymology tree Middle Dutch snappen Dutch snappenbor. Low German snappenbor. English snap From Dutch snappen (“to bite; seize”) or Low German snappen (“to bite; seize”), ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *snappōn, from Proto-Germanic *snappōną (“to snap; snatch; chatter”), intensive form of *snapāną (”to snap; grab”, whence Old Norse snapa (“to get; scrounge”)), from Proto-Indo-European *snop-; compare Lithuanian snãpas (“beak, bill”). (One alternative hypothesis links the Germanic words to *snu-, an expressive root deriving words meaning “nose”, “snout”, “sniff” etc., but this is phonetically unsound.) In any case influenced by onomatopoeia; note expressions such as snip-snap, containing the formally unrelated snip. Cognate with West Frisian snappe (“to get; catch; snap”), German schnappen (“to grab”), Swedish snappa (“to snatch”). The verb is derived from the noun.