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13 definitions found 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\, 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. 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 WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: snap n 1: the act of catching an object with the hands; "Mays made the catch with his back to the plate" [syn: {catch}, {grab}, {snatch}] 2: any activity that is easy to do "marketing this product will be no picnic" [syn: {cinch}, {picnic}, {duck soup}, {child's play}, {pushover}, {walkover}, {piece of cake}] 3: (football) putting the ball in play by passing it (between the legs) to a back [syn: {centering}] v 1: utter in an angry, sharp, or abrupt tone; `"No!," she snapped'; "The guard snarled at us" [syn: {snarl}] 2: separate or cause to separate abruptly; "The rope snapped"; "tear the paper" [syn: {tear}, {rupture}, {bust}] 3: break suddenly and abruptly; as of something under tension; "The rope snapped" [syn: {crack}] 4: move or strike with a click "then the brightness as he clicked on the light." [syn: {click}] 5: snap close with a sound; "The lock snapped shut" 6: as of tightly stretched ropes or fingers [syn: {crack}] 7: move with a snapping sound; "bullets snapped past us" 8: to grasp hastily or eagerly; "Before I could stop him the dog snatched the ham bone" [syn: {snatch}, {snatch up}] 9: put in play with a snap, of a football 10: cause to make a snapping sound; of fingers [syn: {click}, {flick}] 11: record on photographic film"I photographed the scene of the accident" [syn: {photograph}, {shoot}] From Jargon File (4.2.3, 23 NOV 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 (13 Mar 01) [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}] From V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms 13 March 2001 [vera]: SNAP SubNetwork Access Protocol (LAN, ethernet) From V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms 13 March 2001 [vera]: SNAP SubNetwork Attachment Point (IEEE 802.1a) From V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms 13 March 2001 [vera]: SNAP System and Network Administration Program
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