Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter S - Page 104
Smutty (a.) 弄髒的；變黑的；害了黑穗病的；猥褻的 Soiled with smut; smutted.
Smutty (a.) Tainted with mildew; as, smutty corn.
Smutty (a.) Obscene; not modest or pure; as, a smutty saying.
The smutty joke, ridiculously lewd. -- Smollett. -- {Smut"ti*ly}, adv. -- {Smut"ti*ness}, n.
Smutty (a.) Characterized by obscenity; "had a filthy mouth"; "foul language"; "smutty jokes" [syn: {cruddy}, {filthy}, {foul}, {nasty}, {smutty}].
Smutty (a.) Soiled with dirt or soot; "with feet black from playing outdoors"; "his shirt was black within an hour" [syn: {black}, {smutty}].
Smyrniot (a.) Of or pertaining to
Smyrniot (n.) A native or
inhabitant of
Snack (n.) [C] 快餐；小吃，點心；一份；部分 A share; a part or portion; -- obsolete, except in the colloquial phrase, to go snacks, i. e., to share.
At last he whispers, "Do, and we go snacks." -- Pope.
Snack (n.) A slight, hasty repast. [Colloq.]
Snack (n.) A light informal meal [syn: bite, collation, snack]
Snack (v.) (v. i.) 【美】吃快餐；吃點心 [（+on）] Eat a snack; eat lightly; "She never loses weight because she snacks between meals" [syn: nosh, snack].
Compare: Nosh
Nosh (n.) [Mass noun] [Informal] (British)【俚】【美】小吃；快餐；【英】食物；餐館；快餐店Food.
‘Filling the freezer with all kinds of nosh.’
Nosh (n.) [Informal] [North American] [Count noun] A snack or small item of food.
‘Have plenty of noshes and nibbles conveniently placed.’
Nosh (v.) [No object] [Informal] 吃 Eat food enthusiastically or greedily.
‘You can nosh to your heart's content.’
[With object]‘There I sat, noshing my favourite food.’
Nosh (v.) [No object] [North American] Eat between meals.
‘Today's grazing is different from what we used to call noshing or snacking.’
Compare: Enthusiastically
Enthusiastically (adv.) 熱心地；滿腔熱情地 In a way that shows intense and eager enjoyment, interest, or approval.
‘The report was enthusiastically welcomed by all groups.’
‘The audience applauded enthusiastically.’
Compare: Greedily
Greedily (adv.) 貪心地；貪婪地；貪吃地 In a way that shows an excessive desire or appetite for food.
‘We greedily devoured the hors d'oeuvres.’
Greedily (adv.) With an intense and selfish desire for wealth or power.
‘Bureaucrats are greedily eyeing the organization's rich portfolio of property.’
Snacket (n.) See Snecket. [Prov. Eng.]
Snacot (n.) (Zool.) A pipefish of the genus Syngnathus. See Pipefish.
Snaffle (n.) A kind of bridle bit, having a joint in the part to be placed in the mouth, and rings and cheek pieces at the ends, but having no curb; -- called also snaffle bit.
Snaffled (imp. & p. p.) of Snaffle.
Snaffling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Snaffle.
Snaffle (v. t.) To put a snaffle in the mouth of; to subject to the snaffle; to bridle.
Snaffle (n.) A simple jointed bit for a horse; without a curb [syn: snaffle, snaffle bit].
Snaffle (v.) Get hold of or seize quickly and easily; "I snapped up all the good buys during the garage sale" [syn: snap up, snaffle, grab].
Snaffle (v.) Fit or restrain with a snaffle; "snaffle a horse."
Snaffle (v.) [ I or T ] (Informal) To take something quickly for yourself, in a way that prevents someone else from having or using it.
// Who's snaffled my pen?
// Martha snaffled (= ate) all the peanuts before the party had even begun!
// The company grew by snaffling up several smaller businesses.
Snaffle (n.) [ C ] A type of bit (= a metal bar held in a horse's mouth to control it) usually with a joint in the middle.
Snafu (a.) 【美】【俚】天翻地覆的 Snarled or stalled in complete confusion; "situation normal -- all fucked-up" [syn: {fucked-up}, {snafu}].
Snafu (n.) 【美】【俚】 天翻地覆；無法可施的狀態；大謬誤；大錯；大混亂 An acronym often used by soldiers in World War II: situation normal all fucked up.
Snafu (v.) 【美】【俚】 使混亂；鬧成天翻地覆 Cause to be in a state of complete confusion.
Snafu (Acronym) “Situation Normal -- All Fouled/ Fucked Up” (slang).
Snafu (n.) [ C ] [US] (Informal) 混亂局面，亂子 A situation in which nothing has happened as planned.
// The company isn't wholly to blame for the snafu.
// A single snafu (= serious mistake) by an airline can leave a lasting impression on travelers.
Snag (v. t.) To cut the snags or branches from, as the stem of a tree; to hew roughly. [Prov. Eng.] -- VHalliwell.
Snag (v. t.) To injure or destroy, as a steamboat or other vessel, by a snag, or projecting part of a sunken tree. [U. S.]
Snag (n.) A stump or base of a branch that has been lopped off; a short branch, or a sharp or rough branch; a knot; a protuberance.
The coat of arms Now on a naked snag in triumph borne. -- Dryden.
Snag (n.) A tooth projecting beyond the rest; contemptuously, a broken or decayed tooth. -- Prior.
Snag (n.) A tree, or a branch of a tree, fixed in the bottom of a river or other navigable water, and rising nearly or quite to the surface, by which boats are sometimes pierced and sunk.
Snag (n.) (Zool.) One of the secondary branches of an antler.
Snag boat, A steamboat fitted with apparatus for removing snags and other obstructions in navigable streams. [U.S.]
Snag tooth. Same as Snag, 2.
How thy snag teeth stand orderly, Like stakes which strut by the water side. -- J. Cotgrave.
Snag (n.) A sharp protuberance.
Snag (n.) A dead tree that is still standing, usually in an undisturbed forest; "a snag can provide food and a habitat for insects and birds."
Snag (n.) An opening made forcibly as by pulling apart; "there was a rip in his pants"; "she had snags in her stockings" [syn: rip, rent, snag, split, tear].
Snag (n.) An unforeseen obstacle [syn: hang-up, hitch, rub, snag].
Snag (v.) Catch on a snag; "I snagged my stocking."
Snag (v.) Get by acting quickly and smartly; "snag a bargain."
Snag (v.) Hew jaggedly.
Bug
Bugs
Defect
Snag () An unwanted and unintended property of a program or piece of hardware, especially one that causes it to malfunction. Antonym of feature. E.g. "There's a bug in the editor: it writes things out backward." The identification and removal of bugs in a program is called "{debugging."
Admiral Grace Hopper (an early computing pioneer better known for inventing COBOL) liked to tell a story in which a technician solved a glitch in the Harvard Mark II machine by pulling an actual insect out from between the contacts of one of its relays, and she subsequently promulgated bug in its hackish sense as a joke about the incident (though, as she was careful to admit, she was not there when it happened). For many years the logbook associated with the incident and the actual bug in question (a moth) sat in a display case at the Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC). The entire story, with a picture of the logbook and the moth taped into it, is recorded in the "Annals of the History of Computing", Vol. 3, No. 3 (July 1981), pp. 285--286.
The text of the log entry (from September 9, 1947), reads "1545 Relay #70 Panel F (moth) in relay. First actual case of bug being found". This wording establishes that the term was already in use at the time in its current specific sense - and Hopper herself reports that the term "bug" was regularly applied to problems in radar electronics during WWII.
Indeed, the use of "bug" to mean an industrial defect was already established in Thomas Edison's time, and a more specific and rather modern use can be found in an electrical handbook from 1896 ("Hawkin's New Catechism of Electricity", Theo. Audel & Co.) which says: "The term "bug" is used to a limited extent to designate any fault or trouble in the connections or working of electric apparatus." It further notes that the term is "said to have originated in quadruplex telegraphy and have been transferred to all electric apparatus."
The latter observation may explain a common folk etymology of the term; that it came from telephone company usage, in which "bugs in a telephone cable" were blamed for noisy lines. Though this derivation seems to be mistaken, it may well be a distorted memory of a joke first current among *telegraph* operators more than a century ago!
Actually, use of "bug" in the general sense of a disruptive event goes back to Shakespeare! In the first edition of Samuel Johnson's dictionary one meaning of "bug" is "A frightful object; a walking spectre"; this is traced to "bugbear", a Welsh term for a variety of mythological monster which (to complete the circle) has recently been reintroduced into the popular lexicon through fantasy role-playing games.
In any case, in jargon the word almost never refers to insects. Here is a plausible conversation that never actually happened:
"There is a bug in this ant farm!"
"What do you mean? I don't see any ants in it."
"That's the bug."
[There has been a widespread myth that the original bug was moved to the Smithsonian, and an earlier version of this entry so asserted. A correspondent who thought to check discovered that the bug was not there. While investigating this in late 1990, your editor discovered that the NSWC still had the bug, but had unsuccessfully tried to get the Smithsonian to accept it - and that the present curator of their History of American Technology Museum didn't know this and agreed that it would make a worthwhile exhibit. It was moved to the Smithsonian in mid-1991, but due to space and money constraints has not yet been exhibited. Thus, the process of investigating the original-computer-bug bug fixed it in an entirely unexpected way, by making the myth true! - ESR] [{Jargon File] (1999-06-29)
Snagged (imp. & p. p.) of Snag.
Snagging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Snag.
Snagged (a.) Full of snags; snaggy.
Snaggy (a.) Full of snags; full of short, rough branches or sharp points; abounding with knots. "Upon a snaggy oak." -- Spenser.
Snaggy (a.) Snappish; cross; ill-tempered. [Prov. Eng.]
Snail (n.) (Zool.) [C] 蝸牛；動作遲緩的人（或動物）；蝸形輪（= Snail wheel） Any one of numerous species of terrestrial air-breathing gastropods belonging to the genus Helix and many allied genera of the family Helicidae. They are abundant in nearly all parts of the world except the arctic regions, and feed almost entirely on vegetation; a land snail.
Snail (n.) (Zool.) Any gastropod having a general resemblance to the true snails, including fresh-water and marine species. See Pond snail, under Pond, and Sea snail.
Snail (n.) Hence, a drone; a slow-moving person or thing.
Snail (n.) (Mech.) A spiral cam, or a flat piece of metal of spirally curved outline, used for giving motion to, or changing the position of, another part, as the hammer tail of a striking clock.
Snail (n.) A tortoise; in ancient warfare, a movable roof or shed to protect besiegers; a testudo. [Obs.]
They had also all manner of gynes [engines] . . . that needful is [in] taking or sieging of castle or of city, as snails, that was naught else but hollow pavises and targets, under the which men, when they fought, were heled [protected], . . . as the snail is in his house; therefore they cleped them snails. -- Vegetius (Trans.).
Snail (n.) (Bot.) The pod of the sanil clover.
Ear snail, Edible snail, Pond snail, etc. See under Ear, Edible, etc.
Snail borer (Zool.), A boring univalve mollusk; a drill.
Snail clover (Bot.), A cloverlike plant ({Medicago scuttellata, also, Medicago Helix); -- so named from its pods, which resemble the shells of snails; -- called also snail trefoil, snail medic, and beehive.
Snail flower (Bot.), A leguminous plant ({Phaseolus Caracalla) having the keel of the carolla spirally coiled like a snail shell.
Snail shell (Zool.), The shell of snail.
Snail trefoil. (Bot.) See Snail clover, above.
Snail (n.) Freshwater or marine or terrestrial gastropod mollusk usually having an external enclosing spiral shell.
Snail (n.) Edible terrestrial snail usually served in the shell with a sauce of melted butter and garlic [syn: escargot, snail].
Snail (v.) Gather snails; "We went snailing in the summer."
Snail (v. t.) To snail-mail something. ? Snail me a copy of those graphics, will you??
Snail () Heb. homit, among the unclean creeping things (Lev. 11:30). This was probably the sand-lizard, of which there are many species in the wilderness of Judea and the Sinai peninsula.
Snail () Heb. shablul (Ps. 58:8), the snail or slug proper. Tristram explains the allusions of this passage by a reference to the heat and drought by which the moisture of the snail is evaporated. "We find," he says, "in all parts of the Holy Land myriads of snail-shells in fissures still adhering by the calcareous exudation round their orifice to the surface of the rock, but the animal of which is utterly shrivelled and wasted, 'melted away.'
Snailfish (n.) (Zool.) See Sea snail (a).
Snailfish (n.) Small tadpole-shaped cold-water fishes with pelvic fins forming a sucker; related to lumpfish [syn: snailfish, seasnail, sea snail, Liparis liparis].
Snail-like (a.) Like or suiting a snail; as, snail-like progress.
Snail-like (adv.) In the manner of a snail; slowly.
Snail-paced (a.) Slow-moving, like a snail.
'Snails (interj.) God's nails, or His nails, that is, the nails with which the Savior was fastened to the cross; -- an ancient form of oath, corresponding to 'Od's bodikins (dim. of body, i.e., God's dear body).
Snake (n.) (Zool.) Any species of the order Ophidia; an ophidian; a serpent, whether harmless or venomous. See Ophidia, and Serpent.
Note: Snakes are abundant in all warm countries, and much the larger number are harmless to man.
Blind snake, Garter snake, Green snake, King snake, Milk snake, Rock snake, Water snake, etc. See under Blind, Garter, etc.
Fetich snake (Zool.), A large African snake ({Python Sebae) used by the natives as a fetich.
Ringed snake (Zool.), A common European columbrine snake ({Tropidonotus natrix).
Snake eater. (Zool.) (a) The markhoor. (b) The secretary bird.
Snake
fence, A worm
fence (which see). [U.S.]
Snake fly (Zool.), Any one of several species of
neuropterous insects
of the genus Rhaphidia; -- so called because of their large head and
elongated neck and prothorax.
Snake gourd (Bot.), A cucurbitaceous plant ({Trichosanthes anguina) having the fruit shorter and less snakelike than that of the serpent cucumber.
Snake killer. (Zool.) The secretary bird.
Snake killer. (Zool.) The chaparral cock.
Snake
moss (Bot.), The
common club moss ({Lycopodium clavatum). See Lycopodium.
Snake nut (Bot.), the fruit of a sapindaceous tree ({Ophiocaryon
paradoxum) of Guiana, the embryo of which resembles a snake coiled up.
Tree snake (Zool.), Any one of numerous species of colubrine snakes which habitually live in trees, especially those of the genus Dendrophis and allied genera.
Snake (v. i.) To crawl like a snake.
Snaked (imp. & p. p.) of Snake.
Snaking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Snake.
Snake (v. t.) To drag or draw, as a snake from a hole; -- often with out. [Colloq. U.S.] -- Bartlett.
Snake (v. t.) (Naut.) To wind round spirally, as a large rope with a smaller, or with cord, the small rope lying in the spaces between the strands of the large one; to worm.
Snakebird (n.) (Zool.) Any one of four species of aquatic birds of the genus Anhinga or Plotus. They are allied to the gannets and cormorants, but have very long, slender, flexible necks, and sharp bills.
Note: The American species ({Anhinga anhinga syn. Plotus anhinga) inhabits the Southern United States and tropical America; -- called also darter, and water turkey. The Asiatic species ({Anhinga melanogaster}) is native of Southern Asia and the East Indies. Two other species inhabit Africa and Australia respectively.
Snakebird (n.) (Zool.) The wryneck.
Compare: Wryneck
Wryneck (n.) (Med.) A twisted or distorted neck; a deformity in which the neck is drawn to one side by a rigid contraction of one of the muscles of the neck; torticollis.
Wryneck (n.) A person suffering from torticollis.
Wryneck (n.) (Zool.) Any one of several species of Old World birds of the genus Jynx or subfamily Jynginae, allied to the woodpeckers; especially, the common European species ({Jynx torguilla); -- so called from its habit of turning the neck around in different directions. Called also cuckoo's mate, snakebird, summer bird, tonguebird, and writheneck.
Snakefish (n.) (Zool.) The band fish.
Snakefish (n.) (Zool.) The lizard fish.
Snakehead (n.) A loose, bent-up end of one of the strap rails, or flat rails, formerly used on American railroads. It was sometimes so bent by the passage of a train as to slip over a wheel and pierce the bottom of a car.
Snakehead (n.) (Bot.) The turtlehead.
Snakehead (n.) (Bot.) The Guinea-hen flower. See Snake's-head, and under Guinea.
Compare: Turtlehead
Turtlehead (n.) (Bot.) An American perennial herb ({Chelone glabra) having white flowers shaped like the head of a turtle. Called also snakehead, shell flower, and balmony.
Snakeneck (n.) (Zool.) The snakebird, 1.
Snakeroot (n.) 蛇根草；蛇根草之根（可治蛇咬） Any one of several plants of different genera and species, most of which are (or were formerly) reputed to be efficacious as remedies for the bites of serpents; also, the roots of any of these.
Compare: Serpent
Serpent (n.) 蛇（尤指大蛇、毒蛇）[C]；狡猾的人；陰險毒辣的人 [C] [Literary] A large snake.
Serpent (n.) (The Serpent) A biblical name for Satan (see Gen. 3, Rev. 20).
Serpent (n.) A dragon or other mythical snake-like reptile.
‘Fire-breathing, flying serpents.’
Serpent (n.) A sly or treacherous person, especially one who exploits a position of trust in order to betray it.
Serpent (n.) [Historical ] A bass wind instrument made of leather-covered wood in three U-shaped turns, with a cup-shaped mouthpiece and few keys. It was played in military and church bands from the 17th to 19th centuries.
‘Brass bands began as military bands in the 19th century, initially with keyed bugles, serpents, bass horns, and other keyed brass instruments, changing to valved brass once these became available.’
‘An exception must be made for the occasions when the serpent is used to double the awesome Dies Irae at Requiem mass.’
Snake's-head (n.) The Guinea-hen flower; -- so called in England because its spotted petals resemble the scales of a snake's head.
Snakestone (n.) A kind of hone slate or whetstone obtained in Scotland.
Snakestone (n.) (Paleon.) An ammonite; -- so called from its form, which resembles that of a coiled snake.
Snake's-tongue (n.) (Bot.) Same as Adder's-tongue.
Snakeweed (n.) (Bot.) A kind of knotweed (Polygonum Bistorta).
Snakeweed (n.) (Bot.) The Virginia snakeroot. See Snakeroot.
Snakeweed (n.) Low-growing sticky subshrub of southwestern United States having narrow linear leaves on many slender branches and hundreds of tiny yellow flower heads [syn: rabbitweed, rabbit-weed, snakeweed, broom snakeweed, broom snakeroot, turpentine weed, Gutierrezia sarothrae].
Compare: Snakeroot
Snakeroot (n.) 蛇根草；蛇根草之根（可治蛇咬）Any of a number of North American plants reputed to contain an antidote to snake poison.
('Virginian snakeroot') A birthwort with long heart-shaped leaves and curved tubular flowers (Aristolochia serpentaria, family Aristolochiaceae). and ('white snakeroot') a poisonous plant which causes milk sickness in livestock (Eupatorium rugosum, family Compositae).
Snakeroot (n.) Any of a number of plants thought to resemble a snake in shape, in particular Indian snakeroot.
‘According to legend, mentioned and discredited by Rudyard Kipling in his story ‘Rikki Tikki Tavi,’ mongooses eat Indian snakeroot before engaging in battle with cobras.’
See R auwolfia
‘The Natural Database rates valerian (with or without lemon balm) as possibly effective for insomnia; however, they have found insufficient evidence to recommend Indian snakeroot.’
Rauwolfia (Also Rauvolfia) (n.) 【植】蘿芙木屬（熱帶有毒植物）；印度蛇木；蛇根木浸劑 A tropical shrub or small tree, some kinds of which are cultivated for the medicinal drugs that they yield.
Genus Rauwolfia (or Rauvolfia), family Apocynaceae: many species, in particular the Indian snakeroot (R. serpentina), from which the drug reserpine is obtained
Snakewood (n.) (Bot.) An East Indian climbing plant (Strychnos colubrina) having a bitter taste, and supposed to be a remedy for the bite of the hooded serpent.
Snakewood (n.) (Bot.) An East Indian climbing shrub (Ophioxylon serpentinum) which has the roots and stems twisted so as to resemble serpents.
Snakewood (n.) (Bot.) Same as Trumpetwood.
Snakewood (n.) (Bot.) A tropical American shrub (Plumieria rubra) which has very fragrant red blossoms.
Snakewood (n.) (Bot.) Same as Letterwood.
Compare: Letterwood
Letterwood (n.) (Bot.) The beautiful and highly elastic wood of a tree of the genus Brosimum+({Brosimum+Aubletii">Brosimum ({Brosimum Aubletii), found in Guiana; -- so called from black spots in it which bear some resemblance to hieroglyphics; also called snakewood, and leopardwood. It is much used for bows and for walking sticks.
Trumpetwood (n.) (Bot.) A tropical American tree ({Cecropia peltata) of the Breadfruit family, having hollow stems, which are used for wind instruments; -- called also snakewood, and trumpet tree.
Snakewood (n.) East Indian climbing shrub with twisted limbs and roots resembling serpents [syn: snakewood, Rauwolfia serpentina].
Snakish (a.) Having the qualities or characteristics of a snake; snaky.
Snaky (a.) Of or pertaining to a snake or snakes; resembling a snake; serpentine; winding.
The red light playing upon its gilt and carving gave it an appearance of snaky life. -- L. Wallace.
Snaky (a.) Sly; cunning; insinuating; deceitful.
So to the coast of Jordan he directs His easy steps, girded with snaky wiles. -- Milton.
Snaky (a.) Covered with serpents; having serpents; as, a snaky rod or wand. -- Dryden.
That snaky-headed, Gorgon shield. -- Milton.
Snaky (a.) Resembling a serpent in form; "a serpentine wall"; "snaky ridges in the sand" [syn: serpentine, snaky, snakelike].
Snapped (imp. & p. p.) of Snap.
Snapping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Snap.
Snap (v. t.) 猛咬；突然折斷；拉斷；使發劈啪聲；捻（手指）使劈啪作聲；啪地關上（或打開等） To break at once; to break short, as substances that are brittle.
Snap (v. t.) To strike, to hit, or to shut, with a sharp sound.
Snap (v. t.) To bite or seize suddenly, especially with the teeth.
Snap (v. t.) To break upon suddenly with sharp, angry words; to treat snappishly; -- usually with up.
Snap (v. t.) To crack; to cause to make a sharp, cracking noise; as, to snap a whip.
Snap (v. t.) To project with a snap.
Snap (v. i.) 咬；攫；抓 [（+at）]；劈啪地響；（門等）咯嗒一聲關上；啪地一聲折斷；（神經等）突然崩潰 To break short, or at once; to part asunder suddenly; as, a mast snaps; a needle snaps.
Snap (v. i.) To give forth, or produce, a sharp, cracking noise; to crack; as, blazing firewood snaps.
Snap (v. i.) 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.
Snap (v. i.) To utter sharp, harsh, angry words; -- often with at; as, to snap at a child.
Snap (v. i.) To miss fire; as, the gun snapped.
Snap (v. i.) Of the eyes, to emit sudden, brief sparkles like those of a snapping fire, as sometimes in anger.
Snap (n.) 猛咬；猛撲；攫奪 [C]；突然折斷 [C] A sudden breaking or rupture of any substance.
Snap (n.) A sudden, eager bite; a sudden seizing, or effort to seize, as with the teeth.
Snap (n.) A sudden, sharp motion or blow, as with the finger sprung from the thumb, or the thumb from the finger.
Snap (n) A sharp, abrupt sound, as that made by the crack of a whip; as, the snap of the trigger of a gun.
Snap (n.) A greedy fellow -- L’Estrange..
Snap (n.) 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.
Snap (n.) A sudden severe interval or spell; -- applied to the weather; as, a cold snap. -- Lowell.
Snap (n.) A small catch or fastening held or closed by means of a spring, or one which closes with a snapping sound, as the catch of a bracelet, necklace, clasp of a book, etc.
Snap (n.) (Zool.) A snap beetle.
Snap (n.) A thin, crisp cake, usually small, and flavored with ginger; -- used chiefly in the plural.
Snap (n.) Briskness; vigor; energy; decision. [Colloq.]
Snap (n.) Any circumstance out of which money may be made or an advantage gained. [Slang]
Snap (n.) 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.]
Snap (n.) A snap shot with a firearm.
Snap (n.) (Photog.) A snapshot.
Snap (n.) Something of no value; as, not worth a snap. [Colloq.]
Snap (n.) (Football) The action of snapping the ball back, from the center usu. to the quarterback, which commences the play (down), and, if the clock had stopped, restarts the timer clock; a {snap back}.
{Snap back} (Football), The act of snapping back the ball.
{Snap beetle}, Or {Snap bug} (Zool.), any beetle of the family {Elateridae}, which, when laid on its back, is able to leap to a considerable height by means of a thoracic spring; -- called also {snapping beetle}.
{Snap flask} (Molding), A flask for small work, having its sides separable and held together by latches, so that the flask may be removed from around the sand mold.
{Snap judgment}, A judgment formed on the instant without deliberation.
{Snap lock}, A lock shutting with a catch or snap.
{Snap riveting}, Riveting in which the rivets have snapheads formed by a die or swaging tool.
{Snap shot}, A quick offhand shot, without deliberately taking aim.
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" [syn: {catch}, {grab}, {snatch},
Snap (n.) A spell of cold weather; "a cold snap in the middle of May".
Snap (n.) Tender green beans without strings that easily snap into sections [syn: {snap bean}, {snap}].
Snap (n.) A crisp round cookie flavored with ginger [syn: {gingersnap}, {ginger snap}, {snap}, {ginger nut}].
Snap (n.) 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".
Snap (n.) A sudden sharp noise; "the crack of a whip"; "he heard the cracking of the ice"; "he can hear the snap of a twig" [syn: {crack}, {cracking}, {snap}].
Snap (n.) A sudden breaking.
Snap (n.) The tendency of a body to return to its original shape after it has been stretched or compressed; "the waistband had lost its snap" [syn: {elasticity}, {snap}] [ant: {inelasticity}].
Snap (n.) 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" [syn: {snapshot}, {snap}, {shot}].
Snap (n.) A fastener used on clothing; fastens with a snapping sound; "children can manage snaps better than buttons" [syn: {snap}, {snap fastener}, {press stud}].
Snap (n.) Any undertaking that is easy to do; "marketing this product will be no picnic" [syn: {cinch}, {breeze}, {picnic}, {snap}, {duck soup}, {child's play}, {pushover}, {walkover}, {piece of cake}].
Snap (n.) 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".
Snap (n.) (American football) Putting the ball in play by passing it (between the legs) to a back; "the quarterback fumbled the snap" [syn: {centering}, {snap}].
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" [syn: {snap}, {snarl}].
Snap (v.) Separate or cause to separate abruptly; "The rope snapped"; "tear the paper" [syn: {tear}, {rupture}, {snap}, {bust}].
Snap (v.) Break suddenly and abruptly, as under tension; "The pipe snapped" [syn: {snap}, {crack}].
Snap (v.) Move or strike with a noise; "he clicked on the light"; "his arm was snapped forward" [syn: {snap}, {click}].
Snap (v.) Close with a snapping motion; "The lock snapped shut".
Snap (v.) Make a sharp sound; "his fingers snapped" [syn: {snap}, {crack}].
Snap (v.) Move with a snapping sound; "bullets snapped past us".
Snap (v.) To grasp hastily or eagerly; "Before I could stop him the dog snatched the ham bone" [syn: {snatch}, {snatch up}, {snap}].
Snap (v.) Put in play with a snap; "snap a football".
Snap (v.) Cause to make a snapping sound; "snap your fingers" [syn: {snap}, {click}, {flick}].
Snap (v.) 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" [syn: {break down}, {lose it}, {snap}].
Snap (v.) Bring the jaws together; "he snapped indignantly".
Snap (v.) Record on photographic film; "I photographed the scene of the accident"; "She snapped a picture of the President" [syn: {photograph}, {snap}, {shoot}].
SNAP (Acronyms) SubNetwork Access Protocol (LAN, ethernet).
SNAP (Acronyms) SubNetwork Attachment Point (IEEE 802.1a).
SNAP (Acronyms) System and Network Administration Program.
SNAP (Acronyms) System Neutral Access Protocol (SciTech).
Snap (a.) (Attributive) (a.) 突然的，冷不防的；迅速的；啪一聲關上或扣上的；用彈簧的 (adv.) 啪地一聲；猛然 Done or taken on the spur of the moment, unexpectedly, or without notice.
‘A snap decision.’
‘He could call a snap election.’
Snapdragon (n.) (Bot.) Any plant of the scrrophulariaceous genus Antirrhinum, especially the cultivated A. majus, whose showy flowers are fancifully likened to the face of a dragon.
Snapdragon (n.) (Bot.) A West Indian herb (Ruellia tuberosa) with curiously shaped blue flowers.
Snapdragon (n.) A play in which raisins are snatched from a vessel containing burning brandy, and eaten; also, that which is so eaten. See Flapdragon. -- Swift.
Snapdragon (n.) A garden plant of the genus Antirrhinum having showy white or yellow or crimson flowers resembling the face of a dragon.
Snape (v. t.) (Shipbuilding) To bevel the end of a timber to fit against an inclined surface.
Snaphance (n.) 燧發機 A spring lock for discharging a firearm; also, the firearm to which it is attached. [Obs.]
Snaphance (n.) A trifling or second-rate thing or person. [Obs.]
Snaphead (n.) A hemispherical or rounded head to a rivet or bolt; also, a swaging tool with a cavity in its face for forming such a rounded head.
Snapper (n.) 【魚】真鯛；劈啪響者；【美】砲仗 One who, or that which, snaps; as, a snapper up of trifles; the snapper of a whip.
Snapper (n.) (Zool.) Any one of several species of large sparoid food fishes of the genus Lutjanus, abundant on the southern coasts of the United States and on both coasts of tropical America.
Note: The red snapper ({Lutjanus aya} syn. {Lutjanus Blackfordi}) and the gray, or mangrove, snapper ({Lutjanus griseus}) are large and abundant species. The name is loosely applied to various other fishes, as the bluefish, the rosefish, the red grouper, etc. See {Rosefish}.
Snapper (n.) (Zool.) A snapping turtle; as, the alligator snapper.