snap

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Definizione monolingua snap



snap


Verb

snap (third-person singular simple present snaps, present participle snapping, simple past and past participle snapped; snapt (obsolete))


  1. (intransitive) To fracture or break apart suddenly.
    He got socked with long penalty when he snapped his stick over the goalies head.
    We pick and snap the green beans and the wives can em.
  2. (intransitive) To give forth or produce a sharp cracking noise; to crack.
  3. (intransitive) To attempt to seize with the teeth or bite.
  4. (intransitive) To attempt to seize with eagerness.
  5. (intransitive) To speak abruptly or sharply.
    He snapped at me for the slightest mistake.
  6. (intransitive) To give way abruptly and loudly.
  7. (intransitive) To suffer a mental breakdown, usually while under tension.
    She should take a break before she snaps.
  8. (intransitive) To flash or appear to flash as with light.
  9. (intransitive) To fit or fasten together with a snapping sound.
  10. (intransitive, computing, graphical user interface) To jump to a fixed position relative to another element.
    The floating toolbar will snap to the edge of the screen when dragged towards it.
  11. (transitive) To snatch with or as if with the teeth.
  12. (transitive) To pull apart with a snapping sound; to pop loose.
  13. (transitive) To say abruptly or sharply.
  14. (transitive) To cause something to emit a snapping sound, such as a fastener.
  15. (transitive) To close something using a snap as a fastener.
  16. (transitive)
    A video of a person snapping their fingers.
    Alternative snapping technique
    To snap ones fingers: to make a snapping sound often by pressing the thumb and an opposing finger of the same hand together and suddenly releasing the grip so that the finger hits against the palm. Alternatively, by bringing the index finger quickly down onto the middle finger and thumb, thereby creating the same sound.
  17. (transitive) To cause to move suddenly and smartly.
  18. (transitive) To take a photograph; to release a cameras shutter (which may make a snapping sound).
    He snapped a picture of me with my mouth open and my eyes closed.
  19. (transitive) (American football) To pass the ball from the center to a back; to hike the ball.
    He can snap the ball to a back twenty yards behind him.
Noun

snap (countable and uncountable; plural snaps)


  1. A quick breaking or cracking sound or the action of producing such a sound.
  2. A sudden break.
  3. An attempt to seize, bite, attack, or grab.
  4. The act of making a snapping sound by pressing the thumb and a opposing finger of the same hand together and suddenly releasing the grip so that the finger hits against the palm.
  5. A fastening device that makes a snapping sound when used.
  6. A photograph (an abbreviation of snapshot)
  7. The sudden release of something held under pressure or tension.
  8. A thin circular cookie or similar good:
    a ginger snap
  9. A brief, sudden period of a certain weather; used primarily in the phrase cold snap.
  10. A very short period of time (figuratively, the time taken to snap ones fingers), or a task that can be accomplished in such a period.
    Itll be a snap to get that finished.
    I can fix most vacuum cleaners in a snap.
  11. A snap bean such as Phaseolus vulgaris.
  12. (American football) The passing of a football from the center to a back that begins play, a hike.
  13. (somewhat colloquial) A rivet: a scrapbooking embellishment.
  14. (regional) A small meal, a snack.
    • 1913, D H Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, Penguin 2006, p. 89:
      When I went to put my coat on at snap time, what should go runnin up my arm but a mouse.
  15. (uncountable) A card game, primarily for children, in which players cry ""snap"" to claim pairs of matching cards.
  16. (UK, dialect, Midlands) lunch


Definizione italiano>inglese snap


schioccare
  quick breaking or cracking sound or the action of producing such a sound
  act of hitting a middle or ring finger against the palm
allineare
  To automatically align drawing objects to gridlines, guides, columns, other objects, etc.
accertare
accettazione
agguantare
azzannare
battere
dipinto
dividere
foto
fotografare
improvviso
pezzo
repentino
rompere
rompersi
schiocco
spezzare
strappare

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