snap

Meanings

Noun

• 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;
• 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.
• A rivet: a scrapbooking embellishment.
• A small meal, a snack; lunch.
• A card game, primarily for children, in which players cry "snap" to claim pairs of matching cards as they are turned up.
• A greedy fellow.
• 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.
• briskness; vigour; energy; decision
• Any circumstance out of which money may be made or an advantage gained.
• Something that is easy or effortless.
• A snapper, or snap beetle.
• jounce (the fourth derivative of the position vector with respect to time), followed by crackle and pop
• A quick offhand shot with a firearm; a snap shot.
• Something of no value.
• A visual message sent through the Snapchat application.
• A package provided for the application sandboxing system snapd developed by Canonical.
• A crisp or pithy quality; epigrammatic point or force.
• A tool used by riveters.
• A tool used by glass-moulders.
• A brief theatrical engagement.
• A cheat or sharper.
• A newsflash.

Verb

• 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.
• To say abruptly or sharply.
• To speak to abruptly or sharply; to treat snappishly; usually with up.
• To cause something to emit a snapping sound, especially by closing it rapidly.
• To close something using a snap as a fastener.
• File:Snapping fingers.ogv|thumb|A video of a person snapping their fingers.File:Alt Finger Snap.ogv|thumb|Alternative snapping techniqueTo snap one's 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.
• To cause to move suddenly and smartly.
• To take a photograph; to release a camera's shutter (which may make a snapping sound).
• To put (a football) in play by a backward pass or handoff from its position on the ground; to hike (a football).
• To misfire.
• To catch out sharply (a batsman who has just snicked a bowled ball).

Interjection

• The cry used in a game of snap when winning a hand.
• By extension from the card game, "I've got one the same!", "Me too!"
• Ritual utterance of agreement (after the cry in the card game snap).
• Used in place of expletive to express surprise, usually in response to a negative statement or news; often used facetiously.
• Ritual utterance used after something is said by two people at exactly the same time.

Adjective

• Done, made, performed, etc., quickly and unexpectedly, or without deliberation.

Origin

• , from Proto-Indo-European *ksnew-. Cognate with West Frisian snappe ("to get; catch; snap"), German schnappen ("to grab"), Swedish snappa ("to snatch").