<noun.act> 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
a spell of cold weather
<noun.time> a cold snap in the middle of May
tender green beans without strings that easily snap into sections
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a crisp round cookie flavored with ginger
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the noise produced by the rapid movement of a finger from the tip to the base of the thumb on the same hand
<noun.event> servants appeared at the snap of his fingers
a sudden sharp noise
<noun.event> the crack of a whip he heard the cracking of the ice he can hear the snap of a twig
a sudden breaking
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the tendency of a body to return to its original shape after it has been stretched or compressed
<noun.attribute> the waistband had lost its snap
an informal photograph; usually made with a small hand-held camera
<noun.artifact> my snapshots haven't been developed yet he tried to get unposed shots of his friends
a fastener used on clothing; fastens with a snapping sound
<noun.artifact> children can manage snaps better than buttons
any undertaking that is easy to do
<noun.act> marketing this product will be no picnic
the act of snapping the fingers; movement of a finger from the tip to the base of the thumb on the same hand
<noun.act> he gave his fingers a snap
(American football) putting the ball in play by passing it (between the legs) to a back
<noun.act> the quarterback fumbled the snap [ verb ]
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.
5. To miss fire; as, the gun snapped.
6. Of the eyes, to emit sudden, brief sparkles like those of a snapping fire, as sometimes in anger. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
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.
7. (Cricket) To catch out sharply (a batsman who has just snicked a bowled ball). [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
{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.
{To snap off}. (a) To break suddenly. (b) To bite off suddenly.
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. --Lowell.
8. 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.
9. (Zo["o]l.) A snap beetle.
10. A thin, crisp cake, usually small, and flavored with ginger; -- used chiefly in the plural.
11. Briskness; vigor; energy; decision. [Colloq.]
12. Any circumstance out of which money may be made or an advantage gained. [Slang]
13. 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.] [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
14. A snap shot with a firearm. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
15. (Photog.) A snapshot. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
16. Something of no value; as, not worth a snap. [Colloq.] [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
17. (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}. [PJC]
{Snap back} (Football), the act of snapping back the ball.
{Snap beetle}, or {Snap bug} (Zo["o]l.), any beetle of the family {Elaterid[ae]}, 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 \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.] [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
Development of the winter wheat crop is about two weeks ahead of schedule because of unseasonably warm and wet weather to this point, and is now particularly vulnerable to a cold snap, analysts said.
Some judges say the swelling caseload is straining the court's resources and pressuring them to make too many snap decisions.
Mr. Hoyle hams up both parts to the hilt, disappearing behind one side of a screen with his nose in the air and a crisp snap of the napkin over his forearm and reappearing on the other side with shuffle and a slump.
"The guy's legs are too skinny," he says, dismissing it with another snap of his fingers.
Record price increases for vegetables and fuel oil combined in January to produce the highest monthly wholesale inflation rate in 15 years, the government reported, but analysts attributed almost all of it to the holiday cold snap.
Alaska enjoyed a warming trend today as an 18-day cold snap ended with cloudiness and higher temperatures spreading across the state.
"The earnings aren't there and if the stock goes down somebody would snap it up," he said in an interview.
Do you know what she does? She cracks open coconuts and puts them in a line for when the pigs wake up.' Third snap, 10am the next day.
He also said noted that he has taken to wearing a T-shirt when he swims, so nobody can snap revealing pictures of him.
They were leagues ahead of generic jug wines in quality and style, and an incredible bargain that savvy wine drinkers were quick to snap up.
That wouldn't be so bad if foreigners continued to snap up U.S. securities.
A cold snap covered southern Greece with snow, immobilising cars, aircraft and ships and cutting off more than 300 villages.
A bitter cold snap set records from Texas to West Virginia on Saturday, more than a foot of snow fell on parts of New England and ash from Alaska's Redoubt Volcano drifted over the Pacific Northwest.
Her grandchildren have a hard time believing that we used to snap pictures with little hand-held cameras and then take the film to a photograph developer, waiting for hours or days to get back a set of prints. These days it's all digital imaging.
The cold snap has chilled much of nation for the past several days, and forecasters said there was no end in sight.
"Planted acreage of snap beans is up 22 percent; sweet corn is up 8 percent; green peas jumped 15 percent; while tomatoes increased 17 percent," the report said.
They don't have the snap and sharpness you would like to see." But all the dire predictions have produced a positive side effect: an increased awareness of the importance of preservation.
The sources said the astronauts are to deploy a 37,300-pound satellite to snap high-resolution reconnaissance photos and to listen in on military and diplomatic communications around the world.
His connection to Ann is so tenuous that there isn't any snap when it breaks.
That reduction, due to a cold snap in California, wasn't a surprise, Ms. Georgakis said.
Blunt gags snap at the ankles; tone-changes are tried and discarded; finally the film ends in a heap at the bottom of the piste. At least My Fair Lady has grace and a sense of presentation.
The entire fault doesn't snap at once.
And as has been well reported, some police officers aren't the only ones who snap under such an awful system. Citizens burn down crack houses.
The engineers believed an error in computer commands they sent to Galileo made the shutter snap when it wasn't supposed to, and they were "pretty certain there's nothing wrong with the computer or camera," he said.
Well of course, companies can't summon up the necessary improvement in earnings with a snap of the fingers.
Wholesale prices, which soared in January when a cold snap sent fuel oil and vegetable costs spiraling, have remained virtually unchanged from February through July, helped by six consecutive drops in energy costs.
But Zepp said that by mid-August canners were quoting delivered prices 25 percent to 35 percent higher for green peas, snap beans and sweet corn than at the beginning of the summer.
After talking to the agent, the buyer decides to snap up as much corn as he can find, even if it costs 30% more than the prevailing market price.
Most observers had predicted a Hagler knockout in these rounds, and while Hagler generally got the better of the action in this span, his punches lacked snap, perhaps showing the effects of a 14-year ring career.
Keltner's diving catch at third base helped snap Hall of Famer Joe Dimaggio's 56-game hitting streak in 1941.