What's the difference between banger and snag?

Banger


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) There's an extraordinary array of high performance models that can do almost anything, but there's also a lot of clapped-out old bangers from the former communist bloc that can leak, break down and possibly even explode.
  • (2) When I speak to Win Butler's younger brother, Will, keyboardist, synth player and drum banger, he says: "Every so often someone will say we're the new U2, but we really make some pretty weird music a lot of the time.
  • (3) Marisol was a topless waitress before drugs fried her brain, Becky was a nurse, despite being raped at 14, before she killed someone and was jailed, and another man was a serious gang banger.
  • (4) The remaining Covent Garden branch will continue to offer a range of "proud British flavours", including fish and chips with mushy peas at £14.95; pork belly, banger and mash for £14.50, and sticky toffee pudding with clotted cream at £6.
  • (5) These high-octane bangers were among the show's strongest moments, allowing both performers to bask in their own unapologetic confidence.
  • (6) When two previously separate parties come together as smoothly as bangers and mash or apple pie and custard, your only thought is “Why the hell didn’t we do this before?” But if your company’s apple pie is in fact an incredibly complex bit of technological kit which is designed, manufactured and marketed as part of a global enterprise, and the accompanying custard in the metaphorical partnership is a small company thousands of miles from your headquarters, putting the two together isn’t quite so straightforward.
  • (7) Ben Hayoun is in talks with publishers regarding a series of Disaster Playground books, and a concert from Ed Banger Records, which provided the soundtrack, is also planned.
  • (8) Anyway, as anyone with ears can hopefully tell, Vermillion is a very good song; the sort of sophisticated, slowly blossoming emo-banger that usually gets the music blogosphere all hot under the collar.
  • (9) As historical sagas go, the book itself is a banger.
  • (10) A comparison of the ages at which 12 "milestones" first appeared supported the hypothesis of developmental precocity for the body rockers and the head bangers, but not for the head rollers.
  • (11) Clean Bandit and Jess Glynne: Rather Be A nonpartisan banger to be used over shots of traditional British life: rolling hills, old person waving flag, policeman dancing at Notting Hill carnival, Clean Bandit popping champagne corks at this song’s 8,000th sync etc.
  • (12) Dan Snaith looks as if he’s about to deliver an informed running commentary on Istria’s Roman remains; instead, he pulls up the fader on another tropical disco banger and a boatload of expectant ravers go politely bananas.
  • (13) The kitchen serves Asian dishes as well as some foreign favourites – from Mexican tacos to bangers and mash.
  • (14) Being categorised by the World Health Organisation as a cause of cancer might be bad enough, but being lumped in with English bangers and bacon has prompted a particularly outraged response from the guardians of Italy’s sacred tradition of Parma ham.
  • (15) Two procedures were used to compare the effects of differential reinforcement of other behavior (DRO) and differential reinforcement of incompatible behavior (DRI) on self-injurious behavior (SIB) of three profoundly retarded head-bangers in a multiple-schedule within-subjects design.
  • (16) Fourteen were head bangers, of whom two had cavum septum pellucidum.
  • (17) Tadashi Arashima, its chief executive, warned that the various "cash-for-bangers" programmes set up by European governments have artificially fuelled sales in recent months.
  • (18) We have lunch – bangers and slightly cold mash – at the BBC Symphony Orchestra’s rundown and soon-to-be-redeveloped rehearsal space in Maida Vale.
  • (19) What to buy: Sex Dreams and Denim Jeans will be released by Ed Banger on 14 February 2010.
  • (20) The sausages are a nominally seasoned plain pork (the correct banger for breakfast), the bacon is excellent, the fried egg bright and fresh.

Snag


Definition:

  • (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.
  • (n.) A tooth projecting beyond the rest; contemptuously, a broken or decayed tooth.
  • (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.
  • (n.) One of the secondary branches of an antler.
  • (v. t.) To cut the snags or branches from, as the stem of a tree; to hew roughly.
  • (v. t.) To injure or destroy, as a steamboat or other vessel, by a snag, or projecting part of a sunken tree.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The principal snags that still remain are: post-operative infection in about a third of cases; the rare but possible development of an enterocele and of dyspareunia (2%).
  • (2) Amazon and Google's drone delivery plans hit snag with new US regulations Read more The company announced that a cross-government team supported by the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) gave permission to Amazon to explore three key areas: operations beyond line of sight, obstacle avoidance and flights where one person operates multiple autonomous drones.
  • (3) By snagging a 14-second submission and securing the quickest finish in UFC championship history.
  • (4) Those in the first row had arrived at 3am to snag prime spots to greet the object of their affection.
  • (5) • Wipes, nappies, sanitary towels, rags and condoms do not break down easily and can snag on pipes, drains and the walls of sewers, leading to blockages.
  • (6) We hope to create laws that help protect the security of the Japanese people.” Abe’s economic policy hit a snag when Japan slipped back into recession in the third quarter, amid weak consumer and corporate spending.
  • (7) This bureaucratic snag was what prompted Frayha to try to reach Greece last weekend , even after the introduction of the EU-Turkey deportation deal.
  • (8) The variant, termed SNAG 1, continues to synthesize idiotypic IgM, which can be detected in the cytoplasm, but it neither secretes nor expresses IgM on the cell surface (less than 10% of the levels of the original BCL tumor), even though the H and L chains show no gross structural changes.
  • (9) As soon as it caught my bait it pulled 20 metres of line from my reel, the only time that’s happened before is when I got snagged on a boat propeller.
  • (10) The treaty immediately hit a snag because politicians in the US, the world's largest emitter of greenhouse gases, passed a vote in the Senate refusing to ratify the protocol.
  • (11) In Carlos Queiroz Iran have a defensive mastermind to savour this kind of match, a coach who is happiest seeing opposition teams grind though the gears, snagged on his high-grade defensive spike strips.
  • (12) Two reports published on Wednesday have suggested that the investigation has hit a snag over what is expected of agents on foreign trips.
  • (13) The deal had hit a late snag over agents’ fees on Tuesday but Villa have confirmed their first January capture.
  • (14) Sharon Shoesmith has not changed her appearance, as some might expect her to have done since she was dismissed as Haringey council's director of children's services last year: she still has short, dark hair above heavy designer glasses, and, apart from dropping them a few times, and apart from a sudden snag into tears, she is very composed, very still.
  • (15) The National Review's Robert Costa says it looks good: Robert Costa (@robertcostaNRO) Leadership sources: no snags right now on informal whip count, legislation continues to move twd floor, vote coming later October 15, 2013 Except: Robert Costa (@robertcostaNRO) Pressure mounts on conservatives to vote nay RT @Heritage_Action Key Vote: “NO” on House Spending and Debt Deal October 15, 2013 The failure of the latest Boehner initiative could make a strong argument for the terminal paralysis of the House and the return of the legislative initiative to the Senate.
  • (16) Danny Green then throws a really ill-conceived pass that Ray Allen snags for another three-pointer, because that's what he does.
  • (17) Since Colbert’s debut this week, he has already snagged an interview with GOP contender Jeb Bush and booked future appearances with candidates Donald Trump and Ted Cruz.
  • (18) And anyway, when he came to think about the show, his shifting idea of Britain, there were other things his mind was snagging on.
  • (19) Results of both clinical and laboratory-based studies showed the non-woven swab to be as effective as traditional gauze in terms of softness, conformability, ability to pad or pack, resistance to snagging and shredding, and ease of counting when wet.
  • (20) The valve is of crucial importance and varices represent a symptom indicating a snag in the venous return.