(n.) To break at once; to break short, as substances that are brittle.
(n.) To strike, to hit, or to shut, with a sharp sound.
(n.) To bite or seize suddenly, especially with the teeth.
(n.) To break upon suddenly with sharp, angry words; to treat snappishly; -- usually with up.
(n.) To crack; to cause to make a sharp, cracking noise; as, to snap a whip.
(n.) To project with a snap.
(v. i.) To break short, or at once; to part asunder suddenly; as, a mast snaps; a needle snaps.
(v. i.) To give forth, or produce, a sharp, cracking noise; to crack; as, blazing firewood snaps.
(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.
(v. i.) To utter sharp, harsh, angry words; -- often with at; as, to snap at a child.
(v. i.) To miss fire; as, the gun snapped.
(v. t.) A sudden breaking or rupture of any substance.
(v. t.) A sudden, eager bite; a sudden seizing, or effort to seize, as with the teeth.
(v. t.) A sudden, sharp motion or blow, as with the finger sprung from the thumb, or the thumb from the finger.
(v. t.) A sharp, abrupt sound, as that made by the crack of a whip; as, the snap of the trigger of a gun.
(v. t.) A greedy fellow.
(v. t.) 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.
(v. t.) A sudden severe interval or spell; -- applied to the weather; as, a cold snap.
(v. t.) 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.
(v. t.) A snap beetle.
(v. t.) A thin, crisp cake, usually small, and flavored with ginger; -- used chiefly in the plural.
(v. t.) Briskness; vigor; energy; decision.
(v. t.) Any circumstance out of which money may be made or an advantage gained.
Example Sentences:
(1) To evaluate the relationship between the motion pattern and degree of organic change of the anterior mitral leaflet (AML) and the features of the mitral component of the first heart sound (M1) or the opening snap (OS), 37 patients with mitral stenosis (MS) were studied by auscultation, phonocardiography and echocardiography.
(2) A letter Acosta received warned her of a Snap cut of $11 for each family member in November.
(3) The San Antonio Food Bank says donations are up 16% But because of the cuts to Snap the supplies disappear faster.
(4) Acquaintance with a teenaged girl of roughly qualifying age is not essential, but probably helpful, when it comes to appreciating the degree to which Uncle Rupert's views on women, as still reflected in Page 3 , have not progressed since his executives started perving over snaps of their favourite teens.
(5) It's easy to express rage over the Newtown shooting because so few of us bear any responsibility for it and - although we can take steps to minimize the impact and make similar attacks less likely - there is ultimately little we can do to stop psychotic individuals from snapping.
(6) The sensitivity and overall agreement of both the SNAP and Campyslide tests were 100% in comparison with standard culture and identification tests.
(7) Hours after the attack ended, US troops with sniffer dogs checked the building for undetonated explosives, as security officials snapped pictures of the bodies and discussed the support the fighters must have received.
(8) We replicated DNA fingerprints of snapping turtles (Chelydra serpentina) and hypervariable restriction fragments of red-winged blackbirds (Agelaius phoeniceus) to estimate the between-blot and between-lane components of variance in molecular weights of restriction fragments.
(9) Prime minister Lee Hsien Loong called the snap election more than a year early in the hope of riding a wave of national pride following the country’s recent 50th anniversary.
(10) In superfused precontracted strips of rabbit aorta, methylene blue (MeB) or pyocyanin (Pyo, 1-hydroxy-5-methyl phenazinum betaine) at concentrations of 1-10 microM inhibited relaxations induced by endothelium-derived relaxing factor (EDRF), glyceryl trinitrate (GTN), S-nitroso-N-acetyl-penicillamine (SNAP) or 3-morpholino-sydnonimine (SIN-1).
(11) You will have to offer leadership and a sense of belonging to the civil service's lowly clerks and frontline staff in the Department for Work and Pensions, struggling not just with Iain Duncan Smith's fantasies of benefit rationalisation, but sharp contractors snapping at their heels.
(12) Scotland’s politics must snap out of its tribalism and recover the conventional left-right dichotomy.
(13) 4 October 2009: George Papandreou becomes prime minister Papandreou's Panhellenic Socialist Movement (Pasok) party wins power after New Democracy calls a snap general election, asking the Greek people for a new mandate to tackle the looming financial crisis.
(14) At this point, you are well within your rights to snap back: "It's all right for you.
(15) In addition, we examined 31 archival in situ carcinomas, 15 snap-frozen invasive ductal carcinomas, primary cell cultures from three benign breast tissue samples, and breast carcinoma cell lines MDA-MB-231 and MDA-MB-468.
(16) Mike Hawes, SMMT chief executive, said buyers were snapping up "enticing deals on a wealth of advanced new products".
(17) There they discovered a little-known club called Amnesia and a DJ called Alfredo and instead of coming back with a few out-of-focus snaps, Paul Oakenfold, Johnny Walker, Danny Rampling and Nicky Holloway returned home exhausted but burning with a missionary zeal.
(18) Imperial Tobacco has become a major player in the US market after snapping up a raft of brands in a £4.2bn ($7bn) deal.
(19) The launch of Sky Atlantic follows the broadcaster's audacious £150m, five-year deal to snap up the exclusive UK TV rights to US cable channel HBO's entire archive, new HBO programming and a first-look deal on all co-productions.
(20) The SNAP was able to detect either 5 ng of C. jejuni DNA or 10(5) CFU of bacteria.
Snip
Definition:
(v. t.) To cut off the nip or neb of, or to cut off at once with shears or scissors; to clip off suddenly; to nip; hence, to break off; to snatch away.
(n.) A single cut, as with shears or scissors; a clip.
(n.) A small shred; a bit cut off.
(n.) A share; a snack.
(n.) A tailor.
(n.) Small hand shears for cutting sheet metal.
Example Sentences:
(1) It's so magnificent, like the swishing mane of a thoroughbred stallion … Too late, snip snip, off it comes.
(2) This paper describes the external ear anomalies found in this syndrome: short wide pinnae, often cupped and asymmetrical; distinctive triangular concha; discontinuity between the antihelix and antitragus; and 'snipped-off' portions of the helical folds.
(3) This fluorescent bile salt derivative is not only taken up by hepatocytes of several cell layers at the surface of the snips but also secreted into bile canaliculi.
(4) Skin snips from newborn children and biopsy material from the umbilical cord and placenta of their mothers were examined.
(5) If you make a small diagonal snip in each corner of the paper, it will help fit the paper snugly into the corners of the tin.
(6) Twelve months after initial treatment, 15 of 41 (37%) patients had positive skin-snip test results and eight of 26 (31%) showed active ocular involvement.
(7) To get around this handicap, the character employs a recording of scissor-snip noises and barber’s small-talk to convince his client he’s actually doing the job he was hired for.
(8) The diagnostic potential of skin snips from different body regions was evaluated in 97 onchocerciasis patients of Central Nigeria.
(9) Muscle strips and adipose tissue snips were incubated with 0.75 mM [1-14C]palmitate and 5 mM glucose.
(10) Sixteen of 23 patients who underwent gonioscopy had PAS of which 13 had positive skin snips for onchocerciasis, compared with two out of seven patients with positive skin snips who had open angle glaucoma (p = 0.003).
(11) But skin snips harboring Onchocerca microfilariae are seen in 12.1% of the sample studied.
(12) A total of 52 bilharzial mansoni patients were examined, 20 patients with early intestinal infection with living ova in stools, 20 patients with hepatosplenomegaly but without ascites, also with viable ova in stools, and 12 patients with hepatosplenomegaly and ascites without ova in stools; but in the rectal snip.
(13) Of 61 persons examined in eight villages 35 (= 57%) were found positive for microfilariae by the skin-snip method, 13 had typical manifestations of sowda, 17 had other onchocercal-suggestive skin lesions and five had subcutaneous nodules.
(14) Criteria for parasitological cure were the absence of live eggs in two stool samples and a negative rectal snip biopsy three months after therapy.
(15) Microfilariae of Onchocerca volvulus were observed in nearly one half of the skin snips taken from the village residents.
(16) Katrantzou herself dresses uniformly in black – in her serene London studios, where quiet seamstresses in neon and pastels snip busily at tables, hers seems to be the only shadow.
(17) If fewer than six skin snips are desired for a particular field study, the choice of how many skin snips to be taken should be based on the expected precision required for that study.
(18) The enterprise had a house-to-house censused population of 7,122 persons from whom 1,611 were examined for onchocerciasis using either taking of skin-snips or the Mazzotti test or both.
(19) The overall geometric mean microfilarial load was 18 microfilariae per skin snip.
(20) But the real issue, I suspect, is that to consent to an interview is to allow oneself to be framed and interpreted, to have your utterances snipped up and shunted around the page.