Noun | 1. | snap - the act of catching an object with the hands; "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" |
2. | snap - a spell of cold weather; "a cold snap in the middle of May" | |
3. | snap - tender green beans without strings that easily snap into sections Synonyms: snap bean | |
4. | snap - a crisp round cookie flavored with ginger | |
5. | snap - the noise produced by the rapid movement of a finger from the tip to the base of the thumb on the same hand; "servants appeared at the snap of his fingers" | |
6. | snap - a sudden sharp noise; "the crack of a whip"; "he heard the cracking of the ice"; "he can hear the snap of a twig" | |
7. | snap - a sudden breaking | |
8. | snap - the tendency of a body to return to its original shape after it has been stretched or compressed; "the waistband had lost its snap" Synonyms: elasticity | |
9. | snap - an informal photograph; usually made with a small hand-held camera; "my snapshots haven't been developed yet"; "he tried to get unposed shots of his friends" | |
10. | snap - a fastener used on clothing; fastens with a snapping sound; "children can manage snaps better than buttons" Synonyms: press stud, snap fastener | |
11. | snap - any undertaking that is easy to do; "marketing this product will be no picnic" | |
12. | snap - the act of snapping the fingers; movement of a finger from the tip to the base of the thumb on the same hand; "he gave his fingers a snap" | |
13. | snap - (American football) putting the ball in play by passing it (between the legs) to a back; "the quarterback fumbled the snap" Synonyms: centering | |
Verb | 1. | snap - utter in an angry, sharp, or abrupt tone; "The sales clerky snapped a reply at the angry customer"; "The guard snarled at us" Synonyms: snarl |
2. | snap - separate or cause to separate abruptly; "The rope snapped"; "tear the paper" | |
3. | snap - break suddenly and abruptly, as under tension; "The rope snapped" Synonyms: crack | |
4. | snap - move or strike with a noise; "he clicked on the light"; "his arm was snapped forward" Synonyms: click | |
5. | snap - snap close with a sound; "The lock snapped shut" | |
6. | snap - make a sharp sound; "his fingers snapped" Synonyms: crack | |
7. | snap - move with a snapping sound; "bullets snapped past us" | |
8. | snap - to grasp hastily or eagerly; "Before I could stop him the dog snatched the ham bone" | |
9. | snap - put in play with a snap; "snap a football" | |
10. | snap - cause to make a snapping sound; "snap your fingers" | |
11. | snap - lose control of one's emotions; "When she heard that she had not passed the exam, she lost it completely"; "When her baby died, she snapped" Synonyms: lose it, break down | |
12. | snap - record on photographic film; "I photographed the scene of the accident"; "She snapped a picture of the President" Synonyms: photograph, shoot |
1. | SNAP - Early (IBM 360?) interpreted text-processing language for beginners, close to basic English. ["Computer Programming in English", M.P. Barnett, Harcourt Brace 1969]. | ||
2. | SNAP - ["Some Proposals for SNAP, A Language with Formal Macro Facilities", R.B. Napper, Computer J 10(3):231-243 (1967)]. | ||
3. | SNAP - To replace a pointer to a pointer with a direct pointer; to
replace an old address with the forwarding address found
there. If you telephone the main number for an institution
and ask for a particular person by name, the operator may tell
you that person's extension before connecting you, in the
hopes that you will "snap your pointer" and dial direct next
time. The underlying metaphor may be that of a rubber band
stretched through a number of intermediate points; if you
remove all the thumbtacks in the middle, it snaps into a
straight line from first to last. See chase pointers. Often, the behaviour of a trampoline is to perform an error check once and then snap the pointer that invoked it so as henceforth to bypass the trampoline (and its one-shot error check). In this context one also speaks of "snapping links". For example, in a Lisp implementation, a function interface trampoline might check to make sure that the caller is passing the correct number of arguments; if it is, and if the caller and the callee are both compiled, then snapping the link allows that particular path to use a direct procedure-call instruction with no further overhead. |