Boom vs Snap - What's the difference?
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To make a loud, resonant sound.
(transitive, figuratively, of speech) To exclaim with force, to shout, to thunder.
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To make something boom.
(slang, US, obsolete) To publicly praise.
* (rfdate), Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Problem of Thor Bridge
To rush with violence and noise, as a ship under a press of sail, before a free wind.
* Totten
A low-pitched, resonant sound, such as of an explosion.
One of the calls of certain monkeys or birds.
* 1990 , Mark A. Berkley, William C. Stebbins, Comparative Perception
(nautical) A spar extending the foot of a sail; a spar rigged outboard from a ship's side to which boats are secured in harbour.
A movable pole used to support a microphone or camera.
A horizontal member of a crane or derrick, used for lifting.
(electronics) The longest element of a Yagi antenna, on which the other, smaller ones, are transversally mounted.
A floating barrier used to obstruct navigation, for military or other purposes; or used for the containment of an oil spill.
A wishbone shaped piece of windsurfing equipment.
The arm of a crane (mechanical lifting machine).
The section of the arm on a backhoe closest to the tractor.
To extend, or push, with a boom or pole.
To be prosperous.
(dated) To cause to advance rapidly in price.
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 making a snapping sound by pressing the thumb and a opposing finger of the same hand together and suddenly releasing the grip so that the finger hits against the palm.
A fastening device that makes a snapping sound when used.
A photograph (an abbreviation of snapshot)
The sudden release of something held under pressure or tension.
A thin circular cookie or similar 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 .
(American football) The passing of a football from the center to a back that begins play, a hike.
A rivet: a scrapbooking embellishment.
(UK, regional) A small meal, a snack; lunch.
* 1913 , , Penguin 2006, page 89:
(uncountable) A card game, primarily for children, in which players cry "snap" to claim pairs of matching cards.
(obsolete) 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.
* Ben Jonson
briskness; vigour; energy; decision
(slang, archaic) Any circumstance out of which money may be made or an advantage gained.
A snapper, or snap beetle.
(Webster 1913)
(transitive) To fracture or break apart suddenly.
* Burke
To give forth or produce a sharp cracking noise; to crack.
To attempt to seize with the teeth or bite.
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.
(intransitive, computing, graphical user interface) To jump to a fixed position relative to another element.
To snatch with or as if with the teeth.
* South
To pull apart with a snapping sound; to pop loose.
To say abruptly or sharply.
(dated) To speak to abruptly or sharply; to treat snappishly; usually with up .
To cause something to emit a snapping sound.
To close something using a snap as a fastener.
To 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.
* Sir Walter Scott
To cause to move suddenly and smartly.
To take a photograph; to release a camera's shutter (which may make a snapping sound).
(American football) To pass the ball from the center to a back; to hike the ball.
To misfire.
The winning cry at a game of .
(British) By extension from the card game, "I've got one the same." or similar
(British) Ritual utterance of agreement (after the cry in the card game snap).
(US) Used in place of expletive to express surprise, usually in response to a negative statement or news; often used facetiously.
(British, Australia, NZ) Ritual utterance used after something is said by two people at exactly the same time.
Boom is a related term of snap.
As nouns the difference between boom and snap
is that boom is while snap is (computing) (subnetwork access protocol).boom
English
(wikipedia boom)Etymology 1
Onomatopoetic, perhaps borrowed; compare German (m), Dutch (m).Verb
(en verb)- Thunder boomed in the distance and lightning flashes lit up the horizon.
- The cannon boomed , recoiled, and spewed a heavy smoke cloud.
- Beneath the cliff, the sea was booming on the rocks.
- I can hear the organ slowly booming from the chapel.
- Men in grey robes slowly booming the drums of death.
- If you pull this off every paper in England and America will be booming you.
- She comes booming down before it.
Derived terms
* boom box * sonic boomNoun
(en noun)- ''The boom of the surf.
- Interestingly, the blue monkey's boom and pyow calls are both long-distance signals (Brown, 1989), yet the two calls differ in respect to their susceptibility to habitat-induced degradation.
Etymology 2
From (etyl) . Compare English (m).Noun
(en noun)Verb
(en verb)- to boom''' out a sail; to '''boom off a boat
Etymology 3
Or uncertain origin; perhaps a development of Etymology 1, above.Antonyms
* (period of prosperity) recessionVerb
(en verb)- ''Business was booming .
- to boom railroad or mining shares
Synonyms
* (to be prosperous) flourish, prosperDerived terms
* sis boom bah * boom town/boomtownAnagrams
* ----snap
English
(wikipedia snap)Noun
- a ginger snap
- It'll be a snap to get that finished.
- I can fix most vacuum cleaners in a snap .
- When I went to put my coat on at snap time, what should go runnin' up my arm but a mouse.
- He's a nimble fellow, / And alike skilled in every liberal science, / As having certain snaps of all.
Derived terms
* snappySee also
*Verb
- He snapped his stick in anger.
- If you bend it too much, it will snap .
- But this weapon will snap short, unfaithful to the hand that employs it.
- Blazing firewood snaps .
- A dog snaps''' at a passenger. A fish '''snaps at the bait.
- She snapped at the chance to appear on television.
- He snapped at me for the slightest mistake.
- She should take a break before she snaps .
- The floating toolbar will snap to the edge of the screen when dragged towards it.
- He, by playing too often at the mouth of death, has been snapped by it at last.
- (Granville)
- to snap a fastener
- to snap a whip
- MacMorian snapped his fingers repeatedly.
- He snapped a picture of me with my mouth open and my eyes closed.
- He can snap the ball to a back twenty yards behind him.
- The gun snapped .
Derived terms
* snap at someone's heels * snap it up * snap one's fingers * snap someone's head off * snap up * unsnapInterjection
(en-interj)!- Snap! We've both got pink buckets and spades.
- "I just ran over your phone with my car." "Oh, snap !"
- "Wasn't that John?" "Wasn't that John?" "Snap !"