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Catching vs Snare - What's the difference?

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Catching is a related term of snare.


As verbs the difference between catching and snare

is that catching is while snare is to catch or hold, especially with a loop.

As nouns the difference between catching and snare

is that catching is the action of the verb catch while snare is a trap made from a loop of wire, string, or leather.

As an adjective catching

is (informal) contagious.

catching

English

Verb

(head)
  • Noun

  • The action of the verb catch.
  • * 1819 , Bartholomew Parr, The London Medical Dictionary
  • Though catchings of the breath and occasional syncope appear in the more early stages, yet they only become considerable and dangerous in the later

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (informal) contagious
  • captivating; alluring
  • snare

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A trap made from a loop of wire, string, or leather.
  • (rare) A mental or psychological trap; usually in the phrase a snare and a delusion .
  • * Shakespeare
  • If thou retire, the Dauphin, well appointed, / Stands with the snares of war to tangle thee.
  • * 1719 ,
  • ...and I had now lived two years under this uneasiness, which, indeed, made my life much less comfortable than it was before, as may be well imagined by any who know what it is to live in the constant snare of the fear of man.
  • (veterinary) A loop of cord used in obstetric cases, to hold or to pull a fetus from the mother animal.
  • (music) A set of chains strung across the bottom of a drum to create a rattling sound.
  • (music) A snare drum.
  • Verb

    (snar)
  • to catch or hold, especially with a loop.
  • * Milton
  • Lest that too heavenly form snare them.
  • * Shakespeare
  • The mournful crocodile / With sorrow snares relenting passengers.

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