Clutch vs Snag - What's the difference?
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To seize, as though with claws.
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To grip or grasp tightly.
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The claw of a predatory animal or bird.
(by extension) A grip, especially one seen as rapacious or evil.
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A device to interrupt power transmission, commonly used between engine and gearbox in a car.
The pedal in a car that disengages power transmission.
Any device for gripping an object, as at the end of a chain or tackle.
A small handbag or purse with no straps or handle.
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(US) An important or critical situation.
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(US) Performing or tending to perform well in difficult, high-pressure situations.
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A brood of chickens or a sitting of eggs.
A group or bunch (of people or things).
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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.
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Any sharp protuberant part of an object, which may catch, scratch, or tear other objects brought into contact with it.
A tooth projecting beyond the rest; a broken or decayed tooth.
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.
(figuratively) A problem or difficulty with something.
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A pulled thread or yarn, as in cloth.
One of the secondary branches of an antler.
To catch or tear (e.g. fabric) upon a rough surface or projection.
(fishing) To fish by means of dragging a large hook or hooks on a line, intending to impale the body (rather than the mouth) of the target.
(slang) To obtain or pick up (something).
(UK, dialect) To cut the snags or branches from, as the stem of a tree; to hew roughly.
(UK, dialect, obsolete) A light meal.
(Australia, informal, colloquial) A sausage.
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* 2007 , Jim Ford, Don't Worry, Be Happy: Beijing to Bombay with a Backpack ,
* 2010 , Fiona Wallace, Sense and Celebrity ,
A misnaged, an opponent to Chassidic Judaism (more likely modern, for cultural reasons).
Clutch is a related term of snag.
As verbs the difference between clutch and snag
is that clutch is to seize, as though with claws while snag is to catch or tear (eg fabric) upon a rough surface or projection.As nouns the difference between clutch and snag
is that clutch is the claw of a predatory animal or bird or clutch can be a brood of chickens or a sitting of eggs while snag is 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 or snag can be (uk|dialect|obsolete) a light meal or snag can be a misnaged, an opponent to chassidic judaism (more likely modern, for cultural reasons).As an adjective clutch
is (us) performing or tending to perform well in difficult, high-pressure situations.clutch
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) clucchen, clicchen, cluchen, clechen, cleken, from (etyl) . Cognate with (etyl) , of uncertain origin, with the form probably assimilated to the verb. Alternative etymology derives Old English clyccan from (etyl) .Alternative forms
* (l), (l), (l) (dialectal) * (l), (l), (l), (l) (dialectal) * (l) (obsolete)Verb
(es)- to clutch power
- A man may set the poles together in his head, and clutch the whole globe at one intellectual grasp.
- Is this a dagger which I see before me ? / Come, let me clutch thee.
- She clutched her purse tightly and walked nervously into the building.
- Not that I have the power to clutch my hand.
Noun
(es)- the clutch of poverty
- an expiring clutch at popularity
- I must have little care of myself, if I ever more come near the clutches of such a giant.
- You scold yourself; you know it is only your nerves—and yet, and yet... In a little while it is impossible to resist the terror that seizes you, and you are helpless in the clutch of an unseen horror.
- The clutch which I had made to save myself in falling had torn away this chin-band and let the lower jaw drop on the breast; but little else was disturbed, and there was Colonel John Mohune resting as he had been laid out a century ago.
Synonyms
* clutch bag (small handbag)Adjective
(en adjective)- I start with his most obvious characteristic: he was clutch'. He is Mr. '''Clutch'''. In the last chapter I mentioned that Bernie Williams was '''clutch''', which was a valid assessment, but nobody on the Yankees was as ' clutch as Jeter was.
Etymology 2
Variant form of (cletch), from (etyl) .Noun
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- No longer would Britons routinely blame the national government when things went wrong. Instead they would demand action from a new clutch of elected mayors, police commissioners and the like.
Alternative forms
*Noun
(nb-noun-m1)- trå in clutchen - step on the clutch
Synonyms
* (l) * (l)References
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English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- The coat of arms / Now on a naked snag in triumph borne.
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Synonyms
* (problem or difficulty) hitchDerived terms
* snaggy * snaglikeVerb
(snagg)- Be careful not to snag your stockings on that concrete bench!
- We snagged for spoonbill from the eastern shore of the Mississippi river.
- Ella snagged a bottle of water from the fridge before leaving for her jog.
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Etymology 2
Noun
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- I fire up the barbie and start cooking snags .
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- ‘You can get the chooks and snags from the fridge if you want,’ he replied.
- I smiled, remembering my bewilderment upon receiving exactly the same command at my very first barbecue back in Sydney a month after I?d first arrived.
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- ‘Hungry? We?ve got plenty of roo,’ one of the men said as she walked up. He pointed with his spatula, ‘and pig snags', cow ' snags , beef and chicken.’