Snap vs Delay - What's the difference?
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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.
To put off until a later time; to defer.
* Bible, (w) xxiv. 48
To retard; to stop, detain, or hinder, for a time.
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(label) To allay; to temper.
* (Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
A period of time before an event occurs; the act of delaying; procrastination; lingering inactivity.
* Bible, Acts xxv. 17
* Macaulay
(obsolete) To dilute, temper.
(obsolete) To assuage, quench, allay.
* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.12:
In context|obsolete|lang=en terms the difference between snap and delay
is that snap is (obsolete) a greedy fellow while delay is (obsolete) to assuage, quench, allay.As nouns the difference between snap and delay
is that snap is a quick breaking or cracking sound or the action of producing such a sound while delay is a period of time before an event occurs; the act of delaying; procrastination; lingering inactivity.As verbs the difference between snap and delay
is that snap is (transitive) to fracture or break apart suddenly while delay is to put off until a later time; to defer or delay can be (obsolete) to dilute, temper.As an interjection snap
is the winning cry at a game of.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 !"
Synonyms
* (used after simultaneous utterance) jinxdelay
English
(wikipedia delay)Etymology 1
From (etyl) . More at let (to hinder), late, leave.Verb
(en verb)- My lord delayeth his coming.
- The watery showers delay the raging wind.
Usage notes
* This is a catenative verb that takes the gerund (-ing) . SeeSynonyms
* See also * adjourn * defer * forslow * postpone * put off * put on ice * suspendNoun
(en noun)- the delay before the echo of a sound
- Without any delay , on the morrow I sat on the judgment seat.
- The government ought to be settled without the delay of a day.
Etymology 2
From (etyl) .Verb
(en verb)- Those dreadfull flames she also found delayd / And quenched quite like a consumed torch […].