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Snapping vs Latching - What's the difference?

snapping | latching |

As verbs the difference between snapping and latching

is that snapping is present participle of lang=en while latching is present participle of lang=en.

As nouns the difference between snapping and latching

is that snapping is the sound or action of a snap while latching is a loop or eye formed on the head rope of a bonnet, by which it is attached to the foot of a sail.

As an adjective latching is

of something that latches.

snapping

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The sound or action of a snap.
  • * 1947 , Karl August Boman, Temporomandibular joint arthrosis and its treatment by extirpation of the disk
    • Snappings , audible or palpable, were noted in 45 cases (77 per cent). They were either heard in the course of the examination (about half), or were mentioned in the anamnesis.
  • The act of snapping at, or speaking sharply to, somebody.
  • * Charles Dickens, Dombey and Son
    • There is a snaky gleam in her hard grey eye, as of anticipated rounds of buttered toast, relays of hot chops, worryings and quellings of young children, sharp snappings at poor Berry, and all the other delights of her Ogress's castle.

    latching

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Adjective

    (head)
  • Of something that es.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2012-03
    • , author=(Henry Petroski) , title=Opening Doors , volume=100, issue=2, page=112-3 , magazine= citation , passage=A doorknob of whatever roundish shape is effectively a continuum of levers, with the axis of the latching mechanism—known as the spindle—being the fulcrum about which the turning takes place.}}

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (nautical) A loop or eye formed on the head rope of a bonnet, by which it is attached to the foot of a sail.