Lump vs Snag - What's the difference?
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Something that protrudes, sticks out, or sticks together; a cluster or blob; a mound, hill, or group.
A group, set, or unit.
A small, shaped mass of sugar, typically about a teaspoonful.
A dull or lazy person.
(informal, as plural) A beating or verbal abuse.
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A projection beneath the breech end of a gun barrel.
To treat as a single unit; to group together.
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.
* Dryden
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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A misnaged, an opponent to Chassidic Judaism (more likely modern, for cultural reasons).
Lump is a related term of snag.
As nouns the difference between lump and snag
is that lump is cad 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 a verb snag is
to catch or tear (eg fabric) upon a rough surface or projection.lump
English
(wikipedia lump)Noun
(en noun)- Stir the gravy until there are no more lumps .
- a lump''' of coal; a '''lump''' of clay; a '''lump of cheese
- The money arrived all at once as one big lump sum payment.
- Do you want one lump or two with your coffee?
- Don't just sit there like a lump .
- He's taken his lumps over the years.
Derived terms
* lumpectomy * lump in one’s throat * lumpy * lump-sunHyponyms
* nubbleExternal links
* *Verb
(en verb)- People tend to lump turtles and tortoises together, when in fact they are different creatures.
See also
* take one’s lumps * lump it * like it or lump itAnagrams
* ----snag
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.
- (Halliwell)
Etymology 2
Noun
(en noun)page 116,
- I fire up the barbie and start cooking snags .
page 196,
- ‘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.
page 25,
- ‘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.’