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Snick vs Mar - What's the difference?

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Snick is a related term of mar.


As nouns the difference between snick and mar

is that snick is (cricket) a small deflection of the ball off the side of the bat; often carries to the wicketkeeper for a catch or snick can be a sharp clicking sound while mar is sea.

As a verb snick

is to cut or snip or snick can be to make something click, to make a clicking noise or snick can be .

snick

English

Etymology 1

Probably from snick or snee .

Verb

(en verb)
  • To cut or snip
  • :*1966': I reached out and ' snicked a white thread that hung from her sleeve. — John Fowles, ‘The Magus’
  • (cricket) to hit the ball with the edge of the bat, causing a slight deflection

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (cricket) a small deflection of the ball off the side of the bat; often carries to the wicketkeeper for a catch
  • A small cut or mark.
  • A knot or irregularity in yarn.
    • (Knight)

    Etymology 2

    Imitative.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • to make something click, to make a clicking noise

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • a sharp clicking sound
  • :*1893': Then it grew louder, and suddenly there came from the window a sharp metallic ' snick . — Arthur Conan Doyle, ‘The Naval Treaty’ (Norton 2005, p.698)

    • Etymology 3

    Verb

    (en verb)

    • Anagrams

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    mar

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) .

    Verb

    (marr)
  • To spoil, to damage.
  • * Dryden
    • But mirth is marred , and the good cheer is lost.
  • * Milton
    • Ire, envy, and despair / Which marred all his borrowed visage.

    Etymology 2

    See (m).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A small lake.
    • (Webster 1913)

    Anagrams

    * (l), (l), (l) * (l) * (l), (l), (l) * (l) ----