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Slam vs Snub - What's the difference?

slam | snub |

In lang=en terms the difference between slam and snub

is that slam is to change providers (eg of domain registration or telephone carrier) for a customer without clear (if any) consent while snub is to clip or break off the end of; to check or stunt the growth of.

In obsolete|lang=en terms the difference between slam and snub

is that slam is (obsolete) a type of card game, also called ruff and honours while snub is (obsolete) a knot; a protuberance; a snag.

As verbs the difference between slam and snub

is that slam is (ergative) to shut with sudden force so as to produce a shock and noise or slam can be (card games) to defeat by winning all the tricks of a deal or a hand while snub is to slight, ignore or behave coldly toward someone or snub can be to sob with convulsions.

As nouns the difference between slam and snub

is that slam is (countable) a sudden impact or blow or slam can be (obsolete) a type of card game, also called ruff and honours while snub is a deliberate affront or slight.

As an adjective snub is

conspicuously short.

slam

English

Etymology 1

Apparently from a Scandinavian source; compare Norwegian slamre, Swedish slemma.

Verb

(slamm)
  • (ergative) To shut with sudden force so as to produce a shock and noise.
    • Don't slam the door!
  • (ergative) To put in or on a particular place with force and loud noise. (Often followed by a preposition such as down'', ''against'' or into.)
    • Don't slam that trunk down on the pavement!
  • To strike forcefully with some implement.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=January 18 , author= , title=Wolverhampton 5 - 0 Doncaster , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=But Wolves went in front when Steven Fletcher headed in Stephen Hunt's cross and it was 2-0 when Geoffrey Mujangi Bia slammed in his first for the club. }}
  • (colloquial) To speak badly of; to criticize forcefully.
    • Don't ever slam me in front of the boss like that again!
    Union leaders slammed the new proposals.
    Critics slammed the new film, calling it violent and meaningless.
  • (basketball) To dunk forcefully, to slam dunk.
  • (bridge) To make a slam bid.
  • (card games) To defeat (opponents at cards) by winning all the tricks of a deal or a hand.
    • (Hoyle)
  • to change providers (e.g. of domain registration or telephone carrier) for a customer without clear (if any) consent.
  • to drink off, to drink quickly
  • to compete in a poetry slam
    • Synonyms
    * (drink quickly) See also
    Derived terms
    * slam the door on * slam on the brakes

    Noun

  • (countable) A sudden impact or blow.
  • (countable) The shock and noise produced by violently closing a door or other object.
  • * (Charles Dickens)
    • The slam and the scowl were lost upon Sam.
  • (countable, basketball) A slam dunk.
  • (countable, colloquial, US) An insult.
  • *, chapter=5
    • , title= Mr. Pratt's Patients , passage=“Well,” I says, “I cal'late a body could get used to Tophet if he stayed there long enough.” ¶ She flared up; the least mite of a slam at Doctor Wool was enough to set her going.}}
  • (uncountable) The yellow iron silicate produced in alum works as a waste product.
  • A poetry slam.
  • (UK, dialect) The refuse of alum works.

    • Etymology 2

    Origin unknown.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) A type of card game, also called ruff and honours.
  • (cards) Losing or winning all the tricks in a game.
  • (countable, bridge) A bid of six (small slam'') or seven (''grand slam ) in a suit or no trump.
    • Derived terms
    * grand slam

    Verb

    (slamm)
  • (card games) To defeat by winning all the tricks of a deal or a hand.

    • Anagrams

    * English ergative verbs ----

    snub

    English

    Etymology 1

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Conspicuously short.
  • *
  • *:If I close my eyes I can see Marie today as I saw her then. Round, rosy face, snub nose, dark hair piled up in a chignon.
  • Derived from a simpler polyhedron by the addition of extra triangular faces.
    • Derived terms
    * retrosnub * snub cube * snub disphenoid * snub dodecahedron * snub polyhedron * vertisnub

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A deliberate affront or slight.
    • I hope the people we couldn't invite don't see it as a snub .
  • A sudden checking of a cable or rope.
  • (obsolete) A knot; a protuberance; a snag.
  • * Spenser
    • [A club] with ragged snubs and knotty grain.
    Derived terms
    * snubbing post * snub line

    Verb

    (snubb)
  • To slight, ignore or behave coldly toward someone.
  • * 1922 , (Margery Williams), (The Velveteen Rabbit)
    • For a long time he lived in the toy cupboard or on the nursery floor, and no one thought very much about him. He was naturally shy, and being only made of velveteen, some of the more expensive toys quite snubbed him.
  • To turn down; to dismiss.
    • He snubbed my offer to help.
  • To stub out (a cigarette etc).
  • To halt the movement of a rope etc by turning it about a cleat or bollard etc; to secure a vessel in this manner.
  • To clip or break off the end of; to check or stunt the growth of.
    • Synonyms
    * (to slight or ignore) cut someone cold, cut someone dead

    Etymology 2

    Compare (etyl) , and English snuff (transitive verb).

    Verb

    (snubb)
  • To sob with convulsions.
    • (Bailey)

    Anagrams

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