Snap vs Drag - 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 pull along a surface or through a medium, sometimes with difficulty.
To move slowly.
To act or proceed slowly or without enthusiasm; to be reluctant.
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, magazine=(American Scientist), title= To move onward heavily, laboriously, or slowly; to advance with weary effort; to go on lingeringly.
* Byron
* Gay
To draw along (something burdensome); hence, to pass in pain or with difficulty.
* Dryden
To serve as a clog or hindrance; to hold back.
* Russell
(computing) To move (an item) on the computer display by means of a mouse or other input device.
To inadvertently rub or scrape on a surface.
To perform as a drag queen or drag king.
(soccer) To hit or kick off target.
* November 17 2012 , BBC Sport: Arsenal 5-2 Tottenham [http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/20278355]
To fish with a dragnet.
To break (land) by drawing a drag or harrow over it; to harrow.
(figurative) To search exhaustively, as if with a dragnet.
* Tennyson
(uncountable) Resistance of the air (or some other fluid) to something moving through it.
(countable, foundry) The bottom part of a sand casting mold.
(countable) A device dragged along the bottom of a body of water in search of something, e.g. a dead body, or in fishing.
(countable, informal) A puff on a cigarette or joint.
(countable, slang) Someone or something that is annoying or frustrating; an obstacle to progress or enjoyment.
* J. D. Forbes
(countable, slang) Someone or something that is disappointing.
(countable, slang) Horse-drawn wagon or buggy.
(countable, slang) Street, as in 'main drag'.
(countable) The scent-path left by dragging a fox, for training hounds to follow scents.
(countable, snooker) A large amount of backspin on the cue ball, causing the cue ball to slow down.
A heavy harrow for breaking up ground.
A kind of sledge for conveying heavy objects; also, a kind of low car or handcart.
(metallurgy) The bottom part of a flask or mould, the upper part being the cope.
(masonry) A steel instrument for completing the dressing of soft stone.
(nautical) The difference between the speed of a screw steamer under sail and that of the screw when the ship outruns the screw; or between the propulsive effects of the different floats of a paddle wheel.
Anything towed in the water to retard a ship's progress, or to keep her head up to the wind; especially, a canvas bag with a hooped mouth (drag sail), so used.
A skid or shoe for retarding the motion of a carriage wheel.
Motion affected with slowness and difficulty, as if clogged.
* Hazlitt
(uncountable, slang) Women's clothing worn by men for the purpose of entertainment.
(uncountable, slang) Any type of clothing or costume associated with a particular occupation or subculture.
In computing|lang=en terms the difference between snap and drag
is that snap is (computing) (symbolic network analysis program) while drag is (computing) to move (an item) on the computer display by means of a mouse or other input device.As nouns the difference between snap and drag
is that snap is (computing) (subnetwork access protocol) while drag is (uncountable) resistance of the air (or some other fluid) to something moving through it or drag can be (uncountable|slang) women's clothing worn by men for the purpose of entertainment.As a verb drag is
to pull along a surface or through a medium, sometimes with difficulty.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) jinxdrag
English
(wikipedia drag)Etymology 1
From (etyl) . More at (l).Verb
James R. Carter
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- The day drags through, though storms keep out the sun.
- Long, open panegyric drags at best.
- have dragged a lingering life
- A propeller is said to drag when the sails urge the vessel faster than the revolutions of the screw can propel her.
- Arsenal were struggling for any sort of rhythm and Aaron Lennon dragged an effort inches wide as Tottenham pressed for a second.
- while I dragged my brains for such a song
Derived terms
* drag one's feet * dragline * what the cat dragged inNoun
- When designing cars, manufacturers have to take drag into consideration.
- Travelling to work in the rush hour is a real drag .
- My lectures were only a pleasure to me, and no drag .
- (Thackeray)
- to run a drag
- a stone drag
- Had a drag in his walk.
Derived terms
* drag race * main dragEtymology 2
Possibly from (etyl) Douglas Harper,"camp (n.)"in Online Etymology Dictionary , 2001ff
Noun
(-)- He performed in drag .
- corporate drag
Derived terms
* drag king * drag queen * drag showReferences
*Flight, 1913, p. 126] attributing to [[w:Archibald Low, Archibald Low]*