Talk vs Snap - What's the difference?
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A conversation or discussion.
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, title= A lecture.
(preceded by the) A major topic of social discussion.
(not preceded by an article) Empty boasting, promises or claims.
To communicate, usually by means of speech.
* (William Shakespeare)
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, chapter=5 (informal) To discuss.
(slang) To confess, especially implicating others.
To criticize someone for something of which one is guilty oneself.
To gossip; to create scandal.
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, title= 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.
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(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.
As nouns the difference between talk and snap
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English
Noun
(en noun)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=All this was extraordinarily distasteful to Churchill.
Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* all talk * baby talk * betalk * big talk * boy talk * chalk talk/chalk and talk * cross talk/crosstalk * dirty talk * girl talk * happy talk * idle talk * man talk * peace talk * pep talk * pillow talk * self-talk * shop talk * side talk * sleep talk * small talk * table talk * talk battery * talk bomb * talk is cheap * talk of the town * talk page * talk radio * talk show * talk the talk * talkback * talkie * walk and talk * walk the talk * walkie-talkieVerb
(en verb)- I will buy with you, sell with you, talk with you, walk with you, and so following, but I will not eat with you.
Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=Then he commenced to talk', really '''talk'''. and inside of two flaps of a herring's fin he had me mesmerized, like Eben Holt's boy at the town hall show. He ' talked about the ills of humanity, and the glories of health and Nature and service and land knows what all.
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Conjugation
(en-conj-simple)Synonyms
* See alsoCoordinate terms
* listenDerived terms
* bad-talk * double-talk * fast-talk * look who's talking * now you're talking * sleep-talk * sweet-talk * talk a blue streak * talk a mile a minute * talk about * talk around * talkative * talk back * talk cock * talk dirty * talk down * talker * talk in circles * talk into * talk like an apothecary * talk of * talk of the devil * talk one's way out of * talk out of turn * talk over * talk sense * talk shit/talk shite * talk shop * talk smack * talk someone's ear off * talk someone under the table * talk the talk * talk through one's hat * talk to the hand * talk trash * talk turkey * talk up * talky * trash-talk * you can talkStatistics
* 1000 English basic words ----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 !"