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Snapshot vs Prerelease - What's the difference?

snapshot | prerelease |

As a noun snapshot

is a photograph, especially one taken quickly or in a moment of opportunity.

As a verb snapshot

is to take a snapshot of.

As an adjective prerelease is

before release.

snapshot

English

Noun

(wikipedia snapshot) (en noun)
  • A photograph, especially one taken quickly or in a moment of opportunity.
  • He carried a snapshot of his daughter.
  • A glimpse of something; a portrayal of something at a moment in time.
  • The article offered a snapshot of life in that region.
  • (computing) A file or set of files captured at a particular time, capable of being reloaded to restore the earlier state.
  • This game is so hard that I find myself taking a snapshot every few seconds in case I get killed.
  • (soccer) A quick, unplanned or unexpected shot.
  • * {{quote-news
  • , year=2011 , date=March 2 , author=Chris Whyatt , title=Arsenal 5 - 0 Leyton Orient , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=Yet Revell misjudged his promising position in the area to put his point-blank snapshot wide from only six yards out. }}

    Verb

  • To take a snapshot of.
  • * 1904 , David T Hanbury, Sport and Travel in the Northland of Canada
  • As he did not appear disposed to move off, I took my camera and approached within about thirty yards, when I snapshotted him.
  • * 2007 , David E. Irwin, An Operating System Architecture for Networked Server Infrastructure (page 30)
  • Filer appliances also offer programmatic snapshotting and cloning at the block-level or file system-level.

    prerelease

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Before release.
  • * 2004 , William Poundstone, How Would You Move Mount Fuji?
  • They were aided by beta testers, ordinary people outside the company who were willing to try prerelease software and report bugs...
  • * 2006 , Mary Pattillo, David Weiman, Bruce Western, Imprisoning America: The Social Effects of Mass Incarceration
  • In both years, only 10 to 12 percent had participated in formal prerelease programs designed to prepare prisoners for the transition from life in prison...