Snapshot vs Test - What's the difference?
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A photograph, especially one taken quickly or in a moment of opportunity.
A glimpse of something; a portrayal of something at a moment in time.
(computing) A file or set of files captured at a particular time, capable of being reloaded to restore the earlier state.
(soccer) A quick, unplanned or unexpected shot.
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To take a snapshot of.
* 1904 , David T Hanbury, Sport and Travel in the Northland of Canada
* 2007 , David E. Irwin, An Operating System Architecture for Networked Server Infrastructure (page 30)
A cupel or cupelling hearth in which precious metals are melted for trial and refinement.
A , trial.
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(academia) An examination, given often during the academic term.
A session in which a product or piece of equipment is examined under everyday or extreme conditions to evaluate its durability, etc.
A Test match.
(marine biology) The external calciferous shell, or endoskeleton, of an echinoderm, e.g. sand dollars]] and sea urchins.
(botany) Testa; seed coat.
Judgment; distinction; discrimination.
* Dryden
To refine (gold, silver, etc.) in a test or cupel; to subject to cupellation.
To .
To put to the proof; to prove the truth, genuineness, or quality of by experiment, or by some principle or standard; to try.
* Washington
(academics) To administer or assign an examination, often given during the academic term, to (somebody).
To place a product or piece of equipment under everyday and/or extreme conditions and examine it for its durability, etc.
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(chemistry) To examine or try, as by the use of some reagent.
(obsolete) A witness.
* Ld. Berners
As nouns the difference between snapshot and test
is that snapshot is a photograph, especially one taken quickly or in a moment of opportunity while test is .As a verb snapshot
is to take a snapshot of.snapshot
English
Noun
(wikipedia snapshot) (en noun)- He carried a snapshot of his daughter.
- The article offered a snapshot of life in that region.
- This game is so hard that I find myself taking a snapshot every few seconds in case I get killed.
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Verb
- As he did not appear disposed to move off, I took my camera and approached within about thirty yards, when I snapshotted him.
- Filer appliances also offer programmatic snapshotting and cloning at the block-level or file system-level.
test
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) ; see terra, thirst.Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=Numerous experimental tests and other observations have been offered in favor of animal mind reading, and although many scientists are skeptical, others assert that humans are not the only species capable of representing what others do and don’t perceive and know.}}
- Who would excel, when few can make a test / Betwixt indifferent writing and the best?
Synonyms
* (challenge) challenge, trial * (sense) quiz, examinationAntonyms
* (challenge) breeze * (sense) recessDerived terms
* acid test * babysitter test * blood test * flame test * inkblot test * litmus test * nose test * Rorschach test * smell test * smoke test * sniff test * stress test * test case * tester * test tubeDescendants
* German: (l) * Dutch: (l)Verb
(en verb)- Climbing the mountain tested our stamina.
- to test''' the soundness of a principle; to '''test the validity of an argument
- Experience is the surest standard by which to test the real tendency of the existing constitution.
Charles T. Ambrose
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- to test a solution by litmus paper
Descendants
* German: (l)Etymology 2
From (etyl) tester, from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- Prelates and great lords of England, who were for the more surety tests of that deed.