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Snare vs Feint - What's the difference?

snare | feint |

As nouns the difference between snare and feint

is that snare is a trap made from a loop of wire, string, or leather while feint is a movement made to confuse the opponent, a dummy.

As verbs the difference between snare and feint

is that snare is to catch or hold, especially with a loop while feint is to make a feint, or mock attack.

As an adjective feint is

(obsolete) feigned; counterfeit.

snare

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A trap made from a loop of wire, string, or leather.
  • (rare) A mental or psychological trap; usually in the phrase a snare and a delusion .
  • * Shakespeare
    • If thou retire, the Dauphin, well appointed, / Stands with the snares of war to tangle thee.
  • * 1719 ,
    • ...and I had now lived two years under this uneasiness, which, indeed, made my life much less comfortable than it was before, as may be well imagined by any who know what it is to live in the constant snare of the fear of man.
  • (veterinary) A loop of cord used in obstetric cases, to hold or to pull a fetus from the mother animal.
  • (music) A set of chains strung across the bottom of a drum to create a rattling sound.
  • (music) A snare drum.

    • Verb

    (snar)
  • to catch or hold, especially with a loop.
  • * Milton
    • Lest that too heavenly form snare them.
  • * Shakespeare
    • The mournful crocodile / With sorrow snares relenting passengers.

    Related terms

    * ensnare * snare drum

    Anagrams

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    feint

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To make a feint, or mock attack.
    • (to make a counterfeit move to confuse an opponent) * Chinese: *: Mandarin: * Finnish: (t) (trans-mid) * Maori: (t), (t), (t), * Russian: * Swedish: (trans-bottom)

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (obsolete) Feigned; counterfeit.
  • * John Locke
    • Dressed up into any feint appearance of it.
  • (fencing, boxing, war) (of an attack) directed toward a different part from the intended strike

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A movement made to confuse the opponent, a dummy
  • That which is feigned; an assumed or false appearance; a pretense; a stratagem; a fetch.
  • * Spectator
    • Courtley's letter is but a feint to get off.
  • (fencing, boxing, war) An offensive movement resembling an attack in all but its continuance
  • The narrowest rule used in the production of lined writing paper (C19: Variant of FAINT)