Snared vs Captured - What's the difference?
snared | captured |
(snare)
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
* 1719 ,
(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.
to catch or hold, especially with a loop.
* Milton
* Shakespeare
(capture)
An act of capturing; a seizing by force or stratagem.
* Blackstone
The securing of an object of strife or desire, as by the power of some attraction.
Something that has been captured; a captive.
(computing) A particular match found for a pattern in a text string.
To take control of; to seize by force or stratagem.
* 2014 , Ian Black, "
To store (as in sounds or image) for later revisitation.
To reproduce convincingly.
To remove or take control of an opponent’s piece in a game (e.g., chess, go, checkers).
* 1954 , Fred Reinfeld, How to Be a Winner at Chess , page 63, Hanover House (Garden City, NY)
As verbs the difference between snared and captured
is that snared is past tense of snare while captured is past tense of capture.snared
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(head)Anagrams
* *snare
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Noun
(en noun)- If thou retire, the Dauphin, well appointed, / Stands with the snares of war to tangle thee.
- ...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.
Verb
(snar)- Lest that too heavenly form snare them.
- The mournful crocodile / With sorrow snares relenting passengers.
Anagrams
* ----captured
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Verb
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*capture
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Noun
(en noun)- even with regard to captures made at sea
- the capture of a lover's heart
Verb
- to capture an enemy, a vessel, or a criminal
Courts kept busy as Jordan works to crush support for Isis", The Guardian , 27 November 2014:
- Arrests and prosecutions intensified after Isis captured Mosul in June, but the groundwork had been laid by an earlier amendment to Jordan’s anti-terrorism law. It is estimated that 2,000 Jordanians have fought and 250 of them have died in Syria – making them the third largest Arab contingent in Isis after Saudi Arabians and Tunisians.
- She captured the sounds of a subway station on tape.
- She captured the details of the fresco in a series of photographs.
- His film adaptation captured the spirit of the original work.
- In her latest masterpiece, she captured the essence of Venice.
- My pawn was captured .
- He captured his opponent’s queen on the 15th move.
- How deeply ingrained capturing is in the mind of a chess master can be seen from this story.