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Snarfed vs Snared - What's the difference?

snarfed | snared |

As verbs the difference between snarfed and snared

is that snarfed is past tense of snarf while snared is past tense of snare.

snarfed

English

Verb

(head)
  • (snarf)

    • snarf

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (slang) To eat or consume greedily.
    • He snarfed a whole bag of chips in a couple of minutes!
  • *1999 : Marya Hornbacker, Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia , page 239
    • Freed from the usual inhibitions, we get home and I snarf down pasta salad right out of the Tupperware container
  • *2000 : Nancy Woodruff, Someone Else's Child , page 40
    • "I'm not going to sit there while you two watch me snarf a whole pie by myself."
  • *2003 : Allen D. Berrien, Powerboat Care and Repair: How to Keep Your Outboard, Sterndrive, Or Gas-Inboard Boat Alive and Well , page 41
    • The old 40-horse models used to snarf up more fuel than today's 90-horse models.
  • (slang) To take something by dubious means, but without the connotations of stealing; to take something without regard to etiquette.
    • I snarfed a bunch of freebies from the vendor's booth when he wasn't looking.
  • *1995 : Tom Shanley, Don Anderson, ISA System Architecture , page 296
    • Either write-through or write-back policy caches may snarf the data that the bus master is writing to memory.
  • *1996 : Harold Abelson, Gerald Jay Sussman, Julie Sussman, Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs , page 399
    • ... in addition, the embedding enables the designer to snarf features from the underlying language
  • *2001 : Brad A. Myers, Choon Hong Peck, Jeffrey Nicols, Dave Kong, and Robert Miller, Interacting at a Distance Using Semantic Snarfing , in Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Ubiquitous Computing, pages 305-314.
    • Other future applications of the semantic snarfing idea might include classrooms, where students might snarf interesting pieces of content from the instructor's presentation;
  • (slang) To expel fluid or food through the mouth or nostrils accidentally, usually while attempting to stifle laughter with one's mouth full.
    • It was so funny, I snarfed my milk onto my keyboard.
  • (transitive, slang, computing) To slurp (computing slang sense); to load in entirety; to copy as a whole.
    • I snarfed the whole database into my program.

    snared

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (snare)

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    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

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