Snatched vs Captured - What's the difference?
snatched | captured |
(snatch)
To grasp quickly.
To attempt to seize something suddenly; to catch.
To take or seize hastily, abruptly, or without permission or ceremony.
* Alexander Pope
To grasp and remove quickly.
* 1922 , (Virginia Woolf), (w, Jacob's Room) Chapter 2
* Thomson
To steal.
(by extension) To take a victory at the last moment.
* {{quote-news, year=2012, date=May 13, author=Alistair Magowan, work=BBC Sport
, title= To do something quickly due to limited time available.
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(weightlifting) A competitive weightlifting event in which a barbell is lifted from the platform to locked arms overhead in a smooth continuous movement.
A piece of some sound, usually music or conversation.
A vulva.
* 1962 , Douglas Woolf, Wall to Wall , Grove Press, page 83,
* 1985 , Jackie Collins, Lucky , Simon and Schuster, ISBN 0671524933, page 150,
* 2008 , Jim Craig, North to Disaster , Bushak Press, ISBN 0961711213, page 178,
(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 snatched and captured
is that snatched is (snatch) while captured is (capture).snatched
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(head)Anagrams
* *snatch
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Etymology 1
From (etyl) snacchen, snecchen, from (etyl) . Related to snack.Verb
- to snatch a kiss
- when half our knowledge we must snatch , not take
- "How many times have I told you?" she cried, and seized him and snatched his stick away from him.
- Snatch me to heaven.
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The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=It was a joy to snatch some brief respite, and find himself in the rectory drawing–room. Listening here was as pleasant as talking; just to watch was pleasant. The young priests who lived here wore cassocks and birettas; their faces were fine and mild, yet really strong, like the rector's face; and in their intercourse with him and his wife they seemed to be brothers.}}
Synonyms
* grab * See alsoDerived terms
* snatcher * purse snatcher * (l)Noun
(es)- The leftfielder makes a nice snatch to end the inning.
- I heard a snatch of Mozart as I passed the open window.
- Claude, is it true what they say about Olovia? Of course she’s getting a little old for us—what about Marilyum, did you try her snatch ?
- Roughly Santino ripped the sheet from the bed, exposing all of her. She had blond hair on her snatch , which drove him crazy. He was partial to blondes.
- “You want me to ask Brandy to let you paint her naked body with all this gooey stuff to make a mold of her snatch ?”
Synonyms
* (vagina) cunt, twatEtymology 2
Anagrams
* *captured
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Verb
(head)Anagrams
*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.
