Sneeze vs Snooze - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between sneeze and snooze

is that sneeze is to expel air as a reflex induced by an irritation in the nose while snooze is to sleep, especially briefly; to nap.

As nouns the difference between sneeze and snooze

is that sneeze is an act of sneezing while snooze is a period of sleep; a nap.

sneeze

English

Verb

To expel air as a reflex induced by an irritation in the nose.

To expel air as if the nose were irritated.

Synonyms

* (to expel air as a reflex) (medicine) sternutate

Derived terms

* nothing to sneeze at

Noun

(wikipedia sneeze) (en noun)

An act of sneezing.

Synonyms

* (medicine) sternutation * (medicine) ptarmus

snooze

English

Verb

(intransitive)

To sleep, especially briefly; to nap.

The boss caught him snoozing at his desk.

To pause; to postpone for a short while.

* 2003 , Ken Slovak, Absolute Beginner's Guide to Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 (page 110)

It enables you to dismiss the reminder, dismiss all reminders, open the highlighted item in the Reminder dialog, and snooze the reminder. Snoozing a reminder is similar to hitting the snooze button on an alarm clock

* 2007 , Sue Mosher, Microsoft Outlook 2007 Programming (page 359)

Let's say you want to see all your reminders, but you don't want it to be too easy to snooze the ones for important items.

* 2011 , Dan Gookin, Bill Loguidice, Motorola ATRIX For Dummies (page 40)

To snooze the phone, press and release the power button.

Noun

(en noun)

A period of sleep; a nap.

The cat enjoys taking a snooze on a sunny windowsill.

Something boring.

The whole movie was a snooze .

Synonyms

* See also