Snub vs Adm - What's the difference?

snub | adm |

As nouns the difference between snub and adm

is that snub is a deliberate affront or slight while adm is (travel).

As an adjective snub

is conspicuously short.

As a verb snub

is to slight, ignore or behave coldly toward someone or snub can be to sob with convulsions.

snub

English

Etymology 1

Adjective

(en adjective)

Conspicuously short.

*:If I close my eyes I can see Marie today as I saw her then. Round, rosy face, snub nose, dark hair piled up in a chignon.

Derived from a simpler polyhedron by the addition of extra triangular faces.

Derived terms

* retrosnub * snub cube * snub disphenoid * snub dodecahedron * snub polyhedron * vertisnub

Noun

(en noun)

A deliberate affront or slight.

I hope the people we couldn't invite don't see it as a snub .

A sudden checking of a cable or rope.

(obsolete) A knot; a protuberance; a snag.

* Spenser

[A club] with ragged snubs and knotty grain.

Derived terms

* snubbing post * snub line

Verb

(snubb)

To slight, ignore or behave coldly toward someone.

* 1922 , (Margery Williams), (The Velveteen Rabbit)

For a long time he lived in the toy cupboard or on the nursery floor, and no one thought very much about him. He was naturally shy, and being only made of velveteen, some of the more expensive toys quite snubbed him.

To turn down; to dismiss.

He snubbed my offer to help.

To stub out (a cigarette etc).

To halt the movement of a rope etc by turning it about a cleat or bollard etc; to secure a vessel in this manner.

To clip or break off the end of; to check or stunt the growth of.

Synonyms

* (to slight or ignore) cut someone cold, cut someone dead

Etymology 2

Compare (etyl) , and English snuff (transitive verb).

Verb

(snubb)

To sob with convulsions.

(Bailey)

Anagrams

* *

adm

English

Noun

(en noun)

(travel)