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Thumbnail vs Snapshot - What's the difference?

thumbnail | snapshot |

In transitive terms the difference between thumbnail and snapshot

is that thumbnail is to describe concisely while snapshot is to take a snapshot of.

thumbnail

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The fingernail on the thumb.
  • A rough sketch (e.g., the size of one's thumbnail).
  • (chiefly, computing) A small picture, used as a compact representation of a larger image.

    • See also

    * (3): icon, thumbshot

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To describe concisely.

    • External links

    * Maven's Word of the Day, December 11, 1997 *

    snapshot

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia snapshot) (en noun)
  • A photograph, especially one taken quickly or in a moment of opportunity.
    • He carried a snapshot of his daughter.
  • A glimpse of something; a portrayal of something at a moment in time.
    • The article offered a snapshot of life in that region.
  • (computing) A file or set of files captured at a particular time, capable of being reloaded to restore the earlier state.
    • This game is so hard that I find myself taking a snapshot every few seconds in case I get killed.
  • (soccer) A quick, unplanned or unexpected shot.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=March 2 , author=Chris Whyatt , title=Arsenal 5 - 0 Leyton Orient , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=Yet Revell misjudged his promising position in the area to put his point-blank snapshot wide from only six yards out. }}

    Verb

  • To take a snapshot of.
  • * 1904 , David T Hanbury, Sport and Travel in the Northland of Canada
    • As he did not appear disposed to move off, I took my camera and approached within about thirty yards, when I snapshotted him.
  • * 2007 , David E. Irwin, An Operating System Architecture for Networked Server Infrastructure (page 30)
    • Filer appliances also offer programmatic snapshotting and cloning at the block-level or file system-level.