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Tweak vs Snare - What's the difference?

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Tweak is a related term of snare.


As nouns the difference between tweak and snare

is that tweak is a sharp pinch or jerk; a twist or twitch while snare is a trap made from a loop of wire, string, or leather.

As verbs the difference between tweak and snare

is that tweak is to pinch and pull with a sudden jerk and twist; to twitch while snare is to catch or hold, especially with a loop.

tweak

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A sharp pinch or jerk; a twist or twitch.
    • a tweak of the nose .
  • Trouble; distress; tweag.
  • A slight adjustment or modification.
    • He is running so many tweaks it is hard to remember how it looked originally.
  • (obsolete, slang) A prostitute.
  • * 1638 , , Barnabae Itinerarium: or Drunken Barnaby's four journeys to the north of England : In latin and english metre , Thomas Gent (1852), page 113:
    • […] Thence to Bautree, as I came there, / From the bushes near the lane, there / Rush'd a tweak in gesture flanting / With a leering eye, and wanton : / But my flesh I did subdue it / Fearing lest my purse should rue it.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To pinch and pull with a sudden jerk and twist; to twitch.
  • (informal) To adjust slightly; to fine-tune.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-03, volume=408, issue=8847, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= Boundary problems , passage=Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too.
  • To twit or tease.
  • (intransitive, US, slang) To abuse methamphetamines, especially crystal meth.
  • (intransitive, US, slang) To exhibit symptoms of methamphetamine abuse, such as extreme nervousness, compulsiveness, erratic motion, excitability; possibly a blend of twitch and freak.
  • (intransitive, US, slang) To exhibit extreme nervousness, evasiveness when confronted by law enforcement or other authority (e.g., customs agents, border patrol, teacher, etc.), mimicking methamphetamine abuse symptoms.

    • Derived terms

    * (drug abuser) tweaker, (US) * (drug abuse) tweaking

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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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