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snag

/snag/US // snæg //UK // (snæɡ) //

钉子,钉子户,抢夺,抢救

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
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    • : a tree or part of a tree held fast in the bottom of a river, lake, etc., and forming an impediment or danger to navigation.
    • : a short, projecting stump, as of a branch broken or cut off.
    • : any sharp or rough projection.
    • : a jagged hole, tear, pull, or run in a fabric, as caused by catching on a sharp projection.
    • : any obstacle or impediment.
    • : a stump of a tooth or a projecting tooth; snaggletooth.
v.有主动词 verb
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    snagged, snag·ging.

    • : to run or catch up on a snag.
    • : to damage by so doing.
    • : to obstruct or impede, as a snag does: He snagged all my efforts.
    • : to grab; seize: to snag the last piece of pie.
v.无主动词 verb
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    snagged, snag·ging.

    • : to become entangled with some obstacle or hindrance.
    • : to become tangled: This line snags every time I cast.
    • : to strike a snag.
    • : to form a snag.

Synonyms & Antonyms

nouncomplication in situation
Forms: snagged, snagging

Examples

  • Development of an AR headset at Apple seems to have hit a snag or two under current project lead Mike Rockwell, though the report does not outline exactly which obstacles have emerged.

  • I babied mine and still saw a few small snags while bushwhacking.

  • It was inspiring to see how our customers reacted when we’d hit snags, like a shipping delay.

  • The snag is that the nonmedical part of the world has to buy in, too.

  • By May, those efforts seemed to hit a snag when the Housing Commission decided not to move forward with 10 hotel properties it had initially eyed.

  • He was 19, and managed to snag a summer internship with New Line Cinema.

  • The wire is long gone, but a rusted snag remains entombed in the bark.

  • This is a snag because Chan lives across the border, where the Hong Kong Dollar is used.

  • Over the last four years, however, the process has hit a snag.

  • Luz gets away and hires Malone to take her over the border, where Thacker and others are waiting to snag her.

  • We made an extra steering-oar, too, because one of the others might get broke on a snag or something.

  • Imbedded in this bar was a long white snag, a tree trunk whose naked arms, thrusting far down stream, had literally impaled us.

  • After that I waded back to the snag carefully, and once more ordered the young woman to come to me.

  • At length I crept to the snag and beat against it with my cane.

  • Down the road arose sharp words of command, and the burning top of a tall pine snag threw its light upon bayonets in the highway.