snap
折断,捕捉,断裂,啪啪啪
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snapped, snap·ping.
- : to make a sudden, sharp, distinct sound; crack, as a whip; crackle.
- : to click, as a mechanism or the jaws or teeth coming together.
- : to move, strike, shut, catch, etc., with a sharp sound, as a door, lid, or lock.
- : to break suddenly, especially with a sharp, cracking sound, as something slender and brittle: The branch snapped.
- : to act or move with quick or abrupt motions of the body: to snap to attention.
- : Photography. to take a photograph, especially without formal posing of the subject.
- : to make a quick or sudden bite or grab.
- : to utter a quick, sharp sentence or speech, especially a command, reproof, retort, etc..
- : to be radiant; sparkle; flash, as the eyes.
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snapped, snap·ping.
- : to seize with or take, buy, or obtain as with a quick bite or grab: The bargains were snapped up.
- : to secure, judge, vote, etc., hastily: They snapped the bill through Congress.
- : to cause to make a sudden, sharp sound: to snap one's fingers.
- : to crack.
- : to bring, strike, shut, open, operate, etc., with a sharp sound or movement: to snap a lid down.
- : to address or interrupt quickly and sharply.
- : to say or utter in a quick, sharp manner: to snap complaints.
- : to break suddenly, especially with a cracking sound: to snap a stick in half.
- : Photography. to take a photograph of, especially quickly.
- : Digital Technology. to use a smartphone or other digital device to scan in order to read the encoded text or URL and to browse the hyperlinked website or web page.
- : Building Trades. to transfer to a surface by means of a chalk line.
- : Football. to put into play by tossing it back to the quarterback or other member of the offensive backfield, especially from between the legs when bent over double and facing the line of scrimmage; center.
- : Hunting. to fire quickly, especially without raising the gun to aim from the eye.
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- : a quick, sudden action or movement, as the flick of a whip or the breaking of a twig.
- : a short, sharp sound, as that caused by breaking a twig or closing a latch.
- : a catch or fastener that closes by pressure and clicks together.
- : Informal. briskness, vigor, or energy: That song has a lot of snap.
- : a quick, sharp speech or manner of speaking: He uttered his commands with a snap.
- : a quick or sudden bite or grab, as at something: The fish ate with little snaps.
- : something obtained by or as by biting or grabbing: a snap of food.
- : a brittle cookie.
- : a short spell or period, as of cold weather: an unexpected cold snap.
- : Photography. snapshot.
- : Informal. an easy, profitable, or agreeable position, piece of work, or the like: This job is a snap.
- : Football. the act or an instance of snapping the ball.
- : snap bean.
- : Informal. snapdragon.
- : British. a packed lunch, as that carried by a worker or traveler.
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- : fastening or closing with a click or snap, as a device fitted with a spring catch: a snap lock.
- : made, done, taken, etc., suddenly, offhand, or without warning: a snap judgment;a snap election called years ahead of schedule.
- : easy or simple.
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- : in a brisk, sudden manner.
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- : : Oh snap! I forgot we had a test today!
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- : snap to, to come to attention: The troops snapped to when the colonel walked in.to shape up: If you don't snap to and study, you'll flunk the course.
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Examples
They were snapped before the spacecraft officially began collecting science data.
That proved useful in early 2019, when SubX forecasts foresaw, weeks before it happened, the severe cold snap that hit the United States in late January and early February.
People stuck at home have been snapping up them up while the number of the consoles produced has tumbled because of shuttered factories.
The scientists used the Very Large Telescope in Chile to snap the photo.
He trekked to a mountaintop in Wyoming with a special camera to snap polarized pictures of the corona just as the moon blocked the sun.
There is just no way of selling this picture with an innocent defense like, “she just asked for a snap.”
For days, the ruble has been falling and salaries shrinking; shoppers have rushed to snap up TV sets and washing machines.
After curing the elderly of their semi-suicidal depression, winning the White House must seem like a snap.
That Snapchat deceptively told its users that the sender would be notified if a recipient took a screenshot of a snap.
It means to be all the things that the individuals he turns into storytellers on Snap naturally are, in all their marginality.
Then he closed the spring with a snap, and she let him pass the chain over her hand once more.
You know the fable about the dog who dropped his meat in the water, trying to snap at its reflection?
It was the only thing I needed to snap my last tie with England and brace me for the struggle in America.
The only thing for you to do is to snap your fingers at everything, as we do out here, and see nothing in the future but success.
He gave to every syllable the value of a rap and certain words he terminated with an audible snap of his teeth.