snare
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
entertainment
lifestyle
medicine
music
natural-sciences
pathology
sciences
surgery
veterinary
zoology
Etymology: From Middle English snare, from Old English sneare (“snare, noose”), from Proto-West Germanic *snarhā, from Proto-Germanic *snarhǭ (“a sling; loop; noose”). Cognate with Old Norse snara. Also related to German Schnur and Dutch snaar, snoer.
Inflected forms:
form: snares
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: snares
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: snaring
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: snared
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: snared
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A trap (especially one made from a loop of wire, string, or leather).
pos: noun
examples: He […] watched Beavis’s long-toothed mouth open and clap to like a rabbit snare.
He felt a snare tightening around his throat; he gasped and threw a leg out of the bed, where it jerked for a second or two, thumping the steel frame, and died.
gloss: A mental or psychological trap.
pos: noun
examples: If thou retire, the Dauphin, well appointed,
Stands with the snares of war to tangle thee:
[…] if thou serve their gods, it will surely be a snare unto thee.
[…] and I had now liv’d two Years under these Uneasinesses, which indeed made my Life much less comfortable than it was before; as may well be imagin’d by any who know what it is to live in the constant Snare of the Fear of Man […]
“[…] riches are a great snare.”
They were devious war aims, and Allenby’s campaign was fought with a maximum of snare and subterfuge.
gloss: A loop of cord used in obstetric cases, to hold or to pull a fetus from the mother animal.
pos: noun
gloss: A similar looped instrument formerly used to remove tumours etc.
pos: noun
gloss: A set of stiff wires held under tension against the bottom head of a drum to create a rattling sound.
pos: noun
gloss: A snare drum.
pos: noun
gloss: To catch or hold, especially with a loop.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The mournful crocodile / With sorrow snares relenting passengers.
Lest that too heavenly form […] snare them.
Instead, it aimed for a more important assurance: that if A.I. raises writers’ productivity or the quality of their output, guild members should snare an equitable share of the performance gains. And the W.G.A. got it.
gloss: To ensnare.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
transitive
gloss: To play (a snare drum, or a beat on or as if on a snare drum).
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
transitive
uncommon
examples: […] the slightest recollection of hearing the wind whistling through the cracks in the old house or the rain snaring its tat-a-tat on the rusty tin roof.
[…] T-Ray snared the drum in the background.
[…] drummer snaring away on his little drum, tur-r-r-rump! tur-r-r-rump! tur-r-r-rump! r-r-rump, r-r-rump, r-r-rump! I love drums.
Related words: ensnare
insnare
microsnare
snare drum
snareless
snarelike
snare-picture
snarl
snary
unsnared
unsnaren
Translations:
lang: Albanian
word: lak
lang: Arabic
word: شَرَكٌ
roman: šarakun
lang: Arabic
word: مِصْيَدَةٌ
roman: miṣyadatun
lang: Arabic
word: فخ
roman: faḵḵ
lang: Armenian
word: թակարդ
roman: tʻakard
lang: Armenian
word: ծուղակ
roman: cuġak
lang: Armenian
word: որոգայթ
roman: orogaytʻ
lang: Aromanian
word: alats
lang: Aromanian
word: alatsu
lang: Bashkir
word: тоҙаҡ
roman: toźaq
lang: Bulgarian
word: капан
roman: kapan
lang: Bulgarian
word: примка
roman: primka
lang: Catalan
word: llaç
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 陷阱
roman: xiànjǐng
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 圈套
roman: quāntào
lang: Czech
word: oko
lang: Czech
word: léčka
lang: Czech
word: nástraha
lang: Dutch
word: strop
lang: Dutch
word: val
lang: Dutch
word: klem
lang: Finnish
word: ansalanka
lang: French
word: collet
lang: French
word: piège
lang: Galician
word: ichó
lang: Georgian
word: ხაფანგი
roman: xapangi
lang: German
word: Schlinge
lang: German
word: Falle
lang: Gothic
word: 𐍅𐍂𐌿𐌲𐌲𐍉
roman: wruggō
lang: Ancient Greek
word: παγίς
roman: pagís
lang: Ancient Greek
word: βρόχος
roman: brókhos
lang: Hebrew
word: פַּח
roman: pakh
lang: Hungarian
word: csapda
lang: Hungarian
word: kelepce
lang: Irish
word: dol
lang: Irish
word: gaiste
lang: Irish
word: súil ribe
lang: Italian
word: laccio
lang: Italian
word: trappola
lang: Italian
word: tagliola
lang: Japanese
word: 罠
roman: wana
lang: Central Kurdish
word: داو
roman: daw
lang: Kyrgyz
word: тузак
roman: tuzak
lang: Latin
word: laqueus
lang: Latin
word: transenna
lang: Latin
word: tenus
lang: Lü
word: ᦟᦸᧄ
roman: loam
lang: Lü
word: ᦷᦢᧂᧉᦢᦱᧆ
roman: ḃong²ḃaad
lang: Malayalam
word: കെണി
roman: keṇi
lang: Western Bukidnon Manobo
word: litag
lang: Māori
word: tāhei
lang: Māori
word: rore
lang: Māori
word: toromāhanga
lang: Māori
word: taeke
lang: Middle English
word: snare
lang: Khiamniungan Naga
word: vèutsīe
lang: Navajo
word: beeʼódleehí
lang: Occitan
word: trapèla
lang: Occitan
word: laç
lang: Occitan
word: sedon
lang: Occitan
word: bagada
lang: Occitan
word: tenda
lang: Occitan
word: tendèla
lang: Old English
word: grin
lang: Persian
word: دام
roman: dâm
lang: Persian
word: پهند
roman: pahand
lang: Persian
word: لاتو
roman: lâtu
lang: Polish
word: sidła
lang: Polish
word: pułapka fm
lang: Polish
word: sidło
lang: Portuguese
word: laço
lang: Romanian
word: cursă
lang: Romanian
word: laț
lang: Romanian
word: capcană
lang: Russian
word: сило́к
roman: silók
lang: Russian
word: лову́шка
roman: lovúška
lang: Russian
word: западня́
roman: zapadnjá
lang: Sardinian
word: latu
lang: Sardinian
word: lantu
lang: Sardinian
word: latzu
lang: Sardinian
word: lassu
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: ribe
lang: Slovene
word: zanka
lang: Spanish
word: lazo
lang: Spanish
word: cepo
lang: Spanish
word: orzuelo
lang: Swedish
word: snara
lang: Tamil
word: பொறி
roman: poṟi
lang: Tarifit
word: trašša
lang: Tày
word: cắp
lang: Thai
word: กับ
roman: gàp
lang: Turkish
word: tuzak
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: طوزاق
roman: tuzak
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: قپان
roman: kapan
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: دام
roman: dam
lang: Ukrainian
word: сильце́
roman: sylʹcé
lang: Walloon
word: bricole
lang: Walloon
word: laesse
lang: Welsh
word: magl