Snare

//snɛ(ə)ɹ// name, noun, verb

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.
Noun
  1. 1
    A trap (especially one made from a loop of wire, string, or leather).

    "He […] watched Beavis’s long-toothed mouth open and clap to like a rabbit snare."

  2. 2
    Any of a class of proteins whose primary role is to mediate vesicle fusion.
  3. 3
    a trap for birds or small mammals; often has a slip noose wordnet
  4. 4
    A mental or psychological trap.

    "If thou retire, the Dauphin, well appointed, Stands with the snares of war to tangle thee:"

  5. 5
    strings stretched across the lower head of a snare drum; they make a rattling sound when the drum is hit wordnet
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  1. 6
    A loop of cord used in obstetric cases, to hold or to pull a fetus from the mother animal.
  2. 7
    a surgical instrument consisting of wire hoop that can be drawn tight around the base of polyps or small tumors to sever them; used especially in body cavities wordnet
  3. 8
    A similar looped instrument formerly used to remove tumours etc.
  4. 9
    a small drum with two heads and a snare stretched across the lower head wordnet
  5. 10
    A set of stiff wires held under tension against the bottom head of a drum to create a rattling sound.
  6. 11
    something (often something deceptively attractive) that catches you unawares wordnet
  7. 12
    A snare drum.
Verb
  1. 1
    To catch or hold, especially with a loop. transitive

    "The mournful crocodile / With sorrow snares relenting passengers."

  2. 2
    entice and trap wordnet
  3. 3
    To ensnare. figuratively, transitive
  4. 4
    catch in or as if in a trap wordnet
  5. 5
    To play (a snare drum, or a beat on or as if on a snare drum). intransitive, transitive, uncommon

    "[…] 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."

Etymology

Etymology 1

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.

Etymology 2

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.

Etymology 3

* As a Norwegian surname, from several farms whose name derive from snar (“thicket, brushwood”), perhaps related to Old Norse snarpr (“coarse, rough, sharp”). * As an English surname, variant of Snarr.

Etymology 4

Short for SNAP receptor.

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