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Snare
Definitions
- 1 A surname.
- 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 Any of a class of proteins whose primary role is to mediate vesicle fusion.
- 3 a trap for birds or small mammals; often has a slip noose wordnet
- 4 A mental or psychological trap.
"If thou retire, the Dauphin, well appointed, Stands with the snares of war to tangle thee:"
- 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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- 6 A loop of cord used in obstetric cases, to hold or to pull a fetus from the mother animal.
- 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
- 8 A similar looped instrument formerly used to remove tumours etc.
- 9 a small drum with two heads and a snare stretched across the lower head wordnet
- 10 A set of stiff wires held under tension against the bottom head of a drum to create a rattling sound.
- 11 something (often something deceptively attractive) that catches you unawares wordnet
- 12 A snare drum.
- 1 To catch or hold, especially with a loop. transitive
"The mournful crocodile / With sorrow snares relenting passengers."
- 2 entice and trap wordnet
- 3 To ensnare. figuratively, transitive
- 4 catch in or as if in a trap wordnet
- 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
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.
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.
* 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.
Short for SNAP receptor.
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