different between catching vs snare

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kæt???/, /?k?t???/
• Rhymes: -æt???, -?t???
• Hyphenation: catch?ing

Adjective

catching (comparative more catching, superlative most catching)

1. (informal) contagious
2. captivating; alluring; catchy
   • 2013, R. T. Wolfe, Dark Vengeance

     Bomb guy looked her up and down, not because he was an attractive man and she was possibly a catching woman.

Hyponyms

• eye-catching

Translations

Translations

Noun

catching (countable and uncountable, plural catchings)

1. The action of the verb catch.

Verb

catching

1. present participle of catch

English

Etymology

From Middle English snare, from Old English sneare (“a string; cord”), from Proto-Germanic *snarh? (“a sling; loop; noose”). Cognate with Old Norse snara. Also related to German Schnur and Dutch snaar, snoer.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /sn???/, /sn??/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /sn??/
• Rhymes: -??(?)

Noun

snare (plural snares)

1. A trap (especially one made from a loop of wire, string, or leather).
   • 1943, Graham Greene, The Ministry of Fear, London: Heinemann, 1960, Book Three, Chapter One, pp. 196-197,^[1]

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

   • 2013, Richard Flanagan, The Narrow Road to the Deep North, New York: Knopf, 2014, Chapter 18, p. 332,^[2]

     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.

2. A mental or psychological trap.
   • c. 1591, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 1, Act IV, Scene 2,^[3]

     If thou retire, the Dauphin, well appointed,

     Stands with the snares of war to tangle thee:

   • 1611, King James Version of the Bible, Exodus 23.33,^[4]

     […] if thou serve their gods, it will surely be a snare unto thee.

   • 1719, Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe, London: W. Taylor, p. 193,^[5]

     […] 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 […]

   • 1865, Elizabeth Gaskell, Wives and Daughters, Chapter ,^[6]

     “ […] riches are a great snare.”

   • 1978, Jan Morris, Farewell the Trumpets: An Imperial Retreat, New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Part One, Chapter 9, p. 173,^[7]

     They were devious war aims, and Allenby’s campaign was fought with a maximum of snare and subterfuge.

3. (veterinary) A loop of cord used in obstetric cases, to hold or to pull a fetus from the mother animal.
4. (surgery) A similar looped instrument formerly used to remove tumours etc.
5. (music) A set of stiff wires held under tension against the lower skin of a drum to create a rattling sound.
6. (music) A snare drum.

Translations

Verb

snare (third-person singular simple present snares, present participle snaring, simple past and past participle snared)

1. (transitive) To catch or hold, especially with a loop.
2. (transitive, figuratively) To ensnare.

Translations

Related terms

• ensnare
• snare drum
• snare-picture
• snarl

Anagrams

• Naser, Nears, RNase, Saner, Serna, eRNAs, earns, ernas, nares, nears, reans, saner

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

From Old Norse snara.

Noun

snare f or m (definite singular snara or snaren, indefinite plural snarer, definite plural snarene)

1. a snare
2. a trap

   Synonym: felle

Verb

snare (present tense snarer, past tense snara or snaret, past participle snara or snaret)

1. (transitive) to catch in a snare

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Adjective

snare

1. inflection of snar:
   1. definite singular
   2. plural

References

• “snare” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Anagrams

• Arnes, Ernas, anser, ranes, rasen, rensa, saner

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

From Old Norse snara (“a snare”), from Proto-Germanic *snarh?. Cognate with English snare.

Alternative forms

• (noun): Snara, Snora, snara, snora, snoru (obsolete forms and spellings)
• (verb): snara (split and a-infinitives)

Noun

snare f (definite singular snara, indefinite plural snarer, definite plural snarene)

1. a snare
2. a trap

   Synonym: felle

Derived terms

• rennesnare

Verb

snare (present tense snarar, past tense snara, past participle snara, passive infinitive snarast, present participle snarande, imperative snar)

1. (transitive) to catch in a snare
2. (transitive) to ensnare

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Adjective

snare

1. inflection of snar:
   1. definite singular
   2. plural

References

• “snare” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Anagrams

• Arnes, Ernas, ensar, naser, rasen, saner

Swedish

Adjective

snare

1. absolute definite natural masculine form of snar.

Anagrams

• Arnes, anser, arens, enars, erans, rasen, reans, renas, rensa, resan