different between grab vs snare

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??æb/
• Rhymes: -æb

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch grabben (“to grab”) or Middle Low German grabben (“to snap”), from Proto-Germanic *grab-, from Proto-Indo-European *g?reb?- (compare Sanskrit ???????? (g?h???ti), ???????? (g?bh???ti, “he seizes”), Avestan ????????????????????? (gar^??, “to seize”)). Cognate with Danish grabbe (“to grab”), Swedish grabba (“to grab”), Old English ?egræppian (“to seize”), Middle English grappen (“to feel with the hands; grope”), Macedonian ?????? (grabne, “to snatch”), ??????? (grabvam, “to snatch”).

Verb

grab (third-person singular simple present grabs, present participle grabbing, simple past and past participle grabbed)

1. (transitive) To grip suddenly; to seize; to clutch.

2. (intransitive) To make a sudden grasping or clutching motion (at something).

3. To restrain someone; to arrest.
4. (transitive) To grip the attention of; to enthrall or interest.

   How does that idea grab you?

5. (informal) To quickly collect or retrieve.
   • 1987 James Grady Just a Shot Away, Bantam, page 117:

     "I'll just grab my jacket," said Manh-Hung.

   • 1999 Jillian Dagg, Racing Hearts, Thomas Bouregy & Co., page 105:

     Hardly believing that Rafe actually planned to relax for a while, Kate nodded. "All right. Fine. I'll just go grab my purse."

   • 2009 Mike Taylor, A Thousand Sleeps, Tate Publishing, page 216:

     He looked at Albert and Ben, and then back to Nurse Allen. "I'll just grab my gear and be right back."

6. (informal) To consume something quickly.

7. To take the opportunity of.

Translations

Noun

grab (countable and uncountable, plural grabs)

1. (countable) A sudden snatch at something.
   • 1931 Harold M. Sherman, "The Baseball Clown," Boys' Life, volume 21, No. 4 (April 1931), Boy Scouts of America, page 47:

     The ball popped in and popped out, and when he made a grab for it on the ground he kicked it with his foot.

   • 2003 J Davey, Six Years of Darkness, Trafford Publishing, page 66:

     He made a grab for me and I swung my handbag at him as hard as I could.

2. (countable) An acquisition by violent or unjust means.
3. (countable) A mechanical device that grabs or clutches.
   1. A device for withdrawing drills, etc., from artesian and other wells that are drilled, bored, or driven.
4. (countable, media) A sound bite.
5. (obsolete) That which is seized.
6. (uncountable) A simple card game.

Synonyms

• catch
• clutch
• grasp
• seize
• snatch

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

Arabic and Hindi ghurb?: crow, raven, a kind of Arab ship. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Noun

grab (plural grabs)

1. A two- or three-masted vessel used on the Malabar coast.

Alternative forms

• gurab

Anagrams

• ARGB, brag, garb

Lower Sorbian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *grabr?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?rap]

Noun

grab m

1. hornbeam (tree of genus Carpinus)

Declension

Further reading

• grab in Ernst Muka/Mucke (St. Petersburg and Prague 1911–28): S?ownik dolnoserbskeje r?cy a jeje nar?cow / Wörterbuch der nieder-wendischen Sprache und ihrer Dialekte. Reprinted 2008, Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag
• grab in Manfred Starosta (1999): Dolnoserbsko-nimski s?ownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch. Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag.

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?rap/

Etymology 1

From Proto-Slavic *grab(r)?, from Proto-Indo-European *gr?b?-

Noun

grab m inan

1. hornbeam, any tree of genus Carpinus.

Declension

Derived terms

• (adjective) grabowy
• (nouns) grabina, grabniak

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Noun

grab f

1. genitive plural of graba

Verb

grab

1. second-person singular imperative of grabi?

Further reading

• grab in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• grab in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *grab(r)?, from Proto-Indo-European *gr?b?-

Noun

grab m (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. hornbeam

Declension

Thai

Romanization

grab

1. Romanization of ????

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