different between snapshot vs prerelease

English

Etymology

snap +? shot

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /snæp.??t/

Noun

snapshot (plural snapshots)

1. A photograph, especially one taken quickly or in a moment of opportunity.

   He carried a snapshot of his daughter.

2. A glimpse of something; a portrayal of something at a moment in time.
3. (computing) A file or set of files captured at a particular time, often capable of being reloaded to restore the earlier state.

   This game is so hard that I find myself taking a snapshot every few seconds in case I get killed.

4. (soccer) A quick, unplanned or unexpected shot.
5. (firearms) A quick offhand shot, made without deliberately taking aim over the sights.
   • 1892, Stanley Waterloo, A Man and a Woman

     How quick the eye and hand to catch him [the ruffed grouse] when he rises from the underbrush and is out of sight in the wood before the untrained sportsman stops him with what is little more than a snapshot, so instantaneously must all be done!

Derived terms

• Snapchat

Translations

Verb

snapshot (third-person singular simple present snapshots, present participle snapshotting, simple past and past participle snapshotted)

1. (transitive) To take a photograph of.
2. (transitive, computing) To capture the state of, in a snapshot.
   • 2007, David E. Irwin, An Operating System Architecture for Networked Server Infrastructure (page 30)

     Filer appliances also offer programmatic snapshotting and cloning at the block-level or file system-level.

Translations

References

• “snapshot”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.

English

Etymology

pre- +? release

Adjective

prerelease (not comparable)

1. Before release.
   • 2006, Mary Pattillo, David Weiman, Bruce Western, Imprisoning America: The Social Effects of Mass Incarceration

     In both years, only 10 to 12 percent had participated in formal prerelease programs designed to prepare prisoners for the transition from life in prison […]

Noun

prerelease (plural prereleases)

1. A preliminary version of a work, released in advance.
2. (skiing) An inadvertent (premature) release of a skiboot from the bindings of a ski, caused by excessive vibration, such as going over an extremely bumpy piste.

Verb

prerelease (third-person singular simple present prereleases, present participle prereleasing, simple past and past participle prereleased)

1. To release in advance