different between snare vs sare

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

English

Alternative forms

• sear

Adjective

sare (comparative sarer, superlative sarest)

1. (Britain, archaic) dry, withered

   Burn ash-wood green, 'tis a fire for a queen;

   Burn ash-wood sare, 'twool make a man sware.

2. (dialectal, Kent, archaic) tender, rotten
3. (dialectal, Northern England, archaic) melancholy, bad, severe

Adverb

sare (comparative sarer, superlative sarest)

1. (Britain, dialectal, Northern England, archaic) much, very much, greatly

Anagrams

• AREs, ARSE, Ares, EARs, ERAs, Ersa, SERA, Sear, ares, arse, ears, eras, rase, reas, sear, sera

Aromanian

Noun

sare

1. Alternative form of sari

Basque

Noun

sare

1. net

Inari Sami

Etymology

From Proto-Samic *sër?.

Noun

sa?e

1. bilberry

Inflection

Further reading

• Koponen, Eino; Ruppel, Klaas; Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002-2008) Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages?^[1], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland

Javanese

Verb

sare

1. Dated spelling of saré.

Noun

sare

1. Dated spelling of saré.

Makasar

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?sar?]

Verb

sare (Lontara spelling ???, semi-transitive assare)

1. (transitive) to give

Pali

Alternative forms

Noun

sare

1. inflection of saras:
   1. locative singular
   2. accusative plural
2. inflection of sara:
   1. locative singular
   2. accusative plural

Portuguese

Verb

sare

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of sarar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of sarar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of sarar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of sarar

Romanian

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin sale, from Latin s?l, salem, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *seh?l-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sa.re/
• Rhymes: -are

Noun

sare f (plural s?ruri)

1. salt

Declension

Related terms

• s?ra
• s?rat
• s?r?tur?
• s?nin?
• s?rune

Swahili

Pronunciation

Noun

sare (n class, plural sare)

1. uniform (distinctive outfit as a means of identifying members of a group)
2. (sports) a draw (tie between two teams)