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sneak
English
Etymology
Possibly from Middle English sniken (“to creep, crawl”), from Old English sn?can (“to creep, crawl”), from Proto-West Germanic *sn?kan, from Proto-Germanic *sn?kan? (“to creep, crawl”), which is related to the root of snake. Compare Danish snige (“to sneak”), Swedish snika (“to sneak, hanker after”), Icelandic sníkja (“to sneak, hanker after”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sni?k/
- Rhymes: -i?k
Noun
sneak (plural sneaks)
- One who sneaks; one who moves stealthily to acquire an item or information.
- The act of sneaking
- A cheat; a con artist.
- Synonyms: con artist, trickster; see also Thesaurus:confidence trickster, Thesaurus:deceiver
- An informer; a tell-tale.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:informant
- (obsolete, cricket) A ball bowled so as to roll along the ground; a daisy-cutter
- (US) A sneaker; a tennis shoe.
- 2014, Faye McKnight, Goodnight, Bob (page 9)
- We would have been laughed off the street in Philadelphia if we were seen wearing sneaks. In the big city, the young population wore loafers or boots.
- 2014, Faye McKnight, Goodnight, Bob (page 9)
- (American football) A play where the quarterback receives the snap and immediately dives forward.
Translations
Verb
sneak (third-person singular simple present sneaks, present participle sneaking, simple past and past participle sneaked or snuck)
- (intransitive) To creep or go stealthily; to come or go while trying to avoid detection, as a person who does not wish to be seen.
- Synonym: skulk
- (transitive) To take something stealthily without permission.
- (ditransitive) To stealthily bring someone something.
- (transitive, dated) To hide, especially in a mean or cowardly manner.
- 1701, William Wake, A rationale upon some texts of Scripture
- [Slander] sneaks its head.
- 1701, William Wake, A rationale upon some texts of Scripture
- (intransitive, informal, with on) To inform an authority of another's misdemeanours.
- Synonyms: grass, snitch, tell tales
Usage notes
- The past and past participle snuck is primarily found in North American English, where it originated in the late 19th century as a dialectal form. It is still regarded as informal by some, but its use appears to be increasing in frequency and acceptability. It is occasionally found in British and Australian/Hiberno-English, too, though regarded as an American form. (See Oxford Dictionaries, The Cambridge Guide to English Usage, Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary, Webster's New World College Dictionary.)
- Informally, snook is also often found as the past tense. It is considered nonstandard.
- To sneak (take) something is not the same as to steal something. In this sense, sneak typically implies trying to avoid a supervisor's or guardian's mild displeasure or mild discipline, while steal indicates a more serious action and often the person stealing does not know the owner of the item being stolen.
Derived terms
Translations
Adjective
sneak (not comparable)
- In advance; before release to the general public.
- In a stealthy or surreptitious manner.
Derived terms
- sneak attack
- sneak peek
- sneak preview
Anagrams
- Kasen, Keans, Snake, akens, asken, kaens, kenas, nakes, skean, snake
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from English sneak
Verb
sneak
- first-person singular present indicative of sneaken
- imperative of sneaken
sneak From the web:
convert
English
Etymology
From Old French convertir, from Latin converto (“turn around”)
Pronunciation
Noun
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?k?n.v?t/, [?k???.v?t]
- (General American) enPR: k?n'vûrt, IPA(key): /?k?n.v?t/, [?k???.v?t]
Verb
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /k?n?v??t/, [k?????v??t]
- (General American) enPR: k?nvûrt', IPA(key): /k?n?v?t/, [k?????v?t]
- Rhymes: -??(?)t
Verb
convert (third-person singular simple present converts, present participle converting, simple past and past participle converted)
- (transitive) To transform or change (something) into another form, substance, state, or product.
- 1684-1690, Thomas Burnet, Sacred Theory of the Earth
- if the whole atmosphere were converted into water
- 1684-1690, Thomas Burnet, Sacred Theory of the Earth
- (transitive) To change (something) from one use, function, or purpose to another.
- “A tight little craft,” was Austin’s invariable comment on the matron; and she looked it, always trim and trig and smooth of surface like a converted yacht cleared for action. ¶ Near her wandered her husband, orientally bland, invariably affable, […].
- (transitive) To induce (someone) to adopt a particular religion, faith, ideology or belief (see also sense 11).
- 1856-1858, William H. Prescott, History of the Reign of Philip II
- No attempt was made to convert the Moslems.
- 1856-1858, William H. Prescott, History of the Reign of Philip II
- (transitive) To exchange for something of equal value.
- (transitive) To express (a quantity) in alternative units.
- (transitive) To express (a unit of measurement) in terms of another; to furnish a mathematical formula by which a quantity, expressed in the former unit, may be given in the latter.
- (transitive, law) To appropriate wrongfully or unlawfully; to commit the common law tort of conversion.
- (transitive, intransitive, rugby football) To score extra points after (a try) by completing a conversion.
- (transitive or intransitive, soccer) To score (especially a penalty kick).
- (intransitive, ten-pin bowling) To score a spare.
- (intransitive) To undergo a conversion of religion, faith or belief (see also sense 3).
- (intransitive) To become converted.
- (transitive, obsolete) To cause to turn; to turn.
- 1600, Ben Jonson, Cynthia's Revels
- O, which way shall I first convert myself?
- 1600, Ben Jonson, Cynthia's Revels
- (transitive, logic) To change (one proposition) into another, so that what was the subject of the first becomes the predicate of the second.
- (transitive, obsolete) To turn into another language; to translate.
- 1609, Ben Jonson, The Masque of Queens
- which story […] Catullus more elegantly converted
- 1609, Ben Jonson, The Masque of Queens
- (transitive, cricket) To increase one's individual score, especially from 50 runs (a fifty) to 100 runs (a century), or from a century to a double or triple century.
- 2006, BBC, Gillespie hails 'fairytale' knock:
- Gillespie was reminded he had promised to join team-mate Matthew Hayden in a nude lap of the ground if he converted his century into a double.
- 2006, BBC, Gillespie hails 'fairytale' knock:
- (intransitive, marketing) To perform the action that an online advertisement is intended to induce; to reach the point of conversion.
Antonyms
- deconvert
Derived terms
Related terms
- conversion
Translations
Noun
convert (plural converts)
- A person who has converted to a religion.
- They were all converts to Islam.
- 2004, Ted Jones, The French Riviera: A Literary Guide for Travellers, Tauris Parke Paperbacks (2007), ?ISBN, chapter 3, 64:
- While still in this relationship, Greene, a convert to Roman Catholicism at 23, was asked to be godfather to Catherine Walston, a 30-year-old married woman, at her own conversion.
- A person who is now in favour of something that he or she previously opposed or disliked.
- I never really liked broccoli before, but now that I've tasted it the way you cook it, I'm a convert!
- (Canadian football) The equivalent of a conversion in rugby
Translations
convert From the web:
- what converts
- what converts food into energy
- what converts sunlight to chemical energy
- what converts mrna into a protein
- what converts glucose into atp
- what converts ac to dc
- what converts fibrinogen to fibrin
- what converts light to chemical energy
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