Snapping

Definition

snap /snæp/ v ( -pp- ) ၁။ ႐ုတ္တရက္ ေထာက္ခနဲ၊ ဂြၽတ္ခနဲ ျမည္လ်က္ ျပတ္သည္၊ က်ဳိးသည္၊ ျဖတ္သည္၊ ခ်ဳိးသည္။ He stretched the rubber band till it snapped. ❍ Suddenly the branch that he was standing on snapped off ❍ The great weight snapped the metal bar (in two). ❍ ( fig ) After months of stress and worry, he finally snapped (ie was unable to endure it any more). ၂။ (ပိတ္ျခင္း၊ ပြင့္ျခင္း စသည္) အသံျမည္လ်က္ ဆတ္ခနဲ ျဖစ္သည္၊ ျဖစ္ေစသည္။ The box snapped open. ❍ He snapped down the lid of the box. ❍ She snapped her bag shut. ❍ The crocodile snapped its jaws shut. ၃။ ~ (at sb/sth) (တိရစၧာန္) ဟပ္ သည္၊ တြပ္သည္။ ဆတ္ခနဲကိုက္သည္။ The terrier followed him down the path, snapping at his ankles. ၄။ ~ (at sb) သံျပတ္ႏွင့္ေျပာ သည္။ မာဆတ္ဆတ္ ေျပာ သည္။ ‘Come here at once,’ she snapped. ❍ I'm sorry I snapped (at you) just now. ၅။ ( infml ) လွ်ပ္တစ္ျပက္ ဓာတ္ပံု႐ိုက္သည္။ I snapped you (sunbathing) on the beach. n ၁။ [C] ေထာက္ခနဲျမည္သံ။ ဂြၽတ္ခနဲ၊ ေဂ်ာက္ခနဲ ျမည္သံ။ ယင္းသို႔ျမည္၍ က်ဳိးျခင္း၊ ျပတ္ျခင္း။ ဆတ္ခနဲကိုက္ဟပ္ျခင္း။ The dog made a snap at the meat. ❍ The lid shut with a snap. ❍ The oar broke with a snap. ၂။ (also snapshot ) [C] လွ်ပ္တစ္ျပက္ဓာတ္ပံု။ She showed us her holiday snaps. ၃။ [U] ဖဲတူႏွစ္ခ်ပ္ ခ်မိသည္ႏွင့္ ‘snap’ ဟု သူ႕ထက္ငါ ဦးေအာင္ဆိုရသည့္ ဖဲကစားနည္း။ စနက္။ play a game of snap. ၄။ [sing] ( US infml ) အလြယ္ေလး။ This job's a snap. See also COLD SNAP, BRANDY-SNAP adj ( infml ) ေရွာင္တခင္။ a snap election/decision ❍ take a snap vote. interj ( infml ) ၁။ (စနက္ဖဲကစားရာ၌ ဖဲတူႏွစ္ခ်ပ္ ခ်မိသည္ ႏွင့္ ေအာ္ရသည့္စကား)။ ၂။ ( Brit ) (တိုက္တိုက္ဆိုင္ဆိုင္ ဆင္တူျဖစ္ေန သည့္အခါ ဆိုသည့္ အာေမၮိတ္)။ Snap! You've got the same shoes as me. ❏ make it snappy ; look snappy [ IDM ] ( infml ) (often imperative) ျမန္ျမန္ထက္ထက္လုပ္။ Look snappy! The bus is coming. ❍ You'll have to make it snappy if you want to come too. ❏ snap-fastener n ( US ) = PRESS-STUD ❏ snap one's fingers [ IDM ] လက္ေဖ်ာက္တီးသည္။ He snapped his fingers to attract the waiter. ❏ snap sth out [ PHRV ] ေငါက္ဆတ္ဆတ္ေျပာသည္။ The sergeant snapped out an order. ❏ snap out of it/sth [ IDM ] ( infml ) (often imperative) စိတ္ညစ္မေနနဲ႔ေတာ့။ စိတ္မေကာင္းျဖစ္မေနနဲ႔ေတာ့။ You've been miserable about losing her for months now—you really must snap out of it. ❏ snappy adj ( -ier , -iest ) ၁။ ( infml ) သြက္လက္ေသာ။ လ်င္ျမန္ဖ်တ္လတ္ေသာ။ be snappy on one's feet ❍ a snappy dancer. ၂။ ( infml ) ေခတ္မီေသာ။ ေၾကာ့ေမာ့ေသာ။ a snappy outfit ❍ She's a very snappy dresser. ၃။ (also snappish ) ေဘာက္ဆတ္ဆတ္ေျပာေသာ။ She's always snappy early in the morning. snappily adv : ‘Go away,’ she said snappily. snappiness n [U] ❏ snap to it [ IDM ] ( infml ) (esp imperative) လုပ္ၾကေတာ့ ေလ၊ ျမန္ျမန္ထက္ထက္။ ‘I want those bricks moved; come on, snap to it!’ ❏ snap sth up [ PHRV ] ခ်က္ခ်င္းသိမ္းက်ံဳးဝယ္ (ၾက)ယူ(ၾက) သည္။ The cheapest articles in the sale were quickly snapped up.

Examples

1. When the rope snapped
2. Davis fell into the water.
3. The storm snapped young trees like matchsticks.
4. [snap (something) off] : Ken snapped off the smaller branches.
5. [snap something in half/two] : Snap the biscuit in two and share it.
6. [snap (something) open/shut/together/on/off] : She quickly snapped her handbag shut.
7. It’s really simple to build – the bits just snap together.
8. [snap at] : A terrier was snapping at his heels.
9. She was bound to snap under all that pressure.
10. ‘What do you want now?’ he snapped angrily.
11. [snap at] : I’m sorry I snapped at you just now.
12. He worked as a photographer
13. snapping the young Brigitte Bardot.