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snare

noun
/snɛ(ə)ɹ/US/snɛə/UK/sneː/

Etymology

From Middle English snare, from Old English sneare (“snare, noose”), from Proto-West Germanic *snarhā, from Proto-Germanic *snarhǭ (“a sling; loop; noose”). Cognate with Old Norse snara. Also related to German Schnur and Dutch snaar, snoer.

  1. inherited from *snarhǭ✻ — “a sling; loop; noose”
  2. inherited from *snarhā✻
  3. inherited from sneare — “snare, noose”
  4. inherited from snare

Definitions

  1. A trap (especially one made from a loop of wire, string, or leather).

    • He […] watched Beavis’s long-toothed mouth open and clap to like a rabbit snare.
    • 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.

    • If thou retire, the Dauphin, well appointed, Stands with the snares of war to tangle thee:
    • […] if thou serve their gods, it will surely be a snare unto thee.
    • […] 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 […]

  3. A loop of cord used in obstetric cases, to hold or to pull a fetus from the mother animal.

  4. ›+ 8 more definitions

    1. A similar looped instrument formerly used to remove tumours etc.

    2. A set of stiff wires held under tension against the bottom head of a drum to create a…

      A set of stiff wires held under tension against the bottom head of a drum to create a rattling sound.

    3. A snare drum.

    4. To catch or hold, especially with a loop.

      • The mournful crocodile / With sorrow snares relenting passengers.
      • Lest that too heavenly form […] snare them.
      • Instead, it aimed for a more important assurance: that if A.I. raises writers’ productivity or the quality of their output, guild members should snare an equitable share of the performance gains. And the W.G.A. got it.

    5. To ensnare.

    6. To play (a snare drum, or a beat on or as if on a snare drum).

      • […] the slightest recollection of hearing the wind whistling through the cracks in the old house or the rain snaring its tat-a-tat on the rusty tin roof.
      • […] T-Ray snared the drum in the background.
      • […] drummer snaring away on his little drum, tur-r-r-rump! tur-r-r-rump! tur-r-r-rump! r-r-rump, r-r-rump, r-r-rump! I love drums.

    7. A surname.

    8. Any of a class of proteins whose primary role is to mediate vesicle fusion.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at snare. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at snare. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at snare

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA