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Date "SNARK" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1876. (references) |
"SNARK" is a common misspelling or typo for: shark, snack, snare, snarl, spark, stark. |
| Domain | Definition |
Computing | Snark n. [Lewis Carroll, via the Michigan Terminal System] 1. A system failure. When a user's process bombed, the operator would get the message "Help, Help, Snark in MTS!" 2. More generally, any kind of unexplained or threatening event on a computer (especially if it might be a boojum). Often used to refer to an event or a log file entry that might indicate an attempted security violation. 3. UUCP name of snark.thyrsus.com, home site of the Jargon File versions from 2.*.* on (i.e., this lexicon). Source: Jargon File. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
See: The Hunting of the Snark.
In graph theory, a snark is a graph in which each vertex has three edges, but it is impossible to color the edges with only three colors so that edges of the same color don't meet at one vertex. A boojum is a planar snark. See Four-Color Theorem.
The SM-62 Snark was an intercontinental nuclear cruise missile of the US Air Force that was operational in 1960 and 1961.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Snark."
Crosswords: SNARK |
| Specialty definitions using "SNARK": Hunting the Snark ♦ Nursery Tales. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | The Hunting of the Snark (1989) | |
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| "SNARK" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "SNARK" is used about 2 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 2 | 245,945 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
snark | 51 |
snark sail boat | 48 |
hunting of the snark | 42 |
boat snark | 13 |
coke diet snark | 13 |
super snark | 9 |
sea snark | 6 |
mayflower snark | 5 |
pit snark | 3 |
sail snark | 3 |
snark sunflower | 2 |
super snark sail boat | 2 |
boat sail snark used | 2 |
missile snark | 2 |
flower snark wild | 2 |
product snark | 2 |
boat sail snark super used | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "SNARK"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Thai | สัตว์ลึกลับในจินตนาการ (ในบทกวีของ Lewis Caroll). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | quái vật (abnormalcy, abnormality, abnormity, monster). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "SNARK": snarkier, snarkiest, snarks, snarky. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: karns, knars, narks, ranks. | |
| Words within the letters "a-k-n-r-s" | |
-1 letter: arks, karn, knar, nark, rank, sank, sark. | |
-2 letters: ark, ars, ask, kas, ran, ras, ska. | |
-3 letters: an, ar, as, ka, na. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-k-n-r-s" | |
+1 letter: branks, cranks, franks, knaurs, pranks, shrank, snarks, snarky, tranks. | |
+2 letters: anoraks, bankers, cankers, darkens, hankers, harkens, kantars, korunas, krakens, kurgans, rankers, rankest, rankish, rankles, ransack, ryokans, snakier, sneaker, spanker, swanker, tankers. | |
+3 letters: bearskin, brackens, bunrakus, crankest, crankish, crankles, crankous, darkness, finmarks, flankers, forsaken, frankers, frankest, hearkens, kaiserin, kartings, keratins, klaverns, knackers, knappers, kneaders, markings, marksman, marksmen, outranks, parkings, prankish, ramekins, rankings, rankness, ranpikes, ransacks, ratfinks, redshank, rewakens, runbacks, sharking, snarkier, sneakers, sneakier, spankers, sparking, stinkard, swankier, synkarya, tanbarks, tankards, thankers, unbrakes, unmakers, unmasker, wakeners. | |
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