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Definition: Snare |
SnareNoun1. Something (often something deceptively attractive) that catches you unawares; "the exam was full of trap questions"; "it was all a snare and delusion". 2. A small drum with two heads and a snare stretched across the lower head. 3. A surgical instrument consisting of wire hoop that can be drawn tight around the base of polyps or small tumors to sever them; used especially in body cavities. 4. Strings stretched across the lower head of a snare drum; they make a rattling sound when the drum is hit. 5. A trap for birds or small mammals; often has a noose. Verb1. Catch in or as if in a trap; "The men trap foxes". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "snare" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
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Bible | Snare The expression (Amos 3:5), "Shall one take up a snare from the earth?" etc. (Authorized Version), ought to be, as in the Revised Version, "Shall a snare spring up from the ground?" etc. (See GIN.). Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary. |
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Trap (O. Eng. treppe or traeppe, properly a step, as that or which an animal places its foot and is caught, cf. Ger. Treppe flight of stairs), a mechanical device for the snaring or catching anything, and especially wild animals. Traps for animals are of great antiquity, and no savage people has ever been discovered, whatever its culture scale, that did not possess some variety of snare. In the most primitive form of trap no mechanism need be present, e.g. a cavity into which the animal walks, as the pitfall of the Arabs and Africans or the snow-hole of the Inuit. Dr O. T. Mason has divided traps into three classes: enclosing traps, which imprison the victim without injury; arresting traps, which seize the victim without killing it, unless it be caught by the neck or round the lungs; and killing traps, which crush, pierce or cut to death.Enclosing traps include the pen, cage, pit and door-traps. Pentraps are represented by the fences built in Africa into which antelopes and other animals are driven: and by fish-seines and poundnets. Among cage-traps may be mentioned bird-cones filled with cern and smeared with bird-lime, which adhere to the bird?s head, blinding it and rendering its capture easy; the fish-trap and lobster-pot; and the coop-traps, of which the turkey-trap is an example. This consists of a roofed ditch ending in a cul-de-sac into which the bird is led by a row of corn-kernels. Over the further end a kind of coop is built; the bird, instead of endeavouring to retrace its steps, always seeks to escape upward and remains cooped. Pitfalls include not only those dug in the earth, at the bottom of which knives and spears are often fixed, but also several kinds of traps for small animals. One of these consists of a box near the top of which a platform is hung, in such a way that, when the animal leaps upon it to secure the bait, it is precipitated into the bottom of the box, while the platform swings back into place. Another kind of pitfall is formed of a sort of funnel of long poles, into which birds fall upon alighting on a perfectly balanced bar, to which a dish of corn is made fast. The door-traps form a large and varied class, ranging in size from the immense cage with sliding door in which such beasts as tigers are caught, to the common box-trap for mice or squirrels, the door of which falls when the spindle upon which the bait is fixed is moved. The box-trap with a simple ratchet door, allowing the animal or bird to push under the door or wires which fall back and imprison them, is alike an enclosing and an arresting trap.
There are four general classes of arresting traps, the mesh, the set-hook, the noose and the clutch. The mesh-traps include the mesh and thong toils used of old for the capture of the lion and other large game, and the gill-net in the meshes of which fish are caught by the gills. To the set-hook division are reckoned the set-lines of the angler, several kinds of trawls and the toggle or gorge attached to a line, which the animal, bird or fish swallows only to be held prisoner. The noose-trap class is a very extensive one. The simplest examples are the common slip-noose snares of twine, wire or horsehair, set for birds or small mammals either on their feeding grounds or runways, the victim being caught by the neck, body or foot as it tries to push through the noose. When the noose is used with bait it is generally attached to a stout sapling, which is bent over and kept from springing back by some device of the "figure-4" kind. This is constructed of three pieces of wood, one of the horizontal spindle on which the bait is placed, one of the upright driven into the ground, and the third the connecting cross-piece, fitted to the others so loosely that only the strain of the elastic sapling keeps the trap together. When the victim tries to secure the bait he dislodges the cross-piece and is caught by the noose, which is spread on the ground under the bait. The Patagonians take the vicuna with one variety of this snare, and, before the moose (Cervus alces) was protected by law in North America, even that animal, weighing often 1200 lbs, was caught in snares of wire and rope. There are two widely different types of clutchtraps: bird-lime and other tenacious substances, and jaw and claptraps. The simplest form of the first is adhesive fly-paper. A common practice in Italy is to smear with bird-lime the branches in the neighbourhood of a captive owl, which results in the capture of numbers of birds, gathered to scold at their common enemy. Examples of the clap-trap are the clap-net, consisting of two nets laid flat on the ground and attached to cords in such a manner that they fly up and close when the draw-cord is pulled by a concealed trapper; and the various other spring-traps used by bird-catchers.
The jaw-traps are the most important class of device for the capture of fur-bearing animals, and are the product of civilization. While rude specimens are known to have existed in the middle ages, the steel-trap as used to-day dates from the middle of the 18th century, and reached perfection in the latter half of the 19th, the "Newhouse," named from the American inventor, having been the first trap of high grade. Steel-traps consist of two jaws, with or without teeth, which are worked by powerful single or double springs and are "sprung" when the victim steps upon the "pan," which is placed between the jaws and attached to a lever. They are made in many sizes, from the smallest, designed for rats, to the "Great Bear Tamer," weighing over 40 lbs, with jaws of 16 in. in which lionss, tigers and grizzly bears are trapped. The steel-trap is set and concealed in such a manner that the animal must step on its pan in passing over it to secure the bait. In trapping such wary animals as the sable, marten, mink, otter or beaver, great care is taken to obliterate all signs of the trap and of human presence, the scent of the hands being neutralized by smoking the traps or avoided by the use of gloves. In North America castoreum, musk, asafoetida, oil of anise and common fish oil are used to entice the victims to the traps. Trails of some one of these scents are laid from different directions to the trap.
With the clutch-traps must also be reckoned the oldest form of steel-trap, now to be seen only in museums, the man-trap, which was used first about the middle of the 18th century when the systematic preservation of game rendered protection against poachers a necessity. Such a trap, from Gloucestershire, is over 6 ft. long, has 19-in. serrated jaws and weighs 88 lbs. Another form of man-trap, the spring-gun, belongs to the next category, the killing traps, which are divided into traps of weight, point and edge. The most important of the weight class is the dead-fall, of which the typical form consists of a pen over whose narrow entrance one or more logs are laid across a lighter log, which is balanced upon a spindle necessarily struck by the entering animal, causing the logs to fall upon its back. In some cases the bait is attached to the spindle itself. The dead-fall was always the favourite trap of the American Indians, and is in use among many aboriginal tribes in Africa and South America. A slab of stone is often used as a weight. The common mouse-trap which kills either by a blow or strangulation is a variety of dead-fall. Of point-traps may be mentioned those of the impaling and the missile classes. An example of the former is the stake or spear placed by Arab and African tribes at the bottom of pitfalls for big game. Another impaling trap common in Africa is the harpoon down-fall, generally used for the hippopotamus. It consists of a heavily weighted harpoon suspended in such a way that the animal, passing beneath, breaks a cord and precipitates the harpoon upon itself. Another example of impalement is the hawk-trap, consisting of a circle of stout sharp wires, in the centre of which a live fowl is placed. A bird of prey attempting to secure the fowl is impaled upon the wires. Of missile traps the most universal are the ancient springbow and its modern representative the spring-gun. This is fixed upon stakes, or against a tree, with a line attached to the trigger and stretched immediately in front of the muzzle. An animal pressing against the string pulls the trigger and discharges the piece into its own body. An arrangement of sticks holding the bait in front of the muzzle is sometimes substituted for the string. Of edge-traps a curious example is the wolf-knife of Western America, which consists of a very sharp blade embedded in frozen fat. One of the wolves, licking the fat, cuts its tongue and a flow of blood ensues, with the result that not only the wolf itself but its companions become infuriated by the smell and taste, and the wounded beast, and often many of the others, are killed and devoured. The Alaskan knife-trap for large game consists of a heavy blade attached to a lever, which, when released by the animal biting at the bait, flies over and kills the victim.
from a 1911 encyclopedia
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- A kind of trap used in trapping.
- Also a kind of drum: see snare drum.
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The snare drum (or side drum) is tubular drum made of wood or metal with skins, or headss, stretched over the top and bottom openings. A cluster of snares made of curled metal wire, metal cable, or animal gut is stretched across the bottom head. When the drum is struck, the snares vibrate against the bottom head. This produces a short, distinctive, snap-like sound. The snares can be disengaged if this effect is not required.
Originally, snare drums were military instruments originating from Europe in the 15th and 16th centurys. They were commonly called a Tabor and were used with the fife in the swiss military. Today, the snare drum can be found in nearly every form of western music. Snare drums are used by marching bands and drum and bugle corps to provide a steady source of rhythm. The snare drum was incorporated into classical music to provide color for march-like segments of music. It is used in popular music styles like rock and roll and jazz to provide an accented backbeat. The snare drum is the driving force in samba music: ghost notes are played continuously with accented strokes outlining the rhythm. The snare is also used extensively in death metal, to provide a "blast beat": a rapid alternation of snare and bass drum beats.
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| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
SNARE | English | SNAP receptor | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: SnareSynonyms: gin (n), noose (n), side drum (n), snare drum (n), ensnare (v), entrap (v), trammel (v), trap (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Deception | Snare, trap, pitfall, decoy, gin; springe, springle; noose, hoot; bait, decoy-duck, tub to the whale, baited trap, guet-a-pens; cobweb, net, meshes, toils, mouse trap, birdlime; dionaea, Venus's flytrap; ambush; trapdoor, sliding panel, false bottom; spring-net, spring net, spring gun, mask, masked battery; mine; flytrap; green goods; panel house. |
Decoy, waylay, lure, beguile, delude, inveigle; entrap, intrap, ensnare; nick, springe; set a trap, lay a trap, lay a snare for; bait the hook, forelay, spread the toils, lime; trapan, trepan; kidnap; let in, hook in; nousle, nousel; blind a trail; enmesh, immesh; shanghai; catch, catch in a trap; sniggle, entangle, illaqueate, hocus, escamoter, practice on one's credulity; hum, humbug; gammon, stuff up, sell; play a trick upon one, play a practical joke upon one, put something over on one, put one over on; balk, trip up, throw a tub to a whale; fool to the top of one's bent, send on a fool's errand; make game, make a fool of, make an April fool of, make an ass of; trifle with, cajole, flatter; come over; (influence); gild the pill, make things pleasant, divert, put a good face upon; dissemble. | |
Error | Illusion, delusion; snare; false impression, false idea; bubble; self-decit, self-deception; mists of error. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Snare |
| English words defined with "snare": Call bird ♦ drum roll ♦ ensnare, entrap ♦ frame ♦ Illaqueation, Insnare ♦ paradiddle ♦ roll ♦ set up, side drum, snare drum, Snared, Snaring, Springe ♦ trap, Trapan ♦ Weely. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "snare": Fall into a Snare, Firmament ♦ Hagan of Trony ♦ M.I.T. sampler. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "snare": Telary. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | It's the devil's snare! You have to relax if you don't it'll only kill you faster (Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone; writing credit: Steven Kloves) | |
Lyrics | I have no snare on my headphones (Cleanin' Out My Closet; performing artist: Eminem) A snare for light and time (A Pale Horse Against Time; performing artist: The Who) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Golden Snare (1921) Modern Snare (1913) The Snare of Society (1911) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Approximately 1 cm in diameter, this aymptomatic solitary polyp in a 57-year-old male is sessile and smooth. The polyp was removed by snare cautery. Credit: CDC. |  | D. Jones Tending Snare. Credit: Alaska Historical Image Library. |
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| Play | Caption | Play | Caption |
 | Film score style excerpt featuring horns, calliope, and snare drum. | | Snare drum with insistent melody and arpeggios creating a sense of urgency. |
| A snare drum followed by a crash cymbal in a typical joke-ending manner. | | Snare and bass playing in even eighth notes. |
| Synthesized snare drum. | | Military-style snare drum beat. |
| Snare drum roll. | | Snare drum beat. |
| A mid-sized snare played with a kick drum simultaneously. | | A single snare drum hit. |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Author | Quotation |
Herrick | None pities him that's in the snare, who warned before, would not beware. |
John Dryden | Better shun the bait than struggle in the snare. |
Samuel Johnson | A vow is a snare for sin. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Lays of Mystery Imagination and Humour | Carroll, Lewis | All birds of evil omen there Flood with rich Notes the tainted air, The witless wanderer to snare. |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Let us be ready for the snare. |
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| "Snare" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 79.57% of the time. "Snare" is used about 93 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) | 79.57% | 74 | 38,813 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 17.2% | 16 | 87,710 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 3.23% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 93 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "snare" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Snare | Last name | 300 | 29,629 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "snare": fall into a snare ♦ lay a snare ♦ lay a snare for ♦ set a snare ♦ set a snare for smb. ♦ snare drum ♦ to set a snare ♦ trap snare or gin. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; 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. |
| Language | Translations for "snare"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | trap (booby, cockeyed, Dick, ditch, Dong, dope, duffer, dumbbell, ferry, float, moron, pontoon, prick, prune, raft, sap, sap-head), kurth (corral, deadfall, decoy, gin, hook, mantrap, mesh, net, noose, pitfall, plant, rat-trap, springe, trap, wile), kap në grackë (ensnare, trap), grackë (booby trap, cobweb, deadfall, decoy, gin, hook, mantrap, mesh, net, noose, pitfall, rat-trap, springe, trap). (various references) | |
Arabic | فخ (gin, trap), كمين (ambuscade, ambush, trap, wait), نصب فخا (set up), نصب شركا (trap), وقع في شرك (boob trap, catch, decoy, ensnare, lime, trammel), وتر (bow, catgut, chord, cord, gut, nerve, sinew, strain, string, tauten, tendon, tense, tension), غوى (bait, be seduced, debauch, entice, enticement, seduce, solicit, tempt, undo), صاد بشرك, أحبولة (noose), شرك (booby trap, catch, cobwebby, decoy, entanglement, gin, hook, let smb. into, mantrap, morass, net, paneling, pitfall, polytheism, trammel, trap). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | уловка (ruse, shift, trepan, wile), улавям в капан, трик (double, flam, jig, skin game, sleight, trepan, trick), капан (ambush, deadfall, death trap, man-trap, mousetrap, net, pit, pitfall, trap, trepan, web), клопка (ambush, booby trap, gin, net, pitfall, toils, trap, web), впримчвам (decoy, ensnare, entrap, implicate, mesh, noose, vamp), примка (deadfall, game, halter, loop, mesh, noose, trap), примамка (allurement, carrot, decoy, draw, enticement, inducement, lure), примамвам (coax, decoy, entice, hold forth, inveigle, lure, tempt, train, wile). (various references) | |
Chinese | 陷阱 , 誘陷 , 圈套. (various references) | |
Czech | past (mantrap, mesh, pit, pitfall, trap), oko (eye, kink, mesh, noose, pip, spot, springe, tarn), nástraha (ambush, trap), léèka (ambuscade, pitfall, trap), chytnout (catch, catch fire). (various references) | |
Danish | fælde (trap). (various references) | |
Dutch | valstrik (trap), hinderlaag (ambush), arglist (craft, craftiness, cunning, guile). (various references) | |
Esperanto | kaptilo (trap), insido. (various references) | |
Faeroese | snara (loop, mesh, turn, turn around, turn away, turn round), fella. (various references) | |
Farsi | کمند (Lariat, Lasso, Noose, Snarl, Tether), تله (Grin, Hook, Noose, Pitfall, Quicksand, Snarl, Train, Trepanation), دام (Ambush, Decoy, Grin, Net, Noose, Pitfall, Quicksand, Toil, Trap), بند (Article, Bond, Clamp, Clause, Dam, Dike, Fascia, Fit, Hinge, Internode, Joggle, Joint, Levee, Ligament, Ligature, Line, Link, Manacle, Noose, Paragraph, Provision, Proviso, Segment, Sling, Stanza, Tie, Trawl, Weir, Wristband), باتله گرفتن , بدام انداختن (Decoy, Ensnare, Entrap, Hook, Inveigle, Nail, Trap, Trepanation). (various references) | |
Finnish | sadin (trap), pyydystää (captivate, capture, catch, grapple, trap), pyydys (trap), paula (lace, string, trap), ansa (trap). (various references) | |
French | piège, collet. (various references) | |
Frisian | mûklist (craft, craftiness, cunning, guile). (various references) | |
German | Schlinge (gin, guelder rose, halter, loop, mesh, noose, sling, snowball), fangen (bag, captivate, capture, catch, cope, entrap, grapple, net, tag, take, to catch, to trap, trap, trick), Fallstrick, Falle (bed, catch, gin, latch, mantrap, pit, pitfall, trap). (various references) | |
Greek | βρόχοσ (bight, loop, mesh, noose, springe), βρόχος (loop), παγιδεύω (ensnare, entrap, gin, trap), παγίσ (pitfall, trap), παγίδα (catch, gin, noose, springe, trap), δίκτυο (net, network, trammel, trawl). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מלכו"ת (booby trap, decoy, gin, net, trap), מוקש (mine, noose, trap), ללכו" במלכו"ת, לכ" (capture, net, trap), רשת (chain, grid, mesh, net, network). (various references) | |
Hungarian | tőr (dagger, knife, knives, pit), kelepce (bailed hook, dead-fall, gin, net, nett, noose, paddle, pitfall, trap), hurok (bight, bow, halter, hitch, kink, knot, lobe, loop, noose, sling, slip knot, snarl, springe), háló (lattice, mesh, net, nett, netting, reticule, springe, tunnel, web), csapda (ambuscade, ambush, bailed hook, catch, decoy, gin, man-trap, net, nett, noose, pit, pitfall, track, trap). (various references) | |
Indonesian | perangkap (ambush, decoy, gin, pitfall, trap), gaet, eret (drag, lure). (various references) | |
Italian | tranello (booby trap, game, mantrap, trap). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | (trap). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | わな (trap). (various references) | |
Korean | 올가미. (various references) | |
Manx | sniem (bow knot, knot), ribbey (entanglement, pitfall; trapping, snaring, spring, trap), poaynt (string), lhoob (bend, coil, convolution, curve, flexion, gulf, hank, hoop, link, rabbit snare, shackle, staple clasp, stitch, twine, twine of snake, twirl). (various references) | |
Papiamen | trampa (trap). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | aresnay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | laço (bond, cufflink, decoy, decoy-duck, fillet, knot, lace, lariat, lasso, link, mantrap, mesh, rope, shoe-lace, snood, springe, tie, trap, tying, yoke), armadilha (booby trap, decoy, decoy-duck, gin, mantrap, mesh, noose, pitfall, pothole, toil, toils), alçapão (drop, noose, pitfall, scuttle, trap, trapdoor). (various references) | |
Romanian | laţ (gin, lath, link, loop, noose, sling, springe, trap, wire), cursã (ambush, chase, course, decoy, drive, errand, gin, journey, pit, pitfall, race, races, ride, riding, run, running, springe, stroke, take in, the dogs, toil, trap), capcanã (catcher, death trap, decoy, gin, hook, net, noose, pit fall, pitfall, toil, trap, wait). (various references) | |
Russian | силок , западня (deadfall, decoy, gin, mesh, net, pit, pitfall, springe, trapfall, trap-hole), ловушка (booby trap, catch, catcher, cobweb, decoy, entrapment, fall-trap, man-trap, noose, springe, trap). (various references) | |
Scottish | ribe (a tatter, rag), lùb (bend, consent, humble, incline, loop, noose, stoop, yield). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | zamka (bight, catch, deadfall, gin, mesh, noose, pitfall, springe, trap), uhvatiti u zamku (ensnare, noose). (various references) | |
Spanish | trampa (booby trap, catch, cheat, cheating, deadfall, debt, decoy duck, graft, hatch, hocus pocus, mantrap, pit, pitfall, plant, trap, trapdoor, trick, trickery, try on, wangle), lazo (attachment, bind, bond, bow, connection, knot, lariat, lasso, league, link, list, loop, noose, springe, tie), astucia (archness, artfulness, astuteness, cleverness, craft, craftiness, cunning, flirtation, foxiness, guile, overreach, pawkiness, shiftiness, shrewdness, slyness, subtlety, trickery, wiliness, worldly wisdom). (various references) | |
Sranan | trapu (ladder, staircase, stairs, trap). (various references) | |
Swedish | snara (ensnare, entrap, gin, halter, hook, loop, noose, springe, trap), snärja (ensnare, entrap, trap), försåt (ambush, booby trap). (various references) | |
Thai | กับ"ัก (mesh). (various references) | |
Turkish | tuzak kurmak (ambuscade, ambush, lay a plot, lay a trap for, set a snare, set a snare for smb., set a trap for, set up, trap), tuzak (a warm corner, ambuscade, ambush, catch, cobweb, come on, complot, decoy, gin, hook, lure, net, noose, springe, toil, toilets, toils, trap, wire), tuzağa düşürmek (ambuscade, circumvent, decoy, enmesh, ensnare, entrap, gin, mesh, net, springe, trammel, trap), trampet kirişi, kapana kıstırmak (ensnare, gin, set a snare for smb., trap, wire), kapan (gin, springe, trap, wire), kıskaç (barnacles, Chela, clamp, claw, gripper, nipper, pincer, pincers, pliers). (various references) | |
Turkmen | hepbik (noose), duzak. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | спіймати в западню, сильце (drag-net, net, springe), заманити в западню (snarl), западня (deadfall, leash, net, snarl). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | mưu (stratagem, wheeze), cái bẫy. (various references) | |
Welsh | telm, rhwyd (net), maglu (mesh, trip), magl (mesh), hoenyn, croglath (springe), bachell (clutch, corner, nook). (various references) | |
Yucatec | peets' (trap). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | casses, cassis, cassum, decipula, forca, insidiae, insidiarum, insidias, insidiis, laquei, laqueis, laqueo, laqueos, laqueum, laqueus, laqueus,, pedica, pedicas, plaga, plagae, plagam, plagarum, plagas, plagatus, plagis, rete, reti, retia, retibus, retis, tendiculas. (various references) |
| Old English | 450-1100 | grin. (various references) |
| Dutch | 700-Modern | snaar. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Proverbs Chapter 22, Verse 25 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Mhpote maqhV twn odwn autou kai labhV brocouV th sh yuch |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Ne forte discas semitas eius et sumas scandalum animae tuae |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Lest parauenture thou lerne the pathis of hym, and take sclaunder to thi soule. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | Lest thou learn his ways, and get a snare to thy soul. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | Lest thou learn his ways, and get a snare to thy soul. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | For fear of learning his ways and making a net ready for your soul. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Proverbs Chapter 22, Verse 25 |
| Cebuano | Tingali unya ikaw makakat-on sa iyang mga dalan, Ug makabaton ka sa lit-ag sa imong kalag. |
| Croatian | da se ne bi privikao na staze njegove i namjestio zamku duši svojoj. |
| Danish | at du ikke skal lære hans Stier og hente en Snare for din Sjæl. |
| Dutch | Opdat gij zijn paden niet leert, en een strik over uw ziel haalt. |
| Finnish | että et tottuisi hänen teihinsä ja saattaisi sieluasi ansaan. |
| French | De peur que tu ne t`habitues ses sentiers, Et qu`ils ne deviennent un piège pour ton âme. |
| German | du möchtest seinen Weg lernen und an deiner Seele Schaden nehmen. |
| Haitian Creole | W'a pran move mès yo. W'a rale malè sou ou. |
| Hungarian | Hogy el ne tanuld az õ útait, és tõrt ne keress tennen magadnak. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Nanti engkau akan meniru dia, dan tidak bisa lagi menghilangkan kebiasaan itu. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | supaya jangan engkau belajar tingkah lakunya serta memasang jerat akan jiwamu. |
| Italian | per non imparare i suoi costumi e procurarti una trappola per la tua vita. |
| Maori | Kei akona e koe ona ara, a ka riro i a koe he mahanga mo tou wairua. |
| Norwegian | forat du ikke skal lære dig til å gå på hans veier og få satt en snare for ditt liv! |
| Portuguese | para que não aprendas as suas veredas, e tomes um laço para a tua alma. |
| Rumanian | ca nu cumva sq te deprinzi cu cqrqrile lui, wi sq-yi ajungq o cursq pentru suflet. - |
| Russian | ЮФП'Щ ОЕ ОБХЮЙФШУС ХФСН ЕЗП Й ОЕ ОБЧМЕЮШ ЕФМЙ ОБ "ХЫХ ФЧПА. |
| Spanish | no sea que aprendas sus maneras y pongas una trampa para tu propia vida. |
| Swedish | på det att du icke må lära dig hans vägar och bereda en snara för ditt liv. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "snare": snared, snarer, snarers, snares. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "snare": ensnare, insnare. (additional references) | |
Words containing "snare": ensnared, ensnarer, ensnarers, ensnares, insnared, insnarer, insnarers, insnares. (additional references) | |
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"Snare" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: anare, cynarae, enare, Nsra, Sanatrem, sangaree, sare, seare, senere, smare, snae, snair, snale, snard, snarf, snarg, snarge, snark, snarle, snarp, snars, snaue, snaze, snearer, snire, snoro, snorri, snurk, sonare, Sunair, suncare, swarre, syare, unare. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "snare" (pronounced sne"r) |
| 4 | s n e" r | ensnare. |
| 3 | -n e" r | billionaire, concessionaire, debonair, doctrinaire, millionaire, multimillionaire, questionnaire. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: earns, nares, nears, saner. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-n-r-s" | |
-1 letter: anes, ares, arse, earn, ears, eras, erns, near, rase, sane, sear, sera. | |
-2 letters: ane, are, ars, ear, ens, era, ern, ers, nae, ran, ras, res, sae, sea, sen, ser. | |
-3 letters: ae, an, ar, as, en, er, es, na, ne, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-n-r-s" | |
+1 letter: anears, angers, answer, antres, arenas, arisen, arpens, arseno, arsine, astern, caners, casern, cranes, denars, learns, nacres, namers, ramens, rances, ranees, ranges, ravens, reason, redans, remans, resawn, sander, sanger, sarsen, senary, senora, snared, snarer, snares, sterna, yearns. | |
+2 letters: aliners, almners, ancress, anestri, anglers, answers, anthers, antlers, antsier, arcsine, arenose, arenous, argents, arpents, arsenal, arsenic, arsines, asunder, atoners, banders, bangers, bankers, banners, banters, barrens, boranes, brazens, cancers, cankers, canners, canters, careens, carnets, carneys, carnies, caserne, caserns, caverns, coarsen, corneas, cravens, damners, dancers, danders, dangers, danseur, darkens, darnels, darners, earings, earners, earnest, eastern, enamors, endears, engrams, enrages, ensnare, ensnarl, entraps, enwraps, erasing, erasion, errands, errants, fanners, farness, fawners, furanes, gainers, ganders, gangers, gardens, garners, garnets, germans, gnawers, grabens, granges, hangers, hankers, hardens, harkens, harness, harshen, hernias, hoarsen, infares, insaner, insnare, krakens, lancers, landers, lanners, leaners, loaners, mangers, manners, manures, marines, martens, meaners, moaners, nabbers, naggers, nailers, nappers, narcose, nastier, natters, natures, nearest, nectars, oarsmen, onagers, oranges, panders, paniers, panzers, parents, pastern, pawners, persona, planers, prances, ranches, randies, rangers, rankers, rankest, rankles, ranters, rapines, ratines, rattens, ravines, rawness, reagins, reasons, recanes, recants, reearns, regains, reginas, rehangs, reloans, remains, remands, renails, renames, rennase, rentals, replans, retains, retinas, retsina, saltern, sanders, sandier, sangers, sardine, sarment, sarsens, saunter, scanner, scanter, searing, seminar, senarii, senator, senhora, senoras, seringa, serrano, servant, sharpen, sierran, slander, smarten, snakier, snapper, snarers, snarled, snarler, sneaker, spanker, spanner, spawner, stainer, stander, stearin, sternal, strange, surname, swanker, synurae, tankers, tanners, tanrecs, taverns, thenars, trances, treason, trepans, unbears, unswear, vanners, versant, wanders, wanters, wardens, warners, warrens, weaners, yarners, yawners, zanders. | |
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