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" The ability to identify someone at a moment's notice by snapping a photo of him or her, to trigger an immediate influx of data about the person behind the face, will forever change the world."
Jan Chipchase

Meaning of "snapping" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

PRONUNCIATION OF SNAPPING

snapping


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SNAPPING

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Snapping is a verb.
The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb snapping in English.

WHAT DOES SNAPPING MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Finger snapping

Snapping one's fingers is the act of creating a snapping or clicking sound with one's fingers. Primarily this is done by building tension between the thumb and another finger and then moving the other finger forcefully downward so it hits the palm of the same hand at a high speed. Alternatively, one can press the middle finger and thumb together and then fling the index finger into them.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO SNAPPING

PRESENT

Present
I snapping
you snapping
he/she/it snappings
we snapping
you snapping
they snapping
Present continuous
I am snappinging
you are snappinging
he/she/it is snappinging
we are snappinging
you are snappinging
they are snappinging
Present perfect
I have snappinged
you have snappinged
he/she/it has snappinged
we have snappinged
you have snappinged
they have snappinged
Present perfect continuous
I have been snappinging
you have been snappinging
he/she/it has been snappinging
we have been snappinging
you have been snappinging
they have been snappinging
Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past
I snappinged
you snappinged
he/she/it snappinged
we snappinged
you snappinged
they snappinged
Past continuous
I was snappinging
you were snappinging
he/she/it was snappinging
we were snappinging
you were snappinging
they were snappinging
Past perfect
I had snappinged
you had snappinged
he/she/it had snappinged
we had snappinged
you had snappinged
they had snappinged
Past perfect continuous
I had been snappinging
you had been snappinging
he/she/it had been snappinging
we had been snappinging
you had been snappinging
they had been snappinging
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future
I will snapping
you will snapping
he/she/it will snapping
we will snapping
you will snapping
they will snapping
Future continuous
I will be snappinging
you will be snappinging
he/she/it will be snappinging
we will be snappinging
you will be snappinging
they will be snappinging
Future perfect
I will have snappinged
you will have snappinged
he/she/it will have snappinged
we will have snappinged
you will have snappinged
they will have snappinged
Future perfect continuous
I will have been snappinging
you will have been snappinging
he/she/it will have been snappinging
we will have been snappinging
you will have been snappinging
they will have been snappinging
The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional
I would snapping
you would snapping
he/she/it would snapping
we would snapping
you would snapping
they would snapping
Conditional continuous
I would be snappinging
you would be snappinging
he/she/it would be snappinging
we would be snappinging
you would be snappinging
they would be snappinging
Conditional perfect
I would have snapping
you would have snapping
he/she/it would have snapping
we would have snapping
you would have snapping
they would have snapping
Conditional perfect continuous
I would have been snappinging
you would have been snappinging
he/she/it would have been snappinging
we would have been snappinging
you would have been snappinging
they would have been snappinging
Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative
you snapping
we let´s snapping
you snapping
The imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Infinitive
to snapping
Past participle
snappinged
Present Participle
snappinging
Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SNAPPING

snapless · snaplink · snappable · snapped · snapper · snapper up · snappier · snappiest · snappily · snappiness · snapping beetle · snapping turtle · snappingly · snappish · snappishly · snappishness · snappy · snapshooter · snapshot · snaptin

WORDS THAT END LIKE SNAPPING

camping · clipping · dripping · dropping · flipping · home shopping · hopping · mapping · overlapping · popping · propping · shipping · shopping · stepping · stopping · stripping · swapping · tapping · tipping · topping · wrapping

Synonyms and antonyms of snapping in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «SNAPPING»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «snapping» and belong to the same grammatical category.

Translation of «snapping» into 25 languages

TRANSLATOR

TRANSLATION OF SNAPPING

Find out the translation of snapping to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of snapping from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «snapping» in English.
zh

Translator English - Chinese

抢购
1,325 millions of speakers
es

Translator English - Spanish

chasquido
570 millions of speakers
en

English

snapping
510 millions of speakers
hi

Translator English - Hindi

तड़क
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

العض
280 millions of speakers
ru

Translator English - Russian

привязка
278 millions of speakers
pt

Translator English - Portuguese

agarramento
270 millions of speakers
bn

Translator English - Bengali

বিচ্ছিন্ন
260 millions of speakers
fr

Translator English - French

claquement
220 millions of speakers
ms

Translator English - Malay

Mengetuk
190 millions of speakers
de

Translator English - German

Schnappen
180 millions of speakers
ja

Translator English - Japanese

スナップ
130 millions of speakers
ko

Translator English - Korean

스냅
85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

Snapping
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

chụp
80 millions of speakers
ta

Translator English - Tamil

முறிப்பதன்
75 millions of speakers
mr

Translator English - Marathi

स्नॅपिंग
75 millions of speakers
tr

Translator English - Turkish

yaslama
70 millions of speakers
it

Translator English - Italian

snapping
65 millions of speakers
pl

Translator English - Polish

przyciąganie
50 millions of speakers
uk

Translator English - Ukrainian

прив´язка
40 millions of speakers
ro

Translator English - Romanian

rupă
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

σπάνε
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

breek
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

knäppande
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

snapping
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of snapping

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SNAPPING»

Principal search tendencies and common uses of snapping
List of principal searches undertaken by users to access our English online dictionary and most widely used expressions with the word «snapping».

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about snapping

EXAMPLES

8 QUOTES WITH «SNAPPING»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word snapping.
1
Peter Baynham
In 2001, my father finally succumbed to the bone cancer that had tortured him for seven years. His last weeks were a terrible, black icing on the cake, the agony, the slow twisting, thinning and snapping of his skeleton. Everything fell apart.
2
Jan Chipchase
The ability to identify someone at a moment's notice by snapping a photo of him or her, to trigger an immediate influx of data about the person behind the face, will forever change the world.
3
Frans Lanting
I think a photograph, of whatever it might be - a landscape, a person - requires personal involvement. That means knowing your subject, not just snapping at what's in front of you.
4
Joe McNally
Digital technology has thrown a closed shop wide open, and there are more people out there snapping away than ever before. Some of the pictures are bad, some of them are good, and many of them need some seasoning and direction.
5
Piper Perabo
I was never the girl who walked down the centre of the hallway snapping people out of her way.
6
Mitchel Resnick
With 'Scratch,' you create computer programs by snapping together graphical programming blocks, much like LEGO bricks, without any of the obscure syntax and punctuation of traditional programming languages. After creating an interactive 'Scratch' project, you can share it on the 'Scratch' website, just as you would share videos on YouTube.
7
Michael Schur
When someone pitches a joke for a character that is just perfect, and you can imagine that actor reading that line at your table read or on the set, it's like the sound of a snap snapping into place.
8
Abdoulaye Wade
Democracy is constructed like an edifice, freedom by freedom, right by right, until it reaches its snapping point.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SNAPPING»

Discover the use of snapping in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to snapping and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Biology of the snapping turtle (Chelydra serpentina)
Contributors: Ralph A. Ackerman, Iowa State University; Abdulaziz Y. A. AlKindi, Sultan Qaboos University; Barbara A. Bell, Drexel University; Ronald J. Brooks, University of Guelph; Justin D. Congdon, Savannah River Ecology Lab; Carl H. ...
Anthony C. Steyermark, Michael S. Finkler, Ronald J. Brooks, 2008
2
Towel Snapping the Press: Bush's Journey from Locker-room ...
This book not only presents interesting stories about the president from reporters' points of view, but also raises important issues that any civically engaged citizen will want to explore.
James E. Mueller, 2006
3
Snapping Turtles
This book describes common snapping turtles and alligator snapping turtles, presenting information on their physical characteristics, behavior, habitats, and reproduction.
Christopher Blomquist, 2004
4
In Control: No More Snapping at Your Family, Sulking at ...
An eight-week program to anger management, written by the creators of the Lifeskills workshops, outlines easy-to-follow steps for handling a range of challenges from conflict-based interpersonal relationships to everyday stress triggers, in ...
Redford Williams, Virginia Williams, 2006
5
Snapping the String
In the second book of The Ascension trilogy, Peyton Costello languishes away in a mental institution, accused of murdering his parents.
Robert Paul Blumenstein, 2007
6
Snapping Lines: Stories
Written in spare, electric language and energized by memorable scenes, these stories enlighten as much as they entertain. When you have read Snapping Lines, you will come to see the faces of strangers in new and familiar ways.
Jack Lopez, 2001
7
Snapping Turtles
"Simple text and photographs present Snapping Turtles, how they look, where they live, and what they do"--
Elizabeth Thomas, 2011
8
The Alligator Snapping Turtle: Biology And Conservation
The alligator snapping turtle is one of the most celebrated of the world's turtles. Yet despite its unquestionable familiarity among even the most dilettante turtle enthusiasts and hobbyist, it remains a rather poorly-known species.
Peter Charles Howard Pritchard, 2006
9
Final Cut Express 4: Visual QuickStart Guide
Figure 10.45 The Timeline with snapping turned on. The playhead's locator line displays small triangles to show that it has snapped to an edit. Figure 10.46 You can activate Timeline snapping by clicking the Snapping control on the right side  ...
Lisa Brenneis, 2010
10
Inside ArcView GIS 8.3
Snapping can be set in either pixels or map units. Pixels allows for a relative snapping tolerance to be set, in that snapping will only occur within a specified distance on the screen, regardless of your current map scale. Setting the snapping in ...
Scott Hutchinson, 2004

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SNAPPING»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term snapping is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Young alligator snapping turtles released in Calcasieu River
LAKE CHARLES, La. (AP) —The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries has released eight young alligator snapping turtles in the Calcasieu River, ... «WDSU New Orleans, Jul 15»
2
Wildlife officials warning Utahns about aggressive snapping turtle …
Bad news out of Ogden: Our biologists believe there is a breeding population of snapping turtles in the lower Weber River. Snapping turtles are relatively new to ... «fox13now.com, Jul 15»
3
Niagara County teens likely to face charges in torture of snapping
According to the DEC, wildlife, including snapping turtles, are protected in New York State under state Environmental Conservation Law. The DEC's Division of ... «Buffalo News, Jul 15»
4
The 'Dinosaur Turtle' That Freaked Everyone Out Is An Alligator …
Turns out, the creature is an alligator snapping turtle, and it's a long way from home. National Geographic says the freshwater turtle is found almost exclusively in ... «Huffington Post, Jul 15»
5
Suspect's Snapping Turtle Surprises Tulsa Police, Gives Game …
Inside the trunk they found drugs, and a mean-spirited snapping turtle. The startled officers and troopers slammed the trunk and called Game Warden Carlos ... «News On 6, Jun 15»
6
Crossing Guards Needed--for Snapping Turtles
It's the time of year that snapping turtles lay their eggs. And they cross Western Highway in West Nyack and Blauvelt NY to do it. In fact, according to the Turtles of ... «Patch.com, May 15»
7
World Turtle Day focused on awareness and conservation
Snapping turtles are considered “of special concern,” and can still be legally ... on that age-old dilemma, how do you help a snapping turtle cross the road?:. «Toronto Sun, May 15»
8
UL-Lafayette students get a rare chance to examine an alligator …
Photo provided by Doug Dugas -- Brad Moon, an associate professor of biology at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, returns a 50-pound alligator snapping ... «The Advocate, Apr 15»
9
Kent State humbled in Buffalo, 80-55, snapping a six-game winning …
BUFFALO, New York -- Kent State found out what it was like to run into a home court blitz as the Buffalo Bulls rolled to a huge halftime lead then coasted to an ... «cleveland.com, Jan 15»
10
Threatened white-throated snapping turtle that breathes through its …
'This is a major issue for juvenile snapping turtles, who require the water to stay concealed from predators' and are more reliant on aquatic respiration than older ... «Daily Mail, Dec 14»
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