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PRONUNCIATION OF SNIBBING

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SNIBBING

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Snibbing 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 snibbing in English.

WHAT DOES SNIBBING MEAN IN ENGLISH?

snibbing

Snib

A snib is a manually operated catch for the internal locking of Yale type locks. Once operated it prevents key holders from using the lock externally, or allows the door to be closed without the lock engaging. Colloquial also the button inside car doors for locking the car. The term may also be used to indicate the bolt or latch on a door or window, or to refer to the act of bolting or locking something. Rosamunde Pilcher uses the term to mean locking windows in her novel, Coming Home. "In the bedrooms, on the landing, windows stood open. She raced from room to room, closing and snibbing every one." In an episode of The Likely Lads, Terry walks into Bob's house uninvited — Bob: "How did you get in?" Terry: "The door's on the snib" Says You! used snib in this context on its episode #1415 airing around February, 2012.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO SNIBBING

PRESENT

Present
I snibbing
you snibbing
he/she/it snibbings
we snibbing
you snibbing
they snibbing
Present continuous
I am snibbinging
you are snibbinging
he/she/it is snibbinging
we are snibbinging
you are snibbinging
they are snibbinging
Present perfect
I have snibbinged
you have snibbinged
he/she/it has snibbinged
we have snibbinged
you have snibbinged
they have snibbinged
Present perfect continuous
I have been snibbinging
you have been snibbinging
he/she/it has been snibbinging
we have been snibbinging
you have been snibbinging
they have been snibbinging
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 snibbinged
you snibbinged
he/she/it snibbinged
we snibbinged
you snibbinged
they snibbinged
Past continuous
I was snibbinging
you were snibbinging
he/she/it was snibbinging
we were snibbinging
you were snibbinging
they were snibbinging
Past perfect
I had snibbinged
you had snibbinged
he/she/it had snibbinged
we had snibbinged
you had snibbinged
they had snibbinged
Past perfect continuous
I had been snibbinging
you had been snibbinging
he/she/it had been snibbinging
we had been snibbinging
you had been snibbinging
they had been snibbinging
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

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

CONDITIONAL

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

IMPERATIVE

Imperative
you snibbing
we let´s snibbing
you snibbing
The imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Infinitive
to snibbing
Past participle
snibbinged
Present Participle
snibbinging
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 SNIBBING

snib
snibbed
snick
snicker
snickerer
snickersnee
snickery
snicket
Snickometer
snide
snidely
snideness
snidey
sniff
sniff at
sniff out
sniffable
sniffer
sniffer dog
sniffier

WORDS THAT END LIKE SNIBBING

attention-grabbing
back-stabbing
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blabbing
bobbing
clubbing
cribbing
dubbing
grabbing
mobbing
nabbing
nightclubbing
robbing
rubbing
scrubbing
sobbing
stabbing
stubbing
subbing
throbbing
webbing

Synonyms and antonyms of snibbing in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «snibbing» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF SNIBBING

Find out the translation of snibbing to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of snibbing from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «snibbing» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

snibbing
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

snibbing
570 millions of speakers

English

snibbing
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

snibbing
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

snibbing
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

snibbing
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

snibbing
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

snibbing
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

snibbing
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Snibbing
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

snibbing
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

snibbing
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

snibbing
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Snibbing
85 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Vietnamese

snibbing
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

snibbing
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

स्निबिबिंग
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

snibbing
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

snibbing
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

snibbing
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

snibbing
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

snibbing
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

snibbing
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

snibbing
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

snibbing
10 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Norwegian

snibbing
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of snibbing

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SNIBBING»

The term «snibbing» is barely ever used and occupies the 199.872 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «SNIBBING» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «snibbing» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «snibbing» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

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

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SNIBBING»

Discover the use of snibbing in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to snibbing and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Confectionery Products Handbook (Chocolate, Toffees, Chewing ...
Gooseberries are topped and tailed, or “snibbed,” in a gooseberry snibbing machine. This consists of a cylindrical shaped vessel lined with carborundum and at the bottom of the cylinder is a revolving plate also lined with carborundum.
NPCS Board, 2013
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Fruit Processing
The snibbing operation also causes the skin of the gooseberry to be punctured or scarified, which will allow the added syrup to penetrate into the fruit and thus prevent it becoming wrinkled. After the gooseberries are filled into the can, syrup is ...
D. Arthey, P.R. Ashurst, 1996
3
The historie of Scotland
Snibbing, sb. chiding, i. 226. 26. Snibs, v. pres. 3 sg. checks, puts down, punishes , ii. 352. 28 ; pret. $sg. snibbit, 361. lfn.; i. 333. 14; 3 pl. snibbit, ii. 43. 27 ; pp. snibbit, i. 331 m.; ger. snibbing, rebuking, 282. 27. Snoutis, sb. beaks, ii. 335. 18.
John Leslie, E. G. Cody, William Murison, 1895
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The Rise of English Literary Prose
Scornful words and ' snibbing ' are permitted by the example of Christ, as well as of Paul and others. ' But it is said commonly that three things are hard to men, to scorn meedfully, or meedfully plead with men, or else to fight with man, by the ...
George Philip Krapp, 1915
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Scot. Text S.
O.E. snel, sneli. Snibbing, sb. chiding, i. 226. 26. Snibs, v. pres. 3 sg. checks, puts down, punishes, ii. 352. 28 ; pret. 3sg. snibbit, 361. i. 333. 14; 3 pi. snibbit, ii. 43. 27 ; pp. snibbit, i. 331 m. ; gcr. snibbing, rebuking, 282. 27. Snoutis, sb. beaks, ii.
‎1895
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The Prologue to the Canterbury Tales: With Notes, Plan of ...
For thi snibbing, Lauerd myne ' (= At thy rebuke, O Lord) ; and (Ps. ciii.) ' Fra thi snibbing sal thai fle.? The nones. See note on line 379. 524. Freest, another spelling. The older is prest; and we find it in the names of English towns, as Prestwick, ...
Geoffrey Chaucer, John Miller Dow Meiklejohn, 1882
7
The prologue to the Canterbury tales, with notes [ &c.] by ...
'For thi snibbing, Lauerd myne' (= At thy rebuke, O Lord) ; and (Ps. ciii.) ' Fra thi snibbing sal thaifle.' The nones. See note on line 379. 624. Freest, another spelling. The older is prest; and we find it in the names of English towns, as Prestwich, ...
Geoffrey Chaucer, John Miller D. Meiklejohn, 1880
8
Trigger Dance
"I'm snibbing these threads between stirring the meat." "Jes like the Great Spirit hisself — " Roan preached to the air, "snibbing out parts of the earth, setting em down & letting his angels move them around just for their boredom on these days .
Diane Glancy, 1990
9
CRSR.
A pair of leads from the junction box provides full battery voltage to the DC cam motor, which drives the offset snibbing bearing off the ramp. The same rotation brings another offset shaft-mounted bearing against the flat bottom of the ramp, ...
Cornell University. Center for Radiophysics and Space Research, 1977
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Far-infrared photometry with an 0.4-meter liquid helium ...
A pair of leads from the junction box provides full battery voltage to the DC cam motor, which drives the offset snibbing bearing off the ramp. The same rotation brings another offset shaft-mounted bearing against the flat bottom of the ramp, ...
Michael Ray Jacobson, 1977

2 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SNIBBING»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term snibbing is used in the context of the following news items.
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Quiet life eludes rock chick Abby
“There been some instances where people think I'm not very nice, because they're trying to talk to me and it's almost like I'm snibbing them off,” she said. «Perth Now, Apr 15»
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Conozca las consecuencias del 'phubbing', la manía de ignorar a …
La palabra 'phubbing' viene de 'phone' (teléfono) y 'snibbing' (desairar) y ocurre cuando alguien lo ignora a usted por estar concentrado en su teléfono celular. «El Pais - Cali Colombia, Mar 15»

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