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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
snapshot
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
give
▪ This was the conclusion of a 72-hour period that gave us the perfect snapshot of these Rockets.
provide
▪ It provides a fascinating snapshot of who you are and what you think about the paper.
take
▪ The physicists in the team got round this by taking rapidly alternating snapshots of the area in red and green light.
▪ He occasionally takes snapshots with a simple camera.
▪ In all my years in the Civil Serviceno one has ever brought a camera into the office and started taking snapshots!
▪ I wonder at what point in this insane course of tutorials did teacher and pupil begin taking snapshots of each other.
▪ It proposes to use data collection software to take a periodic snapshot of a client's system.
▪ They shake hands, kiss greetings, exchange news and rumors, and take snapshots of each other.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ I sent some snapshots of the kids.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Britain is a country in crisis, and this recent snapshot of life here proves it.
▪ Every basketball season is a series of snapshots.
▪ He occasionally takes snapshots with a simple camera.
▪ It is a snapshot at one point in time and is therefore only relevant to that point in time.
▪ Leonard said he could not believe the photographers' testimony that they had forgotten all about the snapshots until recently.
▪ This was the conclusion of a 72-hour period that gave us the perfect snapshot of these Rockets.
▪ Trends, like snapshots, need to be based on good evidence.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Snapshot

Snapshot \Snap"shot`\, n. 1. Commonly

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
snapshot

also snap-shot, 1808, "a quick shot with a gun, without aim, at a fast-moving target," from snap + shot (n.). Photographic sense is attested from 1890. Figuratively, of something captured at a moment in time, from 1897.

Wiktionary
snapshot

n. 1 A photograph, especially one taken quickly or in a moment of opportunity. 2 A glimpse of something; a portrayal of something at a moment in time. 3 (context computing English) A file or set of files captured at a particular time, capable of being reloaded to restore the earlier state. 4 (context soccer English) A quick, unplanned or unexpected shot. vb. (context transitive English) To take a snapshot of.

WordNet
snapshot

n. an informal photograph; usually made with a small hand-held camera; "my snapshots haven't been developed yet"; "he tried to get unposed shots of his friends" [syn: snap, shot]

Wikipedia
Snapshot

Snapshot or snap shot may refer to:

  • Snapshot (photography), an amateur photograph taken without preparation
Snapshot (computer storage)

In computer systems, a snapshot is the state of a system at a particular point in time. The term was coined as an analogy to that in photography. It can refer to an actual copy of the state of a system or to a capability provided by certain systems.

Snapshot (photography)

A snapshot is popularly defined as a photograph that is "shot" spontaneously and quickly, most often without artistic or journalistic intent. Snapshots are commonly considered to be technically "imperfect" or amateurish—out of focus or poorly framed or composed. Common snapshot subjects include the events of everyday life, such as birthday parties and other celebrations, sunsets, children playing, group photos, pets, tourist attractions and the like.

Snapshot (song)

"Snapshot" is a song by RuPaul, released as the first single from his second album, Foxy Lady.

Snapshot (Daryl Braithwaite album)

Snapshot is an album by Daryl Braithwaite released in 2005. It was his first studio album since Taste the Salt in 1993.

Snapshot (Sylvia album)

Snapshot is the third album by country music singer Sylvia.

Snapshot (Mission of Burma album)

Snapshot is a live album by the American band Mission of Burma. It was recorded in front of a small audience at Boston's Q Division Studios for broadcast on WFNX. It was initially released exclusively through the iTunes Store, but has since been made available through other online channels, most notably in lossless FLAC format through Matador Records' online store.

Snapshot (Roger Glover album)

Snapshot is the fourth solo album by Deep Purple bassist Roger Glover released in September 2002 by Eagle Records. It features Randall Bramblett, Warren Haynes and Gillian Glover (Roger's daughter). It is credited to Roger Glover & The Guilty Party.

Snapshot (Sylvia song)

"Snapshot" is a song written by Kye Fleming and Dennis Morgan, and recorded by American country music artist Sylvia. It was released in May 1983 as the first single and title track from the album Snapshot. The song reached #5 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart.

Snapshot (film)

Snapshot (released in the US as The Day After Halloween and One More Minute) is a 1979 Australian thriller film. It was the first feature directed by Simon Wincer.

Snapshot (video game)

Snapshot is an indie platform game developer by Retro Affect released on 30 August 2012 for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X.

Snapshot (The Strypes album)

Snapshot is the debut studio album by Irish rock band The Strypes, released on September 9, 2013. The album was produced by highly-acclaimed record producer Chris Thomas at Yellow Fish Studios, England. The title of the album derives from the band's intention while recording the album to create a "snapshot" of their live set that got them noticed in the first place.

The album contains singles "Blue Collar Jane", "Hometown Girls", "What a Shame", "Mystery Man" and "You Can't Judge a Book by the Cover".

Usage examples of "snapshot".

Jew carried an autofocus camera, and so far as any passersby were concerned, he was just another asshole taking occasional snapshots.

Claggett said enthusiastically, and from his wallet he took the snapshot of a lovely Korean girl, sixteen or seventeen years old, in one of those appealing dresses in which the beltline came just under the breasts, with the rest of the dress falling free in one handsome, unbroken sweep.

While I was cleaning closets the next day, I found a present Paula had given us the year before, a blown-up snapshot of Dante and me on our wedding day, decoupaged to a rectangle of wood.

Louise Fishman dug through her purse and took out a battered red leather wallet and dug through that and pulled out a bent color snapshot.

He looked around the room and wondered what snapshots the flashbulbs of Warsaw would take.

He snapshot again as Lafarge pistoned up from the floor, running like an Olympic hurdler and leaping desks with a raking stride.

Kilmartin had given up trying to get used to the luridly colourful violence he found on the snapshots.

Determined not to surrender to panic, she raised her head and caught her first full glimpse of her tormentor, a tall and bulky man whose faded clothes matched his features, giving him the washed-out appearance of an overexposed snapshot.

They found an album of photographs, many of them snapshots of people who seemed to be anthropologists working at digs.

You simply the snapshot which the Brindles had sent with the letter out of the envelope.

March 11, 1991, declassified 1998, provides a useful snapshot of desertions from selected Iraqi divisions.

Narrator: reclined laterally, left, with right and left legs flexed, the index finger and thumb of the right hand resting on the bridge of the nose, in the attitude depicted in a snapshot photograph made by Percy Apjohn, the childman weary, the manchild in the womb.

DNA microarrays because these devices make it possible to take a kind of snapshot of a cell, and see which genes are turned on and which are turned off.

What she knew she did have in place of a higher understanding was a storehouse of tales, anecdotes, snapshots, punch lines, and plaints from assorted humans at their most vulnerable and bizarre.

Ghosts in probability-space, waveforms strung taut from waypoint to waypoint, snapshot to snapshot.