English words for 'hasty impulsiveness'
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adj
- Inclined to make rapid decisions without due consideration; hasty, impulsive, rash.
- (chiefly figurative) Acting, happening, or moving quickly; fast, rapid, swift; also, abrupt, sudden, unexpected.
- (chemistry) That causes precipitation (“formation of a heavier solid in a lighter liquid as a result of a chemical reaction”).
- Of a fall: straight downwards; headlong.
- done with very great haste and without due deliberation
noun
- (chemistry) A substance that, when added to a solution, causes a dissolved substance to form a precipitate.
- Something which causes or hastens the occurrence of an act or event; specifically (chiefly psychology), something which brings about a mental or physiological condition.
- an agent that causes a precipitate to form
adj
- Actuated by impulse or by transient feelings; inclined to make rapid decisions without due consideration.
- characterized by undue haste and lack of thought or deliberation
- Having the power of driving or impelling; giving an impulse; moving; impellent.
- (mechanics) Acting momentarily, or by impulse; not continuous – said of forces.
- determined by chance or impulse or whim rather than by necessity or reason
- without forethought
- having the power of driving or impelling
- proceeding from natural feeling or impulse without external stimulus
noun
adj
- Characterized by undue quickness of action, and thus lacking careful thought or consideration; rash, precipitate.
- Ripening or coming to maturity early.
- Irritable, irascible; quickly or easily excited to anger.
- Eager or impatient to act or get something done.
- (of rain) Heavy, violent.
- Made in haste.
- Acting or done in haste; hurried or too quick; speedy due to having little time.
- excessively quick
- done with very great haste and without due deliberation
verb
- (intransitive) To rush hastily.
- (intransitive) To flounder, wallow.
- (transitive) To trounce, beat by a wide margin.
- (transitive) To strike heavily, thrash soundly.
- To eat or drink with gusto.
- To move in a rolling, cumbersome manner; to waddle.
- (transitive) To wrap up temporarily.
- To boil with a continued bubbling or heaving and rolling, with noise.
- (Internet) To send a message to all operators on an Internet Relay Chat server.
- defeat soundly and utterly
- strike hard
noun
- A person's ability to throw such punches.
- A heavy blow, a punch.
- A thrill, an emotionally excited reaction.
- (slang, uncountable) Anything produced by a process that involves boiling; beer, tea, or whitewash.
- (UK, Scotland, dialect) A quick rolling movement; a gallop.
- An emotional impact, a psychological force.
- a severe blow
- a forceful consequence; a strong effect
verb
- utter impulsively
- commit a faux pas or a fault or make a serious mistake
- make one's way clumsily or blindly
- (chess, backgammon, intransitive) To make a bad move, especially caused by tactical oversight.
- (intransitive) To make a big mistake, especially when it is careless or stupid.
- (intransitive, sometimes figurative, with adverb or preposition) To move in an unsteady way.
- (chess, transitive) To overlook the possibility of, or end up in, a specified undesirable situation after making a bad move.
- (chess, transitive) To lose a piece due to having made a bad move [with the piece lost].
- (intransitive, with adverb or preposition) To enter a place or become involved in a difficult situation by mistake.
noun
verb
- utter impulsively
- eject semen
- (transitive, rare) To sexually stimulate (someone) so that they eject fluid from the urethra.
- (transitive) To eject abruptly; to throw out suddenly and swiftly.
- (specifically, transitive and intransitive) Of a human being or other mammal: to forcibly eject from the urethra in response to sexual stimulation, in a male, semen; and, in a female, vaginal fluid.
- (biology, transitive) To eject or suddenly throw fluid or some other substance from a duct or other body structure.
noun
adj
noun
verb
- (intransitive) To act too hastily; to be precipitous.
- (transitive) To send violently into a certain state or condition.
- (intransitive, meteorology) To have water in the air fall to the ground, for example as rain, snow, sleet, or hail; be deposited as condensed droplets.
- (intransitive) (chemistry) To come out of a liquid solution into solid form.
- (transitive) To cause (water in the air) to condense or fall to the ground.
- (transitive) (chemistry) To separate a substance out of a liquid solution into solid form.
- (transitive) To make something happen suddenly and quickly.
- (transitive) To throw an object or person from a great height.
- (intransitive) To fall headlong.
- bring about abruptly
- fall vertically, sharply, or headlong
- separate as a fine suspension of solid particles
- hurl or throw violently
- fall from clouds
adj
noun
noun
- (figuratively) Unwise or rash rapidity; sudden haste.
- A hurried headlong fall.
- (meteorology) The amount of water precipitated in any form.
- (countable, uncountable, chemistry) A reaction that leads to the formation of a heavier, and often less soluble, solid in a lighter liquid; the precipitate so formed at the bottom of the container.
- (meteorology) Any or all of the forms of water particles, whether liquid or solid, that fall from the upper atmosphere (e.g., rain, hail, snow or sleet). It is a major class of hydrometeor, but it is distinguished from cloud, fog, dew, rime, frost, etc., in that it must fall. It is distinguished from cloud and virga in that it must reach the ground.
- the falling to earth of any form of water (rain or snow or hail or sleet or mist)
- the quantity of water falling to earth at a specific place within a specified period of time
- the process of forming a chemical precipitate
- overly eager speed (and possible carelessness)
- the act of casting down or falling headlong from a height
- an unexpected acceleration or hastening
adj
noun
- An outbreak or surge in problems; a spate, string, or trend.
- (dermatology, medicine) An area of inflamed and irritated skin characterized by reddened spots that may be filled with fluid or pus. Also, preceded by a descriptive word (rare or obsolete), an illness characterized by a type of rash.
- An irregular distribution or sprinkling of objects resembling a rash (sense 1).
- (historical) Chiefly preceded by a descriptive word: a fabric with a smooth texture woven from silk, worsted, or a mixture of the two, intended as an inferior substitute for silk.
- any red eruption of the skin
- a series of unexpected and unpleasant occurrences
adv
adj
verb
adj
noun
verb
noun
- Voluntary or spontaneous impulse to act.
- (law) An agreement between parties in controversy, by which satisfaction for an injury is stipulated, and which, when executed, prevents a lawsuit.
- Agreement or concurrence of opinion, will, or action.
- (international law) An international agreement.
- (countable, perfumery) A distinctive mixture of fragrances or the odor thereof.
- A harmony in sound, pitch and tone; concord.
- Agreement or harmony of things in general.
- harmony of people's opinions or actions or characters
- sympathetic compatibility
- concurrence of opinion
- a written agreement between two states or sovereigns
verb
- (transitive) To make to agree or correspond; to suit one thing to another; to adjust.
- (intransitive) To agree in pitch and tone.
- (transitive) To bring (people) to an agreement; to reconcile, settle, adjust or harmonize.
- (intransitive) To agree or correspond; to be in harmony; to be concordant.
- (transitive, law) To grant as suitable or proper; to concede or award.
- allow to have
- go together
adv
adj
verb
verb
- cause a group or mass of people to act on an impulse or hurriedly and impulsively
- act, usually en masse, hurriedly or on an impulse
- cause to run in panic
- run away in a stampede
- To cause animals (owned by a person) to run away or scamper in this manner.
- To cause (a drove or herd of animals) to run away or scamper in a wild, headlong manner, usually due to fright.
- (figurative) Of people: to act in a sudden unconcerted manner due to, or as if due to, some common impulse.
- Of a drove or herd of animals: to run away or scamper in a wild, headlong manner, usually due to fright.
- (figurative) To cause (people) to act in a sudden unconcerted manner due to, or as if due to, some common impulse.
- (by extension) To cause (an individual) to act hastily or rashly.
- (by extension) Of people in a crowd: to move in the same direction at the same time, especially due to panic.
- (by extension) To cause (people in a crowd) to move in the same direction at the same time, especially due to panic.
noun
- a wild headlong rush of frightened animals (horses or cattle)
- a headlong rush of people on a common impulse
- (Canada, US) An event at which cowboy skills are displayed; a rodeo.
- (figurative) A sudden unconcerted acting together of a number of persons due to, or as if due to, some common impulse.
- A wild, headlong running away or scamper of a number of animals, usually caused by fright.
- A situation in which many people in a crowd are trying to move in the same direction at the same time, especially in consequence of a panic.
verb
- (intransitive) To move hastily, to scurry.
- (transitive, by extension) To undermine or thwart oneself or one's position or property, especially deliberately.
- (transitive, nautical) To cut a hole or holes through the bottom, deck, or sides of (as of a ship), for any purpose.
- (transitive, by extension) To deliberately wreck one's vehicle (of any sort).
- (transitive) To deliberately sink one's ship or boat by any means, usually by order of the vessel's commander or owner.
- to move about or proceed hurriedly
noun
- A broad, shallow basket.
- A quick pace; a short run.
- A container like an open bucket (usually to hold and carry coal).
- (construction) A hatch that provides access to the roof from the interior of a building.
- A small hatch or opening in a boat, sometimes one used for draining water from open deck.
- (automotive) By extension, the bulkhead at the front of the passenger compartment.
- (automotive) A drained trough between the windscreen and bonnet of a motor vehicle, forming the intake to the heating/air-conditioning system, often also containing the windscreen wiper motor.
- an entrance equipped with a hatch; especially a passageway between decks of a ship
- container for coal; shaped to permit pouring the coal onto the fire
verb
- to grasp hastily or eagerly
- cause to make a snapping sound
- record on photographic film
- bring the jaws together
- close with a snapping motion
- break suddenly and abruptly, as under tension
- make a sharp sound
- move with a snapping sound
- move or strike with a noise
- lose control of one's emotions
- separate or cause to separate abruptly
- utter in an angry, sharp, or abrupt tone
- put in play with a snap
- (transitive) To cause to move suddenly and smartly.
- (intransitive, transitive) To fracture or break apart suddenly.
- (transitive) To cause something to emit a snapping sound, especially by closing it rapidly.
- (intransitive) To fit or fasten together with a snapping sound.
- (transitive) To pull apart with a snapping sound; to pop loose.
- (cricket, transitive) To catch out sharply (a batsman who has just snicked a bowled ball).
- (intransitive, computing, graphical user interface) To jump to a fixed position relative to another element.
- (intransitive) To flash or appear to flash as with light.
- (intransitive) To attempt to seize with eagerness.
- (intransitive) To give way abruptly and loudly.
- (transitive) To say abruptly or sharply.
- (intransitive) To misfire.
- (intransitive) To suffer a mental breakdown, usually while under tension.
- (social media, ditransitive) Alternative letter-case form of Snap (“to send a visual message through the Snapchat application”).
- (intransitive) To speak abruptly or sharply.
- (transitive, American football) To put (a football) in play by a backward pass or handoff from its position on the ground; to hike (a football).
- (transitive) To snap one's fingers: to make a snapping sound, often by pressing the thumb and an opposing finger of the same hand together and suddenly releasing the grip so that the finger hits against the palm; alternatively, by bringing the index finger quickly down onto the middle finger and thumb.
- (intransitive) To attempt to seize or bite with the teeth, beak, etc.
- (intransitive) To give forth or produce a sharp cracking noise; to crack.
- (transitive) To close something using a snap as a fastener.
- (transitive) To snatch with or as if with the teeth.
- (transitive) To take a photograph; to release a camera's shutter (which may make a snapping sound).
- (intransitive) To move or shift suddenly.
noun
- any undertaking that is easy to do
- tender green beans without strings that easily snap into sections
- a sudden breaking
- the tendency of a body to return to its original shape after it has been stretched or compressed
- the noise produced by the rapid movement of a finger from the tip to the base of the thumb on the same hand
- (American football) putting the ball in play by passing it (between the legs) to a back
- a crisp round cookie flavored with ginger
- a fastener used on clothing; fastens with a snapping sound
- an informal photograph; usually made with a small hand-held camera
- a spell of cold weather
- a sudden sharp noise
- the act of snapping the fingers; movement of a finger from the tip to the base of the thumb on the same hand
- the act of catching an object with the hands
- (colloquial) Clipping of Snapchat (“user account on Snapchat”).
- A visual message sent through the Snapchat application.
- A quick offhand shot with a firearm; a snap shot.
- (colloquial) Something of no value.
- (uncountable) A subgenre of hip-hop music derived from crunk.
- A sudden break.
- A snap bean such as Phaseolus vulgaris.
- (colloquial) A rivet: a scrapbooking embellishment.
- A fastening device that makes a snapping sound when used.
- A quick breaking or cracking sound or the action of producing such a sound.
- (physics, humorous) jounce (the fourth derivative of the position vector with respect to time), followed by crackle and pop
- (uncountable) A crisp or pithy quality; epigrammatic point or force.
- (American football) A backward pass or handoff of a football from its position on the ground that puts the ball in play; a hike.
- (fishing) A small device resembling a safety pin, used to attach the bait or lure to the line.
- That which is, or may be, snapped up; something bitten off, seized, or obtained by a single quick movement; hence, a bite, morsel, or fragment; a scrap.
- (uncountable) A card game, primarily for children, in which players cry "snap" to claim pairs of matching cards as they are turned up.
- A tool used by riveters.
- The act of snapping the fingers; making a sound by pressing a finger against the thumb and suddenly releasing to strike the hand.
- A brief, sudden period of a certain weather; used primarily in the phrase cold snap.
- An attempt to seize, bite, attack, or grab.
- (informal) A photograph; a snapshot.
- (Linux) A package provided for the application sandboxing system snapd developed by Canonical.
- A very short period of time (figuratively, the time taken to snap one's fingers), or a task that can be accomplished in such a period.
- A thin circular cookie or similar baked good.
- A tool used by glass-moulders.
- A newsflash.
- Briskness; vigour; energy; decision.
- (slang) An insult of the kind used in the African-American verbal game of the dozens.
- The sudden release of something held under pressure or tension.
- (UK, regional) A small meal, a snack; lunch.
- (slang) Something that is easy or effortless.
- A snapper, or snap beetle.
adj
intj
- (Canada, US) Used in place of an expletive to express surprise, usually in response to a negative statement or news; often used facetiously.
- The cry used in a game of snap when winning a hand.
- (British, by extension) Used to express agreement.
- (British, Australia, by extension) "I've got one the same!", "Me too!"
- (British, Australia, New Zealand) Used after something is said by two people at exactly the same time.
verb
- to grasp hastily or eagerly
- to make grasping motions
- take away to an undisclosed location against their will and usually in order to extract a ransom
- (transitive, informal) To steal.
- (transitive, informal) To do something quickly in the limited time available.
- (transitive) To take or seize hastily, abruptly, or without permission or ceremony.
- (intransitive) To attempt to seize something suddenly.
- (transitive) To grasp and remove quickly.
- (transitive, informal, figurative, by extension) To take (a victory) at the last moment.
noun
- (law) the unlawful act of capturing and carrying away a person against their will and holding them in false imprisonment
- a small fragment
- a weightlift in which the barbell is lifted overhead in one rapid motion
- obscene terms for female genitals
- the act of catching an object with the hands
- A quick grab or catch.
- (weightlifting) A competitive weightlifting event in which a barbell is lifted from the platform to locked arms overhead in a smooth continuous movement.
- A piece of some sound, usually music or conversation.
- A short period.
- (aviation) Rapid, uncommanded jerking or oscillation of the ailerons of some aircraft at high Mach numbers, resulting from shock wave formation at transonic speeds.
- (vulgar slang) The vulva.
adj
noun
noun
- the trait of acting unpredictably and more from whim or caprice than from reason or judgment
- an odd or fanciful or capricious idea
- (glassblowing, countable) The support that protects a finished piece as it is detached from a punty.
- (mining, countable) A whim (capstan or vertical drum).
- (countable) A jigsaw puzzle piece that has been cut into a recognizable shape, as if on a whim; often the shape is representative of the theme of the image used for the puzzle.
- An impulsive, illogical or capricious character.
- A quaint and fanciful idea; a whim; playfully odd behaviour.
adj
verb
noun
- the trait of acting stupidly or rashly
- foolish or senseless behavior
- a stupid mistake
- the quality of being rash and foolish
- (largely obsolete outside place names) A clump of trees, particularly one on the crest of a hill (or sometimes on a stretch of open ground).
- (architecture) A fanciful building built for purely ornamental reasons.
- Thoughtless action resulting in tragic consequence.
- Foolishness that results from a lack of foresight or lack of practicality.
verb
noun
- (figuratively) Unwise or rash rapidity; sudden haste.
- A hurried headlong fall.
- (meteorology) The amount of water precipitated in any form.
- (countable, uncountable, chemistry) A reaction that leads to the formation of a heavier, and often less soluble, solid in a lighter liquid; the precipitate so formed at the bottom of the container.
- (meteorology) Any or all of the forms of water particles, whether liquid or solid, that fall from the upper atmosphere (e.g., rain, hail, snow or sleet). It is a major class of hydrometeor, but it is distinguished from cloud, fog, dew, rime, frost, etc., in that it must fall. It is distinguished from cloud and virga in that it must reach the ground.
- the falling to earth of any form of water (rain or snow or hail or sleet or mist)
- the quantity of water falling to earth at a specific place within a specified period of time
- the process of forming a chemical precipitate
- overly eager speed (and possible carelessness)
- the act of casting down or falling headlong from a height
- an unexpected acceleration or hastening
noun
- Voluntary or spontaneous impulse to act.
- (law) An agreement between parties in controversy, by which satisfaction for an injury is stipulated, and which, when executed, prevents a lawsuit.
- Agreement or concurrence of opinion, will, or action.
- (international law) An international agreement.
- (countable, perfumery) A distinctive mixture of fragrances or the odor thereof.
- A harmony in sound, pitch and tone; concord.
- Agreement or harmony of things in general.
- harmony of people's opinions or actions or characters
- sympathetic compatibility
- concurrence of opinion
- a written agreement between two states or sovereigns
verb
- (transitive) To make to agree or correspond; to suit one thing to another; to adjust.
- (intransitive) To agree in pitch and tone.
- (transitive) To bring (people) to an agreement; to reconcile, settle, adjust or harmonize.
- (intransitive) To agree or correspond; to be in harmony; to be concordant.
- (transitive, law) To grant as suitable or proper; to concede or award.
- allow to have
- go together
adj
- Actuated by impulse or by transient feelings; inclined to make rapid decisions without due consideration.
- characterized by undue haste and lack of thought or deliberation
- Having the power of driving or impelling; giving an impulse; moving; impellent.
- (mechanics) Acting momentarily, or by impulse; not continuous – said of forces.
- determined by chance or impulse or whim rather than by necessity or reason
- without forethought
- having the power of driving or impelling
- proceeding from natural feeling or impulse without external stimulus
noun
noun
- the trait of acting unpredictably and more from whim or caprice than from reason or judgment
- an odd or fanciful or capricious idea
- (glassblowing, countable) The support that protects a finished piece as it is detached from a punty.
- (mining, countable) A whim (capstan or vertical drum).
- (countable) A jigsaw puzzle piece that has been cut into a recognizable shape, as if on a whim; often the shape is representative of the theme of the image used for the puzzle.
- An impulsive, illogical or capricious character.
- A quaint and fanciful idea; a whim; playfully odd behaviour.
adj
verb
noun
- the trait of acting stupidly or rashly
- foolish or senseless behavior
- a stupid mistake
- the quality of being rash and foolish
- (largely obsolete outside place names) A clump of trees, particularly one on the crest of a hill (or sometimes on a stretch of open ground).
- (architecture) A fanciful building built for purely ornamental reasons.
- Thoughtless action resulting in tragic consequence.
- Foolishness that results from a lack of foresight or lack of practicality.
verb
adj
noun
verb
- (intransitive) To rush hastily.
- (intransitive) To flounder, wallow.
- (transitive) To trounce, beat by a wide margin.
- (transitive) To strike heavily, thrash soundly.
- To eat or drink with gusto.
- To move in a rolling, cumbersome manner; to waddle.
- (transitive) To wrap up temporarily.
- To boil with a continued bubbling or heaving and rolling, with noise.
- (Internet) To send a message to all operators on an Internet Relay Chat server.
- defeat soundly and utterly
- strike hard
noun
- A person's ability to throw such punches.
- A heavy blow, a punch.
- A thrill, an emotionally excited reaction.
- (slang, uncountable) Anything produced by a process that involves boiling; beer, tea, or whitewash.
- (UK, Scotland, dialect) A quick rolling movement; a gallop.
- An emotional impact, a psychological force.
- a severe blow
- a forceful consequence; a strong effect
verb
- utter impulsively
- commit a faux pas or a fault or make a serious mistake
- make one's way clumsily or blindly
- (chess, backgammon, intransitive) To make a bad move, especially caused by tactical oversight.
- (intransitive) To make a big mistake, especially when it is careless or stupid.
- (intransitive, sometimes figurative, with adverb or preposition) To move in an unsteady way.
- (chess, transitive) To overlook the possibility of, or end up in, a specified undesirable situation after making a bad move.
- (chess, transitive) To lose a piece due to having made a bad move [with the piece lost].
- (intransitive, with adverb or preposition) To enter a place or become involved in a difficult situation by mistake.
noun
verb
- utter impulsively
- eject semen
- (transitive, rare) To sexually stimulate (someone) so that they eject fluid from the urethra.
- (transitive) To eject abruptly; to throw out suddenly and swiftly.
- (specifically, transitive and intransitive) Of a human being or other mammal: to forcibly eject from the urethra in response to sexual stimulation, in a male, semen; and, in a female, vaginal fluid.
- (biology, transitive) To eject or suddenly throw fluid or some other substance from a duct or other body structure.
noun
verb
- (intransitive) To act too hastily; to be precipitous.
- (transitive) To send violently into a certain state or condition.
- (intransitive, meteorology) To have water in the air fall to the ground, for example as rain, snow, sleet, or hail; be deposited as condensed droplets.
- (intransitive) (chemistry) To come out of a liquid solution into solid form.
- (transitive) To cause (water in the air) to condense or fall to the ground.
- (transitive) (chemistry) To separate a substance out of a liquid solution into solid form.
- (transitive) To make something happen suddenly and quickly.
- (transitive) To throw an object or person from a great height.
- (intransitive) To fall headlong.
- bring about abruptly
- fall vertically, sharply, or headlong
- separate as a fine suspension of solid particles
- hurl or throw violently
- fall from clouds
adj
noun
verb
- cause a group or mass of people to act on an impulse or hurriedly and impulsively
- act, usually en masse, hurriedly or on an impulse
- cause to run in panic
- run away in a stampede
- To cause animals (owned by a person) to run away or scamper in this manner.
- To cause (a drove or herd of animals) to run away or scamper in a wild, headlong manner, usually due to fright.
- (figurative) Of people: to act in a sudden unconcerted manner due to, or as if due to, some common impulse.
- Of a drove or herd of animals: to run away or scamper in a wild, headlong manner, usually due to fright.
- (figurative) To cause (people) to act in a sudden unconcerted manner due to, or as if due to, some common impulse.
- (by extension) To cause (an individual) to act hastily or rashly.
- (by extension) Of people in a crowd: to move in the same direction at the same time, especially due to panic.
- (by extension) To cause (people in a crowd) to move in the same direction at the same time, especially due to panic.
noun
- a wild headlong rush of frightened animals (horses or cattle)
- a headlong rush of people on a common impulse
- (Canada, US) An event at which cowboy skills are displayed; a rodeo.
- (figurative) A sudden unconcerted acting together of a number of persons due to, or as if due to, some common impulse.
- A wild, headlong running away or scamper of a number of animals, usually caused by fright.
- A situation in which many people in a crowd are trying to move in the same direction at the same time, especially in consequence of a panic.
verb
- (intransitive) To move hastily, to scurry.
- (transitive, by extension) To undermine or thwart oneself or one's position or property, especially deliberately.
- (transitive, nautical) To cut a hole or holes through the bottom, deck, or sides of (as of a ship), for any purpose.
- (transitive, by extension) To deliberately wreck one's vehicle (of any sort).
- (transitive) To deliberately sink one's ship or boat by any means, usually by order of the vessel's commander or owner.
- to move about or proceed hurriedly
noun
- A broad, shallow basket.
- A quick pace; a short run.
- A container like an open bucket (usually to hold and carry coal).
- (construction) A hatch that provides access to the roof from the interior of a building.
- A small hatch or opening in a boat, sometimes one used for draining water from open deck.
- (automotive) By extension, the bulkhead at the front of the passenger compartment.
- (automotive) A drained trough between the windscreen and bonnet of a motor vehicle, forming the intake to the heating/air-conditioning system, often also containing the windscreen wiper motor.
- an entrance equipped with a hatch; especially a passageway between decks of a ship
- container for coal; shaped to permit pouring the coal onto the fire
verb
- to grasp hastily or eagerly
- cause to make a snapping sound
- record on photographic film
- bring the jaws together
- close with a snapping motion
- break suddenly and abruptly, as under tension
- make a sharp sound
- move with a snapping sound
- move or strike with a noise
- lose control of one's emotions
- separate or cause to separate abruptly
- utter in an angry, sharp, or abrupt tone
- put in play with a snap
- (transitive) To cause to move suddenly and smartly.
- (intransitive, transitive) To fracture or break apart suddenly.
- (transitive) To cause something to emit a snapping sound, especially by closing it rapidly.
- (intransitive) To fit or fasten together with a snapping sound.
- (transitive) To pull apart with a snapping sound; to pop loose.
- (cricket, transitive) To catch out sharply (a batsman who has just snicked a bowled ball).
- (intransitive, computing, graphical user interface) To jump to a fixed position relative to another element.
- (intransitive) To flash or appear to flash as with light.
- (intransitive) To attempt to seize with eagerness.
- (intransitive) To give way abruptly and loudly.
- (transitive) To say abruptly or sharply.
- (intransitive) To misfire.
- (intransitive) To suffer a mental breakdown, usually while under tension.
- (social media, ditransitive) Alternative letter-case form of Snap (“to send a visual message through the Snapchat application”).
- (intransitive) To speak abruptly or sharply.
- (transitive, American football) To put (a football) in play by a backward pass or handoff from its position on the ground; to hike (a football).
- (transitive) To snap one's fingers: to make a snapping sound, often by pressing the thumb and an opposing finger of the same hand together and suddenly releasing the grip so that the finger hits against the palm; alternatively, by bringing the index finger quickly down onto the middle finger and thumb.
- (intransitive) To attempt to seize or bite with the teeth, beak, etc.
- (intransitive) To give forth or produce a sharp cracking noise; to crack.
- (transitive) To close something using a snap as a fastener.
- (transitive) To snatch with or as if with the teeth.
- (transitive) To take a photograph; to release a camera's shutter (which may make a snapping sound).
- (intransitive) To move or shift suddenly.
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- any undertaking that is easy to do
- tender green beans without strings that easily snap into sections
- a sudden breaking
- the tendency of a body to return to its original shape after it has been stretched or compressed
- the noise produced by the rapid movement of a finger from the tip to the base of the thumb on the same hand
- (American football) putting the ball in play by passing it (between the legs) to a back
- a crisp round cookie flavored with ginger
- a fastener used on clothing; fastens with a snapping sound
- an informal photograph; usually made with a small hand-held camera
- a spell of cold weather
- a sudden sharp noise
- the act of snapping the fingers; movement of a finger from the tip to the base of the thumb on the same hand
- the act of catching an object with the hands
- (colloquial) Clipping of Snapchat (“user account on Snapchat”).
- A visual message sent through the Snapchat application.
- A quick offhand shot with a firearm; a snap shot.
- (colloquial) Something of no value.
- (uncountable) A subgenre of hip-hop music derived from crunk.
- A sudden break.
- A snap bean such as Phaseolus vulgaris.
- (colloquial) A rivet: a scrapbooking embellishment.
- A fastening device that makes a snapping sound when used.
- A quick breaking or cracking sound or the action of producing such a sound.
- (physics, humorous) jounce (the fourth derivative of the position vector with respect to time), followed by crackle and pop
- (uncountable) A crisp or pithy quality; epigrammatic point or force.
- (American football) A backward pass or handoff of a football from its position on the ground that puts the ball in play; a hike.
- (fishing) A small device resembling a safety pin, used to attach the bait or lure to the line.
- That which is, or may be, snapped up; something bitten off, seized, or obtained by a single quick movement; hence, a bite, morsel, or fragment; a scrap.
- (uncountable) A card game, primarily for children, in which players cry "snap" to claim pairs of matching cards as they are turned up.
- A tool used by riveters.
- The act of snapping the fingers; making a sound by pressing a finger against the thumb and suddenly releasing to strike the hand.
- A brief, sudden period of a certain weather; used primarily in the phrase cold snap.
- An attempt to seize, bite, attack, or grab.
- (informal) A photograph; a snapshot.
- (Linux) A package provided for the application sandboxing system snapd developed by Canonical.
- A very short period of time (figuratively, the time taken to snap one's fingers), or a task that can be accomplished in such a period.
- A thin circular cookie or similar baked good.
- A tool used by glass-moulders.
- A newsflash.
- Briskness; vigour; energy; decision.
- (slang) An insult of the kind used in the African-American verbal game of the dozens.
- The sudden release of something held under pressure or tension.
- (UK, regional) A small meal, a snack; lunch.
- (slang) Something that is easy or effortless.
- A snapper, or snap beetle.
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- (Canada, US) Used in place of an expletive to express surprise, usually in response to a negative statement or news; often used facetiously.
- The cry used in a game of snap when winning a hand.
- (British, by extension) Used to express agreement.
- (British, Australia, by extension) "I've got one the same!", "Me too!"
- (British, Australia, New Zealand) Used after something is said by two people at exactly the same time.
verb
- to grasp hastily or eagerly
- to make grasping motions
- take away to an undisclosed location against their will and usually in order to extract a ransom
- (transitive, informal) To steal.
- (transitive, informal) To do something quickly in the limited time available.
- (transitive) To take or seize hastily, abruptly, or without permission or ceremony.
- (intransitive) To attempt to seize something suddenly.
- (transitive) To grasp and remove quickly.
- (transitive, informal, figurative, by extension) To take (a victory) at the last moment.
noun
- (law) the unlawful act of capturing and carrying away a person against their will and holding them in false imprisonment
- a small fragment
- a weightlift in which the barbell is lifted overhead in one rapid motion
- obscene terms for female genitals
- the act of catching an object with the hands
- A quick grab or catch.
- (weightlifting) A competitive weightlifting event in which a barbell is lifted from the platform to locked arms overhead in a smooth continuous movement.
- A piece of some sound, usually music or conversation.
- A short period.
- (aviation) Rapid, uncommanded jerking or oscillation of the ailerons of some aircraft at high Mach numbers, resulting from shock wave formation at transonic speeds.
- (vulgar slang) The vulva.
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- Inclined to make rapid decisions without due consideration; hasty, impulsive, rash.
- (chiefly figurative) Acting, happening, or moving quickly; fast, rapid, swift; also, abrupt, sudden, unexpected.
- (chemistry) That causes precipitation (“formation of a heavier solid in a lighter liquid as a result of a chemical reaction”).
- Of a fall: straight downwards; headlong.
- done with very great haste and without due deliberation
noun
- (chemistry) A substance that, when added to a solution, causes a dissolved substance to form a precipitate.
- Something which causes or hastens the occurrence of an act or event; specifically (chiefly psychology), something which brings about a mental or physiological condition.
- an agent that causes a precipitate to form
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- Actuated by impulse or by transient feelings; inclined to make rapid decisions without due consideration.
- characterized by undue haste and lack of thought or deliberation
- Having the power of driving or impelling; giving an impulse; moving; impellent.
- (mechanics) Acting momentarily, or by impulse; not continuous – said of forces.
- determined by chance or impulse or whim rather than by necessity or reason
- without forethought
- having the power of driving or impelling
- proceeding from natural feeling or impulse without external stimulus
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- Characterized by undue quickness of action, and thus lacking careful thought or consideration; rash, precipitate.
- Ripening or coming to maturity early.
- Irritable, irascible; quickly or easily excited to anger.
- Eager or impatient to act or get something done.
- (of rain) Heavy, violent.
- Made in haste.
- Acting or done in haste; hurried or too quick; speedy due to having little time.
- excessively quick
- done with very great haste and without due deliberation
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- (intransitive) To act too hastily; to be precipitous.
- (transitive) To send violently into a certain state or condition.
- (intransitive, meteorology) To have water in the air fall to the ground, for example as rain, snow, sleet, or hail; be deposited as condensed droplets.
- (intransitive) (chemistry) To come out of a liquid solution into solid form.
- (transitive) To cause (water in the air) to condense or fall to the ground.
- (transitive) (chemistry) To separate a substance out of a liquid solution into solid form.
- (transitive) To make something happen suddenly and quickly.
- (transitive) To throw an object or person from a great height.
- (intransitive) To fall headlong.
- bring about abruptly
- fall vertically, sharply, or headlong
- separate as a fine suspension of solid particles
- hurl or throw violently
- fall from clouds
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- An outbreak or surge in problems; a spate, string, or trend.
- (dermatology, medicine) An area of inflamed and irritated skin characterized by reddened spots that may be filled with fluid or pus. Also, preceded by a descriptive word (rare or obsolete), an illness characterized by a type of rash.
- An irregular distribution or sprinkling of objects resembling a rash (sense 1).
- (historical) Chiefly preceded by a descriptive word: a fabric with a smooth texture woven from silk, worsted, or a mixture of the two, intended as an inferior substitute for silk.
- any red eruption of the skin
- a series of unexpected and unpleasant occurrences