snare
IPA: snˈɛr
noun
- A trap (especially one made from a loop of wire, string, or leather).
- A mental or psychological trap.
- (veterinary) A loop of cord used in obstetric cases, to hold or to pull a fetus from the mother animal.
- (surgery) A similar looped instrument formerly used to remove tumours etc.
- (music) A set of stiff wires held under tension against the lower skin of a drum to create a rattling sound.
- (music) A snare drum.
- A surname.
- (biochemistry) Any of a class of proteins whose primary role is to mediate vesicle fusion.
verb
- (transitive) To catch or hold, especially with a loop.
- (transitive, figurative) To ensnare.
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Examples of "snare" in Sentences
- A mice was caught by a snare.
- The snare is wired to the fence.
- Hunters placed snares in the forest.
- The usance of the snare is very important.
- With the right use, a snare is beneficial.
- The rabbit snare exists because of the rabbit.
- The grasping forceps are passed through the snare loop.
- Be our protection against the wickedness and snares of the devil.
- During a performance the snare line is the metronome for the band.
- As on the former occasion, the unfortunate Mamelukes fell into the snare.
- 10 The snare is laid for him in the ground, and a trap for him in the way.
- The snare is broken; They could not take hold of his words before the people.
- Notice the King James tone of her language, as in the use of the term "snare" which appears in Prov 7:23.
- 5 Can a bird fall in a snare upon the earth, where no gin is for him? shall one take up a snare from the earth, and have taken nothing at all?
- It is nothing but their own repentance that can disentangle them; for shall one take up a snare from the earth, which he laid with design, except he have taken something as he designed?
- So, what sounds like a drum machine snare, is actually a snare with a cymbal on top of it, and trying to recreate some of those dance sounds quite organically, and then afterwards, adding some of that synth quality.
- The happiness of those who repent: they recover themselves out of this snare, as a bird out of the snare of the fowler; the snare is broken and they have escaped; and the greater the danger the greater the deliverance.
- What was said of sinners in general (Isa.xxiv. 17, 18), that those who flee from the fear shall fall into the pit and those who come up out of the pit shall be taken in the snare, is here particularly foretold concerning the sinners of Moab (v. 44); for it is the year of their visitation, when God comes to reckon with them, and will be known by the judgments which he executes, for he is the King whose name is the
- When a bird trying to fly upwards is made to fall upon the earth snare, it is a plain proof that the snare is there; so, Israel, now that thou art falling, infer thence, that it is in the snare of the divine judgment that thou art entangled [Ludovicus De Dieu]. shall one take up a snare from the earth, and have taken nothing -- The bird-catcher does not remove his snare off the ground till he has caught some prey; so God will not withdraw the Assyrians, &c., the instruments of punishment, until they have had the success against you which God gives them.