Snag vs. Defect
Snag and Defect Definitions
Snag
A dead or partly dead tree that is still standing.
Defect
An imperfection or lack that causes inadequacy or failure; a shortcoming or deficiency.
Snag
A tree or a part of a tree that is sunken in or protrudes above a body of water and is a danger to navigation.
Defect
To disown allegiance to one's country and take up residence in another
A Soviet citizen who defected to Israel.
Snag
A snaggletooth.
Defect
To abandon a position or association, often to join an opposing group
Defected from the party over the issue of free trade.
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Snag
A short or imperfectly developed branch of a deer's antler.
Defect
A fault or malfunction.
A defect in the ear or eye; a defect in timber or iron; a defect of memory or judgment
Snag
A break, pull, or tear in fabric.
Defect
The quantity or amount by which anything falls short.
Snag
An unforeseen or hidden obstacle or difficulty
Our plans for the party have hit a snag.
Defect
(math) A part by which a figure or quantity is wanting or deficient.
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Snag
To tear, break, hinder, or destroy by or as if by a snag
Snagged a stocking on a splinter.
Defect
(intransitive) To abandon or turn against; to cease or change one's loyalty, especially from a military organisation or political party.
Snag
(Informal) To catch or obtain quickly or unexpectedly
Snagged a ground ball.
Snagged a bargain.
Defect
(military) To desert one's army, to flee from combat.
Snag
To free of snags
Snagged the river.
Defect
(military) To join the enemy army.
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Snag
To catch (a fish), especially by hooking in a place other than its mouth.
Defect
(law) To flee one's country and seek asylum.
Snag
To be damaged by a snag
His sweater snagged on a tree branch.
Defect
Want or absence of something necessary for completeness or perfection; deficiency; - opposed to superfluity.
Errors have been corrected, and defects supplied.
Snag
A stump or base of a branch that has been lopped off; a short branch, or a sharp or rough branch.
Defect
Failing; fault; imperfection, whether physical or moral; blemish; as, a defect in the ear or eye; a defect in timber or iron; a defect of memory or judgment.
Trust not yourself; but, your defects to know,Make use of every friend - and every foe.
Among boys little tenderness is shown to personal defects.
Snag
A dead tree that remains standing.
Defect
To fail; to become deficient.
Snag
A tree, or a branch of a tree, fixed in the bottom of a river or other navigable water, and rising nearly or quite to the surface, by which boats are sometimes pierced and sunk.
Defect
To abandon one country or faction, and join another.
Snag
(by extension) Any sharp protuberant part of an object, which may catch, scratch, or tear other objects brought into contact with it.
Defect
To injure; to damage.
Snag
A tooth projecting beyond the others; a broken or decayed tooth.
Defect
An imperfection in a bodily system;
Visual defects
This device permits detection of defects in the lungs
Snag
(figuratively) A problem or difficulty with something.
We hit a snag
Defect
A failing or deficiency;
That interpretation is an unfortunate defect of our lack of information
Snag
A pulled thread or yarn, as in cloth.
Defect
An imperfection in a device or machine;
If there are any defects you should send it back to the manufacturer
Snag
One of the secondary branches of an antler.
Defect
A mark or flaw that spoils the appearance of something (especially on a person's body);
A facial blemish
Snag
A light meal.
Defect
Desert (a cause, a country or an army), often in order to join the opposing cause, country, or army;
If soldiers deserted Hitler's army, they were shot
Snag
A sausage.
Snag
A goal.
Snag
A misnaged, an opponent to Chassidic Judaism (more likely modern, for cultural reasons).
Snag
To catch or tear (e.g. fabric) upon a rough surface or projection.
Be careful not to snag your stockings on that concrete bench!
Snag
To damage or sink (a vessel) by collision; said of a tree or branch fixed to the bottom of a navigable body of water and partially submerged or rising to just beneath the surface.
The steamboat was snagged on the Mississippi River in 1862.
Snag
(fishing) To fish by means of dragging a large hook or hooks on a line, intending to impale the body (rather than the mouth) of the target.
We snagged for spoonbill from the eastern shore of the Mississippi River.
Snag
To obtain or pick up.
Ella snagged a bottle of water from the fridge before leaving for her jog.
Snag
To cut the snags or branches from, as the stem of a tree; to hew roughly.
Snag
A stump or base of a branch that has been lopped off; a short branch, or a sharp or rough branch; a knot; a protuberance.
The coat of armsNow on a naked snag in triumph borne.
Snag
A tooth projecting beyond the rest; contemptuously, a broken or decayed tooth.
Snag
A tree, or a branch of a tree, fixed in the bottom of a river or other navigable water, and rising nearly or quite to the surface, by which boats are sometimes pierced and sunk.
Snag
One of the secondary branches of an antler.
How thy snag teeth stand orderly,Like stakes which strut by the water side.
Snag
To cut the snags or branches from, as the stem of a tree; to hew roughly.
Snag
To injure or destroy, as a steamboat or other vessel, by a snag, or projecting part of a sunken tree.
Snag
A sharp protuberance
Snag
A dead tree that is still standing, usually in an undisturbed forest;
A snag can provide food and a habitat for insects and birds
Snag
An opening made forcibly as by pulling apart;
There was a rip in his pants
She had snags in her stockings
Snag
An unforeseen obstacle
Snag
Catch on a snag;
I snagged my stocking
Snag
Get by acting quickly and smartly;
Snag a bargain
Snag
Hew jaggedly
