Snap vs. Break

To make a brisk sharp cracking sound

To cause to separate into pieces suddenly or violently; smash.

To break suddenly with a brisk, sharp, cracking sound.

To divide into pieces, as by bending or cutting

To give way abruptly under pressure or tension

To separate into components or parts

To suffer a physical or mental breakdown, especially while under stress

To snap off or detach

To bring the jaws briskly together, often with a clicking sound; bite.

To cause to undergo a fracture of (a bone, for example)

To take up something suddenly and eagerly; snatch or grasp

To experience a fracture in (a bone, for example)

To speak abruptly or sharply

To crack without separating into pieces

To move swiftly and smartly

To destroy the completeness of (a group of related items)

To flash or appear to flash light; sparkle

To exchange for smaller monetary units

To open, close, or fit together with a click

To vary or disrupt the uniformity or continuity of

To snatch at with the teeth or mouth; bite

(Electricity) To render (a circuit) inoperative by disruption; open.

To pull apart or break with a snapping sound.

To open (a shotgun or similar firearm) at the breech, as for loading or cleaning.

To utter abruptly or sharply

To force or make a way through; puncture or penetrate

To cause to emit a snapping sound

To part or pierce the surface of

To close or latch with a snapping sound

To produce (a sweat) copiously on the skin, as from exercise.

To cause to move suddenly

To force one's way out of; escape from

To take (a photograph).

To make or bring about by cutting or forcing

To photograph

To find an opening or flaw in

(Football) To pass (the ball) from the ground back between the legs to begin a down; hike.

To find the solution or key to; uncover the basic elements and arrangement of

A sudden sharp cracking sound or the action producing such a sound.

To make known, as news

A sudden breaking.

To surpass or outdo

A clasp, catch, or other fastening device that operates with a snapping sound.

To overcome or put an end to, especially by force or strong opposition

A sudden attempt to bite, snatch, or grasp.

(Sports) To win a game on (an opponent's service), as in tennis.

The sound produced by rapid movement of a finger from the thumb tip to the base of the thumb.

To lessen the force or effect of

The act of producing this sound.

To render useless or inoperative

The sudden release of something held under pressure or tension.

To weaken or destroy, as in spirit or health; overwhelm with adversity

A thin, crisp, usually circular cookie

To cause the ruin or failure of (an enterprise, for example)

Capacity to make a snapping sound; elasticity

To reduce in rank; demote.

(Informal) Briskness, liveliness, or energy.

To cause to be without money or to go into bankruptcy.

A brief spell of brisk, cold weather.

To fail to fulfill; cancel

Something accomplished without effort.

To fail to conform to; violate

A quick breaking or cracking sound or the action of producing such a sound.

(Law) To cause (a will) to be invalidated because of inconsistency with state inheritance laws or as a result of other legal insufficiency.

A sudden break.

To give up (a habit).

An attempt to seize, bite, attack, or grab.

To cause to give up a habit

The act of snapping the fingers; making a sound by pressing a finger against the thumb and suddenly releasing to strike the hand.

To train to obey; tame

A fastening device that makes a snapping sound when used.

To become separated into pieces or fragments.

(informal) A photograph; a snapshot.

To become cracked or split.

The sudden release of something held under pressure or tension.

To become fractured

A thin circular cookie or similar baked good.

To become unusable or inoperative

A brief, sudden period of a certain weather; used primarily in the phrase cold snap.

To give way; collapse

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.

To burst

A snap bean such as Phaseolus vulgaris.

To intrude

(American football) A backward pass or handoff of a football from its position on the ground that puts the ball in play; a hike.

To filter in or penetrate

(colloquial) A rivet: a scrapbooking embellishment.

To scatter or disperse; part

(fishing) A small device resembling a safety pin, used to attach the bait or lure to the line.

(Games) To make the opening shot that scatters the grouped balls in billiards or pool.

A small meal, a snack; lunch.

(Sports) To separate from a clinch in boxing.

(uncountable) A card game, primarily for children, in which players cry "snap" to claim pairs of matching cards as they are turned up.

(Sports) To win a game on the opponent's service, as in tennis

(obsolete) A greedy fellow.

To move away or escape suddenly

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.

To come forth or begin from a state of latency; come into being or emerge

Briskness; vigour; energy; decision

To emerge above the surface of water.

Any circumstance out of which money may be made or an advantage gained. used primarily in the phrase soft snap.

To become known or noticed

(slang) Something that is easy or effortless.

To change direction or move suddenly

A snapper, or snap beetle.

(Baseball) To curve near or over the plate

Jounce (the fourth derivative of the position vector with respect to time), followed by crackle and pop

To change suddenly from one tone quality or musical register to another

A quick offhand shot with a firearm; a snap shot.

(Linguistics) To undergo breaking.

(colloquial) Something of no value.

To change to a gait different from the one set. Used of a horse.

(social media) A visual message sent through the Snapchat application.

To interrupt or cease an activity

(Linux) A package provided for the application sandboxing system snapd developed by Canonical.

To discontinue an association, an agreement, or a relationship

(uncountable) A crisp or pithy quality; epigrammatic point or force.

To diminish or discontinue abruptly

A tool used by riveters.

To diminish in or lose physical or spiritual strength; weaken or succumb

A tool used by glass-moulders.

To decrease sharply in value or quantity

A brief theatrical engagement.

To come to an end

A cheat or sharper.

To collapse or crash into surf or spray

A newsflash.

(Informal) To take place or happen; proceed

To fracture or break apart suddenly.

To engage in breaking; break dance.

(intransitive) To give forth or produce a sharp cracking noise; to crack.

The act or an occurrence of breaking.

(intransitive) To attempt to seize or bite with the teeth, beak, etc.

The result of breaking, as a crack, separation, or opening

(intransitive) To attempt to seize with eagerness.

The beginning or emergence of something

(intransitive) To speak abruptly or sharply.

A sudden movement; a dash

(intransitive) To give way abruptly and loudly.

An escape

(intransitive) To suffer a mental breakdown, usually while under tension.

An interruption or a disruption in continuity or regularity

(intransitive) To flash or appear to flash as with light.

A pause or interval, as from work

(intransitive) To fit or fasten together with a snapping sound.

A sudden or marked change

To jump to a fixed position relative to another element.

A violation

(transitive) To snatch with or as if with the teeth.

An often sudden piece of luck, especially good luck

(transitive) To pull apart with a snapping sound; to pop loose.

An allowance or indulgence; accommodating treatment

(transitive) To say abruptly or sharply.

A favorable price or reduction

To speak to abruptly or sharply; to treat snappishly; usually with up.

A severing of ties

(transitive) To cause something to emit a snapping sound, especially by closing it rapidly.

(Informal) A faux pas.

(transitive) To close something using a snap as a fastener.

A sudden decline in prices.

(transitive) A video of a person snapping their fingers.Alternative snapping techniqueTo 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.

A caesura.

(transitive) To cause to move suddenly and smartly.

The space between two paragraphs.

(transitive) To take a photograph; to release a camera's shutter (which may make a snapping sound).

A series of three dots ( ... ) used to indicate an omission in a text.

To send a visual message through the Snapchat application.

The place where a word is or should be divided at the end of a line.

To put (a football) in play by a backward pass or handoff from its position on the ground; to hike (a football).

(Electricity) Interruption of a flow of current.

To misfire.

(Geology) A marked change in topography such as a fault or deep valley.

To catch out sharply (a batsman who has just snicked a bowled ball).

(Nautical) The point of discontinuity between two levels on the deck of a ship.

The cry used in a game of snap when winning a hand.

The point at which one register or tonal quality changes to another.

"I've got one the same!", "Me too!"

The change itself.

(British) Ritual utterance of agreement (after the cry in the card game snap).

An improvised instrumental solo played in jazz and other popular music while the other musicians stop or play softly.

(North America) Used in place of expletive to express surprise, usually in response to a negative statement or news; often used facetiously.

A change in a horse's gait to one different from that set by the rider.

Ritual utterance used after something is said by two people at exactly the same time.

(Sports) The swerving of a ball from a straight path of flight, as in baseball or cricket.

Done, made, performed, etc., quickly and unexpectedly, or without deliberation.

(Sports) The beginning of a race.

To break at once; to break short, as substances that are brittle.

A fast break.

To strike, to hit, or to shut, with a sharp sound.

The separation after a clinch in boxing.

To bite or seize suddenly, especially with the teeth.

(Games) The opening shot that scatters the grouped balls in billiards or pool.

To break upon suddenly with sharp, angry words; to treat snappishly; - usually with up.

(Games) A run or unbroken series of successful shots, as in billiards or croquet.

To crack; to cause to make a sharp, cracking noise; as, to snap a whip.

Sports & Games Failure to score a strike or a spare in a given bowling frame.

To project with a snap.

(Sports) A service break.

To catch out sharply (a batsman who has just snicked a bowled ball).

Variant of brake6.

To break short, or at once; to part asunder suddenly; as, a mast snaps; a needle snaps.

Break dancing.

To give forth, or produce, a sharp, cracking noise; to crack; as, blazing firewood snaps.

To separate into two or more pieces, to fracture or crack, by a process that cannot easily be reversed for reassembly.

To make an effort to bite; to aim to seize with the teeth; to catch eagerly (at anything); - often with at; as, a dog snapsat a passenger; a fish snaps at the bait.

To crack or fracture (bone) under a physical strain.

To utter sharp, harsh, angry words; - often with at; as, to snap at a child.

(transitive) To divide (something, often money) into smaller units.

To miss fire; as, the gun snapped.

(transitive) To cause (a person or animal) to lose spirit or will; to crush the spirits of.

Of the eyes, to emit sudden, brief sparkles like those of a snapping fire, as sometimes in anger.

To turn an animal into a beast of burden.

A sudden breaking or rupture of any substance.

(intransitive) To be crushed, or overwhelmed with sorrow or grief.

A sudden, eager bite; a sudden seizing, or effort to seize, as with the teeth.

(transitive) To interrupt; to destroy the continuity of; to dissolve or terminate.

A sudden, sharp motion or blow, as with the finger sprung from the thumb, or the thumb from the finger.

To end the run of (a play).

A sharp, abrupt sound, as that made by the crack of a whip; as, the snap of the trigger of a gun.

(transitive) To ruin financially.

A greedy fellow.

To fail in business; to go broke, to become bankrupt.

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.

Of prices on the stock exchange: to fall suddenly.

A sudden severe interval or spell; - applied to the weather; as, a cold snap.

(transitive) To violate; to fail to adhere to.

A small catch or fastening held or closed by means of a spring, or one which closes with a snapping sound, as the catch of a bracelet, necklace, clasp of a book, etc.

To go down, in terms of temperature, indicating that the most dangerous part of the illness has passed.

A snap beetle.

To end.

A thin, crisp cake, usually small, and flavored with ginger; - used chiefly in the plural.

To begin or end.

Briskness; vigor; energy; decision.

To arrive.

Any circumstance out of which money may be made or an advantage gained.

To render (a game) unchallenging by altering its rules or exploiting loopholes or weaknesses in them in a way that gives a player an unfair advantage.

Any task, labor, set of circumstances, or the like, that yields satisfactory results or gives pleasure with little trouble or effort, as an easy course of study, a job where work is light, a bargain, etc.

To stop, or to cause to stop, functioning properly or altogether.

A snap shot with a firearm.

To cause (some feature of a program or piece of software) to stop functioning properly; to cause a regression.

A snapshot.

(transitive) To cause (a barrier) to no longer bar.

Something of no value; as, not worth a snap.

(specifically) To cause the shell of (an egg) to crack, so that the inside (yolk) is accessible.

The action of snapping the ball back, from the center usu. to the quarterback, which commences the play (down), and, if the clock had stopped, restarts the timer clock; a snap back.

(specifically) To open (a safe) without using the correct key, combination, or the like.

Done, performed, made, executed, carried through, or the like, quickly and without deliberation; as, a snap judgment or decision; a snap political convention.

(transitive) To destroy the arrangement of; to throw into disorder; to pierce.

The act of catching an object with the hands;

To collapse into surf, after arriving in shallow water.

A spell of cold weather;

(intransitive) To burst forth; to make its way; to come into view.

Tender green beans without strings that easily snap into sections

(intransitive) To interrupt or cease one's work or occupation temporarily; to go on break.

A crisp round cookie flavored with ginger

(transitive) To interrupt (a fall) by inserting something so that the falling object does not (immediately) hit something else beneath.

The noise produced by the rapid movement of a finger from the tip to the base of the thumb on the same hand;

To disclose or make known an item of news, a band, etc.

A sudden sharp noise;

To become audible suddenly.

A sudden breaking

(transitive) To change a steady state abruptly.

The tendency of a body to return to its original shape after it has been stretched or compressed;

To (attempt to) disengage and flee to; to make a run for.

An informal photograph; usually made with a small hand-held camera;

To suddenly become.

A fastener used on clothing; fastens with a snapping sound;

To become deeper at puberty.

Any undertaking that is easy to do;

To alter in type due to emotion or strain: in men, generally to go up, in women, sometimes to go down; to crack.

The act of snapping the fingers; movement of a finger from the tip to the base of the thumb on the same hand;

(transitive) To surpass or do better than (a specific number); to do better than (a record), setting a new record.

(American football) putting the ball in play by passing it (between the legs) to a back;

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Utter in an angry, sharp, or abrupt tone;

To win a game (against one's opponent) as receiver.

Separate or cause to separate abruptly;

To make the first shot; to scatter the balls from the initial neat arrangement.

Break suddenly and abruptly, as under tension;

To remove one of the two men on (a point).

Move or strike with a noise;

To demote; to reduce the military rank of.

Snap close with a sound;

(transitive) To end (a connection); to disconnect.

Make a sharp sound;

To demulsify.

Move with a snapping sound;

To counter-attack.

To grasp hastily or eagerly;

To lay open, as a purpose; to disclose, divulge, or communicate.

Put in play with a snap;

(intransitive) To become weakened in constitution or faculties; to lose health or strength.

Cause to make a snapping sound;

(transitive) To destroy the strength, firmness, or consistency of.

Lose control of one's emotions;

(transitive) To destroy the official character and standing of; to cashier; to dismiss.

Record on photographic film;

(intransitive) To make an abrupt or sudden change; to change gait.

To fall out; to terminate friendship.

To terminate the execution of a program before normal completion.

To suspend the execution of a program during debugging so that the state of the program can be investigated.

(computing) To cause, or allow the occurrence of, a line break.

To B-boy; to breakdance.

An instance of breaking something into two or more pieces.

A physical space that opens up in something or between two things.

A rest or pause, usually from work.

A time for students to talk or play between lessons.

A scheduled interval of days or weeks between periods of school instruction; a holiday.

A short holiday.

A temporary split with a romantic partner.

An interval or intermission between two parts of a performance, for example a theatre show, broadcast, or sports game.

A significant change in circumstance, attitude, perception, or focus of attention.

(finance) A sudden fall in prices on the stock exchange.

The beginning (of the morning).

An act of escaping.

The separation between lines, paragraphs or pages of a written text.

(computing) A keystroke or other signal that causes a program to terminate or suspend execution.

(programming) breakpoint

A change, particularly the end of a spell of persistent good or bad weather.

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(tennis) A game won by the receiving player(s).

The first shot in a game of billiards.

(snooker) The number of points scored by one player in one visit to the table.

(soccer) The counter-attack.

(golf) The curve imparted to the ball's motion on the green due to slope or grass texture.

(surfing) A place where waves break (that is, where waves pitch or spill forward creating white water).

(horse racing) The start of a horse race.

(dated) A large four-wheeled carriage, having a straight body and calash top, with the driver's seat in front and the footman's behind.

(equitation) A sharp bit or snaffle.

(music) A short section of music, often between verses, in which some performers stop while others continue.

(music) The point in the musical scale at which a woodwind instrument is designed to overblow, that is, to move from its lower to its upper register.

(music) The transition area between a singer's vocal registers; the passaggio.

An area along a river that features steep banks, bluffs, or gorges (e.g., Upper Missouri River Breaks National Monument, US).

An error.

(music) A section of extended repetition of the percussion break to a song, created by a hip-hop DJ as rhythmic dance music.

To strain apart; to sever by fracture; to divide with violence; as, to break a rope or chain; to break a seal; to break an axle; to break rocks or coal; to break a lock.

To lay open as by breaking; to divide; as, to break a package of goods.

To lay open, as a purpose; to disclose, divulge, or communicate.

To infringe or violate, as an obligation, law, or promise.

To interrupt; to destroy the continuity of; to dissolve or terminate; as, to break silence; to break one's sleep; to break one's journey.

To destroy the completeness of; to remove a part from; as, to break a set.

To destroy the arrangement of; to throw into disorder; to pierce; as, the cavalry were not able to break the British squares.

To shatter to pieces; to reduce to fragments.

To exchange for other money or currency of smaller denomination; as, to break a five dollar bill.

To destroy the strength, firmness, or consistency of; as, to break flax.

To weaken or impair, as health, spirit, or mind.

To diminish the force of; to lessen the shock of, as a fall or blow.

To impart, as news or information; to broach; - with to, and often with a modified word implying some reserve; as, to break the news gently to the widow; to break a purpose cautiously to a friend.

To tame; to reduce to subjection; to make tractable; to discipline; as, to break a horse to the harness or saddle.

To destroy the financial credit of; to make bankrupt; to ruin.

To destroy the official character and standing of; to cashier; to dismiss.

To come apart or divide into two or more pieces, usually with suddenness and violence; to part; to burst asunder.

To open spontaneously, or by pressure from within, as a bubble, a tumor, a seed vessel, a bag.

To burst forth; to make its way; to come to view; to appear; to dawn.

To burst forth violently, as a storm.

To open up; to be scattered; to be dissipated; as, the clouds are breaking.

To become weakened in constitution or faculties; to lose health or strength.

To be crushed, or overwhelmed with sorrow or grief; as, my heart is breaking.

To fall in business; to become bankrupt.

To make an abrupt or sudden change; to change the gait; as, to break into a run or gallop.

To fail in musical quality; as, a singer's voice breaks when it is strained beyond its compass and a tone or note is not completed, but degenerates into an unmusical sound instead. Also, to change in tone, as a boy's voice at puberty.

To fall out; to terminate friendship.

An opening made by fracture or disruption.

An interruption of continuity; change of direction; as, a break in a wall; a break in the deck of a ship.

An interruption; a pause; as, a break in friendship; a break in the conversation.

An interruption in continuity in writing or printing, as where there is an omission, an unfilled line, etc.

The first appearing, as of light in the morning; the dawn; as, the break of day; the break of dawn.

A large four-wheeled carriage, having a straight body and calash top, with the driver's seat in front and the footman's behind.

See Commutator.

Some abrupt occurrence that interrupts;

An unexpected piece of good luck;

(geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other;

A personal or social separation (as between opposing factions);

A pause from doing something (as work);

The act of breaking something;

A time interval during which there is a temporary cessation of something

Breaking of hard tissue such as bone;

The occurrence of breaking;

The opening shot that scatters the balls in billiards or pool

(tennis) a score consisting of winning a game when your opponent was serving;

An act of delaying or interrupting the continuity;

A sudden dash;

Any frame in which a bowler fails to make a strike or spare;

An escape from jail;

Terminate;

Become separated into pieces or fragments;

Destroy the integrity of; usually by force; cause to separate into pieces or fragments;

Render inoperable or ineffective;

Ruin completely;

Act in disregard of laws and rules;

Move away or escape suddenly;

Scatter or part;

Force out or release suddenly and often violently something pent up;

Prevent completion;

Enter someone's property in an unauthorized manner, usually with the intent to steal or commit a violent act;

Make submissive, obedient, or useful;

Fail to agree with; be in violation of; as of rules or patterns;

Surpass in excellence;

Make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret;

Come into being;

Stop operating or functioning;

Interrupt a continued activity;

Make a rupture in the ranks of the enemy or one's own by quitting or fleeing;

Curl over and fall apart in surf or foam, of waves;

Lessen in force or effect;

Be broken in;

Come to an end;

Vary or interrupt a uniformity or continuity;

Cause to give up a habit;

Give up;

Come forth or begin from a state of latency;

Happen or take place;

Cause the failure or ruin of;

Invalidate by judicial action;

Discontinue an association or relation; go different ways;

Assign to a lower position; reduce in rank;

Reduce to bankruptcy;

Change directions suddenly

Emerge from the surface of a body of water;

Break down, literally or metaphorically;

Do a break dance;

Exchange for smaller units of money;

Destroy the completeness of a set of related items;

Make the opening shot that scatters the balls

Separate from a clinch, in boxing;

Go to pieces;

Break a piece from a whole;

Become punctured or penetrated;

Pierce or penetrate;

Be released or become known; of news;

Cease an action temporarily;

Interrupt the flow of current in;

Undergo breaking;

Find a flaw in;

Find the solution or key to;

Change suddenly from one tone quality or register to another;

Happen;

Become fractured; break or crack on the surface only;

Of the male voice in puberty;

Fall sharply;

Fracture a bone of;

Diminish or discontinue abruptly;

Weaken or destroy in spirit or body;