snare
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Is snare a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (veterinary medicine) A loop of cord used in obstetric cases, to hold or to pull a fetus from the mother animal.
2. (surgery) A similar looped instrument formerly used to remove tumours etc.
3. (music) A set of stiff wires held under tension against the bottom head of a drum to create a rattling sound.
4. (music) A snare drum.
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To catch or hold, especially with a loop.Examples: "The mournful crocodile / With sorrow snares relenting passengers."; "Lest that too heavenly form […] snare them."; "Instead, it aimed for a more important assurance: that if A.I. raises writers’ productivity or the quality of their output, guild members should snare an equitable share of the performance gains. And the W.G.A. got it."transitive
2. (transitive, figurative) To ensnare.figurativelytransitive
3. (transitive, intransitive, uncommon) To play (a snare drum, or a beat on or as if on a snare drum).Examples: "[…] the slightest recollection of hearing the wind whistling through the cracks in the old house or the rain snaring its tat-a-tat on the rusty tin roof."; "[…] T-Ray snared the drum in the background."; "[…] drummer snaring away on his little drum, tur-r-r-rump! tur-r-r-rump! tur-r-r-rump! r-r-rump, r-r-rump, r-r-rump! I love drums."intransitivetransitiveuncommon
noun (English)
1. (biochemistry) Any of a class of proteins whose primary role is to mediate vesicle fusion.
Definition source: Wiktionary