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snag 音标拼音: [sn'æg] n. 残干,根株,断牙,意外障碍
vt. 阻碍,抢到,清除障碍物 残干,根株,断牙,意外障碍阻碍,抢到,清除障碍物 snag n 1: a sharp protuberance 2: a dead tree that is still standing, usually in an undisturbed forest; " a snag can provide food and a habitat for insects and birds" 3: an opening made forcibly as by pulling apart; " there was a rip in his pants"; " she had snags in her stockings" [ synonym: { rip}, { rent}, { snag}, { split}, { tear}] 4: an unforeseen obstacle [ synonym: { hang- up}, { hitch}, { rub}, { snag}] v 1: catch on a snag; " I snagged my stocking" 2: get by acting quickly and smartly; " snag a bargain" 3: hew jaggedlySnag \ Snag\, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. { Snagged}; p. pr. & vb. n. { Snagging}.] 1. To cut the snags or branches from, as the stem of a tree; to hew roughly. [ Prov. Eng.] -- Halliwell. [ 1913 Webster] 2. To injure or destroy, as a steamboat or other vessel, by a snag, or projecting part of a sunken tree. [ U. S.] [ 1913 Webster]
Snag \ Snag\, n. [ Prov. E., n., a lump on a tree where a branch has been cut off; v., to cut off the twigs and small branches from a tree, of Celtic origin; cf. Gael. snaigh, snaidh, to cut down, to prune, to sharpen, p. p. snaighte, snaidhte, cut off, lopped, Ir. snaigh a hewing, cutting.] 1. 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. [ 1913 Webster] The coat of arms Now on a naked snag in triumph borne. -- Dryden. [ 1913 Webster] 2. A tooth projecting beyond the rest; contemptuously, a broken or decayed tooth. -- Prior. [ 1913 Webster] 3. 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. [ 1913 Webster] 4. ( Zool.) One of the secondary branches of an antler. [ 1913 Webster] [ 1913 Webster] { Snag boat}, a steamboat fitted with apparatus for removing snags and other obstructions in navigable streams. [ U. S.] { Snag tooth}. Same as { Snag}, 2. [ 1913 Webster] How thy snag teeth stand orderly, Like stakes which strut by the water side. -- J. Cotgrave. [ 1913 Webster] 156 Moby Thesaurus words for " snag": baby tooth, bag, bar, bicuspid, blemish, block, blockade, bottleneck, brake, bucktooth, bug, canine, catch, clog, cog, comb, complication, coral heads, cordon, crack, crag, crimp, crown, crux, curb, curtain, cuspid, cutter, deciduous tooth, defect, defection, deficiency, dent, denticle, denticulation, dentil, dentition, determent, deterrent, difficulty, dogtooth, drag, drawback, enmesh, ensnare, entangle, entrap, eyetooth, failing, failure, fang, fault, faute, flaw, foible, fore tooth, foul, frailty, gagtooth, gang tooth, gold tooth, grinder, hamper, hang- up, harpoon, harrow, hazard, hindrance, hitch, hold- up, hole, hook, hurdle, impediment, imperfection, inadequacy, incisor, infirmity, ironbound coast, jag, joker, kink, land, lasso, ledges, lee shore, little problem, mesh, milk tooth, molar, nail, net, noose, objection, obstacle, obstruction, obstructive, one small difficulty, peak, pecten, peg, permanent tooth, pinch, pitfall, pivot tooth, premolar, problem, projection, quicksands, rake, ratchet, rift, rip, rockbound coast, rocks, rope, rub, sack, sandbank, sandbar, sands, sawtooth, scrivello, shallows, shoals, shortcoming, snaggle, snaggletooth, snare, sniggle, something missing, spear, spire, sprocket, spur, steeple, stricture, stumbling block, stumbling stone, taint, take, tangle, tangle up with, tear, tooth, trap, traverse, tush, tusk, undercurrent, undertow, vulnerable place, weak link, weak point, weakness, wisdom tooth |
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