snapshot

CEFRB2

/ˈsnæpʃɒt/

noun

Türkçe translations

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In plain English

01
noun
A quick photograph.
02
noun
Extra detail
A file or set of files captured at a particular time, often capable of being reloaded to restore the earlier state.

Examples

At a glance

Sits at B2 on the CEFR scale

Deep Dive

Extra meanings

A glimpse of something; a portrayal of something at a moment in time.
A photograph, especially one taken quickly or in a sudden moment of opportunity.
A quick, unplanned or unexpected shot.

In context

He carried a snapshot of his daughter.
The article offered a snapshot of life in that region.
This game is so hard that I find myself taking a snapshot every few seconds in case I get killed.

Two questions on this entry. Nothing is scored.

Question 1 · Quick check

Practise this properly in the app, where the word comes back before you forget it.

The word in print, with each source given in full.

I hope you've enjoyed reading this series. As usual, it's just a snapshot because there's so much to say but only so many words can make it into print.
2020 December 2, Paul Bigland, “My weirdest and wackiest Rover yet”, in Rail, page 70
Yet Revell misjudged his promising position in the area to put his point-blank snapshot wide from only six yards out.
2011 March 2, Chris Whyatt, “Arsenal 5 - 0 Leyton Orient”, in BBC
How quick the eye and hand to catch him [the ruffed grouse] when he rises from the underbrush and is out of sight in the wood before the untrained sportsman stops him with what is little more than a snapshot, so instantaneously must all be done!
1892, Stanley Waterloo, A Man and a Woman
As he did not appear disposed to move off, I took my camera and approached within about thirty yards, when I snapshotted him.
1904, David T Hanbury, Sport and Travel in the Northland of Canada
Filer appliances also offer programmatic snapshotting and cloning at the block-level or file system-level.
2007, David E. Irwin, An Operating System Architecture for Networked Server Infrastructure, page 30

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