Snapshot Meaning
/ˈsnæpʃɒt/Definition, CEFR level B2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounA photograph, especially one taken quickly or in a sudden moment of opportunity.
nounA glimpse of something; a portrayal of something at a moment in time.
Sentence Examples
This is a snapshot of my wife on the beach.
May I take a snapshot of you?
CEFR Practice Quiz
To capture the moment, he took a quick ____ with his phone camera.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
He took a quick ____ of the historic monument with his digital camera before walking back to the tour bus.
Word Origin & History
From snap + shot.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"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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CEFR Practice Quiz
To capture the moment, he took a quick ____ with his phone camera.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
He took a quick ____ of the historic monument with his digital camera before walking back to the tour bus.