give vs snipe

give

verb
  • To lead (onto or into). 

  • To carry out (a physical interaction) with (something). 

  • To cause (someone) to have; produce in (someone); effectuate. 

  • To communicate or announce (advice, tidings, etc.); to pronounce or utter (an opinion, a judgment, a shout, etc.). 

  • To grant power, permission, destiny, etc. (especially to a person); to allot; to allow. 

  • To allow or admit by way of supposition; to concede. 

  • To cause (a sensation or feeling) to exist in. 

  • To cause (a disease or condition) in, or to transmit (a disease or condition) to. 

  • To devote or apply (oneself). 

  • To cause; to make; used with the infinitive. 

  • To pledge. 

  • To exhibit as a product or result; to produce; to yield. 

  • To exceed expectations. 

  • To pass (something) into (someone's hand, etc.). 

  • To be going on, to be occurring; Only used in what gives? 

  • To estimate or predict (a duration or probability) for (something). 

  • To provide (something) to (someone), to allow or afford. 

  • To make a present or gift of. 

  • To transfer one's possession or holding of (something) to (someone). 

  • To attribute; to assign; to adjudge. 

  • To yield or collapse under pressure or force. 

  • To provide, as, a service or a broadcast. 

noun
  • The amount of bending that something undergoes when a force is applied to it; a tendency to yield under pressure; resilience. 

snipe

noun
  • A strip of copy announcing some late breaking news or item of interest, typically placed in a print advertisement in such a way that it stands out from the ad. 

  • A sharp, clever answer; sarcasm. 

  • A goal. 

  • A member of the engineering department on a ship. 

  • A cigarette butt. 

  • Any of various limicoline game birds of the genera Gallinago, Lymnocryptes and Coenocorypha in the family Scolopacidae, having a long, slender, nearly straight beak. 

  • A note or sticker attached to an existing poster to provide further information (e.g. an event is sold out), political criticism, etc. 

  • A end of a log remaining after timber has been cut away - sometimes referred to as a snipe-end. 

  • A fool; a blockhead. 

  • A bottle of wine measuring 0.1875 liters, one fourth the volume of a standard bottle; a quarter bottle or piccolo. 

  • A shot fired from a concealed place. 

  • An animated promotional logo during a television show. 

verb
  • To attach a note or sticker to (an existing poster) to provide further information, political criticism, etc. 

  • To hunt snipe. 

  • To score a goal. 

  • To make malicious, underhand remarks or attacks. 

  • To nose (a log) to make it drag or slip easily in skidding. 

  • To shoot with a sniper rifle. 

  • To watch a timed online auction and place a winning bid against (the current high bidder) at the last possible moment. 

  • To shoot at individuals from a concealed place. 

  • To move the ball quickly in a different direction. 

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