go vs snap

go

verb
  • To collapse or give way, to break apart. 

  • To move through space (especially to or through a place). (May be used of tangible things like people or cars, or intangible things like moods or information.) 

  • To change (from one value to another) in the meaning of wend. 

  • To elapse, to pass; to slip away. (Compare go by.) 

  • To be spent or used up. 

  • To belong (somewhere). 

  • To (begin to) date or have sex with (a particular race). 

  • To make the (specified) sound. 

  • To fit. 

  • To urinate or defecate. 

  • To tend (toward a result). 

  • To be lost. 

  • To have (final) authority; to be authoritative. 

  • I woke up just before the clock went. 

  • To take (a particular part or share); to participate in to the extent of. 

  • Let's go halves on this. 

  • Synonyms: crumble, collapse, disintegrate, give way 

  • To continuously or habitually be in a state. 

  • I went at him with a knife. 

  • To be in general; to be usually; often in comparison to others of the same group. 

  • To enjoy. (Compare go for.) 

  • To attend. 

  • To be sold. 

  • To survive or get by; to last or persist for a stated length of time. 

  • Synonyms: become, turn, change into 

  • To move or travel in order to do something, or to do something while moving. 

  • To proceed (often in a specified manner, indicating the perceived quality of an event or state). 

  • To apply oneself; to undertake; to have as one's goal or intention. (Compare be going to.) 

  • To navigate (to a file or folder on a computer, a site on the internet, a memory, etc). 

  • To be given, especially to be assigned or allotted. 

  • To sound; to make a noise. 

  • To leave; to move away. 

  • To extend (from one point in time or space to another). 

  • To turn out, to result; to come to (a certain result). 

  • To come to (a certain condition or state). 

  • To start; to begin (an action or process). 

  • To work (through or over), especially mentally. 

  • Synonyms: see Thesaurus:urinate, see also Thesaurus:defecate 

  • To attack. 

  • To say (something, aloud or to oneself). (Often used in present tense.) 

  • To date. 

  • Yesterday was the second-wettest day on record; you have to go all the way back to 1896 to find a day when more rain fell. 

  • Synonyms: function, work, operate 

  • To break down or decay. 

  • To be accepted. 

  • We've only gone twenty miles today. 

  • To be valid. 

  • To have a certain record. 

  • To take a turn, especially in a game. 

  • To make an effort, to subject oneself (to something). 

  • To be out. 

  • To resort (to). 

  • To move (a particular distance, or in a particular fashion). 

  • To yield or weigh. 

  • Those babies go five tons apiece. 

  • To be discarded or disposed of. 

  • To follow or proceed according to (a course or path). 

  • To lead (to a place); to give access to. 

  • To be expressed or composed (a certain way). 

  • Anything goes around here. 

  • Why don’t you go with us? 

  • Let's go this way for a while. 

  • To end or disappear. (Compare go away.) 

  • To fight or attack. 

  • How long can you go without water? 

  • To offer, bid or bet an amount; to pay. 

  • To proceed (especially to do something foolish). 

  • Expressing encouragement or approval. 

  • To become. (The adjective that follows usually describes a negative state.) 

  • To move or travel through time (either literally—in a fictional or hypothetical situation in which time travel is possible—or in one's mind or knowledge of the historical record). (See also go back.) 

  • To contribute to a (specified) end product or result. 

  • To die. 

  • To work or function (properly); to move or perform (as required). 

  • To assume the obligation or function of; to be, to serve as. 

  • To travel or pass along. 

  • To be compatible, especially of colors or food and drink. 

adj
  • Working correctly and ready to commence operation; approved and able to be put into action. 

noun
  • A turn at something, or in something (e.g. a game). 

  • An attempt, a try. 

  • An approval or permission to do something, or that which has been approved. 

  • Power of going or doing; energy; vitality; perseverance. 

  • The situation where a player cannot play a card which will not carry the aggregate count above thirty-one. 

  • An act; the working or operation. 

  • A period of activity. 

  • Synonym: green light 

  • A strategic board game, originally from China and today also popular in Japan and Korea, in which two players (black and white) attempt to control the largest area of the board with their counters. 

  • Synonyms: attempt, bash, shot, stab, try 

  • The act of going. 

snap

verb
  • To fracture or break apart suddenly. 

  • To suffer a mental breakdown, usually while under tension. 

  • To say abruptly or sharply. 

  • To jump to a fixed position relative to another element. 

  • To snatch with or as if with the teeth. 

  • To flash or appear to flash as with light. 

  • To snap one's fingers: to make a snapping sound, often by pressing the thumb and an opposing finger of the same hand together and suddenly releasing the grip so that the finger hits against the palm; alternatively, by bringing the index finger quickly down onto the middle finger and thumb. 

  • To cause to move suddenly and smartly. 

  • To attempt to seize or bite with the teeth, beak, etc. 

  • To send a visual message through the Snapchat application. 

  • To cause something to emit a snapping sound, especially by closing it rapidly. 

  • To take a photograph; to release a camera's shutter (which may make a snapping sound). 

  • To attempt to seize with eagerness. 

  • To give forth or produce a sharp cracking noise; to crack. 

  • To give way abruptly and loudly. 

  • To pull apart with a snapping sound; to pop loose. 

  • To close something using a snap as a fastener. 

  • To put (a football) in play by a backward pass or handoff from its position on the ground; to hike (a football). 

  • To speak abruptly or sharply. 

  • To misfire. 

  • To fit or fasten together with a snapping sound. 

  • To catch out sharply (a batsman who has just snicked a bowled ball). 

intj
  • The cry used in a game of snap when winning a hand. 

  • "I've got one the same!", "Me too!" 

  • Ritual utterance used after something is said by two people at exactly the same time. 

  • Used in place of expletive to express surprise, usually in response to a negative statement or news; often used facetiously. 

  • Ritual utterance of agreement (after the cry in the card game snap). 

adj
  • Done, made, performed, etc., quickly and unexpectedly, or without deliberation. 

noun
  • A crisp or pithy quality; epigrammatic point or force. 

  • A tool used by riveters. 

  • A tool used by glass-moulders. 

  • A card game, primarily for children, in which players cry "snap" to claim pairs of matching cards as they are turned up. 

  • A thin circular cookie or similar baked good. 

  • A snap bean such as Phaseolus vulgaris. 

  • Something of no value. 

  • A quick offhand shot with a firearm; a snap shot. 

  • A quick breaking or cracking sound or the action of producing such a sound. 

  • The sudden release of something held under pressure or tension. 

  • A visual message sent through the Snapchat application. 

  • A rivet: a scrapbooking embellishment. 

  • That which is, or may be, snapped up; something bitten off, seized, or obtained by a single quick movement; hence, a bite, morsel, or fragment; a scrap. 

  • A small meal, a snack; lunch. 

  • Something that is easy or effortless. 

  • A very short period of time (figuratively, the time taken to snap one's fingers), or a task that can be accomplished in such a period. 

  • A small device resembling a safety pin, used to attach the bait or lure to the line. 

  • A brief, sudden period of a certain weather; used primarily in the phrase cold snap. 

  • briskness; vigour; energy; decision 

  • An attempt to seize, bite, attack, or grab. 

  • A backward pass or handoff of a football from its position on the ground that puts the ball in play; a hike. 

  • The act of snapping the fingers; making a sound by pressing a finger against the thumb and suddenly releasing to strike the hand. 

  • A fastening device that makes a snapping sound when used. 

  • A sudden break. 

  • A photograph; a snapshot. 

  • A snapper, or snap beetle. 

  • A newsflash. 

  • jounce (the fourth derivative of the position vector with respect to time), followed by crackle and pop 

  • A package provided for the application sandboxing system snapd developed by Canonical. 

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