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▪ I. snap-shot, n.|ˈsnæpʃɒt|
Also snap shot, snapshot.
[f. snap-.]
1. a. A quick or hurried shot taken without deliberate aim, esp. one at a rising bird or quickly moving animal.
1808P. Hawker Diary (1893) I. 11 Almost every pheasant I fired at was a snap shot among the high cover. 1846Greener Sci. Gunnery 164 Were a bird to spring in a situation where we could get only a snap shot. 1899F. V. Kirby Sport E.C. Africa iii. 42, I got in a snapshot, tumbling her over like a rabbit.
fig.1865Pall Mall G. 2 Aug. 1 Our courts of law are distinguished from those of other countries by taking snap-shots at justice.
b. One who fires such shots; a snap-shooter.
1845F. Tolfrey Sportsman in Canada II. v. 131 It is capital practice is this snipe-shooting for a youngster; at least it makes a man a good snap-shot. 1887Field 8 Jan. 41/1, I myself am a snap-shot.
2. a. An instantaneous photograph, esp. one taken with a hand-camera. Also transf. and fig.
[1860Herschel in Photogr. News 11 May 13 The possibility of taking a photograph, as it were by a snap-shot—of securing a picture in a tenth of a second of time.] 1890Rev. Reviews II. 489/2 The annexed snap-shots were taken with a hand camera. 1903‘O. Henry’ in Everybody's Mag. Aug. 194/1 You see a man doing nothing but loafing around making snapshots. 1930[see hustle v. 5]. 1950G. B. Shaw Farfetched Fables iii. 109 What are you doing here?.. Only hiking round the island. May I take a snapshot? 1975P. Fussell Gt. War & Mod. Memory i. 10 British and German soldiers..meeting in No Man's Land to exchange cigarets and to take snapshots.
transf. and fig.1897Daily News 3 May 8/3 Your Yankee interviewer is a snap-shot incarnate. 1902A. Dobson Richardson vii. 196 The language of literature seems to tend..towards the cultus of the short-cut and the snap-shot. 1928Observer 17 June 10/2, I asked President Masaryk..if he could give me a snapshot of the difference between what he found when he came to Prague in 1918, and what he has the satisfaction of seeing now. 1962M. McLuhan Gutenberg Galaxy 241 He [sc. Montaigne] bred up a great race of self-portrayers by means of the mental snapshot. 1978P. O'Donnell Dragon's Claw iii. 47 Snapshots of sight and sound, of touch, taste, and smell.
b. Computers. A record of the contents of some or all of the storage locations in a computer at a particular stage in the execution of a program (see quot. 1963). Freq. attrib.
1963Gregory & van Horn Automatic Data-Processing Systems (ed. 2) xii. 473 Some simplified forms of post⁓mortem routines give only a storage snapshot, which is a complete copy of all storage locations at the time the processor stopped. A snapshot routine may also list the instruction that caused the program to stop, the current contents of arithmetic units and indexes, and perhaps, several of the most-recently executed jumps thus indicating the path of program control. A differential snap⁓shot lists the contents of storage locations that have changed from their initial value or from their value in a prior snapshot. 1966IFIP-ICC Vocab. Information Processing 85 When a trace program gives output only on selected instructions, or for selected conditions, it is called a snapshot program. 1973C. W. Gear Introd. Computer Sci. vi. 244 An alternative is to take a series of snapshots at points in the program section.
3. In various sports, a quick shot (of the ball, etc.) at goal.
1961Times 29 May 4/3 [In Polo.] After Hanut had scored with a lovely snapshot to make it 3–2. 1963Globe & Mail (Toronto) 21 Jan. 16/3 [In Hockey.] Hull responded by taking a quick pass from Balfour and scoring on a quick snap-shot. 1976Oadby & Wigston (Leics.) Advertiser 26 Nov. 15/4 [In Football.] Saints hit back and a snapshot by Jim White hit the crossbar.
4. attrib., as snap-shot photograph(y, snap-shot system, etc.
1892Greener Breech-Loader 266 Dr. Carver shoots on the snap-shot system, shooting both barrels in quick succession at the pigeon. 1893Hodges Elem. Photogr. (1907) 15 What is popularly called ‘snap-shot’ photography. 1894Daily News 26 May 6/1 The book is illustrated with..interesting views, some of them from snapshot photographs. 1894[see enlarger 1 b]. 1901Merwin & Webster Calumet ‘K’ xv. 288 Young men with snap-shot cameras waylaid Bannon. 1967J. Philip et al. Best of Granta i. 17 The winning photo in The Granta Holiday Snapshot Competition shows a couple kissing on a beach. 1977R. E. Harrington Quintain iii. 24 He searched the terrain, storing quick snapshot impressions. 1977N.Y. Rev. Bks. 23 June 25/3 The crudely chronological order of snapshot-sequences pasted in family albums.
▪ II. ˈsnap-shot, v.
[f. the n.]
a. intr. or absol. To take snap-shots with a camera.
b. trans. To photograph (a person, etc.) by means of a snap-shot. Also fig.
‘Freq. in recent newspaper use.’ N.E.D.
1894Amer. Ann. Photogr. 63 Many..think it just the thing to commence with a detective camera and snap-shot. 1898Pall Mall Mag. Sept. 29 One of our party desired to ‘snap-shot’ the scene. 1907Outlook 17 Aug. 206/2 All the peculiar attitude of our race toward dancing was suddenly snapshotted in that absurdity. 1932Essays & Stud. XVII. 84 Thackeray found them [sc. the railways] vulgar, but amusing for the opportunities they gave of snapshotting people. 1980Daily Tel. 21 Nov. 15/1 The play snapshots pretty sharply Jimmy's furtive park meetings with his waif.
c. To shoot (something) quickly without taking deliberate aim.
1928Daily Express 6 Dec. 19/3 Mr Blyth{ddd}was a fairly deliberate shot, and liked to take his high birds neatly and quietly, but could nevertheless snapshot a woodcock in thick covert with an effortless ease.
Hence ˈsnap-ˌshotter, -ˌshottist, one who takes snap-shot photographs; ˈsnapshotting ppl. a.
1899C. G. Harper Exeter Road 211 All trooped back to Amesbury, the *snapshotters disgusted beyond measure.
1978Nature 7 Dec. 647/2 Mr Sankhala also remarks that the *snap-shotting tourist is so preoccupied with shutter speeds, lens apertures and focussing that he fails to see anything around him.
1891Scottish Leader 28 Sept. 6 The Shah of Persia is an enthusiastic *snap-shottist. |