单词 | snapping movement |
释义 | > as lemmassnapping movement attributive, as snapping movement, snapping noise, snapping sound, etc.; snapping-point n. the point at which something will snap, or someone's strength or endurance will fail. snapping time n. (see quots.). snapping-tool n. (see quots.). ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > adversity > [noun] > oppression, persecution, or affliction > point at which endurance fails breaking-point1899 snapping-point1933 1815 J. Smith Panorama Sci. & Art II. 193 A sharp pain..which was accompanied by a snapping noise. 1849 H. M. Noad Lect. Electr. (ed. 3) 30 A vivid spark will dart between them, accompanied by a sharp snapping sound. 1870 H. A. Nicholson Man. Zool. (1880) 375 Keeping up a constant snapping movement. 1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 2229/2 Snapping-tool, a stamping-tool used to force a plate into holes in a die. 1883 W. S. Gresley Gloss. Terms Coal Mining 229 Snapping Time, a short period of rest during a shift in which a collier takes his snap. 1933 G. Arthur Septuagenarian's Scrap Bk. 272 And like all good artists, like Sarah herself, she is a ‘traqueuse’ whose head feels hot and hands are cold on a first night, and who, with fever in the veins and nerves strained to snapping-point, will yet perhaps give the most inspired performance of the whole run. 1946 K. Tennant Lost Haven (1947) i. 20 To have not only mud but sticky honeycomb all over her shiny, clean linoleum was the snapping-point. 1982 India Today 15 Feb. 125/2 Relations between the Government and the judiciary are stretched to snapping point. < as lemmas |
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