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Definition of 'snag'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) snag
a tree or part of a tree held fast in the bottom of a river, lake, etc., and forming an impediment or danger to navigation.

2.  snag
a short, projecting stump, as of a branch broken off.

3.  snag
any sharp or rough projection.

4.  snag
a hole, tear, pull, or run in a fabric, as caused by catching on a sharp projection.

5.  snag
any obstacle or impediment.

6. (v.t.) snag
to run or catch up on a snag.

7.  snag
to damage by so doing.

8.  snag
to obstruct or impede, as a snag does.

9.  snag
to grab; seize.

10. (v.i.) snag
to become entangled with some obstacle.

11.  snag
to become tangled, as twine or hair.

12.  snag
(of a boat) to strike a snag.

13.  snag
to form a snag.

Etymology: (1570–80; < ON snagi point, projection)

Definition of 'snag'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) snag
a sharp protuberance

2. (noun) snag
a dead tree that is still standing, usually in an undisturbed forest
"a snag can provide food and a habitat for insects and birds"

3. (noun) rip, rent, snag, split, tear
an opening made forcibly as by pulling apart
"there was a rip in his pants"; "she had snags in her stockings"

4. (verb) hang-up, hitch, rub, snag
an unforeseen obstacle

5. (verb) snag
catch on a snag
"I snagged my stocking"

6. (verb) snag
get by acting quickly and smartly
"snag a bargain"

7. (verb) snag
hew jaggedly

Definition of 'snag'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (noun) snag
a small problem
The snag is I have no way of getting to the party.

2. (verb) snag
to rip sth by getting part of it stuck on sth
I snagged my sweater on a nail.

Definition of 'snag'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) snag
a stump or base of a branch that has been lopped off; a short branch, or a sharp or rough branch; a knot; a protuberance

2. (noun) snag
a tooth projecting beyond the rest; contemptuously, a broken or decayed tooth

3. (noun) snag
a tree, or a branch of a tree, fixed in the bottom of a river or other navigable water, and rising nearly or quite to the surface, by which boats are sometimes pierced and sunk

4. (noun) snag
one of the secondary branches of an antler

5. (verb) snag
to cut the snags or branches from, as the stem of a tree; to hew roughly

6. (verb) snag
to injure or destroy, as a steamboat or other vessel, by a snag, or projecting part of a sunken tree

Translation of 'snag'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: a difficulty or drawback We did not realize at first how many snags there were in our plan.
Afrikaans: probleem	Arabic: عائِق، نَقْص، صُعوبَه	Bulgarian: пречка
Brazilian: senão	Czech: překážka, potíž	German: der Haken
Danish: lille vanskelighed	Greek: δυσκολία, μειονέκτημα	Spanish: pega, problema, inconveni
Estonian: takistus, probleem	Farsi: گره	Finnish: pulma
French: obstacle	Hebrew: מִכשוֹל	Hindi: आपत्ति-विपत्त‍ि
Croatian: neočekivana zapreka, kvak	Hungarian: buktató	Indonesian: kesulitan
Icelandic: snurða	Italian: ostacolo	Japanese: 障害
Korean: 뜻하지 않은 장해, 방해	Lithuanian: kliūtis, trūkumas	Latvian: kļūme; aizķeršanās
Malay: kesulitan	Dutch: moeilijkheid	Norwegian: hake, hindring, ulempe
Polish: przeszkoda, feler	Persian: گره	Pashto: خنډ، زخه: ستونځه: مشكله
Portuguese: senão	Romanian: obstacol	Russian: неожиданное препятствие,
Slovak: prekážka, ťažkosť	Slovenian: težava	Serbian: poteškoća
Swedish: hake, stötesten	Thai: อุปสรรค	Turkish: pürüz, sorun
Taiwanese: 障礙	Ukrainian: перешкода	Urdu: اچانک پیدا ہوئی رکاوٹ
Vietnamese: khó khăn, trở ngại	Chinese: 障碍
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