Meaning

6 senses
  1. A trap (especially one made from a loop of wire, string, or leather).

    Schlinge, Falle

    сило́кsilók, лову́шкаlovúška, западня́zapadnjá

    сильце́sylʹcé

  2. A mental or psychological trap.

    лову́шкаlovúška, западня́zapadnjá

  3. A loop of cord used in obstetric cases, to hold or to pull a fetus from the mother animal.

  4. A similar looped instrument formerly used to remove tumours etc.

  5. A set of stiff wires held under tension against the bottom head of a drum to create a rattling sound.

    strings stretched across the lower head of a snare drum; they make a rattling sound when the drum is hit

  6. A snare drum.

    a small drum with two heads and a snare stretched across the lower head

Examples

15 sentences
  1. A fox was caught in the snare.

    ruВ силки попалась лисица.

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  2. I set a snare, hoping to catch a rabbit.

    ruЯ поставил силок в надежде поймать кролика.

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  3. A rabbit got caught in the snare I had set.

    ruВ силок, который я поставил, попался кролик.

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  4. The bird got caught in a snare.

    ruПтица попалась в силки.

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  5. Yanni panicked like a wolf in a snare.

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Translations

9 languages
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Origin

From Middle English snare, from Old English sneare (“snare, noose”), from Proto-West Germa

From Middle English snare, from Old English sneare (“snare, noose”), from Proto-West Germanic *snarhā, from Proto-Germanic *snarhǭ (“a sling; loop; noose”). Cognate with Old Norse snara. Also related to German Schnur and Dutch snaar, snoer.

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Forms

plural: snares
Singularsnare
Pluralsnares

regular

Synonyms

5 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • a trap for birds or small mammals; often has a slip noose:ginnoose
  • a small drum with two heads and a snare stretched across the lower head:snare drumside drum
  • something (often something deceptively attractive) that catches you unawares:trap

See also

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