SNAREnoun

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  biochemistrybiologychemistryAny of a class of proteins whose primary role is to mediate vesicle fusion.

Snarename

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  A surname.

snarenoun/snɛ(ə)ɹ/

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

  • He […] watched Beavis’s long-toothed mouth open and clap to like a rabbit snare.
  • He felt a snare tightening around his throat; he gasped and threw a leg out of the bed, where it jerked for a second or two, thumping the steel frame, and died.
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  A mental or psychological trap.

  • If thou retire, the Dauphin, well appointed, Stands with the snares of war to tangle thee:
  • […] if thou serve their gods, it will surely be a snare unto thee.
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  biologymedicinenatural-sciencesA loop of cord used in obstetric cases, to hold or to pull a fetus from the mother animal.

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  medicinesciencessurgeryA similar looped instrument formerly used to remove tumours etc.

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

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  entertainmentlifestylemusicA snare drum.

snareverb/snɛ(ə)ɹ/

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  To catch or hold, especially with a loop.

  • The mournful crocodile / With sorrow snares relenting passengers.
  • Lest that too heavenly form […] snare them.
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  To ensnare.

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  To play (a snare drum, or a beat on or as if on a snare drum).

  • […] the slightest recollection of hearing the wind whistling through the cracks in the old house or the rain snaring its tat-a-tat on the rusty tin roof.
  • […] T-Ray snared the drum in the background.