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Snap shot   Listen
noun
Snap shot, Snapshot  n.  
1.
(a)
A quick offhand shot, made without deliberately taking aim over the sights.
(b)
(Photog.) Act of taking a snapshot (in sense 2).
2.
An instantaneous photograph made, usually with a hand camera, without formal posing of, and often without the foreknowledge of, the subject.
3.
A brief summary or appraisal, especially one that describes the state of a situation at one particular time; as, a snapshot of the moon project in 1966.





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"Snap shot" Quotes from Famous Books



... fore, and in an instant they are pinned by the hind leg up to the haunch. Kruger was splendid, and simply went through by main force, though he eventually sank close to the shore. I had carried over some of the loading, amongst it my camera, and was just in time to take a snapshot as he was sinking. Shiddi, the cunning old rogue, could not be persuaded across; he would try the ground with one foot and then draw back like a timid bather. We left him roaring to his mates and yet afraid to join them, until we were ...
— Spinifex and Sand - Five Years' Pioneering and Exploration in Western Australia • David W Carnegie
... facing Sanderson. The latter's answer came in the shape of a rifle bullet, the weapon fired from the hip of one of the men—a snapshot. ...
— Square Deal Sanderson • Charles Alden Seltzer
... be afraid. It's only I. But, by Jove! how very charming you look in that gown! I'd love to get a snapshot of you just as ...
— The House of Whispers • William Le Queux


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