单词 | snagging |
释义 | snaggingn.3 British. Building. The completion of assorted last-minute repairs and adjustments on a project in order to fulfil a contract. Also: the process of compiling a list of such tasks for completion. Frequently attributive, esp. in snagging list. Cf. punch list n. at punch n.1 Compounds 2. ΚΠ 1984 Homecheck: how to inspect your newly Built Home Your builder chooses to invite you to look around your new property in order to check the standard of finish and compile a snagging list. 1993 J. H. Maclean & J. S. Scott Penguin Dict. Building (ed. 4) 420/2 Snagging, doing the last minor jobs and adjustments before the handover of a completed building... Snagging list, a schedule of defects. 2004 A. Hulley How to be Property Millionaire v. 65 You need to be very thorough when doing the ‘snagging’ and if there is anything you are not happy with, make sure it is listed. 2006 Times (Nexis) 1 July (Mag.) 72 The future is a two-storey house in the final phases of snagging after nine years of alteration and reconstruction. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). > as lemmasˈsnagging ˈsnagging n.1 ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > criticism > [noun] > captious plitchinga1400 carpingc1400 cavillation1532 pinching1532 nibbling?1577 Zoilism1609 carp1618 snagging1642 find-faulting1654 word-catching1713 pickthanking1861 kvetchingc1950 nitpicking1951 1642 D. Rogers Naaman 291 Let us..be so farre from snagging or nipping of such, that rather we marke them for peculiar ones. ˈsnagging ˈsnagging n.2 ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition of being open or not closed > [noun] > action or process of opening > opening by removing obstruction > clearing (a river) of obstructions snagging1775 the world > action or operation > difficulty > hindrance > [noun] > one who or that which hinders > a hindrance, impediment, or obstacle > unforeseen snag1830 snagging1880 catch1919 joker1935 1775 in J. J. Henry Campaign against Quebec (1812) 53 The paths and carrying places we had sufficiently developed..by strong blazing and snagging of bushes. 1851 A. O. Hall Manhattaner 179 There may sometimes occur a snagging, or a fire, with perhaps a collision. 1874 2nd Rep. Vermont State Board Agric. 1873–4 550 The stumps are rotting, and it is nearly ready for the..work of snagging and bogging. 1880 ‘M. Twain’ Tramp Abroad I. 83 He..had gone to bed, with his head filled with impending snaggings, and explosions, and conflagrations. 1960 Washington Post 11 Mar. d5/1 They're [sc. herrings] caught mostly by dipnets and the gentle method known as snagging. 1980 Outdoor Life (U.S.) Oct. (Northeast ed.) 56/2 Because Pacific Coast salmon die after spawning, snagging was introduced as a sporting way to harvest huge numbers of fish in a short time. < n.31984 as lemmas |
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