Snap shot
Encyclopedia
Snap shot can refer to:
- a shot that is aimed and fired very quickly at a target that appears suddenly and for a very short period of time.
- From One-Hour PhotoOne Hour PhotoOne Hour Photo is a 2002 American psychological thriller written and directed by Mark Romanek and starring Robin Williams. Fox Searchlight Pictures distributed the film in the United States. One Hour Photo also starred Connie Nielsen, Michael Vartan, Gary Cole, and Eriq La Salle. Williams won a...
: "According to the Oxford English DictionaryOxford English DictionaryThe Oxford English Dictionary , published by the Oxford University Press, is the self-styled premier dictionary of the English language. Two fully bound print editions of the OED have been published under its current name, in 1928 and 1989. The first edition was published in twelve volumes , and...
, the word "snapshot" was first used in 1808 by an English sportsman by the name of Sir Henry Hawker. He noted in his diary that almost every bird he shot that day was taken by snapshot, meaning a hurried shot, taken without deliberate aim. Snapshot, then, was originally a hunting term." (Despite this being a quote from a screenplay, and hardly authoritative, it is a fairly accurate description of what is in the OED entry for snap-shot; although the diary writer is only identified as "Col. Hawker" and according to this 1893 book review his name was Peter, was known as "the Sportsman," was 22 years old when he made the cited entry, and doesn't appear to be a "Sir".) - According to the OED, the term (spelled: snap-shot, also snap shot, snapshot) was first used to refer to "an instantaneous photograph, esp. one taken with a hand-camera" in 1860 in Photogr. News (definition 2). Merriam-Webster OnLine (spelled: snapshot) cites 1890 as the first use, also cited in the OED.
- Evolving from the photographic sense, a snapshot can refer to "an impression or view of something brief or transitory" (Merriam-Webster OnLine definition 2), as in a snapshot of the year-to-date sales.
- In paintballPaintballPaintball is a sport in which players compete, in teams or individually, to eliminate opponents by tagging them with capsules containing water soluble dye and gelatin shell outside propelled from a device called a paintball marker . Paintballs have a non-toxic, biodegradable, water soluble...
, snapshooting is the rapid and sporadically repeated firing at a target from behind a bunker. - In submarines, a snap shot is a torpedo fired rapidly back down the bearing of an incoming torpedo, without taking the time to set up a fire control solution.
- The snap shotSnap shot (ice hockey)A snap shot is a like an abbreviated Slapshot in ice hockey.The purpose of the snap shot is to combine the main advantages of the wrist shot and the slap shot ....
in ice hockeyIce hockeyIce hockey, often referred to as hockey, is a team sport played on ice, in which skaters use wooden or composite sticks to shoot a hard rubber puck into their opponent's net. The game is played between two teams of six players each. Five members of each team skate up and down the ice trying to take...
is a fast shot made by snapping the wrists. It combines the accuracy of a wrist shotWrist shotA wrist shot is a type of ice hockey shot that involves using arm muscles to propel a puck forward from the concave side of the blade of a hockey stick. Generally, when the puck is shot in a similar manner using the convex side of the blade, it is referred to as a backhand shot...
with the power of a slapshotSlapshotA slapshot in ice hockey is the hardest shot. It has four stages which are executed in one fluid motion:# The player winds up his hockey stick by raising it behind his body, sometimes raising the blade to shoulder height or higher.# Next the player violently "slaps" the ice slightly behind the...
. - In FPS gaming, a snapshot is the sudden aim and firing of a gun when unexpectedly spotting an enemy. Usually done by snipers.