On Sat, 15 Apr 2017 06:28:28 +0000 (UTC), Martin Str|mberg
Post by Martin Str|mberg"a snapshot".
I want the verb. Is it "to snapshot; yesterday snapshotted"?
OTOH, shot seems to be past of shoot. So is it "to snapshoot;
yesterday snapshot"?
OT{third}H, Oxford learner's dictionaries on the web tells me snap is
a verb. So is it "to snapshot; yesterday snappedshot"? (Hrmmm!)
The full Oxford English dictionary says:
snap-, comb. form
The stem of snap v. in combination.
1.e. Formed, taken, performed, etc., hastily or rapidly, as snap
exposure, snap-firing, snap judgement, etc. Also snap freezing n.
freezing done by reducing the temperature suddenly to well below
freezing point. snap-freeze v. trans.
In this and the next group passing into adjective.
Note that last sentence. In the following "snap" is in effect an
adjective. These are just a few of the examples:
1841 Congress. Globe X. App. 42/3 This extra session of
Congress, called in time of peace to take snap judgments on the
American people.
1861 N. York Tribune in Times 19 Nov. A traveller's
snap-judgement formed on the most superficial observation.
....
1889 Internat. Ann. Anthonys Photogr. Bull. 255 For snap
exposures a different course is necessary.
1894 Amer. Ann. Photogr. 137 The real necessities for snap
photography.
....
1932 ‘N. Shute’ Lonely Road xi. 229 This isn't any snap decision
on my part. I've been thinking of it for some time.
1933 Mod. Lang. Notes 48 393 In most cases they reflect, not
conclusions drawn from research, but snap judgments based on
chance observation and personal likes and dislikes.
....
1976 Alyn & Deeside Observer 10 Dec. 16/3 The information
arrives at a time which can allow only for a ‘snap decision’.
1977 Times of Zambia 7 Sept. 2/2 A snap survey of clinics found
that medical assistants in the health institutions had not been
able to administer prescribed drugs for some time now.
--
Peter Duncanson, UK
(in alt.usage.english)