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# snapshot

«snapshot» in Mova's school dictionary: **a photo taken quickly and casually, not posed carefully** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a snapshot, snapshots)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A snapshot is a photo taken quickly and casually, not posed carefully. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/snapshot/#m1)

2) A snapshot is a quick look or short piece of information that shows what something is like at one moment: a snapshot of life in Victorian times. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/snapshot/#m2)

3) In computing, a snapshot is a saved copy of how a system or files looked at one moment. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/snapshot/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

History and geography lessons: a diary or photo gives «a snapshot» of the past. Maths and science: a survey on one day is a snapshot, not the full picture, so results can change on other days. Everyday life: holiday snapshots. Computers: snapshots let you go back if something goes wrong.

### examples

- Mum took a snapshot of us at the beach. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/snapshot/#x1)
- The old diary gives a snapshot of life in the war. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/snapshot/#x2)
- This survey is just a snapshot of what pupils think today. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/snapshot/#x3)
- The album is full of family snapshots. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/snapshot/#x4)
- The computer saved a snapshot before the update. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/snapshot/#x5)
- The report is a snapshot of the town in 1900. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/snapshot/#x6)
- He keeps a snapshot of his dog in his wallet. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/snapshot/#x7)

### note

Countable: a snapshot, snapshots. One word. Informal short form: «a snap» (UK: «holiday snaps»). A snapshot shows one moment only, so it can be misleading if things change.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «snapshot» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/snapshot/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.