Definizione monolingua

snub

snub (third-person singular simple present snubs, present participle snubbing, simple past and past participle snubbed)

1. (transitive) To slight, ignore or behave coldly toward someone.
   • 1922, Margery Williams, The Velveteen Rabbit

     For a long time he lived in the toy cupboard or on the nursery floor, and no one thought very much about him. He was naturally shy, and being only made of velveteen, some of the more expensive toys quite snubbed him.

2. (transitive) To turn down; to dismiss.

   He snubbed my offer to help.

3. (transitive) To stub out (a cigarette etc).
4. (transitive) To halt the movement of a rope etc by turning it about a cleat or bollard etc; to secure a vessel in this manner.

snub (plural snubs)

1. A deliberate affront or slight.

   I hope the people we couldnt invite dont see it as a snub.

2. A sudden checking of a cable or rope.

snub (comparative more snub, superlative most snub)

1. conspicuously short

   a snub-nosed revolver

2. (mathematics, of a polyhedron) Derived from a simpler polyhedron by the addition of extra triangular faces

Definizione dizionario snub

camuso

affronto

umiliare

Altri significati:

(transitive) To turn down; to dismiss.

(transitive) To stub out (a cigarette etc).

A deliberate affront or slight.

deliberate affront or slight

slight, ignore, behave coldly toward

A sudden checking of a cable or rope.

(transitive) To slight, ignore or behave coldly toward someone.

turn down, dismiss

(mathematics, of a polyhedron) Derived from a simpler polyhedron by the addition of extra triangular faces

conspicuously short

(transitive) To halt the movement of a rope etc by turning it about a cleat or bollard etc; to secure a vessel in this manner.