Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Nautical, a contrivance for snubbing a cable; a check-stopper.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
device used tosuppress ("snub ")voltage transients inelectrical systems ,pressure transients influid systems, or excessforce or rapid movement inmechanical systems. - noun rare One who
snubs .
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Examples
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The restrictor plug, also commonly referred to as a "snubber," reduces the overall length, cost, and potential leak points in the system.
Press Releases 2010
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The restrictor plug, also commonly referred to as a "snubber", reduces the overall length, cost, and potential leak points in the system.
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The snubber, however, in the British case, is much greater than in the French.
"After all, your pigs are far more intelligent than the other animals, and therefore the best qualified to run the farm..." Ann Althouse 2009
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Despite the snubber-in-chief talk, there was plenty of back slapping and patting at this summit.
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They get snubbed and the snubber gets snuffed out.
Maureen Dowd picks up "a vibe so weird and jittery, so at odds with the early thrilling, fairy dust feel of the Obama revolution." Ann Althouse 2008
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Despite the snubber in chief talk, there was plenty of backslapping and patting at this summit.
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If snubbing is to be done, Florida should be the snubber, not the snubee.
Archive 2008-02-01 Dave 2008
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Here in Florida it looks to be a pretty quiet night; the only interesting races will be the governor's contest where Republican Charlie Crist, snubber of the president, is up against Democrat Jim Davis, and 14-term Congressman Clay Shaw is in a very tight race against Ron Klein.
November 2006 2006
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Despite the snubber-in-chief talk, there was plenty of back slapping and patting at the summit.
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In the October Harper's, Ben Marcus offers a lengthy state-of-the-novel essay, subtly titled Why Experimental Fiction Threatens to Destroy Publishing, Jonathan Franzen, and Life as We Know It: A Correction, in which he spends 13 pages beating up Jonathan Franzen -- snubber of Oprah and William Gaddis alike -- and the middlebrow fiction establishment he represents.
Gammerstang commented on the word snubber
An interlocking metal bracket attached at the center of the hinge side of a casement sash and frame with a call number height of 40" or more and both sides of an Awning sash and frame with a call number height of 48" or more. It pulls the sash tightly against the frame weather-strip to maximize performance.
January 9, 2018