Definition of snipe in English:

snipe

nounPlural snipes snʌɪpsnaɪp

A wading bird of marshes and wet meadows, with brown camouflaged plumage, a long straight bill, and typically a drumming display flight.
沙锥鸟，鹬。参见PAINTED SNIPE，SEED-SNIPE
Gallinago and other genera, family Scolopacidae: several species, e.g. the common snipe (G. gallinago)
Example sentencesExamples
- Two lakes nestle among the 35 acres, which attract an array of birds such as oystercatchers, ducks and snipes.
- But with the help of his son and his father, he managed to find time to ensure his hectares became an ideal home for lapwings, redshanks, snipes and curlews.
- Five varieties of wading bird, including snipe and curlew, were also affected.
- The hills around him were teeming with wild birds as the snipe, woodcock, and blackbirds and this was the life he loved to study and watch.
- Its flight and habits resemble a small snipe which a lot of people would be familiar with.
- During migration and winter, snipes can also be found in salt marshes, estuaries, and other mucky areas.
- Once common species such as the snipe, lapwing and curlew have seen declines of up to 73 per cent; birds like the twite, a moorland version of the linnet, are now gone from some parts of the park.
- The smallest of snipes, the jack snipe has been declining in Norfolk in recent years.
- We woke to the merry sound of oyster-catchers and curlews busily nesting in the marshes and tried to trace the haunting drum of snipe in flight.
- There's heather on it and bullfinches, willow warblers and snipes.
- A new survey has revealed that populations of waders such as lapwing, curlew and snipe are thriving because land is being managed with their needs in mind.
- The animals eat the eggs of wading birds including dunlin, lapwing, redshank and snipe.
- When I began birding three waders: lapwing, redshank and snipe were all common breeders in many areas of Norfolk.
- The shocking results from the county are that no breeding pairs of curlew, lapwing, redshank, snipe or oystercatcher were recorded on the sites surveyed.
- Rare bird species, including wading birds such as the curlew, lapwing and snipe, would also be reintroduced to the site under the plans.
- It also has contributed to the decrease of water fowl such as duck, geese, curlew, plover and snipe.
- Breeding birds include lapwing, snipe and redshank, all of which have declined nationally in recent years.
- A female Marsh harrier was chasing a male painted snipe in flight.
- Despite the snipe and the swamp sparrows, the bird of the outing was a rail.
- The group has also managed the wet farmland so winter visitors include snipe, redshank, water rail and common sandpiper.

verbsnipes snʌɪpsnaɪp

[no object]

1Shoot at someone from a hiding place, especially accurately and at long range.
（尤指远程准确地）狙击，打冷枪
the soldiers in the trench sniped at us
堑壕中的士兵向我们发动狙击。
Example sentencesExamples
- A few miles away insurgents sniped at U.S. forces and clashes erupted across the city.
- For the rest of the day, my platoon was sniped at from here and there, and we had a few skirmishes.
- If he wore a backpack, he should have been sniped at the entrance.
- Jennifer was sniping enemies with her bow and Erik was covering her.
- The long range view is a great opportunity to snipe enemies from far away.
- We were warned going in last night that we would face being sniped at, shot at, and sure enough the Marines went along that route and we were hit last night.
- You can try and do something about a culture that produces physically, if not socially, grown men who think sniping at strangers is a reasonable way to spend a Wednesday evening.
- The ten warriors rushed down to where Sara stood sniping enemies, and began panting.
- I prefer to play the sniper and you can't blame me for trying to find new spots to snipe from.
- He had been wounded the first day, had lain out in a field for two days and then crawled back to our lines, sniped at by the Germans.
- Fitted to a rifle, the system could also be used for medium range sniping.
- Thereupon the Russian army moved their headquarters to the far bank and proceeded to bombard, snipe and ambush the Germans throughout the ruined city.
- Alyssa hopped off the side of the truck and joined Andrew, crouching low, and sniped at the Greys.
- ‘You'll be sniped at’ the soldiers warn us when we insist on going in an hour before sunset.
- Understanding him perfectly, they scrambled forward while their leader snipes the guard.
- We use it for sniping only, we are not shooting in all directions.
- This kind of operation is beyond the ambushes, sniping and grenade and bomb attacks we have been seeing, he says.
- A year later, Dole was covering a revolutionary uprising in Moscow when a young revolutionary leader was sniped in Red Square.
- The levels contain marks showing the computer soldiers the best positions for hiding, sniping or ambushing.
Synonyms
fire, fire at, fire on, open fire, open fire at, open fire on, aim at, snipe at, let fly, let fly at, blaze away
2Make a sly or petty verbal attack.
诽谤
the state governor constantly sniped at the president
州长经常含沙射影地攻击总统。
Example sentencesExamples
- Critics sniped that while his work was solid laboratory chemistry, others were responsible for the brilliant advances that made it possible.
- Swarms of social conservatives and social liberals sniped at each other again and again.
- Not that this will appease the critics, who continue to snipe.
- All week the media of both nations had sniped at each other.
- Nevertheless, there were times when emotions surfaced, spurred by the sense of imminent danger, and even longtime allies sniped at each other in surprising ways.
- And that may explain why the elitists in those various fields keep working so hard to discredit and snipe at him.
- But while his essays are rightly complimented, his novels remain undervalued, sniped at by academics and denigrated by the reactionaries who see any attempt to knock America's heroes down to size as an act of treachery.
- But instead of bickering and sniping, the parties should unite behind the urgent task of saving Britain's tourist industry.
- They bickered constantly and sniped at each other with abrasive, even caustic, jibes, but Drake made a valiant effort to stop himself short of physical violence.
- It would have been easy for me to give up and say I can't be bothered to be sniped at any more about wrinkly rockers and all of that.
- California has been a target of Administration sniping ever since.
- The Green Arrow is a bit crass and snipes at Batman a lot, but that's to be expected from a second-stringer superhero.
- "Mom, you're not helping," Tara sniped back at her.
- The prize - launched in 1981 - has also endured sniping from critics who claim it is no longer as important as it once was.
- There are zealots on all sides sniping at this agreement.
- Now that's a good idea, that's what I should do rather than keep sniping from the sidelines.
- "You are such a freaking girl," Elizabeth sniped back.
- Despite the unanimous vote, the bill did not clear the U.S. Congress without some partisan sniping.
- She had planned to give a grumbling apology for being late when he sniped at her incompetence, but she really did feel bad now.
- Of course, he doesn't help matters by throwing a little hissy fit every time he gets sniped at.
Synonyms
denounce, condemn, criticize, censure, damn, attack, fulminate against, rail against, inveigh against, blame, carp at, cavil at, run down, pillory, rap, lambaste, deplore, disapprove of, vilify, execrate, revile
3(in an online auction) place a bid judged to be high enough to win an item just before the bidding is scheduled to close.
I regularly snipe 10 to 5 seconds before the end of eBay auctions
Example sentencesExamples
- Do you need to snipe? Is it worth the fee—or the precious time you'll spend sitting by the computer if you do it manually?
- There is no possibility that users can snipe an auction at the last moment, because a few seconds are added to the clock with every new bid.
- As eBay veterans know, due to the phenomenon known as "sniping," the only bidding that matters in an online auction happens during the final moments.
- A bidder who ‘snipes’ is like a stock-market trader who ‘steps in front’ of investors by beating their price by a few pennies.
- "Sniping" - withholding bids until the last moment - suppresses competition, says Hohner, a game theorist from New Jersey.
- He found that with inexpensive, widely available items—like DVDs of recent movies—sniping doesn't really affect final prices.
- Two other bidders were sniping, too, but my bid would have been the last one.
- I didn't know all the tricks, and was outbid in the closing minute in a tactic known as ‘sniping’.
- Sniping has stripped auctions of much of their entertainment value.
- Sniping is the main reason I don't bother with eBay anymore.
- You can overcome this by sniping (bidding in the closing seconds) - and you don't even need to be in front of your computer when you do it.
- My last gripe about eBay: sniping.
- I snipe because my maximum bid is my maximum bid.
- Insiders admit that sniping does work in winning auctions.
- While online bidders have long worried whether the item they're buying will arrive in the promised condition and sellers have wondered about being paid, these days they may also have to contend with "sniping," " bid shielding " and other bid manipulations.
1. 3.1with object Outbid (another bidder in an online auction) just before the bidding is scheduled to close.
  what is the point of sitting around for a seven-day auction when half the time you get sniped at the last second
  Example sentencesExamples
  You can only get sniped if you're not willing to pay what you think something is worth.
  Once you've been sniped, your chance of becoming a sniper is greatly increased.
  I promise not to stay up till 3.25 am to snipe a US bidder off a pair of yellow leather mod boots which are rightfully mine.
  I bid $200, then some lady sniped me just as the auction ended with $205.
  I was about to cop a pair on eBay last night, but somebody sniped me at the last minute.
  I got sniped again today, with 6 seconds to go.
  A couple of collectors always track the auctions he bids on, and have sniped him in the past.
  I'd been sniped. Someone, or rather their automated bidding software, had swooped in, in the last few seconds, and scooped the Zenith for only the least allowable increment over my bid.
  I wasn't sniped: I just didn't bid high enough.
  Right until the very last minute, I had the high bid, at £11.50. And then I got sniped.
  I was all set to buy my first Banksy and then I got sniped.
  Yesterday I got sniped while trying to buy some Edwardian shoes on eBay.

Origin

Middle English: probably of Scandinavian origin; compare with Icelandic mýrisnípa; obscurely related to Dutch snip and German Schnepfe.

Rhymes

gripe, hype, mistype, pipe, ripe, sipe, skype, slype, stripe, swipe, tripe, type, wipe

Definition of snipe in US English:

snipe

nounsnaɪpsnīp

A wading bird of marshes and wet meadows, with brown camouflaged plumage, a long straight bill, and typically a drumming display flight.
沙锥鸟，鹬。参见PAINTED SNIPE，SEED-SNIPE
Gallinago and other genera, family Scolopacidae: several species, e.g. the common snipe (G. gallinago)
See also painted snipe, seed snipe
Example sentencesExamples
- A female Marsh harrier was chasing a male painted snipe in flight.
- But with the help of his son and his father, he managed to find time to ensure his hectares became an ideal home for lapwings, redshanks, snipes and curlews.
- Breeding birds include lapwing, snipe and redshank, all of which have declined nationally in recent years.
- The hills around him were teeming with wild birds as the snipe, woodcock, and blackbirds and this was the life he loved to study and watch.
- During migration and winter, snipes can also be found in salt marshes, estuaries, and other mucky areas.
- When I began birding three waders: lapwing, redshank and snipe were all common breeders in many areas of Norfolk.
- Two lakes nestle among the 35 acres, which attract an array of birds such as oystercatchers, ducks and snipes.
- A new survey has revealed that populations of waders such as lapwing, curlew and snipe are thriving because land is being managed with their needs in mind.
- The animals eat the eggs of wading birds including dunlin, lapwing, redshank and snipe.
- The shocking results from the county are that no breeding pairs of curlew, lapwing, redshank, snipe or oystercatcher were recorded on the sites surveyed.
- The group has also managed the wet farmland so winter visitors include snipe, redshank, water rail and common sandpiper.
- It also has contributed to the decrease of water fowl such as duck, geese, curlew, plover and snipe.
- There's heather on it and bullfinches, willow warblers and snipes.
- Rare bird species, including wading birds such as the curlew, lapwing and snipe, would also be reintroduced to the site under the plans.
- Five varieties of wading bird, including snipe and curlew, were also affected.
- Despite the snipe and the swamp sparrows, the bird of the outing was a rail.
- Its flight and habits resemble a small snipe which a lot of people would be familiar with.
- We woke to the merry sound of oyster-catchers and curlews busily nesting in the marshes and tried to trace the haunting drum of snipe in flight.
- Once common species such as the snipe, lapwing and curlew have seen declines of up to 73 per cent; birds like the twite, a moorland version of the linnet, are now gone from some parts of the park.
- The smallest of snipes, the jack snipe has been declining in Norfolk in recent years.

verbsnaɪpsnīp

[no object]

1Shoot at someone from a hiding place, especially accurately and at long range.
（尤指远程准确地）狙击，打冷枪
the soldiers in the trench sniped at us
堑壕中的士兵向我们发动狙击。
Example sentencesExamples
- We use it for sniping only, we are not shooting in all directions.
- Fitted to a rifle, the system could also be used for medium range sniping.
- I prefer to play the sniper and you can't blame me for trying to find new spots to snipe from.
- The long range view is a great opportunity to snipe enemies from far away.
- A year later, Dole was covering a revolutionary uprising in Moscow when a young revolutionary leader was sniped in Red Square.
- A few miles away insurgents sniped at U.S. forces and clashes erupted across the city.
- For the rest of the day, my platoon was sniped at from here and there, and we had a few skirmishes.
- You can try and do something about a culture that produces physically, if not socially, grown men who think sniping at strangers is a reasonable way to spend a Wednesday evening.
- ‘You'll be sniped at’ the soldiers warn us when we insist on going in an hour before sunset.
- Thereupon the Russian army moved their headquarters to the far bank and proceeded to bombard, snipe and ambush the Germans throughout the ruined city.
- Understanding him perfectly, they scrambled forward while their leader snipes the guard.
- Jennifer was sniping enemies with her bow and Erik was covering her.
- The levels contain marks showing the computer soldiers the best positions for hiding, sniping or ambushing.
- If he wore a backpack, he should have been sniped at the entrance.
- We were warned going in last night that we would face being sniped at, shot at, and sure enough the Marines went along that route and we were hit last night.
- The ten warriors rushed down to where Sara stood sniping enemies, and began panting.
- Alyssa hopped off the side of the truck and joined Andrew, crouching low, and sniped at the Greys.
- He had been wounded the first day, had lain out in a field for two days and then crawled back to our lines, sniped at by the Germans.
- This kind of operation is beyond the ambushes, sniping and grenade and bomb attacks we have been seeing, he says.
Synonyms
fire, fire at, fire on, open fire, open fire at, open fire on, aim at, snipe at, let fly, let fly at, blaze away
2Make a sly or petty verbal attack.
诽谤
the state governor constantly sniped at the president
州长经常含沙射影地攻击总统。
Example sentencesExamples
- Nevertheless, there were times when emotions surfaced, spurred by the sense of imminent danger, and even longtime allies sniped at each other in surprising ways.
- "You are such a freaking girl," Elizabeth sniped back.
- But instead of bickering and sniping, the parties should unite behind the urgent task of saving Britain's tourist industry.
- Now that's a good idea, that's what I should do rather than keep sniping from the sidelines.
- But while his essays are rightly complimented, his novels remain undervalued, sniped at by academics and denigrated by the reactionaries who see any attempt to knock America's heroes down to size as an act of treachery.
- California has been a target of Administration sniping ever since.
- All week the media of both nations had sniped at each other.
- And that may explain why the elitists in those various fields keep working so hard to discredit and snipe at him.
- "Mom, you're not helping," Tara sniped back at her.
- Swarms of social conservatives and social liberals sniped at each other again and again.
- Not that this will appease the critics, who continue to snipe.
- There are zealots on all sides sniping at this agreement.
- Of course, he doesn't help matters by throwing a little hissy fit every time he gets sniped at.
- They bickered constantly and sniped at each other with abrasive, even caustic, jibes, but Drake made a valiant effort to stop himself short of physical violence.
- The prize - launched in 1981 - has also endured sniping from critics who claim it is no longer as important as it once was.
- The Green Arrow is a bit crass and snipes at Batman a lot, but that's to be expected from a second-stringer superhero.
- Critics sniped that while his work was solid laboratory chemistry, others were responsible for the brilliant advances that made it possible.
- It would have been easy for me to give up and say I can't be bothered to be sniped at any more about wrinkly rockers and all of that.
- She had planned to give a grumbling apology for being late when he sniped at her incompetence, but she really did feel bad now.
- Despite the unanimous vote, the bill did not clear the U.S. Congress without some partisan sniping.
Synonyms
denounce, condemn, criticize, censure, damn, attack, fulminate against, rail against, inveigh against, blame, carp at, cavil at, run down, pillory, rap, lambaste, deplore, disapprove of, vilify, execrate, revile
3(in an online auction) place a bid judged to be high enough to win an item just before the bidding is scheduled to close.
I regularly snipe 10 to 5 seconds before the end of eBay auctions
Example sentencesExamples
- My last gripe about eBay: sniping.
- "Sniping" - withholding bids until the last moment - suppresses competition, says Hohner, a game theorist from New Jersey.
- He found that with inexpensive, widely available items—like DVDs of recent movies—sniping doesn't really affect final prices.
- There is no possibility that users can snipe an auction at the last moment, because a few seconds are added to the clock with every new bid.
- Do you need to snipe? Is it worth the fee—or the precious time you'll spend sitting by the computer if you do it manually?
- Sniping is the main reason I don't bother with eBay anymore.
- Two other bidders were sniping, too, but my bid would have been the last one.
- As eBay veterans know, due to the phenomenon known as "sniping," the only bidding that matters in an online auction happens during the final moments.
- A bidder who ‘snipes’ is like a stock-market trader who ‘steps in front’ of investors by beating their price by a few pennies.
- While online bidders have long worried whether the item they're buying will arrive in the promised condition and sellers have wondered about being paid, these days they may also have to contend with "sniping," " bid shielding " and other bid manipulations.
- You can overcome this by sniping (bidding in the closing seconds) - and you don't even need to be in front of your computer when you do it.
- I snipe because my maximum bid is my maximum bid.
- Insiders admit that sniping does work in winning auctions.
- I didn't know all the tricks, and was outbid in the closing minute in a tactic known as ‘sniping’.
- Sniping has stripped auctions of much of their entertainment value.
1. 3.1with object Outbid (another bidder in an online auction) just before the bidding is scheduled to close.
  what is the point of sitting around for a seven-day auction when half the time you get sniped at the last second
  Example sentencesExamples
  Right until the very last minute, I had the high bid, at £11.50. And then I got sniped.
  I was all set to buy my first Banksy and then I got sniped.
  You can only get sniped if you're not willing to pay what you think something is worth.
  I bid $200, then some lady sniped me just as the auction ended with $205.
  I wasn't sniped: I just didn't bid high enough.
  Once you've been sniped, your chance of becoming a sniper is greatly increased.
  I was about to cop a pair on eBay last night, but somebody sniped me at the last minute.
  I got sniped again today, with 6 seconds to go.
  I promise not to stay up till 3.25 am to snipe a US bidder off a pair of yellow leather mod boots which are rightfully mine.
  A couple of collectors always track the auctions he bids on, and have sniped him in the past.
  I'd been sniped. Someone, or rather their automated bidding software, had swooped in, in the last few seconds, and scooped the Zenith for only the least allowable increment over my bid.
  Yesterday I got sniped while trying to buy some Edwardian shoes on eBay.

Origin

Middle English: probably of Scandinavian origin; compare with Icelandic mýrisnípa; obscurely related to Dutch snip and German Schnepfe.

词汇	snipe
释义	Definition of snipe in English: snipe nounPlural snipes snʌɪpsnaɪp A wading bird of marshes and wet meadows, with brown camouflaged plumage, a long straight bill, and typically a drumming display flight. 沙锥鸟，鹬。参见PAINTED SNIPE，SEED-SNIPE Gallinago and other genera, family Scolopacidae: several species, e.g. the common snipe (G. gallinago) Example sentencesExamples Two lakes nestle among the 35 acres, which attract an array of birds such as oystercatchers, ducks and snipes. But with the help of his son and his father, he managed to find time to ensure his hectares became an ideal home for lapwings, redshanks, snipes and curlews. Five varieties of wading bird, including snipe and curlew, were also affected. The hills around him were teeming with wild birds as the snipe, woodcock, and blackbirds and this was the life he loved to study and watch. Its flight and habits resemble a small snipe which a lot of people would be familiar with. During migration and winter, snipes can also be found in salt marshes, estuaries, and other mucky areas. Once common species such as the snipe, lapwing and curlew have seen declines of up to 73 per cent; birds like the twite, a moorland version of the linnet, are now gone from some parts of the park. The smallest of snipes, the jack snipe has been declining in Norfolk in recent years. We woke to the merry sound of oyster-catchers and curlews busily nesting in the marshes and tried to trace the haunting drum of snipe in flight. There's heather on it and bullfinches, willow warblers and snipes. A new survey has revealed that populations of waders such as lapwing, curlew and snipe are thriving because land is being managed with their needs in mind. The animals eat the eggs of wading birds including dunlin, lapwing, redshank and snipe. When I began birding three waders: lapwing, redshank and snipe were all common breeders in many areas of Norfolk. The shocking results from the county are that no breeding pairs of curlew, lapwing, redshank, snipe or oystercatcher were recorded on the sites surveyed. Rare bird species, including wading birds such as the curlew, lapwing and snipe, would also be reintroduced to the site under the plans. It also has contributed to the decrease of water fowl such as duck, geese, curlew, plover and snipe. Breeding birds include lapwing, snipe and redshank, all of which have declined nationally in recent years. A female Marsh harrier was chasing a male painted snipe in flight. Despite the snipe and the swamp sparrows, the bird of the outing was a rail. The group has also managed the wet farmland so winter visitors include snipe, redshank, water rail and common sandpiper. verbsnipes snʌɪpsnaɪp [no object] 1Shoot at someone from a hiding place, especially accurately and at long range. （尤指远程准确地）狙击，打冷枪 the soldiers in the trench sniped at us 堑壕中的士兵向我们发动狙击。 Example sentencesExamples A few miles away insurgents sniped at U.S. forces and clashes erupted across the city. For the rest of the day, my platoon was sniped at from here and there, and we had a few skirmishes. If he wore a backpack, he should have been sniped at the entrance. Jennifer was sniping enemies with her bow and Erik was covering her. The long range view is a great opportunity to snipe enemies from far away. We were warned going in last night that we would face being sniped at, shot at, and sure enough the Marines went along that route and we were hit last night. You can try and do something about a culture that produces physically, if not socially, grown men who think sniping at strangers is a reasonable way to spend a Wednesday evening. The ten warriors rushed down to where Sara stood sniping enemies, and began panting. I prefer to play the sniper and you can't blame me for trying to find new spots to snipe from. He had been wounded the first day, had lain out in a field for two days and then crawled back to our lines, sniped at by the Germans. Fitted to a rifle, the system could also be used for medium range sniping. Thereupon the Russian army moved their headquarters to the far bank and proceeded to bombard, snipe and ambush the Germans throughout the ruined city. Alyssa hopped off the side of the truck and joined Andrew, crouching low, and sniped at the Greys. ‘You'll be sniped at’ the soldiers warn us when we insist on going in an hour before sunset. Understanding him perfectly, they scrambled forward while their leader snipes the guard. We use it for sniping only, we are not shooting in all directions. This kind of operation is beyond the ambushes, sniping and grenade and bomb attacks we have been seeing, he says. A year later, Dole was covering a revolutionary uprising in Moscow when a young revolutionary leader was sniped in Red Square. The levels contain marks showing the computer soldiers the best positions for hiding, sniping or ambushing. Synonyms fire, fire at, fire on, open fire, open fire at, open fire on, aim at, snipe at, let fly, let fly at, blaze away 2Make a sly or petty verbal attack. 诽谤 the state governor constantly sniped at the president 州长经常含沙射影地攻击总统。 Example sentencesExamples Critics sniped that while his work was solid laboratory chemistry, others were responsible for the brilliant advances that made it possible. Swarms of social conservatives and social liberals sniped at each other again and again. Not that this will appease the critics, who continue to snipe. All week the media of both nations had sniped at each other. Nevertheless, there were times when emotions surfaced, spurred by the sense of imminent danger, and even longtime allies sniped at each other in surprising ways. And that may explain why the elitists in those various fields keep working so hard to discredit and snipe at him. But while his essays are rightly complimented, his novels remain undervalued, sniped at by academics and denigrated by the reactionaries who see any attempt to knock America's heroes down to size as an act of treachery. But instead of bickering and sniping, the parties should unite behind the urgent task of saving Britain's tourist industry. They bickered constantly and sniped at each other with abrasive, even caustic, jibes, but Drake made a valiant effort to stop himself short of physical violence. It would have been easy for me to give up and say I can't be bothered to be sniped at any more about wrinkly rockers and all of that. California has been a target of Administration sniping ever since. The Green Arrow is a bit crass and snipes at Batman a lot, but that's to be expected from a second-stringer superhero. "Mom, you're not helping," Tara sniped back at her. The prize - launched in 1981 - has also endured sniping from critics who claim it is no longer as important as it once was. There are zealots on all sides sniping at this agreement. Now that's a good idea, that's what I should do rather than keep sniping from the sidelines. "You are such a freaking girl," Elizabeth sniped back. Despite the unanimous vote, the bill did not clear the U.S. Congress without some partisan sniping. She had planned to give a grumbling apology for being late when he sniped at her incompetence, but she really did feel bad now. Of course, he doesn't help matters by throwing a little hissy fit every time he gets sniped at. Synonyms denounce, condemn, criticize, censure, damn, attack, fulminate against, rail against, inveigh against, blame, carp at, cavil at, run down, pillory, rap, lambaste, deplore, disapprove of, vilify, execrate, revile 3(in an online auction) place a bid judged to be high enough to win an item just before the bidding is scheduled to close. I regularly snipe 10 to 5 seconds before the end of eBay auctions Example sentencesExamples Do you need to snipe? Is it worth the fee—or the precious time you'll spend sitting by the computer if you do it manually? There is no possibility that users can snipe an auction at the last moment, because a few seconds are added to the clock with every new bid. As eBay veterans know, due to the phenomenon known as "sniping," the only bidding that matters in an online auction happens during the final moments. A bidder who ‘snipes’ is like a stock-market trader who ‘steps in front’ of investors by beating their price by a few pennies. "Sniping" - withholding bids until the last moment - suppresses competition, says Hohner, a game theorist from New Jersey. He found that with inexpensive, widely available items—like DVDs of recent movies—sniping doesn't really affect final prices. Two other bidders were sniping, too, but my bid would have been the last one. I didn't know all the tricks, and was outbid in the closing minute in a tactic known as ‘sniping’. Sniping has stripped auctions of much of their entertainment value. Sniping is the main reason I don't bother with eBay anymore. You can overcome this by sniping (bidding in the closing seconds) - and you don't even need to be in front of your computer when you do it. My last gripe about eBay: sniping. I snipe because my maximum bid is my maximum bid. Insiders admit that sniping does work in winning auctions. While online bidders have long worried whether the item they're buying will arrive in the promised condition and sellers have wondered about being paid, these days they may also have to contend with "sniping," " bid shielding " and other bid manipulations. 3.1with object Outbid (another bidder in an online auction) just before the bidding is scheduled to close. what is the point of sitting around for a seven-day auction when half the time you get sniped at the last second Example sentencesExamples You can only get sniped if you're not willing to pay what you think something is worth. Once you've been sniped, your chance of becoming a sniper is greatly increased. I promise not to stay up till 3.25 am to snipe a US bidder off a pair of yellow leather mod boots which are rightfully mine. I bid $200, then some lady sniped me just as the auction ended with $205. I was about to cop a pair on eBay last night, but somebody sniped me at the last minute. I got sniped again today, with 6 seconds to go. A couple of collectors always track the auctions he bids on, and have sniped him in the past. I'd been sniped. Someone, or rather their automated bidding software, had swooped in, in the last few seconds, and scooped the Zenith for only the least allowable increment over my bid. I wasn't sniped: I just didn't bid high enough. Right until the very last minute, I had the high bid, at £11.50. And then I got sniped. I was all set to buy my first Banksy and then I got sniped. Yesterday I got sniped while trying to buy some Edwardian shoes on eBay. Origin Middle English: probably of Scandinavian origin; compare with Icelandic mýrisnípa; obscurely related to Dutch snip and German Schnepfe. Rhymes gripe, hype, mistype, pipe, ripe, sipe, skype, slype, stripe, swipe, tripe, type, wipe Definition of snipe in US English: snipe nounsnaɪpsnīp A wading bird of marshes and wet meadows, with brown camouflaged plumage, a long straight bill, and typically a drumming display flight. 沙锥鸟，鹬。参见PAINTED SNIPE，SEED-SNIPE Gallinago and other genera, family Scolopacidae: several species, e.g. the common snipe (G. gallinago) See also painted snipe, seed snipe Example sentencesExamples A female Marsh harrier was chasing a male painted snipe in flight. But with the help of his son and his father, he managed to find time to ensure his hectares became an ideal home for lapwings, redshanks, snipes and curlews. Breeding birds include lapwing, snipe and redshank, all of which have declined nationally in recent years. The hills around him were teeming with wild birds as the snipe, woodcock, and blackbirds and this was the life he loved to study and watch. During migration and winter, snipes can also be found in salt marshes, estuaries, and other mucky areas. When I began birding three waders: lapwing, redshank and snipe were all common breeders in many areas of Norfolk. Two lakes nestle among the 35 acres, which attract an array of birds such as oystercatchers, ducks and snipes. A new survey has revealed that populations of waders such as lapwing, curlew and snipe are thriving because land is being managed with their needs in mind. The animals eat the eggs of wading birds including dunlin, lapwing, redshank and snipe. The shocking results from the county are that no breeding pairs of curlew, lapwing, redshank, snipe or oystercatcher were recorded on the sites surveyed. The group has also managed the wet farmland so winter visitors include snipe, redshank, water rail and common sandpiper. It also has contributed to the decrease of water fowl such as duck, geese, curlew, plover and snipe. There's heather on it and bullfinches, willow warblers and snipes. Rare bird species, including wading birds such as the curlew, lapwing and snipe, would also be reintroduced to the site under the plans. Five varieties of wading bird, including snipe and curlew, were also affected. Despite the snipe and the swamp sparrows, the bird of the outing was a rail. Its flight and habits resemble a small snipe which a lot of people would be familiar with. We woke to the merry sound of oyster-catchers and curlews busily nesting in the marshes and tried to trace the haunting drum of snipe in flight. Once common species such as the snipe, lapwing and curlew have seen declines of up to 73 per cent; birds like the twite, a moorland version of the linnet, are now gone from some parts of the park. The smallest of snipes, the jack snipe has been declining in Norfolk in recent years. verbsnaɪpsnīp [no object] 1Shoot at someone from a hiding place, especially accurately and at long range. （尤指远程准确地）狙击，打冷枪 the soldiers in the trench sniped at us 堑壕中的士兵向我们发动狙击。 Example sentencesExamples We use it for sniping only, we are not shooting in all directions. Fitted to a rifle, the system could also be used for medium range sniping. I prefer to play the sniper and you can't blame me for trying to find new spots to snipe from. The long range view is a great opportunity to snipe enemies from far away. A year later, Dole was covering a revolutionary uprising in Moscow when a young revolutionary leader was sniped in Red Square. A few miles away insurgents sniped at U.S. forces and clashes erupted across the city. For the rest of the day, my platoon was sniped at from here and there, and we had a few skirmishes. You can try and do something about a culture that produces physically, if not socially, grown men who think sniping at strangers is a reasonable way to spend a Wednesday evening. ‘You'll be sniped at’ the soldiers warn us when we insist on going in an hour before sunset. Thereupon the Russian army moved their headquarters to the far bank and proceeded to bombard, snipe and ambush the Germans throughout the ruined city. Understanding him perfectly, they scrambled forward while their leader snipes the guard. Jennifer was sniping enemies with her bow and Erik was covering her. The levels contain marks showing the computer soldiers the best positions for hiding, sniping or ambushing. If he wore a backpack, he should have been sniped at the entrance. We were warned going in last night that we would face being sniped at, shot at, and sure enough the Marines went along that route and we were hit last night. The ten warriors rushed down to where Sara stood sniping enemies, and began panting. Alyssa hopped off the side of the truck and joined Andrew, crouching low, and sniped at the Greys. He had been wounded the first day, had lain out in a field for two days and then crawled back to our lines, sniped at by the Germans. This kind of operation is beyond the ambushes, sniping and grenade and bomb attacks we have been seeing, he says. Synonyms fire, fire at, fire on, open fire, open fire at, open fire on, aim at, snipe at, let fly, let fly at, blaze away 2Make a sly or petty verbal attack. 诽谤 the state governor constantly sniped at the president 州长经常含沙射影地攻击总统。 Example sentencesExamples Nevertheless, there were times when emotions surfaced, spurred by the sense of imminent danger, and even longtime allies sniped at each other in surprising ways. "You are such a freaking girl," Elizabeth sniped back. But instead of bickering and sniping, the parties should unite behind the urgent task of saving Britain's tourist industry. Now that's a good idea, that's what I should do rather than keep sniping from the sidelines. But while his essays are rightly complimented, his novels remain undervalued, sniped at by academics and denigrated by the reactionaries who see any attempt to knock America's heroes down to size as an act of treachery. California has been a target of Administration sniping ever since. All week the media of both nations had sniped at each other. And that may explain why the elitists in those various fields keep working so hard to discredit and snipe at him. "Mom, you're not helping," Tara sniped back at her. Swarms of social conservatives and social liberals sniped at each other again and again. Not that this will appease the critics, who continue to snipe. There are zealots on all sides sniping at this agreement. Of course, he doesn't help matters by throwing a little hissy fit every time he gets sniped at. They bickered constantly and sniped at each other with abrasive, even caustic, jibes, but Drake made a valiant effort to stop himself short of physical violence. The prize - launched in 1981 - has also endured sniping from critics who claim it is no longer as important as it once was. The Green Arrow is a bit crass and snipes at Batman a lot, but that's to be expected from a second-stringer superhero. Critics sniped that while his work was solid laboratory chemistry, others were responsible for the brilliant advances that made it possible. It would have been easy for me to give up and say I can't be bothered to be sniped at any more about wrinkly rockers and all of that. She had planned to give a grumbling apology for being late when he sniped at her incompetence, but she really did feel bad now. Despite the unanimous vote, the bill did not clear the U.S. Congress without some partisan sniping. Synonyms denounce, condemn, criticize, censure, damn, attack, fulminate against, rail against, inveigh against, blame, carp at, cavil at, run down, pillory, rap, lambaste, deplore, disapprove of, vilify, execrate, revile 3(in an online auction) place a bid judged to be high enough to win an item just before the bidding is scheduled to close. I regularly snipe 10 to 5 seconds before the end of eBay auctions Example sentencesExamples My last gripe about eBay: sniping. "Sniping" - withholding bids until the last moment - suppresses competition, says Hohner, a game theorist from New Jersey. He found that with inexpensive, widely available items—like DVDs of recent movies—sniping doesn't really affect final prices. There is no possibility that users can snipe an auction at the last moment, because a few seconds are added to the clock with every new bid. Do you need to snipe? Is it worth the fee—or the precious time you'll spend sitting by the computer if you do it manually? Sniping is the main reason I don't bother with eBay anymore. Two other bidders were sniping, too, but my bid would have been the last one. As eBay veterans know, due to the phenomenon known as "sniping," the only bidding that matters in an online auction happens during the final moments. A bidder who ‘snipes’ is like a stock-market trader who ‘steps in front’ of investors by beating their price by a few pennies. While online bidders have long worried whether the item they're buying will arrive in the promised condition and sellers have wondered about being paid, these days they may also have to contend with "sniping," " bid shielding " and other bid manipulations. You can overcome this by sniping (bidding in the closing seconds) - and you don't even need to be in front of your computer when you do it. I snipe because my maximum bid is my maximum bid. Insiders admit that sniping does work in winning auctions. I didn't know all the tricks, and was outbid in the closing minute in a tactic known as ‘sniping’. Sniping has stripped auctions of much of their entertainment value. 3.1with object Outbid (another bidder in an online auction) just before the bidding is scheduled to close. what is the point of sitting around for a seven-day auction when half the time you get sniped at the last second Example sentencesExamples Right until the very last minute, I had the high bid, at £11.50. And then I got sniped. I was all set to buy my first Banksy and then I got sniped. You can only get sniped if you're not willing to pay what you think something is worth. I bid $200, then some lady sniped me just as the auction ended with $205. I wasn't sniped: I just didn't bid high enough. Once you've been sniped, your chance of becoming a sniper is greatly increased. I was about to cop a pair on eBay last night, but somebody sniped me at the last minute. I got sniped again today, with 6 seconds to go. I promise not to stay up till 3.25 am to snipe a US bidder off a pair of yellow leather mod boots which are rightfully mine. A couple of collectors always track the auctions he bids on, and have sniped him in the past. I'd been sniped. Someone, or rather their automated bidding software, had swooped in, in the last few seconds, and scooped the Zenith for only the least allowable increment over my bid. Yesterday I got sniped while trying to buy some Edwardian shoes on eBay. Origin Middle English: probably of Scandinavian origin; compare with Icelandic mýrisnípa; obscurely related to Dutch snip and German Schnepfe.
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