snipe | a gunshot from a concealed location |
snipe hunt | an elaborate practical joke in which the unsuspecting victim hunts a snipe and is typically left in the dark holding a bag and waiting for the snipe to run into it, in the South a snipe hunt is practically a rite of passage |
solitary vireo Vireo solitarius | of eastern North America having a bluish-grey head and mostly green body |
American woodcock woodcock snipe Philohela minor | small long-billed woodcock, prized as a game bird |
snipe | Old or New World straight-billed game bird of the sandpiper family, of marshy areas, similar to the woodcocks |
whole snipe Gallinago gallinago | common snipe of Eurasia and Africa |
Wilson's snipe Gallinago gallinago delicata | American snipe |
great snipe woodcock snipe Gallinago media | Old World snipe larger and darker than the whole snipe |
jacksnipe half snipe Limnocryptes minima | a small short-billed Old World snipe |
red-breasted snipe Limnodromus scolopaceus | a dowitcher with a red breast |
soliton soliton wave solitary wave | (physics) a quantum of energy or quasiparticle that can be propagated as a traveling wave in nonlinear systems and is neither preceded nor followed by another such disturbance, does not obey the superposition principle and does not dissipate, soliton waves can travel long distances with little loss of energy or structure |
hermit recluse solitary solitudinarian troglodyte | one who lives in solitude |
solitary pussytoes | a variety of pussytoes |
solitary confinement solitary | confinement of a prisoner in isolation from other prisoners, he was held in solitary |
attack round b assail lash out b snipe b assault | attack in speech or writing, The editors of the left-leaning paper attacked the new House Speaker |
sharpshoot snipe | aim and shoot with great precision |
snipe | hunt or shoot snipe |
lonely solitary unfrequented | devoid of creatures, a lonely crossroads, a solitary retreat, a trail leading to an unfrequented lake |
lone(a) lonesome(a) only(a) sole(a) solitary(a) | being the only one, single and isolated from others, the lone doctor in the entire county, a lonesome pine, an only child, the sole heir, the sole example, a solitary instance of cowardice, a solitary speck in the sky |
lone(a) lonely(a) solitary | characterized by or preferring solitude, a lone wolf, a lonely existence, a man of a solitary disposition, a solitary walk |
alone(p) lone(a) lonely(a) solitary | lacking companions or companionship, he was alone when we met him, she is alone much of the time, the lone skier on the mountain, a lonely fisherman stood on a tuft of gravel, a lonely soul, a solitary traveler |
nongregarious nonsocial solitary | of plants and animals, not growing or living in groups or colonies, solitary bees |