Syllable, a segment of speech that consists of a vowel, with or without one or more accompanying consonant sounds immediately preceding or following for example, a, I, out, too, cap, snap, check.
When NATO did its own Arctic maneuvers in May, a snap check ordered by Putin sent 12,000 troops and accompanying hardware back into the region for drills.
And it has agreed both to accept intrusive, snap checks of nuclear sites, and to adopt an additional inspection protocol that will turn these new rules into law.
When he is finished, she whips out a digital camera and snaps the check.
I sat up with a snap to check the cast list.
The Internet makes it a snap to check out any competitor — its prices, customer list, suppliers, distributors and new-product information.
But mobile travel app Worldmate, which was acquired by Carlson Wagonlit Travel last year, now makes it a snap to check in to your flights in a few seconds.
Thankfully the face is actually readable so it should be a snap to check in every few hours for a round of "Who had more Kirin?" at your local watering hole.
In fact just yesterday, if you'd been in the office, you'd have caught us giddly crowded around another newly developed disposable camera's worth of holiday snaps, fervently checking Ryanair for the next budget flight to Ayia Napa.
"We are driving across India in just two weeks," I explained to the reporter of a regional newspaper as his cameraman hurriedly snapped us checking into a guesthouse, in the north-eastern town of Bhagalpur on the banks of the Ganges.
