Snark
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Fictional creatures
- Snark (Lewis Carroll)Snark (Lewis Carroll)The Snark is a fictional animal species created by Lewis Carroll in his nonsense poem The Hunting of the Snark. His descriptions of the creature were, in his own words, unimaginable, and he wanted that to remain so.-The origin of the poem:...
, a fictional animal species in Lewis Carroll's The Hunting of the Snark (1876) - Snark (Half-Life), fictional small, bug-like species of alien used as a weapon
- Zn'rxZn'rxThe Zn'rx are a fictional extraterrestrial race who have appeared in many Marvel Comics. Unpronounceable by human tongues, the Zn'rx are known better as "Snarks" among Earth's superheroes because they were nicknamed that way by a Kymellian called Whitey, who named them after the monster in Lewis...
, a race of fictional aliens in Marvel Comics publications, commonly referred to as "Snarks" - Corporal Snark, a minor character in Catch-22 (1961) by Joseph Heller
- A species of creature in The 100 Lives of Black Jack SavageThe 100 Lives of Black Jack SavageThe 100 Lives of Black Jack Savage is a television series broadcast in the United States by NBC and produced by Stephen J. Cannell Productions in association with Walt Disney Television. This show originated as a TV-movie. The program originally aired in 1991, but lasted less than one season...
- The Snark, fictional alien machine that visits Earth in the novel In the Ocean of NightIn the Ocean of NightIn the Ocean of Night is a 1977 hard science fiction novel by Gregory Benford. It is the first novel in his Galactic Center Saga. It was nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1977, and for the Locus Award the following year....
(1977) by Gregory Benford - A fictional creature from the TV series The TroopThe TroopThe Troop is an American-Canadian live-action, single camera comedy-adventure television series about a trio of teenagers who fight and capture monsters and other supernatural phenomena that invade the fictional town of Lakewood...
- A fictional creature from A Game of ThronesA Game of ThronesA Game of Thrones is the first book in A Song of Ice and Fire, a series of epic fantasy novels by American author George R. R. Martin. It was first published on 6 August 1996. The novel won the 1997 Locus Award, and was nominated for both the 1998 Nebula Award and the 1997 World Fantasy Award...
, fictional even in the fictional world
Aircraft and missiles
- SM-62 SnarkSM-62 Snark-External links:** Air Force Magazine article about a Snark that was test-fired and rumored to have been found in Brazil** detailed article on Snark and the USAF school to train personnel for it...
, an American intercontinental nuclear cruise missile - Sopwith SnarkSopwith Snark|-See also:-Notes: A similar installation of two Lewis guns on the lower wings of Sopwith Dolphin fighters was tested by No. 87 Squadron RAF.-Bibliography:*Bruce, J.M. British Aeroplanes 1914-18. London:Putnam, 1957....
, a British experimental fighter plane
Ships
- Snark, an experimental rescue submersible in the film Gray Lady DownGray Lady DownGray Lady Down is a 1978 disaster film by Universal Studios starring Charlton Heston, David Carradine, Stacy Keach, Ned Beatty, Ronny Cox, and features the first film role for a young Christopher Reeve...
(1978) - The Snark, a yacht described in Jack Londons book The Cruise of the SnarkThe Cruise of the SnarkThe Cruise of the Snark is a non-fictional, illustrated book by Jack London chronicling his sailing adventure in 1907 across the south Pacific in his ketch the Snark. Accompanying London on this voyage was his wife Charmian and a small crew...
(1911) - Snark sailboatSnark sailboatThe Snark is a lightweight lateen rigged sailboat. The early Snarks had hulls made of expanded polystyrene . Later versions have an EPS hull clad inside and out with a layer of ABS...
, a small, inexpensive, and lightweight sailboat - MV The Second SnarkMV The Second SnarkMV The Second Snark is a small passenger ferry, built in 1938 by William Denny of Dumbarton, now providing cruises on the Firth of Clyde, Scotland.-History:...
, historically a shipyard tender, now in service as a cruise boat and ferry, a United States Navy patrol boat in commission from 1917 to 1919
Other
- Snark (noun), Combination of "snide" and "remark". Sarcastic comment(s). Also snarky (adj.) and snarkily (adv.)urban dictionary
- Snark (graph theory)Snark (graph theory)In the mathematical field of graph theory, a snark is a connected, bridgeless cubic graph with chromatic index equal to 4. In other words, it is a graph in which every vertex has three neighbors, and the edges cannot be colored by only three colors without two edges of the same color meeting at a...
, a type of graph - Snark (punctuation), a proposed ligature to be adopted as an English language "irony mark"
- SNARK (theorem prover), a computer program
- Snark, an Open Source BitTorrent clientBitTorrent clientBitTorrent is a peer-to-peer program developed by Bram Cohen and BitTorrent, Inc. used for uploading and downloading files via the BitTorrent protocol. BitTorrent was the first client written for the protocol. It is often nicknamed Mainline by developers denoting its official origins. Since version...
- Snark (2009), a book by film critic David DenbyDavid Denby (film critic)David Denby is an American journalist, best known as a film critic for The New Yorker magazine.-Background and education:Denby grew up in New York City. He received a B.A...
. - Snark, computer game published in the book What to Do After You Hit Return or P.C.C.'s First Book of Computer GamesWhat to Do After You Hit Return or P.C.C.'s First Book of Computer GamesWhat to Do After You Hit Return or P.C.C.'s First Book of Computer Games is the first computer game book written by Bob Albrecht at People's Computer Company in 1975...
(1977) by Bob Albrecht - noun: Portmanteau of "snide" and "remark". Sarcastic comment(s). snarky (adj.), snarkily (adv.)