snapshot from vs snapshot of

Both 'snapshot from' and 'snapshot of' are commonly used phrases in English, but they are used in different contexts. 'Snapshot from' is used when referring to the source or origin of the snapshot, while 'snapshot of' is used when describing the content or subject of the snapshot.

Last updated: March 30, 2024

snapshot from

This phrase is correct and commonly used in English when referring to the source or origin of the snapshot.

Use 'snapshot from' when you want to indicate the source or origin of the snapshot, such as 'This is a snapshot from our vacation in Hawaii.'

Examples:

Here is a snapshot from the party last night.
I took a snapshot from the top of the mountain.
She shared a snapshot from her childhood.
Can you send me a snapshot from the conference?
The book includes a snapshot from the author's life.

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Note: the data is a snapshot from Bloomberg on 21 August 2014.
When you want to print your snapshot from the preview, just click Print... and you get the standard & kde; Print dialog, from where you can directly print your snapshot.
Actually, I studied your "Snapshots from Darfur" project at NYU.
No knickknacks, snapshots from the past, phone numbers.
They looked like snapshots from a bar or a club, as I recall.
Snapshots from a country on the brink of an historic crisis.
And you'll receive payment when I know that those aren't Ian's snapshots from Augusta.
During the week we will bring you snapshots from a visit by the Civil Liberties Committee to Denmark's centres for immigrants and asylum seekers.
During the week we will bring you snapshots from a visit by the Civil Liberties Committee to Denmark's centres for immigrants and asylum seekers.
I got on board security snapshots from the taxi coming at you.
Now, all these films and TV appearances and magazine covers and internet interviews, publicity photos, snapshots from her childhood...
And at the same time, we're going to look at just images from a photo stream that is pretty close to live of things that - snapshots from Second Life.
Does Michel have compromising photographs of you, that I don't know about, like some snapshots from your perm year?
There was an ample selection of snapshots to choose from on your profile.
What you notice here is that these snapshots taken from the output of the retina chip are very sparse, right?
These are the statistics that have emerged from the snapshot on the impact of the crisis taken by Unioncamere Campania, which collected the data from the Regional Economic Monitoring Centre.
Some differences between these two snapshots emerge however.
Compare failures of this testrun against snapshot< snapshot>. Defaults to the most recently captured failure snapshot or none if none exists.
Save failures of this testrun as failure snapshot< snapshot>
Remember that snapshot behind old Bert's counter?

Alternatives:

a snapshot taken from
a snapshot captured from
a snapshot extracted from
a snapshot originating from
a snapshot sourced from

snapshot of

This phrase is correct and commonly used in English when describing the content or subject of the snapshot.

Use 'snapshot of' when you want to describe the content or subject of the snapshot, such as 'This is a snapshot of our family reunion.'