Modicum vs Snippet - What's the difference?
modicum | snippet |
A small, modest or trifling amount.
a tiny piece or part
* 1902 , (Beatrix Potter), (The Tailor of Gloucester):
*:He cut his coats without waste; according to his embroidered cloth, they were very small ends and snippets that lay about upon the table …
(label) a textfile containing a relatively small amount of code, useless by itself, along with instructions for inserting that code into a larger codebase
To produce a snippet (small part), to excerpt.
To make small cuts, to snip, particularly with scissors.
* 1902 , (Beatrix Potter), (The Tailor of Gloucester):
*:All day long while the light lasted he sewed and snippetted …
As nouns the difference between modicum and snippet
is that modicum is a small, modest or trifling amount while snippet is a tiny piece or part.As a verb snippet is
to produce a snippet (small part), to excerpt.modicum
English
Noun
(modica)- Unable to garner even a modicum of support for his plan, he conceded to follow the others.
Synonyms
* (a small amount) iota, jot, tittle * See also .snippet
English
(wikipedia snippet)Noun
(en noun)- From the snippet I heard of their rehearsal, they sound pretty good.
