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Omission vs Snip - What's the difference?

omission | snip |

As nouns the difference between omission and snip

is that omission is the act of omitting while snip is the act of snipping; cutting a small amount off of something.

As a verb snip is

to cut with short sharp actions, as with scissors.

omission

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The act of omitting.
  • The act of neglecting to perform an action one has an obligation to do.
  • Something deleted or left out.
  • Something not done or neglected.
  • (grammar) The shortening of a word or phrase, using an apostrophe ( ' ) to replace the missing letters, often used to approximate the sound of speech or a specific dialect.

    • Usage notes

    Following are common examples of omission using an apostrophe: : six o’clock (shortening of “six of the clock”) : The high school class of ’69 (shortening of “1969”) : O’er there (shortening of “over there”) * From Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn : *: S’pose people left money laying around where he was—what did he do? He collared it. S’pose he contracted to do a thing; and you paid him, and didn’t set down there and see that he done it—what did he do? He always done the other thing. S’pose he opened his mouth—what then? If he didn't shut it up powerful quick, he'd lose a lie, every time. That’s the kind of a bug Henry was; and if we’d ’a’ had him along ’stead of our kings, he’d ’a’ fooled that town a heap worse than ourn done.

    See also

    * contraction ----

    snip

    English

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • To cut with short sharp actions, as with scissors.
    • I don't want you to take much hair off; just snip my mullet off.
  • To reduce the price of a product, to create a snip.
  • To break off; to snatch away.
  • * Daniel Defoe
    • The captain seldom ordered anything out of the ship's stores but I snipped some of it for my own share.
  • (informal) To circumcise.
  • * 2001 , David Cohen, The Father's Book: Being a Good Dad in the 21st Century , John WIley & Sons Ltd (2001), ISBN 0470841338, page 72:
    • Circumcised fathers face a special problem. Do you want your son's willy to be that radically different from your own? So, parents should perhaps not be put off. Be good to your son's future lovers and have him snipped .
  • * 2008 , Ilene Schneider, Talk Dirty Yiddish: Beyond Drek: The Curses, Slang, and Street Lingo You Need to Know When You Speak Yiddish , Adams Media (2008), ISBN 9781598698565, page 150:
    • His children, however, were not snipped , possibly because Princess Diana was opposed to the practice, which is out of fashion in England.
  • * 2012 , Tom Hickman, God's Doodle: The Life and Times of the Penis , Square Peg (2012), ISBN 9780224095532, page 144:
    • By the outbreak of the First World War such claims had diminished and the medical profession touted circumcision as being 'hygienic' — fathers were not only encouraged to have their newborn sons snipped , but to belatedly enjoy the benefits themselves.
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    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of snipping; cutting a small amount off of something.
  • Something acquired for a low price; a bargain.
    • That wholesale lot on eBay was a snip at $10
  • A small amount of something; a pinch.
  • A vasectomy.
  • A small or weak person, especially a young one.
  • * 2010 — Ellen Renner, Castle of Shadows , Hachette UK, 2010 ISBN 1408313723.
    • 'Might as well come out now, you little snip, from wherever you be hiding!'
  • (obsolete) A share or portion; a snack.
    • (rfquotek, L'Estrange)
  • (obsolete, slang) A tailor.
    • (Nares)
    (Charles Kingsley)

    Derived terms

    * snipper * snippy

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