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Snipping vs Paring - What's the difference?

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Snipping is a related term of paring.


As nouns the difference between snipping and paring

is that snipping is the act by which something is snipped or cut while paring is query.

As a verb snipping

is .

snipping

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which something is snipped or cut.
  • * 1993 , Raymond Leppard, ?Thomas P. Lewis, Raymond Leppard on Music (page 78)
    • There was a time when all manner of snippings were made to keep Handel's operas within bounds.
  • A piece cut off; a clipping.
  • * 1975 , Gerald Brenan, St John of the Cross: His Life and Poetry (page 82)
    • One of them bit off his toe, others took snippings from his hair or tore off his nails and would have cut pieces from his flesh had they not been prevented.

    paring

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A fragment or shaving that has been pared.

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