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Sliver vs Snippet - What's the difference?

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Sliver is a related term of snippet.


As nouns the difference between sliver and snippet

is that sliver is a long piece cut or rent off; a sharp, slender fragment; a splinter while snippet is a tiny piece or part.

As verbs the difference between sliver and snippet

is that sliver is to cut or divide into long, thin pieces, or into very small pieces; to cut or rend lengthwise; to slit while snippet is to produce a snippet (small part), to excerpt.

sliver

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A long piece cut or rent off; a sharp, slender fragment; a splinter.
  • * 2013 , . Melbourne, Australia: The Text Publishing Company. chapter 27. p. 270.
  • *:A sliver of bone has punctured a lung, and a small surgical operation was needed to remove it (would he like to keep the bone as a memento?--it is in a phial by his bedside).
  • A strand, or slender roll, of cotton or other fiber in a loose, untwisted state, produced by a carding machine and ready for the roving or slubbing which precedes spinning.
  • Bait made of pieces of small fish. Compare kibblings.
  • (US, New York) A narrow high-rise apartment building.

    • Synonyms

    * (long piece cut or rent off) shard, slice, splinter

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To cut or divide into long, thin pieces, or into very small pieces; to cut or rend lengthwise; to slit.
    • to sliver wood
    (Shakespeare)
  • * Sir Walter Scott
    • They'll sliver thee like a turnip.

    Anagrams

    * *

    snippet

    English

    (wikipedia snippet)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • a tiny piece or part
    • From the snippet I heard of their rehearsal, they sound pretty good.
  • * 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

    • Synonyms

    * (tiny part) excerpt

    Verb

  • 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 …

    • Usage notes

    Particularly used in computing, for excerpts of search or query results. Doubled ‘tt’ is incorrect per standard spelling rules, but reasonably common.

    Synonyms

    * (tiny part) excerpt