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Snip vs Snippet - What's the difference?

snip | snippet |

As verbs the difference between snip and snippet

is that snip is to cut with short sharp actions, as with scissors while snippet is to produce a snippet (small part), to excerpt.

As nouns the difference between snip and snippet

is that snip is the act of snipping; cutting a small amount off of something while snippet is a tiny piece or part.

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

    Anagrams

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    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