Snippet vs Description - What's the difference?
snippet | description |
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 …
A sketch or account of anything in words; a portraiture or representation in language; an enumeration of the essential qualities of a thing or species.
The act of describing; a delineation by marks or signs.
A set of characteristics by which someone or something can be recognized.
(biology) A scientific documentation of a specimen intended to reveal a new species by technically explaining its characteristics and particularly how it differs from other species.
As nouns the difference between snippet and description
is that snippet is a tiny piece or part while description is a sketch or account of anything in words; a portraiture or representation in language; an enumeration of the essential qualities of a thing or species.As a verb snippet
is to produce a snippet (small part), to excerpt.snippet
English
(wikipedia snippet)Noun
(en noun)- From the snippet I heard of their rehearsal, they sound pretty good.
Synonyms
* (tiny part) excerptVerb
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) excerptdescription
English
(wikipedia description)Noun
(en noun)- The type description of the fungus was written by a botanist.