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Snippet vs Inkling - What's the difference?

snippet | inkling |

As nouns the difference between snippet and inkling

is that snippet is a tiny piece or part while inkling is a slight suspicion or hint.

As verbs the difference between snippet and inkling

is that snippet is to produce a snippet (small part), to excerpt while inkling is .

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

    inkling

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A slight suspicion or hint.
  • (dialect) Inclination, desire.

    • Verb

    (head)

    • Anagrams

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