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Snippet vs Microcontent - What's the difference?

snippet | microcontent |

As nouns the difference between snippet and microcontent

is that snippet is a tiny piece or part while microcontent is (internet) any small piece of content removed from its original context, such as a summary snippet in a page of search results.

As a verb snippet

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

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

    microcontent

    English

    Noun

    (-) (wikipedia microcontent)
  • (Internet) Any small piece of content removed from its original context, such as a summary snippet in a page of search results.