Snippet vs Morsel - What's the difference?
snippet | morsel | Related terms |
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 small fragment or share of something, commonly applied to food.
A very small amount.
* 2008 , Pamela Griffin, New York Brides , Barbour Publishing Inc. (2008), ISBN 9781597899840, page 70:
Snippet is a related term of morsel.
As nouns the difference between snippet and morsel
is that snippet is a tiny piece or part while morsel is a small fragment or share of something, commonly applied to food.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) excerptmorsel
English
Noun
(en noun)- Didn't even a morsel of decency remain in his brother?