Snipping vs Snippet - What's the difference?
snipping | snippet |
The act by which something is snipped or cut.
* 1993 , Raymond Leppard, ?Thomas P. Lewis, Raymond Leppard on Music (page 78)
A piece cut off; a clipping.
* 1975 , Gerald Brenan, St John of the Cross: His Life and Poetry (page 82)
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 …
As verbs the difference between snipping and snippet
is that snipping is present participle of lang=en while snippet is to produce a snippet (small part), to excerpt.As nouns the difference between snipping and snippet
is that snipping is the act by which something is snipped or cut while snippet is a tiny piece or part.snipping
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Verb
(head)Noun
(en noun)- There was a time when all manner of snippings were made to keep Handel's operas within bounds.
- One of them bit off his toe, others took snippings from his hair or tore off his nails and would have cut pieces from his flesh had they not been prevented.
snippet
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(wikipedia snippet)Noun
(en noun)- From the snippet I heard of their rehearsal, they sound pretty good.