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Clipping vs Snipping - What's the difference?

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As verbs the difference between clipping and snipping

is that clipping is present participle of lang=en while snipping is present participle of lang=en.

As nouns the difference between clipping and snipping

is that clipping is a piece of something removed by clipping while snipping is the act by which something is snipped or cut.

clipping

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

  • (countable) A piece of something removed by clipping.
    • a clipping of hair
    grass clippings
  • (countable) An article clipped from a newspaper.
  • (countable, linguistics) A short form (of a word).
    • The word "ad" is a clipping of "advertisement".
  • (uncountable, signal processing) the process of cutting off a signal level that rises above a certain maximum level

    • Synonyms

    * (piece of something removed by clipping) offcut, snippet * (article clipped from a newspaper) cutting, newspaper clipping, newspaper cutting * (word formed by shortening another) short form

    snipping

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which something is snipped or cut.
  • * 1993 , Raymond Leppard, ?Thomas P. Lewis, Raymond Leppard on Music (page 78)
    • There was a time when all manner of snippings were made to keep Handel's operas within bounds.
  • A piece cut off; a clipping.
  • * 1975 , Gerald Brenan, St John of the Cross: His Life and Poetry (page 82)
    • 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.