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Cropping vs Snipping - What's the difference?

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Cropping is a related term of snipping.


As verbs the difference between cropping and snipping

is that cropping is while snipping is .

As nouns the difference between cropping and snipping

is that cropping is (mining) while snipping is the act by which something is snipped or cut.

cropping

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (mining)
  • * 1905 , Waldemar Lindgren, The Copper Deposits of the Clifton-Morenci District, Arizona (page 207)
    • Their croppings are either entirely barren or contain only a moderate amount of copper, but much richer ore is ordinarily found just above the chalcocite zone.
  • * 1912 , John Mason Boutwell, ?Lester Hood Woolsey, Geology and ore deposits of the Park City district, Utah (page 121)
    • The cropping of the Quincy ore-bearing bed, the equivalent of the Daly West bed, is stated to have been found at the east end of the present mine and just below the present wagon road.

    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.