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Shearing vs Snipping - What's the difference?

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As verbs the difference between shearing and snipping

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

As nouns the difference between shearing and snipping

is that shearing is the act or operation of clipping with shears or a shearing machine, as the wool from sheep, or the nap from cloth while snipping is the act by which something is snipped or cut.

As an adjective shearing

is tending to cut or tear.

shearing

English

Adjective

(-)
  • Tending to cut or tear.

    • Verb

    (head)

    • Anagrams

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    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act or operation of clipping with shears or a shearing machine, as the wool from sheep, or the nap from cloth.
  • The product of the act or operation of clipping with shears or a shearing machine.
    • the whole shearing''' of a flock; the '''shearings from cloth
  • .
    • (Youatt)
  • (Scotland) The act or operation of reaping.
  • The act or operation of dividing with shears.
    • the shearing of metal plates
  • The process of preparing shear steel; tilting.
  • (mining) The process of making a vertical side cutting in working into a face of coal.
    • (Webster 1913)

    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.