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Snipping vs Snapping - What's the difference?

snipping | snapping |

As verbs the difference between snipping and snapping

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

As nouns the difference between snipping and snapping

is that snipping is the act by which something is snipped or cut while snapping is the sound or action of a snap.

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.

    snapping

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The sound or action of a snap.
  • * 1947 , Karl August Boman, Temporomandibular joint arthrosis and its treatment by extirpation of the disk
    • Snappings , audible or palpable, were noted in 45 cases (77 per cent). They were either heard in the course of the examination (about half), or were mentioned in the anamnesis.
  • The act of snapping at, or speaking sharply to, somebody.
  • * Charles Dickens, Dombey and Son
    • There is a snaky gleam in her hard grey eye, as of anticipated rounds of buttered toast, relays of hot chops, worryings and quellings of young children, sharp snappings at poor Berry, and all the other delights of her Ogress's castle.