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Snipping vs Sniping - What's the difference?

snipping | sniping |

As verbs the difference between snipping and sniping

is that snipping is present participle of lang=en while sniping is present participle of snipe.

As nouns the difference between snipping and sniping

is that snipping is the act by which something is snipped or cut while sniping is a shooting from a concealed place.

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.

    sniping

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A shooting from a concealed place.
  • * 2009 , G. Bingham Powell, Contemporary Democracies: Participation, Stability, and Violence
    • Although the army later returned control to civilian authorities, deaths from election clashes and terrorist bombings and snipings continued to occur, and became more frequent in the late 1970s.