snippet
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
snippet (plural snippets)
- A small part of something, such as a song or fabric; sample.
- From the snippet I heard of their rehearsal, they sound pretty good.
- 1902, Beatrix Potter, The Tailor of Gloucester:
- He cut his coats without waste; according to his embroidered cloth, they were very small ends and snippets that lay about upon the table […]
- (computing) A text file containing a relatively small amount of code, useless by itself, along with instructions for inserting that code into a larger codebase.
- (small part) excerpt
- French: fragment
- German: Stück, Teil, Schnipsel
- Portuguese: pedacinho, fragmento
- Russian: кусо́к
- Spanish: pedazo, retazo, trozo
- French: snippet
- Russian: кусо́к
- Spanish: snippet
snippet (snippets, present participle snippeting; past and past participle snippeted)
- (transitive, often, computing) To produce a snippet (small part) of; to excerpt.
- We snippeted the blog posts for display on the home page.
- To make small cuts, to snip, particularly with scissors.
- 1902, Beatrix Potter, The Tailor of Gloucester:
- All day long while the light lasted he sewed and snippetted […]
- 1902, Beatrix Potter, The Tailor of Gloucester:
- (tiny part) excerpt
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