snippet

English

Etymology

From snip +‎ -et. Compare snippock.

Pronunciation

(UK) IPA^(key): /ˈsnɪpɪt/
(US) IPA^(key): /ˈsnɪpɪt/, [ˈsnɪpɪ̈(ʔ)t̚]
Audio (US) (file)
Rhymes: -ɪpɪt

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 […]
- 1959 April, P. Ransome-Wallis, “The Southern in Trouble on the Kent Coast”, in Trains Illustrated, London: Ian Allan Publishing, ISSN 0141-9935, OCLC 35845948, page 216:
  On another occasion a "Schools" class, No. 30911 Dover, with a load of eight bogies on the same train was badly delayed by signals all the way, but made very determined attempts to pick up time whenever possible. This resulted in a sustained speed of 50 m.p.h. up Sole Street bank and several snippets in the "eighties".
- 1988, Roald Dahl, Matilda:
  Miss Honey smiled. It was extraordinary, she told herself, how this little snippet of a girl seemed suddenly to be taking charge of her problems, and with such authority, too.
(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.

Synonyms

(small part): excerpt

Derived terms

in-snippet
snippet journalism
snippety

Translations

a tiny piece or part

Bulgarian: отрязък (bg) m (otrjazǎk)
Catalan: fragment (ca)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 片段 (zh) (piànduàn)
Czech: útržek m
Dutch: fragment (nl)
Finnish: pätkä (fi)
French: fragment (fr) m
German: Stück (de) n, Teil (de) n, Schnipsel (de) m
Greek: απόσπασμα (el) (apóspasma)
Korean: 끄트러기 (kkeuteureogi), 조각 (ko) (jogak), 단편 (ko) (danpyeon)
Maori: pitopito
Norwegian: snutt (no) m
Polish: skrawek (pl) m, strzęp (pl) m, (mały) fragment (pl) m
Portuguese: pedacinho m, fragmento (pt) m
Russian: кусо́к (ru) m (kusók), лоску́т (ru) m (loskút), обло́мок (ru) m (oblómok), оско́лок (ru) m (oskólok), фрагме́нт (ru) m (fragmént), обре́зок (ru) m (obrézok), часть (ru) f (častʹ), клочо́к (ru) (kločók)
Spanish: pedazo (es) m, retazo (es) m, trozo (es) m

a textfile containing a relatively small amount of code

French: snippet (fr) m
Greek: απόσπασμα κώδικα n (apóspasma kódika)
Russian: кусо́к (ru) m (kusók), фрагме́нт (ru) m (fragmént), часть (ru) f (častʹ)
Spanish: snippet m

Verb

snippet (third-person singular simple present snippets, present participle snippeting or (nonstandard) snippetting, simple past and past participle snippeted or (nonstandard) snippetted)

(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 […]

Usage notes

Doubled ‘tt’ is incorrect per standard spelling rules, but reasonably common.

Synonyms

(tiny part): excerpt

References

snippet on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

steppin'