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 …
(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

Translations

a tiny piece or part

Catalan: fragment (ca)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 片段 (zh) (piànduàn)
Czech: útržek m
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
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 (irregular) snippetting, simple past and past participle snippeted or (irregular) snippetted)

To produce a snippet (small part), to excerpt.
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

Particularly used in computing, for excerpts of search or query results.

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

Synonyms

(tiny part): excerpt

References

snippet on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

steppin'

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