Snip

Definition: Snip

Snip

Noun

1. A small piece of anything (especially a piece that has been snipped off).

2. The act of clipping or snipping.

Verb

1. Sever or remove by pinching or snipping; "nip off the flowers".

2. Cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of "dress the plants in the garden".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "snip" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1509. (references)

Industry

Slang in 1811

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

SNIP

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Snip

Clothing

Clothier, tailor, milliner, costumier, sempstress, snip; dressmaker, habitmaker, breechesmaker, shoemaker; Crispin; friseur; cordwainer, cobbler, hosier, hatter; draper, linen draper, haberdasher, mercer.

Disjunction

Sunder, divide, subdivide, sever, dissever, abscind; circumcise; cut; incide, incise; saw, snip, nib, nip, cleave, rive, rend, slit, split, splinter, chip, crack, snap, break, tear, burst; rend; rend asunder, rend in twain; wrench, rupture, shiver, cranch, crunch, craunch, chop; cut up, rip up; hack, hew, slash; whittle; haggle, hackle, discind, lacerate, scamble, mangle, gash, hash, slice.

Smallness

Small quan modicum, trace, hint, minimum; vanishing point; material point, atom, particle, molecule, corpuscle, point, speck, dot, mote, jot, iota, ace; minutiae, details; look, thought, idea, soupcon, dab, dight, whit, tittle, shade, shadow; spark, scintilla, gleam; touch, cast; grain, scruple, granule, globule, minim, sup, sip, sop, spice, drop, droplet, sprinkling, dash, morceau, screed, smack, tinge, tincture; inch, patch, scantling, tatter, cantlet, flitter, gobbet, mite, bit, morsel, crumb, seed, fritter, shive; snip, snippet; snick, snack, snatch, slip, scrag; chip, chipping; shiver, sliver, driblet, clipping, paring, shaving, hair.

Crosswords: Snip

Snip snip - slice slice can you believe it (Brazil; writing credit: Terry Gilliam; Charles McKeown)

Tee-Hee, on Solitaire's first wrong answer, you will snip the little finger of Mr. Bond's left hand (Live and Let Die; writing credit: Tom Mankiewicz)

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Books

• Snip (reference)

• Snip Snap Crocodile (Jumping Jack Board Bks) (reference)

• Snip Snip (reference)

• Snip Your Snapshots & Trim Your Treasures (reference)

• Snip, Snap, Snurr and the Yellow Sled (reference)

  (more book examples)

High Tech

• 5,000 Snip Arts (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Consumer Goods

• Malco M12 Andy 12" Aluminum Handled Snip (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Health

Its parent protein, APP, protrudes through the neuron membrane, part inside and part outside the cell. There only for a moment, it is continually replaced by new APP molecules manufactured in the cell. While it is embedded in the membrane, enzymes called proteases snip or cleave it in two, creating the beta amyloid fragment. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "snip": snip off ♦ snip through ♦ snip to pieces. Additional references.

Beginning with "snip": Snip-snap.

Ending with "snip": scissor-snip.

Albanian

pres (amputate, anticipate, await, be asking for, be expecting, be on the watch, be waiting, bide, buck, chop, clip, coin, cut, cut away, cut open, detruncate, disforest, dissect, entertain, expect, exscind, fell, hew, host, knife, look for, look forward to, mince, mint, Nick, notch, obtruncate, poll, prune, screw, section, sever, shut off, sit on the fence, slash, slot, take, Tarry, undercut, wait, ween, whack), prerje (cut, cutting, excision, felling, gash, incision, jump, kerf, mintage, scission, shearing, slash, slit, striking, tapping), mostër (model, pattern, prill, sample, sampling, specimen), e prerë (chamfer, cut, indentation, Nick, notch, notching, split, twist), copë (chunk, excerpt, fraction, fragment, fritter, hunk, knob, loaf, lump, mammock, morsel, nub, partition, piece, rag, scrap, scrap metal, section, segment, shiver, shred, sliver, snippet, splint, tatter). (various references)

Arabic 

‏فتاة ساذجة, ‏فرصة مناسبة (convenience, tide), ‏مقراض صغير, ‏قصاصة (chip, clip, clipping, cutting, scrap, slip, snippet, trimming), ‏قص (clip, clipping, cut, narrate, recount, relate, report, scissor, shear, shearing, shorn, styling, tell), ‏تجارة رابحة (moneymaking), ‏عينة (pattern, piece, sample, specimen, specious, swab, taking), ‏طق, ‏شق (chap, check, chink, cleavage, cleave, cleft, crack, cranny, crash, crevasse, crevice, cut, excavate, fissure, flaw, fracture, hew, hole, incise, incision, jag, loophole, lump, nick, open, overture, part, rift, rip, rive, slash, slit, slot, snag, spiracle, splinter, split, spring, tear, twist). (various references)

Bulgarian 

рязване (incision), режа (cut, hack, lop, pare, scissor, slash, slice, stab), кълцам (chop, hack, mince), кьораво (windfall), клъцване (snick), отрезка (piece), обрязвам (circumcise), младок (colt, fledgeling, fledgling, sapling, seedling, shaveling, shaver, snippet, sprig, sprout, youngster), парченце (bit, lick, patch, scrap, shred, sippet, snap), изгодна сделка, изгодна покупка (good buy). (various references)

Chinese 

剪 (shear, sheared, shearing, shears, sheers, snips). (various references)

Czech

stříhat (clip, cut, shear), zástřih, ustřihnout (cut off), ustřižení, jistota (aplomb, assurance, certainty, certitude, evidence, sureness, surety), cvakot, ústřižek (coupon). (various references)

Danish

snip. (various references)

Dutch

snip. (various references)

Farsi 

پشم چیدن , چیدن (Arrange, Clip, Crop, Cut, Lop, Mow, Pare, Pick, Pickup, Pluck, Pull, Set, Trim), کش رفتن (Abstract, Cabbage, Nip, Palm, Pilfer, Prig, Snitch, Swipe), قیچی کردن (Share, Shear), قطعه (Bloc, Block, Dab, Fragment, Goblet, Internode, Lot, Mainland, Nugget, Pane, Panel, Passage, Piece, Plank, Plat, Plot, Section, Segment, Slab, Smidgen, Tract), ته سیگار (Stub, Stump), زدن (Abaction, Amputate, Attain, Beat, Bop, Bruise, Clout, Cut, Haze, Imprint, Inject, Koran, Lam, Light, Lodge, Mallet, Nail, Play, Poke, Pop, Shoot, Slap, Slat, Smite, Strike, Stroke, Whack), ادم کوچک یابی اهمیت , ادم احمق (Birdbrain, Drool, Poop, Zombi(Ie)), بسرعت قاپیدن , برش (Broach, Clip, Cut, Cutting, Dissection, Excision, Hack, Incision, Recision, Section, Sectorial, Slash, Slice). (various references)

Finnish

pilkku (comma, dot, dot over I, speck, spot). (various references)

French

polymorphisme de nucléotide unique, petit coup de ciseaux, petit bout (snippet), mèche, ladre, incision, cranter, couper, clic, bonne affaire, bécassine (snipe), échantillon. (various references)

German

Schnitt (average, crop, cut, cutting, edge, editing, incision, intersection, line, modeling, Nick, notch, pattern, scissored, section, serration, shape, slash, sliced), schnippeln (hack). (various references)

Greek 

απόκομα, ψαλιδίζω (clip, scissor, shear, trim). (various references)

Hebrew 

פס�" (band, edge, piece, slice, strip), �'זיז�" (clipping, shearing), �'זיר�" (cut, cutting, differentiation). (various references)

Hungarian

nyisszantás (snick). (various references)

Italian

scampolo (remnant). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

剪 (clip). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

せ�" (at length, attentively, beam, before, boastfully usurping, boil down, broil, carefully, choice, clip, compilation, cork, deeply, editing, fire, former, gland, hermit, hundredth of a yen, late, line, old, parch, precedence, previous, priority, profoundly, roast, selection, stopcock, stopper, the future, thousand, wire, wizard). (various references)

Korean 

가위질 (snips). (various references)

Manx

kionnaght vie, giarrey (abbreviate, abridge, abridging, axe, beat out, bob the tail; severance, bob; severance, carve, castrate, cleave, clip, clip as words; slicing, clip; slicing, condensation, condense, condensing, crop, crop as tail, curtail, curtailment, cut, cut away, cut back, cut short, cut up, disconnect, disconnection, dissect, erupt, eruption, flux, gash, hack, hew, incise, incision, infliction, intersect, intersection, lance, levy, lop, mark out, nicking, prune, pruning, puncture, reaping, scission, section, sever, shear, sink, slash, slit, truncate), dellal mie. (various references)

Pig Latin

ipsnay.(various references)

Portuguese

SNP (single nucleotide polymorphism), tesourada, retalho (odd-come-short), recorte (cant, cutting, dide view, indent, indention, jag, jagg, profile, silhouette, snippet), polimorfismo nucleótido simples (single nucleotide polymorphism), PNS (single nucleotide polymorphism), pedaço cortado (snippet), estrela entre os olhos, bocado (bit, bite, cantle, chip, dollop, fragment, gob, gobbet, lump, morsel, mouthful, piece, portion, scrap, shiver, slice, smack, snatch, sprinkle). (various references)

Romanian

tãia cu foarfeca, croitor (cutter, tailor), bucatã tãiatã cu foarfeca. (various references)

Russian 

резать (carve, cut, shear, slaughters, snipped, snipping, snips), разрезать ножницами, разрез (cut, cutaway, cutting, gash, incision, layer, placket, rent, rip, section, slash), обрезок (snippet), пустое место (blank, gap, nonentity). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

ostrići, odrezati (cut off, obtruncate), odrezak (chop, section, snippet, steak, stub), nestaško (hellion, rogue, scamp, snippet, wag), kablovske makaze, štrickanje. (various references)

Spanish

tijeretear (snick), tijeretazo, tijeretada (clip), recorte (clipping, cutout, cutting, scrap, trim), lunar entre ollares y bebe con los dos, ganga (bargain, gift, giveaway, mullock, pickup). (various references)

Swedish

remsa (border, brim, brink, edge, edging, fringe, rand, ribbon, rim, shred, slip, strip, swath, tape), klippa av (chop, clip, cut). (various references)

Thai

ตั�"หรือเล็ม�"้วยกรรไกร. (various references)

Turkish

zımbayla delmek, makaslamak, makasla kesmek (cut, scissor, shear), makasla kesme, makasla kesilmiş parça (snippet), kolay kazanılan şey, kolay iş (child's play, easy job, mickey mouse, set up, shade, simple job, sitter, snap), kelepir (bargain, good bargain, good buy, secondhand), önemsiz kimse (cipher, featherweight, lay figure, lightweight, negligible quantity, nonentity, non-starter, peanut, small beer, small change), çok ucuz şey. (various references)

Ukrainian

різати ножицями (scissor), чоловічок (manikin, mannikin), красти (appropriate, borrow, cabbage, gyp, mooch, nim, plunder, poach, purloin, steal, swipe, thieve), відрізати (amputate, cut away, cut off, disbranch, nip, snap out, snip off), надріз (cutting, gash, notching, scotch), маленький шматочок. (various references)

Vietnamese 

sự cắt bằng kéo, vết cắt bằng kéo, nhãi ranh (snippet). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "snip": snipe, sniped, sniper, snipers, sniperscope, sniperscopes, snipes, sniping, snipped, snipper, snippers, snippersnapper, snippersnappers, snippet, snippetier, snippetiest, snippets, snippety, snippier, snippiest, snippily, snipping, snippy, snips. (additional references)

Words ending with "snip": parsnip. (additional references)

Words containing "snip": countersniper, countersnipers, guttersnipe, guttersnipes, guttersnipish, parsnips. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Snip" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: cnip, fnip, Fnipp, gnip, gsni, knip, Nsgi, nyp, saip, scip, senip, sinap, sinp, snapp, snep, snic, snie, snil, snipp, snipy, snix, sniz, snmp, snop, snurp, spip, stip, sunip, swip, Vnup, znip. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: nips, pins, spin.

-1 letter: ins, nip, pin, pis, psi, sin, sip.

-2 letters: in, is, pi, si.

+1 letter: nipas, opsin, pains, peins, penis, pians, pinas, pines, pings, pinks, pints, pions, pirns, pyins, snipe, snips, spine, spins, spiny.

+2 letters: genips, gipons, inputs, inspan, instep, lapins, lipins, lupins, mispen, opines, opsins, orpins, paints, paisan, panics, patins, pavins, pekins, pennis, pensil, pepsin, pianos, pignus, pingos, pinkos, pinnas, pinons, pinots, pintas, pintos, pinups, piston, pitons, plains, plinks, poinds, points, poison, ponies, posing, postin, prinks, prints, prions, prison, ptisan, puisne, punish, purins, repins, ripens, siphon, siping, sniped, sniper, snipes, snippy, spavin, sphinx, spinal, spined, spinel, spines, spinet, spinny, spinor, spinto, spline, splint, sprain, spring, sprint, spuing, spying, supine, unpins, unrips, unship, unzips.