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Definition: Snippet |
SnippetNoun1. A small piece of anything (especially a piece that has been snipped off). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "snippet" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1923. (references) |
Synonyms: SnippetSynonyms: snip (n), snipping (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Smallness | Small quantity, 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. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Snippet |
| Specialty definitions using "snippet": short interspersed element, short interspersed nuclear element. (references) |
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Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Snippet" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Snippet" is used about 29 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 29 | 64,444 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
snippet | 19 |
snippet sensation | 4 |
quilt quilt simply snippet | 2 |
snippet vb | 2 |
code snippet | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "snippet"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | copëza, copë (chunk, excerpt, fraction, fragment, fritter, hunk, knob, loaf, lump, mammock, morsel, nub, partition, piece, rag, scrap, scrap metal, section, segment, shiver, shred, sliver, snip, splint, tatter). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | نتف (pick off, pluck), قصاصة (chip, clip, clipping, cutting, scrap, slip, snip, trimming), بقايا (left over, oddments, odds and ends, remain, remains, remnant, residue, rubble, ruin, scrap, scrapings, tag, vestige). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | отрязък (clipping, cutting, intercept, piece, section), младок (colt, fledgeling, fledgling, sapling, seedling, shaveling, shaver, snip, sprig, sprout, youngster). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | útržek (scrap). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | پارچه سرقیچی , چیزکوچک (Pinpoint), خرده ریز (Layout, Shard, Spall, Tidbit), ریز (Atomic, Fine, Minuscule, Minute, Pony, Shred, Small, Tiny, Wee, Weeny). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | mainospala (advertising snippet). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | petite nouvelle, petit bout (snip), fragment (snatch), bribes. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Schnipsel (scrap, shred, snip, snippets). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | ת'זיר (clipping, press cutting), קטע 'זור, פסת מי"ע. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | töredék (fraction, fragment, rump, scrap, snatch, splintering), vagdalék (casserole, hash, mince), apró darabka (dribblet, driblet). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | ritaglio (clipping, cut out, cutting, scrap, shred, snip), pezzettino (fraction, particle, small piece), frammento (chip, fractionary, fragment, fritter, rag, scrap, shred, sliver, splinter). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | giarrag (clipping, clipping of paper, cutting, scrap). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ippetsnay recorte (cant, cutting, dide view, indent, indention, jag, jagg, profile, silhouette, snip), pequeno extrato, pedaço cortado (snip), fragmento (cantle, catch, crumb, end, fraction, fragmemt, fragment, fritter, lump, part, patch, piece, scrap, shatter, shiver, snatch, tear). (various references) обрезок (snip). (various references) odrezak (chop, section, snip, steak, stub), nestaško (hellion, rogue, scamp, snip, wag), komad (chunk, piece, play, shred, slip). (various references) retazo (clipping, remnant), retal (oddment). (various references) stump (bit, end, stub, stump, tag, tag end), fragment (fraction, fragment, relic). (various references) ชิ้นเล็กชิ้นน้อย (ข่าวหรือข้อมูล). (various references) makasla kesilmiş parça (snip). (various references) фрагмент (fragmemt, sippet, torso), обрізок (offcut, shred). (various references) nhãi ranh (snip), những thứ linh tinh, miếng nhỏ cắt ra. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "snippet": snippetier, snippetiest, snippets, snippety. (additional references) | |
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"Snippet" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: nipet, nippet, snipet, snipett, snipit, snippit, snipppet. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "snippet" (pronounced sni"put) |
| 4 | -i" p u t | Tippet. |
| 3 | -p u t | carpet, decrepit, despot, puppet, tappet, trumpet. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-i-n-p-p-s-t" | |
-1 letter: instep, pepsin, pipets, sippet, spinet. | |
-2 letters: inept, inset, neist, nites, peins, penis, pines, pints, pipes, pipet, piste, senti, snipe, spent, spine, spite, stein, stipe, tines. | |
-3 letters: nest, nets, nips, nite, nits, pein, pens, pent, peps, pest, pets, pies, pine, pins, pint, pipe, pips, pits, sent, sept, sine, sipe, site, snip, snit, spin, spit. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-i-n-p-p-s-t" | |
+1 letter: nappiest, nippiest, snippets, snippety, stepping. | |
+2 letters: antipopes, estopping, penpoints, pieplants, pinstripe, pipestone, preprints, snappiest, snippiest, standpipe. | |
+3 letters: appertains, appetising, appointees, inapposite, pinspotter, pinstriped, pinstripes, pipestones, prepasting, propensity, reappoints, septupling, snippetier, standpipes, stoppering, suppletion, unhappiest, unstepping, uppitiness, uppityness, upstepping. | |
+4 letters: appetencies, apprentices, partnership, pentaploids, peppermints, perceptions, percipients, periphytons, pinspotters, precipitins, preemptions, preportions, preposition, prestamping, presumption, presynaptic, propionates, prospecting, snippetiest, suppletions, transhipped. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 6E 69 70 70 65 74 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)... -. .. .--. .--. . - |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01101110 01101001 01110000 01110000 01100101 01110100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S n i p p e t |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 006E 0069 0070 0070 0065 0074 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)53807582827186 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Expressions: Internet 7. Translations: Modern 8. Derivations | 9. Rhymes 10. Anagrams 11. Orthography 12. Bibliography |
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