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Definition: Snipping |
SnippingNoun1. 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 "snipping" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1868. (references) |
Synonyms: SnippingSynonyms: snip (n), snippet (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Snipping |
| English words defined with "snipping": clip, clipping ♦ nip, nip off ♦ snip, snip off. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "snipping": CLOTH TEARER. (references) |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Over the years, experiments from many laboratories have given investigators a detailed picture of the steps between synthesis of APP and its snipping into fragments, but they have never been able to physically identify the elusive enzymes that actually did the clipping. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Snipping" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 96.15% of the time. "Snipping" is used about 26 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 |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 96.15% | 25 | 69,787 |
| Noun (singular) | 3.85% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 26 | N/A |
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 |
ebay snipping | 3 |
auction snipping | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "snipping"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 剪断 (Snipped). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | coupeuse mécanique chaînes (chains snipping machine), épiéteuse (chains snipping machine). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | schnippend, schnippelnd. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | κομμάτι (bit, dollop, gobbet, item, piece, sheet). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | pengguntingan (cutting). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | spuntatrice meccanica a catena (chains snipping machine). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | チューリング機械 (chalk, chock, choco, chocolate, choking, cutting sound, snipping sound, to cut, tulip, tune, Tunisia, Turing machine), 水切り (drainer, ducks and drakes, forefoot, snipping the stem of a cut flower without raising it out of water). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | チョキチョキ (cutting sound, snipping sound, to cut), みずきり (drainer, ducks and drakes, forefoot, snipping the stem of a cut flower without raising it out of water). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 자름. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ippingsnay máquina cortadora de cadeias (chains snipping machine). (various references) резать (carve, cut, shear, slaughters, snip, snipped, snips). (various references) peinadora para raides de yute (chains snipping machine). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"Snipping" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: snapin, snaping, snipings, swipping, synapsing. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "g-i-i-n-n-p-p-s" | |
-1 letter: nipping, pipings, sipping, sniping. | |
-2 letters: pining, piping, siping. | |
-3 letters: piing, pings. | |
-4 letters: gins, gips, inns, nips, nisi, pigs, ping, pins, pips, sign, sing, snip, spin. | |
-5 letters: gin, gip, inn, ins, nip, pig, pin, pip, pis, psi, sin, sip. | |
| Words containing the letters "g-i-i-n-n-p-p-s" | |
+2 letters: unshipping. | |
+3 letters: upspringing. | |
+4 letters: transhipping. | |
+5 letters: disappointing, transshipping. | |
| 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 69 6E 67 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)... -. .. .--. .--. .. -. --. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01101110 01101001 01110000 01110000 01101001 01101110 01100111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S n i p p i n g |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 006E 0069 0070 0070 0069 006E 0067 |
| 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)5380758282758073 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Quotations: Non-fiction | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Expressions: Internet 7. Translations: Modern 8. Derivations | 9. Anagrams 10. Orthography 11. Bibliography |
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