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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
snippet
noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ The book includes historical snippets and essays from longtime Tucson residents.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A snippet of tape showing scattered flames in the dark ran over and over.
▪ An actress cornered her with snippets of information about herself which she hoped Rain would publish.
▪ Dominic has always had a flair for appropriating snippets of verbiage.
▪ He started a scrapbook of snippets from John Locke and other admired mentors.
▪ In a bar one could be reasonably circumspect, casually checking the door between sips of cocktails and snippets of conversation.
▪ It also provided a few snippets of absurd press.
▪ The call was recorded on the individual customer Record Card, together with any useful snippets of information.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Snippet

Snippet \Snip"pet\, n. A small part or piece.

To be cut into snippets and shreds.
--F. Harrison.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
snippet

1660s, from snip (n.) + diminutive suffix -et.

Wiktionary
snippet

n. 1 A small part of something, such as a song or program. 2 (label en computing) a textfile containing a relatively small amount of code, useless by itself, along with instructions for inserting that code into a larger codebase vb. 1 To produce a snippet (small part), to excerpt. 2 To make small cuts, to snip, particularly with scissors.

WordNet
snippet

n. a small piece of anything (especially a piece that has been snipped off) [syn: snip, snipping]

Wikipedia
Snippet

A snippet is defined as a small piece of something; it may in more specific contexts refer to:

  • Sampling (music), the use of a short phrase of a recording as an element in a new piece of music
  • Snipets, (sic) a series of short TV interstitials produced by Kaiser Broadcasting and Snippeteld Communications in the 1970s and early 1980s
  • Snippet (programming), a short reusable piece of computer source code
  • Solder, in small pieces
Snippet (programming)

Snippet is a programming term for a small region of re-usable source code, machine code, or text. Ordinarily, these are formally defined operative units to incorporate into larger programming modules. Snippet management is a feature of some text editors, program source code editors, IDEs, and related software. It allows the user to avoid repetitive typing in the course of routine edit operations.

Usage examples of "snippet".

Everyone stopped speaking to stare agog at the man who had uttered this bizarre snippet.

That is, no one has told me, but from snippets that I have overheard I believe that the queen intends to use him as an experimental subject.

The name brought back to me the memory of some snippet from a newspaper which spoke of an obscure scientist who was striving in some unknown way for the secret of rejuvenescence and the elixir of life.

The Premia Sancta and Premio Sancto did not always agreeor so snippets of gossip saidbut in this they were united: stillborn children or infants who died were not worth mourning.

Marie-Claude Stockbridge and the others peck away at their computers, listening to snippets of conversation.

Snippets of alien joy and inhuman terror wafted in her nostrils and ears and behind her eyes, synaesthetically.

In free time, away from official projects, are searching the vastness for transmission samplings of all yous: visuals, language snippets, references by other species not yous but knowing of yous.

We concluded yesterday with Molto doing a tiresome redirect of Lovinia, reading her snippets of her statements which she claimed not to remember.

From the first two snippets, however, he learned that plans for war with the North were well advanced: if the shipyards and the craftsmen were kept so busy, then the Istrian Council had clearly given orders for the preparations of a fleet.

The Premia Sancta and Premio Sancto did not always agreeor so snippets of gossip saidbut in this they were united: stillborn children or infants who died were not worth mourning.

With the Winnebago as his traveling office, the docks at sunset were a good place to transact business, pick up snippets of information, and troll for fresh meat to be savored later on the pull-out double bed beneath the ceiling mirror.

As during the night of the reavers, Leie listened avidly and joined in this bucket brigade, even when the snippets were so obviously debased as to be worthless.

The objective was to transfer to a master tape, inserted in the left recorder, snippets of scenes and sounds from a multitude of other tapes which were reviewed and rereviewed in the recorder on the right.

Now and then Senzei caught snippets of their conversation, tidbits carried back to him on the evening breeze: Rakhene history.

Disembodied snippets of conversations are snatched from the ether, perhaps out of context, and may be misinterpreted by an analyst who then secretly transmits them to spy agencies and law enforcement offices around the world.