snippet

English

Etymology

From snip +‎ -et. Compare snippock.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsnɪpɪt/
• IPA^(key): /ˈsnɪpɪt/, [ˈsnɪpɪ̈(ʔ)t̚]

• Audio (US):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɪpɪt

Noun

snippet (plural snippets)

1. 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 […]

   • 1988, Roald Dahl, Matilda:

     Miss Honey smiled. It was extraordinary, she told herself, how this little snippet of a girl seemed suddenly to be taking charge of her problems, and with such authority, too.

2. (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)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• 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)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Spanish: snippet m

Verb

1. (often computing) To produce a snippet (small part); to excerpt.
2. 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

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

Synonyms

• (tiny part): excerpt

References

• snippet on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• steppin'