snippet

From snip +‎ -et. Compare snippock.

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

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -ɪpɪt

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.

• (small part): excerpt

• in-snippet

snippet (third-person singular simple present snippets, present participle snippeting or (nonstandard) snippetting, simple past and past participle snippeted or (nonstandard) snippetted)

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 …

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

• (tiny part): excerpt

• snippet on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• steppin'