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snippet
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As a noun, snippet means a small part of something, such as a song or fabric. As a verb, it means produce a snippet (small part) of.
Meanings of snippet
5 meaningsnoun
A small part of something, such as a song or fabric; sample.
“From the snippet I heard of their rehearsal, they sound pretty good.”
computingA text file containing a relatively small amount of code, useless by itself, along with instructions for inserting that code into a larger codebase.
verb
often computingTo produce a snippet (small part) of; to excerpt.
“We snippeted the blog posts for display on the home page.”
To make small cuts, to snip, particularly with scissors.
Meanings from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0).