Definition of snippet
: a small part, piece, or thing;
especially
: a brief quotable passage
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Examples of snippet in a Sentence
snippets from the author's newest novel
read them a snippet of his latest poem
Recent Examples of snippet from the Web
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Researchers identified some 780 living descendants of Hans Jonathan, took DNA samples from 182 of them, and isolated snippets that were characteristically African, and could only have come from him.
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Horvath’s team found that bacteria exposed to viruses could indeed acquire these viral snippets, called spacers.
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Those shots provided a brief snippet of what might have been at Augusta National had Woods had better control with his irons.
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Space Cowboy, a simply-sung farewell to a love that’s run its course, is one of Musgraves' finest works to date, and Mother, a brief snippet of a song about missing your mom, sticks with you longer than its minute-and-twenty-seconds runtime.
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The winner gets a berth in the Final Four, a snippet of the nets, and first dibs on the court.
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The calls released so far, along with snippets of police radio traffic and security video, detail the inability of first responders to communicate effectively and their confusion in tracking down the shooter.
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Here are some select snippets of his 45-minute session with reporters, and here is a link to a partial transcript of his comments from Monday: Q. What's the meaning of your hat (a camouflage baseball cap with a skull and crossbones)?
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Robin Roberts then showed co-hosts Michael Strahan, George Stephanopoulos and Lara Spencer a snippet of sister Sally-Ann's retirement announcement that aired Wednesday on WWL.
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Origin and Etymology of snippet
snippet Synonyms
Synonyms
atom, bit, crumb, dribble, fleck, flyspeck, grain, granule, molecule, morsel, mote, nubbin, nugget, particle, patch, scrap, scruple, snip, speck, tittle;
Near Antonyms
abundance, barrel, bucket, bushel, deal, heaps, loads, mass, mountain, peck, pile, pot, profusion, quantity, raft, scads, stack, volume, wad, wealth;
Related Words
ace, dab, dash, driblet, drop, fraction, iota, jot, lick, minim, mite, modicum, nutshell, ounce, pinch, shred, smatter, smidgen (also smidgeon), spot, strain, streak, suspicion, taste, touch, trace, whisper, whit;
bite, mouthful, nibble, tidbit (also titbit);
fragment, part, portion, section;
SNIPPET Defined for English Language Learners
Definition of snippet for English Language Learners
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: a small piece of information or news
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: a small part of something (such as a piece of music, a conversation, etc.)
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