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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Thus the editing proceeds throughout the project, as Vallée intercuts brief snippets of images that might later make sense.
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We are treated to film snippets of 1980s-era Talley while he was based in Paris working for Women’s Wear Daily.
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Gateway Pundit scoured the internet and found snippets of info proving the Las Vegas shooter was a liberal Democrat, the Washington Post paid Roy Moore’ accusers, the Parkland shooter was a Democrat and the student activists puppets, and so on.
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After obtaining numerous snippets of neighborhood video, police now suspect Houk and DuPras — a former principal at Washington Elementary in nearby Kingsburg — were killed on Dec. 9, two days before their bodies were found.
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In one room, middle-school-aged girls watched their peers perform snippets of a modern routine.
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Flagstaff dad encourages makeup artist son A sweet 11-second snippet of YouTube beauty blogger Andrew Edgerton's makeup tutorial softened even the hardest of hearts during LGBT Pride Month in June.
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Top Republican lawmakers on the House Energy and Commerce Committee sent letters Monday asking Apple Inc. and Google for more information on how extensively their smartphones track people's locations and record snippets of their conversations.
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Over the years, various attempts to open some of them created a mess of fragile flakes that yielded only brief snippets of text.
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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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