snippet

Plural: snippets

Noun

• A small piece or fragment of something, especially a piece of information.
• a small piece of anything (especially a piece that has been snipped off)
• A small part of something, such as a song or fabric; sample.
• A text file containing a relatively small amount of code, useless by itself, along with instructions for inserting that code into a larger codebase.

Verb

• To produce a snippet (small part) of; to excerpt.
• To make small cuts, to snip, particularly with scissors.

Examples

• From the snippet I heard of their rehearsal, they sound pretty good.
• He only offered a SNIPPET of his strategy, keeping most of his Scrabble tricks secret.
• We snippeted the blog posts for display on the home page.

Synonyms

snip, snipping, bit, chip, chunk, clip, crumb, crumbling, cutting, excerpt, flake, fleak, fragment, hunk, lump, mammock, ort, piece, piecemeal, portion, scrap, scraplet, slice, snead, snippet, steck