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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. a small piece of anything (especially a piece that has been snipped off);
[syn: snip, snippet, snipping]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Snip \Snip\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Snipped; p. pr. & vb. n. Snipping.] [D. snippen; akin to G. schnippen.] To cut off the nip or neb of, or to cut off at once with shears or scissors; to clip off suddenly; to nip; hence, to break off; to snatch away. [1913 Webster] Curbed and snipped in my younger years by fear of my parents from those vicious excrescences to which that age was subject. --Fuller. [1913 Webster] The captain seldom ordered anything out of the ship's stores . . . but I snipped some of it for my own share. --De Foe. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

snipping n 1: a small piece of anything (especially a piece that has been snipped off) [syn: snip, snippet, snipping]