different between department vs snippet

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French département.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /d??p??tm(?)nt/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /d??p??tm?nt/
• Hyphenation: de?part?ment

Noun

department (plural departments)

1. A part, portion, or subdivision.
2. A distinct course of life, action, study, or the like.
3. A specified aspect or quality.

   The 2012 Boston Marathon was outstanding in the temperature department; runners endured temperatures of no less than 88 degrees Fahrenheit.

4. A subdivision of an organization.
   1. (often in proper names) One of the principal divisions of executive government

      the Treasury Department; the Department of Agriculture; police department

   2. (in a university) One of the divisions of instructions

      the physics department; the gender studies department

5. A territorial division; a district; especially, in France, one of the districts into which the country is divided for governmental purposes, similar to a county in the UK and in the USA. France is composed of 101 départements organized in 18 régions, each department is divided into arrondissements, in turn divided into cantons.
   • 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation: France from Louis XV to the 1715-99, Penguin 2003, p. 427:

     The departments were the bricks from which the edifice of the nation was to be constructed.

6. (historical) A military subdivision of a country

7. (obsolete) Act of departing; departure.
   • 1624, Henry Wotton, The Elements of Architecture

     sudden 'departments from one extreame to another

Synonyms

• (distinct course): province, specialty
• (division of executive government): ministry

Derived terms

• departmental
• departmentally
• Department of Redundancy Department
• department store
• fire department
• interdepartmental
• police department
• state department
• trouser department

Translations

See also

• province
• state

English

Etymology

From snip +? -et. Compare snippock.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?sn?p?t/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?sn?p?t/, [?sn?p??(?)t?]
• Rhymes: -?p?t

Noun

snippet (plural snippets)

1. A small part of something, such as a song or fabric; sample.

   From the snippet I heard of their rehearsal, they sound pretty good.

   • 1902, Beatrix Potter, The Tailor of Gloucester:

     He cut his coats without waste; according to his embroidered cloth, they were very small ends and snippets that lay about upon the table […]
2. (computing) A text file containing a relatively small amount of code, useless by itself, along with instructions for inserting that code into a larger codebase.

Synonyms

• (small part): excerpt

Derived terms

• in-snippet
• snippet journalism
• snippety

Translations

Verb

snippet (third-person singular simple present snippets, present participle snippeting or (nonstandard) snippetting, simple past and past participle snippeted or (nonstandard) snippetted)

1. (transitive, often computing) To produce a snippet (small part) of; to excerpt.

   We snippeted the blog posts for display on the home page.

2. To make small cuts, to snip, particularly with scissors.
   • 1902, Beatrix Potter, The Tailor of Gloucester:

     All day long while the light lasted he sewed and snippetted […]

Usage notes

• Doubled ‘tt’ is incorrect per standard spelling rules, but reasonably common.

Synonyms

• (tiny part): excerpt

References

• snippet on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• steppin'