different between shearing vs snipping

English

Etymology

From Middle English scheryng; equivalent to shear +? -ing.

Adjective

shearing (not comparable)

1. Tending to cut or tear.

Verb

shearing

1. present participle of shear

Noun

shearing (countable and uncountable, plural shearings)

1. The act or operation of clipping with shears or a shearing machine, as the wool from sheep, or the nap from cloth.
2. The material cut off in this way.

3. Deformation by forces acting in opposite directions.
4. Alternative form of shearling.
   • 1864, William Youatt, The Complete Grazier and Farmer's and Cattle-Breeder's

     When male sheep have been castrated , they are termed — from the period of weaning to that of shearing — wether , or wedder or shear hogs or tegs, then shearings , shearlings , dinmonts , & c .

5. (Scotland) The act or operation of reaping.
6. The act or operation of dividing with shears.

7. The process of preparing shear steel; tilting.
8. (mining) The process of making a vertical side cutting in working into a face of coal.

Anagrams

• gnashier, hearings, hearsing

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sn?p??/

Verb

snipping

1. present participle of snip

Noun

snipping (plural snippings)

1. The act by which something is snipped or cut.
   • 1993, Raymond Leppard, Thomas P. Lewis, Raymond Leppard on Music (page 78)

     There was a time when all manner of snippings were made to keep Handel's operas within bounds.

2. A piece cut off; a clipping.
   • 1975, Gerald Brenan, St John of the Cross: His Life and Poetry (page 82)

     One of them bit off his toe, others took snippings from his hair or tore off his nails and would have cut pieces from his flesh had they not been prevented.

Anagrams

• nippings