different between snapshot vs snippet

English

Etymology

snap +? shot

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /snæp.??t/

Noun

snapshot (plural snapshots)

1. A photograph, especially one taken quickly or in a moment of opportunity.

   He carried a snapshot of his daughter.

2. A glimpse of something; a portrayal of something at a moment in time.
3. (computing) A file or set of files captured at a particular time, often capable of being reloaded to restore the earlier state.

   This game is so hard that I find myself taking a snapshot every few seconds in case I get killed.

4. (soccer) A quick, unplanned or unexpected shot.
5. (firearms) A quick offhand shot, made without deliberately taking aim over the sights.
   • 1892, Stanley Waterloo, A Man and a Woman

     How quick the eye and hand to catch him [the ruffed grouse] when he rises from the underbrush and is out of sight in the wood before the untrained sportsman stops him with what is little more than a snapshot, so instantaneously must all be done!

Derived terms

• Snapchat

Translations

Verb

snapshot (third-person singular simple present snapshots, present participle snapshotting, simple past and past participle snapshotted)

1. (transitive) To take a photograph of.
2. (transitive, computing) To capture the state of, in a snapshot.
   • 2007, David E. Irwin, An Operating System Architecture for Networked Server Infrastructure (page 30)

     Filer appliances also offer programmatic snapshotting and cloning at the block-level or file system-level.

Translations

References

• “snapshot”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.

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'