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snippet
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)
- 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 […]
- (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)
- (transitive, often computing) To produce a snippet (small part) of; to excerpt.
- We snippeted the blog posts for display on the home page.
- 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 […]
- 1902, Beatrix Potter, The Tailor of Gloucester:
Usage notes
- Doubled ‘tt’ is incorrect per standard spelling rules, but reasonably common.
Synonyms
- (tiny part): excerpt
References
- snippet on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- steppin'
snippet From the web:
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crumb
English
Alternative forms
- crimb (dialectal)
Etymology
From Middle English crome, cromme, crumme, crume, from Old English cruma (“crumb, fragment”), from Proto-Germanic *krumô, *kr?mô (“fragment, crumb”), from Proto-Indo-European *gr?-mo- (“something scraped together, lumber, junk; to claw, scratch”), from *ger- (“to turn, bend, twist, wind”). The b is excrescent, as in limb and climb, appearing in the mid 15th century to match crumble and words like dumb, numb, thumb. Cognate with Dutch kruim (“crumb”), Low German Krome, Krume (“crumb”), German Krume (“crumb”), Danish krumme (“crumb”), Swedish dialectal krumma (“crumb”), Swedish inkråm (“crumbs, giblets”), Icelandic krumur (“crumb”), Latin gr?mus (“a little heap”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /k??m/
- Rhymes: -?m
Noun
crumb (countable and uncountable, plural crumbs)
- A small piece which breaks off from baked food (such as cake, biscuit or bread).
- desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man's table
- At twilight in the summer there is never anybody to fear—man, woman, or cat—in the chambers and at that hour the mice come out. They do not eat parchment or foolscap or red tape, but they eat the luncheon crumbs.
- A small piece of other material, such as rubber.
- 2012, Caroline Joy Adams, An Italic Calligraphy Handbook (page 79)
- Then erase any pencil lines with a good, soft eraser, rubbing gently, in only one direction. A dustbrush can be useful in removing any eraser crumbs.
- 2012, Caroline Joy Adams, An Italic Calligraphy Handbook (page 79)
- (figuratively) A bit, small amount.
- The soft internal portion of bread, surrounded by crust.
- 1861, Thomas Hughes, Tom Brown at Oxford
- Dust unto dust, what must be, must; / If you can't get crumb, you'd best eat crust.
- 1861, Thomas Hughes, Tom Brown at Oxford
- A mixture of sugar, cocoa and milk, used to make industrial chocolate.
- (slang) A nobody; a worthless person.
- 1999, Phyllis Reynolds Naylor, Alice on the Outside (page 146)
- All Dad can think of is a gift certificate from the Melody Inn? And my crumb of a boyfriend doesn't even show up? This is a birthday?
- 1999, Phyllis Reynolds Naylor, Alice on the Outside (page 146)
- (slang) A body louse (Pediculus humanus).
Synonyms
- (crumbled food): crumbling
- (small amount): see also Thesaurus:modicum.
Derived terms
Related terms
- crumble
- crumpet
- crumbum
Translations
Verb
crumb (third-person singular simple present crumbs, present participle crumbing, simple past and past participle crumbed)
- (transitive) To cover with crumbs.
- (transitive) To break into crumbs or small pieces with the fingers; to crumble.
- to crumb bread
Derived terms
- crumbed
Related terms
- crumple
Translations
crumb From the web:
- what crumbles
- what crumbles down
- what crumble means
- what crumbs mean
- what crumbs can you make
- what's crumb coating a cake
- what's crumb cake
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