different between snippet vs trackback

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'

English

Alternative forms

• TrackBack

Etymology

track +? back

Pronunciation

Noun

trackback (countable and uncountable, plural trackbacks)

1. (uncountable, computing) A method to keep track of links to content, especially blog entries.
2. (countable, Internet) A snippet of text joined to an entry from another website linking to it.

Hypernyms

• linkback

Coordinate terms

• refback
• pingback

See also

• trackback on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• backlink

Anagrams

• back-track, backtrack