different between snipping vs snapping

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snipping

snipping (plural snippings)

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.
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.

snapping

snapping (plural snappings)

The sound or action of a snap.
The act of snapping at, or speaking sharply to, somebody.
- 1846-48, Charles Dickens, Dombey and Son
  There is a snaky gleam in her hard grey eye, as of anticipated rounds of buttered toast, relays of hot chops, worryings and quellings of young children, sharp snappings at poor Berry, and all the other delights of her Ogress's castle.

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