Snip
[snɪp]
Definition
(noun.) a small piece of anything (especially a piece that has been snipped off).
(verb.) cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of; 'dress the plants in the garden'.
Checked by Erwin--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) To cut off the nip or neb of, or to cut off at once with shears or scissors; to clip off suddenly; to nip; hence, to break off; to snatch away.
(n.) A single cut, as with shears or scissors; a clip.
(n.) A small shred; a bit cut off.
(n.) A share; a snack.
(n.) A tailor.
(n.) Small hand shears for cutting sheet metal.
Edited by Kathleen
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Clip, cut, nip, nip off.
n. Clip, bit, cut, shred, fragment, piece.
Inputed by Dan
Definition
v.t. to cut off at once with scissors: to cut off the nib of: to cut off: to make signs with as the fingers:—pr.p. snip′ping; pa.t. and pa.p. snipped.—n. a single cut with scissors: a clip or small shred: a share snack: a tailor.—ns. Snip′per one who snips a tailor; Snip′per-snap′per a little trifling fellow; Snip′pet a little piece snipped off.—adj. Snip′pety trivial fragmentary.—n. Snip′ping a clipping.—adj. Snip′py fragmentary: stingy.—n.pl. Snips a pair of strong hand-shears for sheet-metal.—n. Snip′-snap tart dialogue with quick replies.—adj. (Shak.) quick short.
Editor: Pratt
Examples
- So I am; but it is only a snip. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Well, I won't, but I hate to see things going all crisscross and getting snarled up, when a pull here and a snip there would straighten it out. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- He snipped away at the black paper, then separated the two thicknesses and pasted the profiles on a card and handed them to me. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- The busy little dressmaker quickly snipped the shirt away, and laid bare the results of as furious and sound a thrashing as even Mr Fledgeby merited. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- His mother was snipping dead leaves from the window-plants. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Two girls were posing and he cut their silhouettes together, snipping very fast and looking at them, his head on one side. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- It's not work, cutting out a pattern isn't,' said Miss Jenny, with her busy little scissors already snipping at some paper. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
Editor: Pierre