snippeting
snippeting noun: act of snippeting, excerpting. Also the present participle and gerund of snippet.
Noun
snippeting (uncountable)
- Act of snippeting, excerpting.
- Yet the information obtained is immense, and will, we suspect, when published in a readable form,— for snippeting spoils Mr. Senior's work,— have an important influence over public opinion.1864, “Mr. Nassau Senior”, in Littell’s Living Age, volume 82, page 230
- Synonyms:
- excerpting
- Sound of snipping, as in scissors.
- There was a snippeting of scissors, and snappeting of thread …1902, Beatrix Potter, The Tailor of Gloucester
- … sounded like the working of a pair of fine silver scissors snippeting a measured line along the margin of the dark …2005, Rafi Zabor, I, Wabenzi,, page 294
Also used as
snippeting is also the present participle and gerund of snippet.
Synonyms of snippeting
Questions about snippeting
- What does snippeting mean?
- Snippeting means act of snippeting, excerpting.
- What part of speech is snippeting?
- Snippeting is a noun.
Words near snippeting in the dictionary
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