单词 | snippet |
释义 | snippetn. a. A small piece cut off; a small fragment or portion. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > part of whole > [noun] > a separate part > a piece or bit > a piece cut off cutting1382 culponc1400 clipping1461 chop?1463 shearing1536 sharing?1553 chopping1558 snip1558 share1590 snipping1611 offcut1663 snippet1664 kerf1678 1664 S. Butler Hudibras: Second Pt. ii. iii. 190 Witches Simpling, and on Gibbets Cutting from Malefactors snippets. 1862 G. A. Sala Seven Sons Mammon III. 272 [She] used to cut her dress into snippets with a pair of scissors. 1885 A. Brassey In Trades 120 The droll little heaps, and dabs, and snippets in which everything was sold. 1897 F. Thompson New Poems 135 Snippets and waste From old ancestral wearings. b. In transferred or figurative uses. ΚΠ 1880 Sat. Rev. 2 Oct. 438/1 The mere sticking on to his dialogue of snippets from Elizabethan phraseology is a vain thing. 1886 F. Harrison Choice Bks. 296 The love of beauty is no thing of dilettantism to be cut into snippets and shreds. 1886 R. L. Stevenson Prince Otto ii. iv That is a poor snippet of malicious gossip. c. spec. A short passage taken from a literary work; a short scrap of literary matter of any kind. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > a written composition > extract > [noun] stitchena1225 outdraughtc1300 draught1382 sentencec1400 article1417 place1526 membera1535 gobbet?1550 extracture1602 excerption1614 excerpta1638 analects1641 extraction1656 extract1666 selection1805 worksheet1823 reading1828 screed1829 sectiuncle1838 snippet1864 1864 Spectator 12 Mar. These paragraphs and snippets from the Saturday Review. 1884 Spectator 4 Oct. 1309/2 It is the latest stamp of the true ‘classic’ to be cut up into snippets for a birthday-book. 1897 Month Oct. 435 The text is in fact largely made up of a kind of patchwork of snippets which often amalgamate ill. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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