snippet
/ˈsnɪpɪt
/noun
A small piece or brief extract: snippets of information about the war...
- Brief drama snippets and tiny factoids, that's all we get these days.
- News reports come at us in brief snippets devoid of history or context that explain what they mean.
- So it's hard to evaluate the investigation based on just the brief snippet that I saw reported.
Synonyms
piece, bit, scrap, fragment, morsel, particle, shred, snatch, excerpt, extract
Derivatives
snippety
- I started reading it at home, and it's full of bizarre fascinating snippety historical bits.
- Forgive me if I take a long time with the next chapter and if it seems snippety and choppy: I just started taking midterms today.
- Recording made him nervous and he gave up in mid-career, relenting for this album to play solo Bach in long stretches, without snippety editing or technical interference.
Rhymes
- alloerotic
- alloeroticism
- alloerotism
- alloesthesia
- all of
- all of a doodah
- all-of-a-piece
- (all) of a piece
- all-of-a-pieceness
- (all) of a sudden
- all of a tremble
- allogamous
- allogamy
- allogeneic
- allogeneity
- allogeneous
- allogenic
- allogenous
- allograft
- allograph
- allographic
- allogrooming
- alloimmune
- alloimmunisation
- alloimmunity