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SNIP
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Irregular inflected forms: snipped , snipping
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The act of clipping or snipping
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("snip" is a kind of...):
cut; cutting; cutting off (the act of shortening something by chopping off the ends)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "snip"):
nip; pinch (a small sharp bite or snip)
Derivation:
snip (cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of)
snip (sever or remove by pinching or snipping)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A small piece of anything (especially a piece that has been snipped off)
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("snip" is a kind of...):
piece (a separate part of a whole)
Derivation:
snip (cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of)
snip (sever or remove by pinching or snipping)
II. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they snip ... he / she / it snips
Past simple: snipped
Past participle: snipped
-ing form: snipping
Sense 1
Meaning:
Cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of
Example:
dress the plants in the garden
Synonyms:
clip; crop; cut back; dress; lop; prune; snip; trim
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Hypernyms (to "snip" is one way to...):
thin out (make sparse)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "snip"):
shear (cut with shears)
poll; pollard (convert into a pollard)
pinch; top (cut the top off)
disbud (thin out buds to improve the quality of the remaining flowers)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Derivation:
snip (the act of clipping or snipping)
snip (a small piece of anything (especially a piece that has been snipped off))
Sense 2
Meaning:
Sever or remove by pinching or snipping
Example:
nip off the flowers
Synonyms:
clip; nip; nip off; snip; snip off
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Hypernyms (to "snip" is one way to...):
cut (separate with or as if with an instrument)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something
Derivation:
snip (the act of clipping or snipping)
snip; snipping (a small piece of anything (especially a piece that has been snipped off))
