snip : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: snip	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for snip
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
snip n a small piece of anything (especially a piece that has been snipped off) Synonym(s): snip, snippet, snipping the act of clipping or snipping Synonym(s): clip, clipping, snip v sever or remove by pinching or snipping; "nip off the flowers" Synonym(s): nip, nip off, clip, snip, snip off cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of; "dress the plants in the garden" Synonym(s): snip, clip, crop, trim, lop, dress, prune, cut back
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Snip \Snip\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Snipped}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Snipping}.] [D. snippen; akin to G. schnippen.] 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. Curbed and snipped in my younger years by fear of my parents from those vicious excrescences to which that age was subject. --Fuller. The captain seldom ordered anything out of the ship's stores . . . but I snipped some of it for my own share. --De Foe.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Snip \Snip\, n. 1. A single cut, as with shears or scissors; a clip. --Shak. 2. A small shred; a bit cut off. --Wiseman. 3. A share; a snack. [Obs.] --L'Estrange 4. A tailor. [Slang] --Nares. C. Kingsley. 5. Small hand shears for cutting sheet metal.