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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:

clip; clipping; snip

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:

snip; snippet; snipping

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) 

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))

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