Excerpt vs. Snippet

Excerpt vs. Snippet — Is There a Difference?
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Difference Between Excerpt and Snippet

Excerptnoun

A clip, snippet, passage or extract from a larger work such as a news article, a film, or a literary composition.

Snippetnoun

A small part of something, such as a song or fabric; sample.

From the snippet I heard of their rehearsal, they sound pretty good.

Excerptverb

(transitive) To select or copy sample material (excerpts) from a work.

Snippetnoun

(computing) A text file containing a relatively small amount of code, useless by itself, along with instructions for inserting that code into a larger codebase.

Excerptnoun

a passage selected from a larger work;

he presented excerpts from William James' philosophical writings

Snippetverb

To produce a snippet (small part) of; to excerpt.

We snippeted the blog posts for display on the home page.
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Excerptverb

take out of a literary work in order to cite or copy

Snippetverb

To make small cuts, to snip, particularly with scissors.

Snippetnoun

a small piece of anything (especially a piece that has been snipped off)