snipping [
'snipiŋ]
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n. 碎片
snipping[ noun ]
a small piece of anything (especially a piece that has been snipped off)
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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.
- "For many people that slightly higher risk is worth taking, in order to get an earlier result." CVS is performed by snipping a tiny bit of tissue from the edge of the placenta surrounding the fetus.
- "I'm not worried about his alligator snipping off my kids' toes," Foye said. "They shouldn't be in the tavern anyway." Mayor Bob Trumbull encouraged drafting the amendment and having a hearing Jan. 2.
- Developer Donald Trump marked the restart of construction on his newly purchased Taj Mahal casino project by inviting guests into a chilly arena and snipping a gilded ribbon.