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SNIPPED

Definition: SNIPPED

SNIPPED

Imperative & past participle

1. Of Snip

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "SNIPPED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1808. (references)


Crosswords: SNIPPED

English words defined with "SNIPPED": snip, snippet, snipping. (references)

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Non-Fiction Usage: SNIPPED

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

They consist of largely insoluble (cannot be dissolved) deposits of beta-amyloid a protein fragment snipped from a larger protein called amyloid precursor protein (APP) intermingled with portions of neurons and with non-nerve cells such as microglia (cells that surround and digest damaged cells or foreign substances that cause inflammation) and astrocytes (glial cells that serve to support and nourish neurons). (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: SNIPPED

"SNIPPED" is generally used as a lexical verb (past tense) -- approximately 55.00% of the time. "SNIPPED" is used about 40 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Lexical Verb (past tense)55%2274,468
Lexical Verb (past participle)30%12101,599
Adjective (general or positive)15%6143,867
                    Total100.00%40N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: SNIPPED

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "SNIPPED": snipped-off, snipped-photograph.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: SNIPPED

Language Translations for "SNIPPED"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Arabic 

  

‏مقصوص (clipped, sheared). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

剪断 (snipping). (various references)

   

French

  

coupé. (various references)

   

German

  

schnippelte, geschnippt, geschnippelt. (various references)

   

Korean 

  

자르" (Clipped). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ippedsnay

   

Russian 

  

резать (carve, cut, shear, slaughters, snip, snipping, snips). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: SNIPPED

Misspellings

"SNIPPED" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: cynipid, snaped, snipet, snipit, snippit, snipppet, stipped. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: SNIPPED

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "d-e-i-n-p-p-s"

-1 letter: nipped, pepsin, sipped, sniped, spined.

-2 letters: dines, nides, peins, pends, penis, pined, pines, piped, pipes, siped, snide, snipe, spend, spied, spine.

-3 letters: deni, dens, dies, dine, dins, dips, ends, ides, nide, nips, peds, pein, pend, pens, peps, pied, pies, pine, pins, pipe, pips, send, side, sine, sipe, sned, snip, sped, spin.

-4 letters: den, die.

 Words containing the letters "d-e-i-n-p-p-s"
 

+2 letters: downpipes, peponidas, pinedrops, pinnipeds, sandpiper, standpipe, unshipped, windpipes.

 

+3 letters: appendices, appendixes, drainpipes, kidnappees, kidnappers, pinstriped, properdins, sandpipers, sphenopsid, standpipes.

 

+4 letters: dispeopling, pentaploids, piperidines, pumpkinseed, sphenopsids, transhipped.

 

+5 letters: appendicitis, disappearing, disappointed, handicappers, misapprehend, predisposing, pumpkinseeds, sandpapering, sideslipping, sidestepping, transshipped.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: SNIPPED


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

53 4E 49 50 50 45 44

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

...    -.    ..    .--.    .--.    .    -..

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010011 01001110 01001001 01010000 01010000 01000101 01000100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#78 &#73 &#80 &#80 &#69 &#68

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 004E 0049 0050 0050 0045 0044

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

53484350503938

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Quotations: Non-fiction
4. Usage Frequency
5. Expressions
6. Translations: Modern
7. Derivations
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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