snippet
Other forms: snippets
A snippet is a tiny piece. You might only have time to read a snippet of "Moby Dick" before your early English class — just enough to know it's a book about a whale.
While a snippet can be a literal fragment of something, like a snippet of hair clipped off the end of your dog's tail, the word is often used to talk about less physical bits. You may get a snippet of information by watching TV news with the sound turned off, or end your writing workshop with just a snippet of an idea for your screenplay. It comes from snip, with its Low German root snippen, "to snip or shred."
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a small piece of anything (especially a piece that has been snipped off)
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Vocabulary lists containing snippet
In this novel, a boy imprisoned in a concentration camp and the son of a Nazi commandant develop an unlikely friendship.
This biography immortalizes a woman whose cancerous cells contributed to medical breakthroughs around the world.
Living in Afghanistan under Taliban rule, eleven-year-old Parvana must disguise herself as a boy in order to earn money for her family.