snips in English

noun

1

an act of cutting something with small quick strokes.

he took a snip at a dandelion on the grass

synonyms: cut, slit, nick, notch, incision

2

a small or insignificant person.

imagine that little snip telling me I was wrong!

3

hand shears, especially for cutting metal.

use tin snips

4

a surprisingly cheap item; a bargain.

the wine is a snip at £2.65

verb

1

cut (something) with scissors or shears, typically with small quick strokes.

she snipped layers into the hair around her face

synonyms: cut, clip, slit, nick, notch, cut off, trim (off), clip, prune, chop off, lop (off), dock, crop, sever, detach, remove, take off

noun

tinsnips

noun

cut, scrap, clipping, snipping
cut, slit, nick, notch, incision
scrap, snippet, cutting, shred, remnant, fragment, sliver, bit, piece
clipping, clip
snipping, snippet

verb

cut, cut off, lop, nip
cut, clip, slit, nick, notch
cut off, trim (off), clip, prune, chop off, lop (off), dock, crop, sever, detach, remove, take off
lop, prune, cut back, trim, dress, clip, crop
nip, nip off, snip off, clip

Use "snips" in a sentence

1. Carving, pruning and cutting tools, snips, hand saws, hand saw blades, chisels and reamers

2. Synonyms for Bargains include deals, steals, snips, giveaways, buys, pennyworths, value, discounts, closeouts and value for money

3. The surgeon controls the robot’s arms as it snips and sews to repair a faulty heart valve.

4. This makes these compact snips a real all-rounder – ideal for professionals and for do-it-yourselfers.

5. Right angle polishers, straight grinders, curve shears, metal cutting snips (electric), nibbling devices, namely mechanical tools for metal cutting

6. Learn the ins and outs of snips and shaves at Milan Institute, with practical experience in our student salon using Barbering industry techniques

7. I bet it will be over something stupid like she stops doing laundry, and you make some snippy comment, and she snips off your tongue.

8. Above their heads was a twisted piece of tissue paper containing snips of their hair and fingernails – an element in the ritual of a Japanese love suicide.

9. Metal broaching machines — Broachers Metal cutters — Aviation snips Metal inert gas welding machine — Metal inert gas MIG welders Micrometers — Inside micrometers; Outside micrometers Mill saw file — Single-cut mill saw files Milling machines — Computerized numerical control CNC machining centers

10. A molecule can be the right shape or chemical makeup to speed up a useful chemical reaction (a “Cooperator”) or could be the right constitution to disrupt it or divert cellular resources (a “defector”) because it snips other crucial participants into