Nip vs. Snip

Difference Between Nip and Snip
Nip➦
Nip is an ethnic slur against people of Japanese descent and origin. The word Nip is an abbreviation from Nippon (日本), the Japanese name for Japan.
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Snip➦
To cut, clip, or separate (something) with short, quick strokes.
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To seize and pinch or bite
The fish nipped the wader's toe.
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To cut or clip with short, quick strokes.
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To remove or sever by pinching or snipping
nipped off the plant leaf.
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Snip➦
An instance of snipping or the sound produced by snipping.
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To bite or sting with the cold; chill.
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A small cut made with scissors or shears.
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To check or cut off the growth or development of
a conspiracy that was nipped in the bud by the police.
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A small piece cut or clipped off.
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To snatch up hastily.
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A bit or scrap
snips of information about the merger.
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To take (the property of another) unlawfully; steal.
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Snip➦
One that is small or slight in size or stature.
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To move quickly; dart.
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A person regarded as impertinent or mischievous.
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To sip (alcoholic liquor) in small amounts
had been nipping brandy.
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snips (used with a sing. or pl. verb) Hand shears used in cutting sheet metal.
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To take a sip or sips of alcoholic liquor
nips all day long.
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Snip➦
(Slang) Something easily accomplished.
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The act or an instance of seizing or pinching.
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To cut with short sharp actions, as with scissors.
I don't want you to take much hair off; just snip my mullet off.
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Nip➦
A pinch or snip that cuts off or removes a small part
He gave a small nip to each corner of the cloth.
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Snip➦
To reduce the price of a product, to create a snip.
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The small bit or portion so removed
There were nips of construction paper all over the child's table.
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Snip➦
To break off; to snatch away.
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A sharp, stinging quality, as of frosty air.
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(informal) To circumcise.
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Severely sharp cold or frost.
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To remove the irrelevant parts of quotations in the reply message.
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Nip➦
A cutting remark.
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Snip➦
The act of snipping; cutting a small amount off of something.
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Nip➦
A sharp, biting flavor; a tang
the nip of Mexican salsa.
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Snip➦
A single cut with scissors, clippers, or similar tool.
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Nip➦
A small amount of liquor.
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Snip➦
A small amount of something; a pinch.
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Nip➦
A small quantity of something edible or a potable liquor.
I’ll just take a nip of that cake.
He had a nip of whiskey.
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Snip➦
A piece cut out by snipping.
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Nip➦
A nipple, usually of a woman.
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(informal) Something acquired for a low price; a bargain.
That wholesale auction lot was a snip at $10.
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A playful bite.
The puppy gave his owner’s finger a nip.
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A vasectomy.
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Nip➦
A pinch with the nails or teeth.
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Snip➦
(informal) A small or weak person, especially a young one.
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Briskly cold weather.
There is a nip in the air. It is nippy outside.
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Snip➦
(onomatopoeia) An act or sound of snipping, the sound produced by scissors.
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Nip➦
A seizing or closing in upon; a pinching
the nip of masses of ice
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Snip➦
(dated) An impertinent or mischievous person.
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Nip➦
A small cut, or a cutting off the end.
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Snip➦
(obsolete) A share or portion; a snack.
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(mining) A more or less gradual thinning out of a stratum.
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Snip➦
A tailor.
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A blast; a killing of the ends of plants by frost.
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Snip➦
A white marking on a horse's muzzle, between the nostrils.
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A biting sarcasm; a taunt.
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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.
The captain seldom ordered anything out of the ship's stores . . . but I snipped some of it for my own share.
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(nautical) A short turn in a rope.
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A single cut, as with shears or scissors; a clip.
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(papermaking) The place of intersection where one roll touches another
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A small shred; a bit cut off.
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A pickpocket.
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Snip➦
A share; a snack.
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A hamburger.
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A tailor.
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Nip➦
To catch and enclose or compress tightly between two surfaces, or points which are brought together or closed; to pinch; to close in upon.
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Small hand shears for cutting sheet metal.
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To remove by pinching, biting, or cutting with two meeting edges of anything; to clip.
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a small piece of anything (especially a piece that has been snipped off)
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To benumb [e.g., cheeks, fingers, nose] by severe cold.
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the act of clipping or snipping
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To blast, as by frost; to check the growth or vigor of; to destroy.
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sever or remove by pinching or snipping;
nip off the flowers
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To annoy, as by nipping.
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Snip➦
cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of;
dress the plants in the garden
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To taunt.
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To squeeze or pinch.
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To steal; especially to cut a purse.
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To affect [one] painfully; to cause physical pain.'
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(informal) To make a quick, short journey or errand, usually a round trip.
Why don’t you nip down to the grocer’s for some milk?
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Nip➦
A sip or small draught; esp., a draught of intoxicating liquor; a dram.
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A seizing or closing in upon; a pinching; as, in the northern seas, the nip of masses of ice.
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A pinch with the nails or teeth.
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A small cut, or a cutting off the end.
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A blast; a killing of the ends of plants by frost.
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A biting sarcasm; a taunt.
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A short turn in a rope.
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To catch and inclose or compress tightly between two surfaces, or points which are brought together or closed; to pinch; to close in upon.
May this hard earth cleave to the Nadir hell,Down, down, and close again, and nip me flat,If I be such a traitress.
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To remove by pinching, biting, or cutting with two meeting edges of anything; to clip.
The small shoots . . . must be nipped off.
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Hence: To blast, as by frost; to check the growth or vigor of; to destroy.
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To vex or pain, as by nipping; hence, to taunt.
And sharp remorse his heart did prick and nip.
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Nip➦
a small drink of liquor;
he poured a shot of whiskey
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a person of Japanese descent
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Nip➦
a tart spiciness
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a small drink
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small sharp biting
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squeeze tightly between the fingers;
He pinched her behind
She squeezed the bottle
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give a small sharp bite to;
The Queen's corgies always nip at her staff's ankles
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sever or remove by pinching or snipping;
nip off the flowers
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