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Snipped
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Snip
Example Sentences:
(1) It's so magnificent, like the swishing mane of a thoroughbred stallion … Too late, snip snip, off it comes.
(2) This paper describes the external ear anomalies found in this syndrome: short wide pinnae, often cupped and asymmetrical; distinctive triangular concha; discontinuity between the antihelix and antitragus; and 'snipped-off' portions of the helical folds.
(3) This fluorescent bile salt derivative is not only taken up by hepatocytes of several cell layers at the surface of the snips but also secreted into bile canaliculi.
(4) Skin snips from newborn children and biopsy material from the umbilical cord and placenta of their mothers were examined.
(5) If you make a small diagonal snip in each corner of the paper, it will help fit the paper snugly into the corners of the tin.
(6) Twelve months after initial treatment, 15 of 41 (37%) patients had positive skin-snip test results and eight of 26 (31%) showed active ocular involvement.
(7) To get around this handicap, the character employs a recording of scissor-snip noises and barber’s small-talk to convince his client he’s actually doing the job he was hired for.
(8) The diagnostic potential of skin snips from different body regions was evaluated in 97 onchocerciasis patients of Central Nigeria.
(9) Muscle strips and adipose tissue snips were incubated with 0.75 mM [1-14C]palmitate and 5 mM glucose.
(10) Sixteen of 23 patients who underwent gonioscopy had PAS of which 13 had positive skin snips for onchocerciasis, compared with two out of seven patients with positive skin snips who had open angle glaucoma (p = 0.003).
(11) But skin snips harboring Onchocerca microfilariae are seen in 12.1% of the sample studied.
(12) A total of 52 bilharzial mansoni patients were examined, 20 patients with early intestinal infection with living ova in stools, 20 patients with hepatosplenomegaly but without ascites, also with viable ova in stools, and 12 patients with hepatosplenomegaly and ascites without ova in stools; but in the rectal snip.
(13) Of 61 persons examined in eight villages 35 (= 57%) were found positive for microfilariae by the skin-snip method, 13 had typical manifestations of sowda, 17 had other onchocercal-suggestive skin lesions and five had subcutaneous nodules.
(14) Criteria for parasitological cure were the absence of live eggs in two stool samples and a negative rectal snip biopsy three months after therapy.
(15) Microfilariae of Onchocerca volvulus were observed in nearly one half of the skin snips taken from the village residents.
(16) Katrantzou herself dresses uniformly in black – in her serene London studios, where quiet seamstresses in neon and pastels snip busily at tables, hers seems to be the only shadow.
(17) If fewer than six skin snips are desired for a particular field study, the choice of how many skin snips to be taken should be based on the expected precision required for that study.
(18) The enterprise had a house-to-house censused population of 7,122 persons from whom 1,611 were examined for onchocerciasis using either taking of skin-snips or the Mazzotti test or both.
(19) The overall geometric mean microfilarial load was 18 microfilariae per skin snip.
(20) But the real issue, I suspect, is that to consent to an interview is to allow oneself to be framed and interpreted, to have your utterances snipped up and shunted around the page.
Snippet
Definition:
(n.) A small part or piece.
Example Sentences:
(1) The rest of the show finds Morpurgo – one of the stars of improv hit Austentatious – connecting these snippets to tell the tale of a female cop charged with solving the mystery of that blaze.
(2) There are complaints, too, from soldiers in the field that live information is not always transferred to them fast enough, but they, too, express gratitude for snippets passed on about potential Taliban attacks.
(3) Third of Saudi air raids on Yemen have hit civilian sites, data shows Read more The unease manifested itself early on in the campaign when calls were put into media organisations by British expatriates based in Saudi Arabia and members of the public in the UK who had picked up snippets from British service personnel in pubs, clubs or school playgrounds about the UK military working alongside the Saudi air force.
(4) Shortly afterwards journalists began being offered snippets designed to undermine Staines, including news of his drink-driving conviction.
(5) These snippets will be contested and pored over and parsed in the days to come.
(6) In addition to speaking on the phone call, the occupiers appeared to have a separate, closed line of communication to an FBI negotiator, and they frequently relayed snippets of their negotiations.
(7) Geithner has tantalizing snippets of self-awareness – “I must have sounded like a bank lobbyist when opposing financial reform ”.
(8) 12.49pm BST While we are waiting for the full text, here's some snippets to keep you warm: I both understand and share their frustration.
(9) In October a legal battle with German publishers prompted Google to remove news snippets taken from news sites from its search results.
(10) Murdoch's editors and executives have repeatedly criticised aggregators such Google News, claiming it is leeching off their content by displaying snippets of their work.
(11) The snippets of Jimmy Erskine’s reviews and letters in the novel are my own invention, but they are all inspired by Agate’s voice.
(12) It intersperses snippets of the film itself - which premieres on 15 March - with fascinating behind-the-scenes footage of how an animation of Sydney Opera House in flames was done by a team of 16 "boys in their bedrooms" , how the stories of the six main characters in the film were selected , how she persuaded Pete Postlethwaite to take up the role of narrator and how it was financed using a "crowd-funding" model .
(13) Originally Activision intended to dripfeed the news of its next blockbuster via snippets of information.
(14) You might hear little snippets of it, five seconds on the news.
(15) He was aiming high, to build his music around saccharine snippets dropped from Taylor Swift records , or the Bieber hooks that had remained unsung, and then filter it through echoing synthesizers and discombobulating rhythms.
(16) "People haven't been able to call in at the office with snippets for some time now," said Press.
(17) British ministers, with the backing of MI5 and MI6, have used US anger at snippets of CIA information being disclosed by UK courts as the reason for a change in the law.
(18) He said the organisation monitors Twitter feeds from Tripoli and other places for "snippets of information".
(19) The Magistrate's Blog Description: "Musings and Snippets from an English Magistrate.
(20) He also posted a picture of him and Young together, and a snippet of Young’s letter to him.