The word "snips" is correct and commonly used in written English
It is a plural noun that refers to small, sharp scissors used for cutting small items. Example: "She reached for her snips and carefully trimmed the stray threads from her sewing project."
Ms. Juren snips her own clothing, ceremoniously, and after it's all snipped away, she looks for more to cut.
Unlike the older "Silicon Fen", around Cambridge, the London cluster has no university at its heart and (as one Bristol-based chipmaker snips) not much silicon either.
These gene chips, as they are colloquially known, pick out differences in single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs, pronounced "snips")—small fragments of DNA that vary from individual to individual, and population to population.
These tests (which are being offered by deCODE and also by 23andMe, a Californian company) analyse the pattern of hundreds of thousands of bits of DNA known as single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs, often pronounced "snips").
In particular, they look at certain parts of a chromosome known as single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs, pronounced "snips").
When fed a sample of someone's DNA, these spots detect single-letter changes known as "single nucleotide polymorphisms" (SNPs, pronounced "snips").SNPs are single-letter mutations within the DNA that determine how one person is different from another.
According to Mr Spielberg, audience surveys come down in favour of films which start without any preamble, so he snips the opening credits off most of his movies (the snazzy cartoon at the beginning of "Catch Me If You Can" is a beloved outlier).
The report's authors also reckon that every 909 snips (that is, 0.1% of cases) will lead to one case of penile cancer averted.
Today genomes can be scanned for small molecular variants called single nucleotide polymorphisms, or SNPs ("snips"), which act as chromosomal tags to associated specific regions of DNA that have a property of interest and may be involved in a human disease or disorder.
Some unadvertised snips of green bean and asparagus add interest, not that any is needed.
A special form of shears used for sheet-metal work, called tin shears, or tin snips, is equipped with high-leverage handles to facilitate cutting the metal.
