snippet

A small part of something, such as a song or fabric; sample.

From the snippet I heard of their rehearsal, they sound pretty good.

He cut his coats without waste; according to his embroidered cloth, they were very small ends and snippets that lay about upon the table […]

A text file containing a relatively small amount of code, useless by itself, along with instructions for inserting that code into a larger codebase.

To produce a snippet (small part) of; to excerpt.

We snippeted the blog posts for display on the home page.

To make small cuts, to snip, particularly with scissors.

All day long while the light lasted he sewed and snippetted […]