clip
/klɪp/ verb, noun
Forms clips clipping clipped clipt
- verb To grip tightly.
- verb To fasten with a clip. “Please clip the photos to the pages where they will go.”
- verb (archaic) To hug, embrace.
- verb (slang) To collect signatures, generally with the use of a clipboard.
- noun Something which clips or grasps; a device for attaching one object to another. “Use this clip to attach the check to your tax form.”
- noun An unspecified, but normally understood as rapid, speed or pace. “She reads at a pretty good clip.”
- noun (obsolete) An embrace.
- noun (military) A frame containing a number of rounds of ammunition which is intended to be inserted into an internal magazine of a firearm to allow for rapid reloading.
- noun (military, colloquial, proscribed) A removable magazine of a firearm.
- noun A projecting flange on the upper edge of a horseshoe, turned up so as to embrace the lower part of the hoof; a toe clip or beak.
- noun (fishing, UK, Scotland) A gaff or hook for landing the fish, as in salmon fishing.
- verb To cut, especially with scissors or shears as opposed to a knife etc. “She clipped my hair with her scissors.”
- verb To curtail; to cut short.
- verb (dialectal, informal) To strike with the hand. “I’ll clip ye round the lugs!”
- verb To hit or strike, especially in passing. “The car skidded off the road and clipped a lamppost.”
- verb (American football) To perform an illegal tackle, throwing the body across the back of an opponent's leg or hitting him from the back below the waist while moving up from behind unless the opponent is a runner or the action is in close line play.
- verb (signal processing) To cut off a signal level at a certain maximum value.
- verb (computer graphics) To discard (an occluded part of a model or scene) rather than waste resources on rendering it.
- verb (computer graphics, video games, ambitransitive) To move (through or into) (a rendered object or barrier). “The camera keeps clipping that ceiling.”
- noun Something which has been clipped from a larger whole:
Synonyms
whack cutting snippet bit chip chunk tranche crumb crumbling flake fleak fragment hunk lump mammock ort piece piecemeal portion scrap cartridge holder cartridge clip magazine time clipping snip nip nip off snip off trot
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Etymology
From Middle English clippen, cleppen, clüppen, from Old English clyppan (“to hug, embrace, cherish, clasp”), from Proto-Germanic *klumpijaną, from Proto-Indo-European *glemb-, *glembʰ- (“lump, clump, clod, clamp”). Cognate with Old Frisian kleppa, klippa (“to hug, embrace”), Middle High German klimpen, klimpfen (“to contract tightly, constrict, squeeze”).
From Middle English clippen, from Old Norse klippa (“to clip, cut the hair, shear sheep”). Cognate with Icelandic klippa (“to clip”), Swedish klippa (“to clip”), Danish klippe (“to clip”), Norwegian Bokmål klippe (“to clip”).
Webster’s 1913
- verb To embrace, hence; to encompass.
- verb To cut off; as with shears or scissors; as, to clip the hair; to clip coin.
- verb To move swiftly; --usually with indefinite it. Straight flies as chek, and clips it down the wind. Dryden.
- noun An embrace. Sir P. Sidney.
Etymology [OE. cluppen, clippen, to embrace, AS. clyran to embrace, clasp; cf. OHG. kluft tongs, shears, Icel, klypa to pinch, squeeze, also OE. clippen to cut, shear, Dan. klippe to clip, cut, SW. & Icel. klippa.]
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “clip”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details