clip.
To grip tightly.
Meaning & usage
To grip tightly.
To fasten with a clip.
Please clip the photos to the pages where they will go.
To hug, embrace.
To collect signatures, generally with the use of a clipboard.
Where this word comes from
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *gel- Proto-Indo-European *b(ʰ) Proto-Indo-European *gelb(ʰ)-der. Proto-Germanic *klupjaną Old English clyppan Middle English clippen English clip 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”).
Something which clips or grasps; a device for attaching one object to another.
Use this clip to attach the check to your tax form.
An unspecified, but normally understood as rapid, speed or pace.
She reads at a pretty good clip.
He was walking at a fair clip and I was out of breath trying to keep up.
An embrace.
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.
A removable magazine of a firearm.
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.
A gaff or hook for landing the fish, as in salmon fishing.
Where this word comes from
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *gel- Proto-Indo-European *b(ʰ) Proto-Indo-European *gelb(ʰ)-der. Proto-Germanic *klupjaną Old English clyppan Middle English clippen English clip 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”).
To cut, especially with scissors or shears as opposed to a knife etc.
She clipped my hair with her scissors.
Please clip that coupon out of the newspaper.
To curtail; to cut short.
To strike with the hand.
I’ll clip ye round the lugs!
To hit or strike, especially in passing.
The car skidded off the road and clipped a lamppost.
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.
To cut off a signal level at a certain maximum value.
To discard (an occluded part of a model or scene) rather than waste resources on rendering it.
To move (through or into) (a rendered object or barrier).
The camera keeps clipping that ceiling.
Clipping through walls is integral to the game's speedruns.
To assassinate; to bump off.
To cheat, swindle, or fleece.
to grab or take stealthily.
To make a clip; to cut a section of video from a film, broadcast, or other longer video.
I clipped the moment they beat the world record live on stream.
To treat (an aneurysm) by closing it off with a physical clip.
Where this word comes from
Etymology tree Old Norse klippader. Middle English clippen English clip 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”).
Something which has been clipped from a larger whole
Something which has been clipped from a larger whole: The product of a single shearing of sheep.
Something which has been clipped from a larger whole: A season's crop of wool.
Something which has been clipped from a larger whole: A section of video taken from a film, broadcast, or other longer video.
The morning news today played a clip of last night's debate.
The 100th episode of Seinfeld consisted of clips from previous episodes.
Something which has been clipped from a larger whole: A short piece of audio (shortened version of audio clip, or alternatively clipping of audio).
Something which has been clipped from a larger whole: A newspaper clipping.
An act of clipping, such as a haircut.
I went into the salon to get a clip.
The condition of something, its state.
Deeky the clip of that aad wife ower thor!
A blow with the hand (often in the set phrase clip round the ear)
Give him a clip round the ear!
Where this word comes from
Etymology tree Old Norse klippader. Middle English clippen English clip 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”).
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