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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. To cut, cut off, or cut out with or as if with shears: clip coupons; clipped three seconds off the record.
  • v. To make shorter by cutting; trim: clip a hedge.
  • v. To cut off the edge of: clip a coin.
  • v. To cut short; curtail.
  • v. To shorten (a word or words) by leaving out letters or syllables.
  • v. To enunciate with clarity and precision: clip one's words.
  • v. Informal To hit with a sharp blow: clipped me under the eye.
  • v. Football To block (an opponent) illegally from the rear.
  • v. Sports To hit or kick (the ball) in a certain direction.
  • v. Slang To cheat, swindle, or rob.
  • verb-intransitive. To cut something.
  • verb-intransitive. Informal To move rapidly.
  • n. The act of clipping.
  • n. Something clipped off, especially:
  • n. The wool shorn at one shearing, as of sheep.
  • n. A season's shearing.
  • n. A short extract from a film or videotape.
  • n. Informal A quick sharp blow: a clip on the ear.
  • n. Football An illegal block from the rear.
  • n. Informal A pace or rate: go at a fast clip.
  • n. A single occasion; a time: could write nine pages at a clip.
  • n. A pair of shears or clippers.
  • n. Any of various devices for gripping or holding things together; a clasp or fastener.
  • n. A piece of jewelry that fastens with a clasp or clip; a brooch.
  • n. A cartridge clip.
  • v. To fasten with or as if with a clip; hold tightly.
  • v. Archaic To embrace or encompass.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. To grip tightly.
  • v. To fasten with a clip.
  • v. To hug, embrace.
  • v. To collect signatures, generally with the use of a clipboard.
  • n. Something which clips or grasps; a device for attaching one object to another.
  • n. An unspecified but normally understood as rapid speed or pace.
  • n. An embrace.
  • n. A frame containing a number of bullets which is intended to be inserted into a firearm to allow for rapid reloading.
  • n. 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.
  • v. To cut, especially with scissors or shears as opposed to a knife etc.
  • v. To strike with the hand.
  • v. 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.
  • v. To discard (an occluded part of a model or scene) rather than waste resources on rendering it.
  • n. Something which has been clipped; a small portion of a larger whole, especially an excerpt of a larger work.
  • n. An act of clipping, such as a haircut.
  • n. The product of a single shearing of sheep; a season's crop of wool.
  • n. A speed or pace.
  • n. The condition of something, its state.
  • n. A blow with the hand.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • v. To embrace, hence; to encompass.
  • v. To cut off; as with shears or scissors.
  • v. To curtail; to cut short.
  • verb-intransitive. To move swiftly; -- usually with indefinite it.
  • n. An embrace.
  • n. A cutting; a shearing.
  • n. The product of a single shearing of sheep; a season's crop of wool.
  • n. A clasp or holder for letters, papers, etc.
  • n. An embracing strap for holding parts together; the iron strap, with loop, at the ends of a whiffletree.
  • n. A projecting flange on the upper edge of a horseshoe, turned up so as to embrace the lower part of the hoof; -- called also toe clip and beak.
  • n. A blow or stroke with the hand.
  • n. A part, attachment, or appendage, for seizing, clasping, or holding, an object, as a cable, etc.
  • n. A gaff or hook for landing the fish, as in salmon fishing.
  • n. A rapid gait.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To embrace; infold; hug; clasp; grasp; grip.
  • To hold together by pressure, as with a spring, screw, or bandage.
  • n. An embrace.
  • n. A grasp; clasp; grip, as of a machine.
  • n. A device for closing a vent in a machine.
  • n. In farriery, a projecting flange on the upper surface of a horseshoe, which partially embraces the wall of the hoof.
  • n. A metal clasp or confining piece used to connect the parts of a carriage-gear, or to hold the hook of a whipple-tree.
  • n. A clasp or spring-holder for letters, papers, etc.
  • To cut off or sever with a sharp instrument, as shears or scissors; trim or make shorter by cutting: as, to clip the hair; to clip a bird's wings.
  • To diminish by cutting or paring: as, to clip coin; “clipped silver,”
  • To shorten; curtail; cut short; impair by lessening.
  • Hence To pronounce (words) in a shortened form, or with abbreviation.
  • To cut hair.
  • n. The quantity of wool shorn at a single shearing of sheep; a season's shearing.
  • n. A blow or stroke with the hand.
  • n. plural Shears, especially sheep-shears.
  • To move swiftly, as a falcon, a horse, or a yacht: often with an indefinite it.
  • A dialectal form of clepe.
  • n. In angling, a salmon-gaff.
  • n. Same as cartridge-clip.
  • n. Rate of rapid motion, as of horses or yachts: as, a three-mile clip; a fifteen-knot clip.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of
  • v. run at a moderately swift pace
  • n. a metal frame or container holding cartridges; can be inserted into an automatic gun
  • n. a sharp slanting blow
  • n. an instance or single occasion for some event
  • v. sever or remove by pinching or snipping
  • v. terminate or abbreviate before its intended or proper end or its full extent
  • v. attach with a clip
  • n. any of various small fasteners used to hold loose articles together
  • n. the act of clipping or snipping
  • n. an article of jewelry that can be clipped onto a hat or dress
  • Verb Form
    clipped    clipping    clips   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    run    blow    example    case    instance    cut    shorten    attach    jewellery    jewelry   
    Cross Reference
    abbreviate    shears    gait    blowy    to clip the wings   
    Variant
    clipped    clipping    toe clip    beak   
    Form
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    curtail    embrace    cutting    Shearing    clasp    hold    surround    clamp   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Chip    Crip    Flip    Kip    Nip    Pip    blip    chip    crip    dip   
    Same Context
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