Definitions for clip
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Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. cartridge holder, cartridge clip, clip, magazinenoun

   a metal frame or container holding cartridges; can be inserted into an automatic gun

2. time, clipnoun

   an instance or single occasion for some event

   "this time he succeeded"; "he called four times"; "he could do ten at a clip"

3. clipnoun

   any of various small fasteners used to hold loose articles together

4. clipnoun

   an article of jewelry that can be clipped onto a hat or dress

5. clip, clipping, snipnoun

   the act of clipping or snipping

6. clipverb

   a sharp slanting blow

   "he gave me a clip on the ear"

7. nip, nip off, clip, snip, snip offverb

   sever or remove by pinching or snipping

   "nip off the flowers"

8. trot, jog, clipverb

   run at a moderately swift pace

9. clipverb

   attach with a clip

   "clip the papers together"

10. snip, clip, crop, trim, lop, dress, prune, cut backverb

    cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of

    "dress the plants in the garden"

11. clip, curtail, cut shortverb

    terminate or abbreviate before its intended or proper end or its full extent

    "My speech was cut short"; "Personal freedom is curtailed in many countries"

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. To CLIPverb

   Etymology: clippan, Saxon.

   1. To embrace, by throwing the arms round; to hug; to enfold in the arms.

   He, that before shunn’d her, to shun such harms,
   Now runs and takes her in his clipping arms. Philip Sidney.

   Here I clip
   The anvil of my sword, and do contest
   Hotly, and nobly, with thy love. William Shakespeare, Coriolanus.

   O nation, that thou couldst remove!
   That Neptune’s arms, who clippeth thee about. William Shakespeare.

   Enter the city, clip your wives; your friends,
   Tell them your feats. William Shakespeare, Anthony and Cleopatra.

   The jades
   That drag the tragick melancholy night,
   Who with their drowsy, slow, and flagging wings,
   Clip dead mens graves. William Shakespeare, Henry VI. p. ii.

   The male resteth on the back of the female, clipping and embracing her with his legs about the neck and body. John Ray.

   2. To cut with sheers. [ Klipper, Danish; klippen, Dutch; apparently from the same radical sense, since sheers cut by inclosing and embracing.]

   Your sheers come too late to clip the bird’s wings, that already is flown away. Philip Sidney, b. ii.

   Then let him, that my love shall blame,
   Or clip love’s wings, or quench love’s flame. John Suckling.

   He clips hope’s wings, whose airy bliss
   Much higher than fruition is. John Denham.

   But love had clipp’d his wings, and cut him short,
   Confin’d within the purlieus of his court. John Dryden, Fables.

   If mankind had had wings, as perhaps some extravagant atheist may think us deficient in that, all the world must have consented to clip them. Richard Bentley.

   By this lock, this sacred lock, I swear,
   Which never more shall join its parted hair,
   Clipp’d from the lovely head, where late it grew. Alexander Pope.

   He spent every day ten hours dozing, clipping papers, or darning his stockings. Jonathan Swift.

   3. Sometimes with off.

   We should then have as much feeling upon the clipping off a hair, as the cutting of a nerve. Richard Bentley, Sermons.

   4. It is particularly used of those who diminish coin, by paring the edges.

   This design of new coinage, is just of the nature of clipping. John Locke.

   5. To curtail; to cut short.

   All my reports go with the modest truth,
   Nor more, nor clipt, but so. William Shakespeare, King Lear.

   Mrs. Mayoress clipp’d the king’s English. Joseph Addison, Spectator.

   Even in London, they clip their words after one manner about the court, another in the city, and a third in the suburbs. Jonathan Swift.

   6. To confine; to hold; to contain.

   Where is he living, clipt in with the sea,
   Who calls me pupil? William Shakespeare, Henry IV. p. i.

2. To Clipverb

   A phrase in falconry.

   Some falcon stoops at what her eye design’d,
   And with her eagerness the quarry miss’d,
   Streight flies at check, and clips it down the wind. Dryden.

ChatGPTRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. clip

   A clip generally refers to a brief part or segment extracted from a larger piece, such as a video clip, audio clip, or data clip. It can also refer to a device that holds objects together like a paper clip or hair clip. Additionally, in terms of firearms, a clip is a device used to store multiple rounds of ammunition together as a whole for fast loading.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Clipverb

   to embrace, hence; to encompass

2. Clipverb

   to cut off; as with shears or scissors; as, to clip the hair; to clip coin

3. Clipverb

   to curtail; to cut short

4. Clipverb

   to move swiftly; -- usually with indefinite it

5. Clipnoun

   an embrace

6. Clipnoun

   a cutting; a shearing

7. Clipnoun

   the product of a single shearing of sheep; a season's crop of wool

8. Clipnoun

   a clasp or holder for letters, papers, etc

9. Clipnoun

   an embracing strap for holding parts together; the iron strap, with loop, at the ends of a whiffletree

10. Clipnoun

    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

11. Clipnoun

    a blow or stroke with the hand; as, he hit him a clip

12. Etymology: [OE. cluppen, clippen, to embrace, AS. clyran to embrace, clasp; cf. OHG. kluft tongs, shears, Icel, klpa to pinch, squeeze, also OE. clippen to cut, shear, Dan. klippe to clip, cut, SW. & Icel. klippa.]

WikidataRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Clip

   A clip is a device that is used to store multiple rounds of ammunition together as a unit, ready for insertion into the magazine or cylinder of a firearm. This speeds up the process of loading and reloading the firearm as several rounds can be loaded at once, rather than one round being loaded at a time. Several different types of clips exist, most of which are made of inexpensive metal stampings that are designed to be disposable, though they are often re-used. The term "clip" is also frequently used to refer to a detachable magazine, though such usage is incorrect. The defining difference between clips and magazines is the presence of a feed mechanism in a magazine, typically a spring-loaded follower, which a clip lacks.

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Clip

   klip, v.t. to cut by making the blades of shears meet: to cut off: to debase the coin by cutting off the edges: to diminish.—v.i. to go quickly:—pr.p. clip′ping; pa.p. clipped.—n. the thing clipped off, as the wool that has been shorn off sheep: a smart blow.—adj. Clipped, cut short.—ns. Clip′per, one that clips: a sharp-built, fast-sailing vessel: (slang) a dashing person; Clip′ping, the act of cutting, esp. debasing coin by cutting off the edges: the thing clipped off.—adj. superb: fast-going.—Clip the wings, to cut a bird's wings to prevent it from flying: (fig.) to restrain ambition: to deprive of the means of rising. [Prob. from Ice. klippa, to cut; Dan. klippe.]

2. Clip

   klip, v.t. (Shak.) to embrace: to encircle: to hold firmly.—n. an instrument for holding things firm. [A.S. clyppan, to embrace; Ice. klýpa, to pinch; Ger. kluppe, pincers.]

CrunchBaseRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Clip

   Clip technology combines professional and user generated media streams to create multi-perspective archives of events. The Clip mobile application enables multiple users to create rich immersive experiences, meaning others can experience events as they happen in a format that is just like being there.

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1. clipnoun

   Another name for a removable magazine (medium used to store ammunition) can be used for any action / type of gun. A "50 clip" is a magazine that can hold 50 bullets. "My AK-47 holdin' 50 clips" -- Da Lench Mob (Freedom got an AK).

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1. clip

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2. CLIP

   What does CLIP stand for? -- Explore the various meanings for the CLIP acronym on the Abbreviations.com website.

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of clip in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of clip in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of clip in a Sentence

1. Clay Travis:

   ESPN is so proud of them that they're sharing the clip themselves with all of their audience, it's next level stupidity, first of all, to compare Chinese genocide with American voting rights ID laws. But it's also making me wonder, with all that Disney has connection-wise with China, are they trying to curry favor with China by spreading Chinese talking points propaganda to the American sporting fan? It just blows my mind.

2. Jeff Gordon:

   I'll always remember that drivers' meeting, the faces in there, beyond the drivers, was pretty impressive. I still have that money clip that Richard handed out that day to all the drivers with their starting position. I wasn't that proud at the moment, because I started 21st. But I'll remember that forever.

3. Frontman Chris Martin:

   We have a tiny clip of the president singing 'Amazing Grace', because of the historical significance of what he did and also that that song being about, 'I'm lost but now I'm found'.

4. Carolyn Brockington:

   Think of [the aneurysm] like a balloon coming off the wall of the artery. On the neck of the balloon they put a small clip in so blood can’t go into the aneurysm, which means the balloon will deflate, the more newer approach is an endovascular approach using an angiogram. They go into the balloon itself and fill the balloon with small coil so blood can’t go into the balloon, and therefore the aneurysm deflates.

5. Fawad Razaqzada:

   The fact that Saudi restored its production back to original capacity sooner than expected means investors had to price out raised supply risks at a faster clip than would have otherwise been the case.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=clip
2. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=clip
3. ^ ChatGPT
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4. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/clip
5. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=clip
6. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=clip
7. ^ CrunchBase
   https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/clip