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Definition of 'clip'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (v.t.) clip
to cut, or cut off or out, as with shears:
to clip a rose from a bush.

2.  clip
to trim by cutting:
to clip a hedge.

3.  clip
to cut or trim the hair or fleece of; shear.

4.  clip
to pare the edge of (a coin).

5.  clip
to cut short; curtail:
We clipped our visit by a week.

6.  clip
to shorten (a word or phrase) by dropping one or more syllables.

7.  clip
Informal. to hit with a quick, sharp blow.

8.  clip
Slang. to take or get money from by dishonest means; swindle.

9. (v.i.) clip
to clip or cut something.

10.  clip
to cut articles or pictures from a newspaper, magazine, etc.

11.  clip
to move swiftly:
The motorcycle clipped along the road.

12.  clip
Archaic. to fly rapidly.

13. (n.) clip
the act of clipping.

14.  clip
anything clipped off, esp. the wool shorn at a single shearing of sheep.

15.  clip
the amount of wool shorn in one season.

16.  clip
clips, (used with a pl. v.) an instrument for clipping; shears.

17.  clip
Informal.

18.  clip
Informal. a quick, sharp blow.

19.  clip
pace:
at a rapid clip.

20. (n.) clip
a device that grips and holds tightly.

21.  clip
a metal or plastic clasp for holding together papers, letters, etc.

22.  clip
a frame holding cartridges for insertion into the magazine of a firearm.

23.  clip
an article of jewelry or other decoration clipped onto clothing, shoes, hats, etc.

24.  clip
Archaic. an embrace.

25. (v.t.) clip
to fasten with or as if with a clip.

26.  clip
to grip or hold tightly.

27.  clip
to encircle; encompass.

28.  clip
(in football) to block illegally by throwing one's body across a player's legs from behind.

29. (v.i.) clip
to fasten or hold with or as if with a clip (often fol. by on).

30.  clip
to clip a football player.

Etymology: (bef. 900; ME

Definition of 'clip'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) cartridge holder, cartridge clip, clip, magazine
a metal frame or container holding cartridges; can be inserted into an automatic gun

2. (noun) time, clip
an instance or single occasion for some event
"this time he succeeded"; "he called four times"; "he could do ten at a clip"

3. (noun) clip
any of various small fasteners used to hold loose articles together

4. (noun) clip
an article of jewelry that can be clipped onto a hat or dress

5. (noun) clip, clipping, snip
the act of clipping or snipping

6. (verb) clip
a sharp slanting blow
"he gave me a clip on the ear"

7. (verb) nip, nip off, clip, snip, snip off
sever or remove by pinching or snipping
"nip off the flowers"

8. (verb) trot, jog, clip
run at a moderately swift pace

9. (verb) clip
attach with a clip
"clip the papers together"

10. (verb) snip, clip, crop, trim, lop, dress, prune, cut back
cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of
"dress the plants in the garden"

11. (verb) clip, curtail, cut short
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"

Definition of 'clip'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (noun) clip
an object that holds things together
a hair clip

2. clip
a short part of a movie, video, etc.
a video clip

3. (verb) clip
to fasten
The microphone clips easily to your clothing.; Clip the papers together.

4. clip
to cut a little
to clip your nails

Definition of 'clip'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) clip
an embrace

2. (noun) clip
a cutting; a shearing

3. (noun) clip
the product of a single shearing of sheep; a season's crop of wool

4. (noun) clip
a clasp or holder for letters, papers, etc

5. (noun) clip
an embracing strap for holding parts together; the iron strap, with loop, at the ends of a whiffletree

6. (noun) clip
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

7. (noun) clip
a blow or stroke with the hand; as, he hit him a clip

8. (verb) clip
to embrace, hence; to encompass

9. (verb) clip
to cut off; as with shears or scissors; as, to clip the hair; to clip coin

10. (verb) clip
to curtail; to cut short

11. (verb) clip
to move swiftly; -- usually with indefinite it

Translation of 'clip'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: to cut (foliage, an animal's hair etc) with scissors or shears The shepherd clipped the sheep; The hedge was clipped.
Afrikaans: knip	Arabic: يَقُصُّ، يَجُزُّ الصّوف	Bulgarian: остригвам
Brazilian: cortar	Czech: (o)stříhat	German: scheren, stutzen
Danish: klippe	Greek: κουρεύω	Spanish: cortar
Estonian: pügama	Farsi: چیدن؛ کوتاه کردن	Finnish: leikata
French: couper; tondre	Hebrew: לִגזוֹז	Hindi: कतरना
Croatian: stisnuti, pričvrstiti	Hungarian: (meg)nyír	Indonesian: menggunting
Icelandic: klippa; rÿja	Italian: tagliare; tosare	Japanese: 刈り込む
Korean: (가위, 칼 등으로 동물의 털 등을) 깎다	Lithuanian: kirpti	Latvian: cirpt; apgriezt
Malay: potong	Dutch: knippen, scheren, snoeien	Norwegian: klippe, stusse, slå (plen
Polish: strzyc	Persian: چیدن؛ کوتاه کردن	Pashto: ګوزارور کول
Portuguese: cortar	Romanian: a tunde; a tăia	Russian: подрезать
Slovak: (o)strihať	Slovenian: striči	Serbian: strigati
Swedish: klippa	Thai: ตัดออก	Turkish: kırpmak, kırkmak
Taiwanese: 剪	Ukrainian: стригти; обрізати	Urdu: کاٹنا
Vietnamese: cắt xén	Chinese: 剪
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