What does CLIP mean?

Definitions for CLIP
klɪpclip

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Princeton's WordNet

  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 Dictionary

  1. To CLIPverb

    Etymology: clippan, Saxon.

    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.

    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.

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

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

    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.

    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.

ChatGPT

  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 Dictionary

  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.]

Wikidata

  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 Dictionary

  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.]

CrunchBase

  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.

Rap Dictionary

  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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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. Alexander Sherr:

    I had no idea that they were going to clip it here, there and everywhere, and then turn it into a 3-minute and 30 second propaganda piece.

  2. Derek Abbott:

    Perhaps he was a World War Two black market trader or something like that. And that can explain a number of things. For example, why people possibly didn't come forward to identify him. Because, you know, if he's in with a group of people that are doing something a bit dodgy, they wouldn't want any light shone on their activities, for the clothes, perhaps they were second hand, and in those days you tended to clip off the labels because quite often people wrote on those manufacturers' labels in ink to indicate their name or something.

  3. Julianna Grogan:

    They were watching the whole time, luckily, I had a stand with a clip to attach my phone to the bed.

  4. Garrett Reisman:

    To see NASA step up and say,' We should have trusted SpaceX more' — If you would have played that clip about eight years ago, I would have been flabbergasted, it would have been pure science fiction.

  5. Donald Trump:

    No, I'm not going to fire him, i'm just disappointed at the clip. I think it's far too fast, far too rigid, far too fast.

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Translations for CLIP

From our Multilingual Translation Dictionary

  • прегръдка, щипка, стригане, удрям, стрижа, защипвам, прикачам, кастря, скоба, клип, кламер, подрязвам, подрязванеBulgarian
  • stříhatCzech
  • clipse, klipseDanish
  • tondiEsperanto
  • acortarSpanish
  • leike, videoleike, klippiFinnish
  • extrait, clipFrench
  • क्लिपHindi
  • クリップJapanese
  • clips, clipePortuguese
  • agrafăRomanian
  • клип, зажи́м, закрепля́ть, стричь, зажима́ть, выреза́ние, кли́пса, стри́жка, скоба́, постри́чь, зажа́ть, закрепи́ть, вы́резка, скре́пкаRussian
  • sponkaSlovak
  • Chinese

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