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Clip

Verb

Definitions

1.VerbTo grip tightly.
2.VerbTo fasten with a clip.
"Please clip the photos to the pages where they will go."
3.VerbTo hug, embrace.
4.VerbTo collect signatures, generally with the use of a clipboard.
5.NounSomething which clips or grasps; a device for attaching one object to another.
"Use this clip to attach the check to your tax form."
6.NounAn 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."
7.NounAn embrace.
8.NounA 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.
9.NounA removable magazine of a firearm.
10.NounA 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.
11.NounA gaff or hook for landing the fish, as in salmon fishing.
12.VerbTo 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."
13.VerbTo curtail; to cut short.
14.VerbTo strike with the hand.
"I’ll clip ye round the lugs!"
15.VerbTo hit or strike, especially in passing.
"The car skidded off the road and clipped a lamppost."
16.VerbTo 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.
17.VerbTo cut off a signal level at a certain maximum value.
18.VerbTo discard (an occluded part of a model or scene) rather than waste resources on rendering it.
19.VerbTo 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.; Oh, no, I clipped my avatar through the barrier!"
20.VerbTo assassinate; to bump off.
21.VerbTo cheat, swindle, or fleece.
22.Verbto grab or take stealthily.
23.VerbTo 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."
24.VerbTo treat (an aneurysm) by closing it off with a physical clip.
25.NounSomething which has been clipped from a larger whole:
"The morning news today played a clip of last night's debate.; The 100th episode of Seinfeld consisted of clips from previous episodes."
26.NounThe product of a single shearing of sheep.
27.NounA season's crop of wool.
28.NounA 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."
29.NounA short piece of audio (shortened version of audio clip, or alternatively clipping of audio).
30.NounA newspaper clipping.
31.NounAn act of clipping, such as a haircut.
"I went into the salon to get a clip."
32.NounThe condition of something, its state.
"Deeky the clip of that aad wife ower thor!"
33.NounA blow with the hand (often in the set phrase clip round the ear)
"Give him a clip round the ear!"
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