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clip

Pronunciation: /klɪp/

The English word “clip” has 20 meanings listed here.

verb

  1. To grip tightly.
  2. To fasten with a clip.
  3. To hug, embrace.
  4. To collect signatures, generally with the use of a clipboard.
  5. To cut, especially with scissors or shears as opposed to a knife etc.
  6. To curtail; to cut short.
  7. To strike with the hand.
  8. To hit or strike, especially in passing.
  9. To 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.
  10. To cut off a signal level at a certain maximum value.
  11. To discard (an occluded part of a model or scene) rather than waste resources on rendering it.
  12. To move (through or into) (a rendered object or barrier).
  13. To assassinate; to bump off.

noun

  1. Something which clips or grasps; a device for attaching one object to another.
  2. An unspecified, but normally understood as rapid, speed or pace.
  3. An embrace.
  4. A 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.
  5. A removable magazine of a firearm.
  6. 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.
  7. A gaff or hook for landing the fish, as in salmon fishing.

Etymology

From Middle English clippen, cleppen, clüppen, from Old English clyppan (“to hug, embrace, cherish, clasp”), from Proto-Germanic *klumpijaną, from Proto-Indo-European *glemb-, *glembʰ- (“lump, clump, clod, clamp”). Cognate with Old Frisian kleppa, klippa (“to hug, embrace”), Middle High German klimpen, klimpfen (“to contract tightly, constrict, squeeze”).

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