clip
IPA: kɫˈɪp
noun
- Something which clips or grasps; a device for attaching one object to another.
- An unspecified, but normally understood as rapid, speed or pace.
- (obsolete) An embrace.
- (military) 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.
- (military, colloquial) A removable magazine of a firearm.
- 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.
- (fishing, UK, Scotland) A gaff or hook for landing the fish, as in salmon fishing.
- Something which has been clipped from a larger whole:
- The product of a single shearing of sheep.
- A season's crop of wool.
- A section of video taken from a film, broadcast, or other longer video.
- A short piece of audio (shortened version of audio clip, or alternatively clipping of audio).
- A newspaper clipping.
- An act of clipping, such as a haircut.
- (uncountable, Tyneside) The condition of something, its state.
- (informal) A blow with the hand (often in the set phrase clip round the ear)
verb
- To grip tightly.
- To fasten with a clip.
- (archaic) To hug, embrace.
- (slang) To collect signatures, generally with the use of a clipboard.
- To cut, especially with scissors or shears as opposed to a knife etc.
- To curtail; to cut short.
- (dialectal, informal) To strike with the hand.
- To hit or strike, especially in passing.
- (American football) 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.
- (signal processing) To cut off a signal level at a certain maximum value.
- (computer graphics) To discard (an occluded part of a model or scene) rather than waste resources on rendering it.
- (computer graphics, video games, transitive, intransitive) To move (through or into) (a rendered object or barrier).
- (slang) To assassinate; to bump off.
- (slang, transitive) To cheat, swindle, or fleece.
- (slang, transitive) to grab or take stealthily.
- To make a clip; to cut a section of video from a film, broadcast, or other longer video.
- (surgery, transitive) To treat (an aneurysm) by closing it off with a physical clip.
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Examples of "clip" in Sentences
- The clips are numbered and lettered.
- Each unit contains a hemostatic clip.
- It is handwritten on top of the clipping.
- The Video for the clip was filmed in the USA.
- The confirmation is in the clip and in logic.
- The clipping put on to the website is authentic.
- An improved hemostatic clip system is disclosed.
- Clipping is a penalty in the sport of ice hockey.
- The people in the video clip were ruthless, and had no empathy.
- At the beginning of the video clip the date circled is Wednesday, 10 June.
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