clip

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English[edit]

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Pronunciation[edit]

  • enPR: klĭp, IPA(key): /klɪp/, [kl̥ʰɪp]
  • Audio (US)(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɪp

Etymology 1[edit]

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”).

Verb[edit]

clip (third-person singular simple present clips, present participle clipping, simple past and past participle clipped)

  1. To grip tightly.
  2. To fasten with a clip.
    Please clip the photos to the pages where they will go.
  3. (archaic) To hug, embrace.
    • c. 1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Iohn”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii]:
      What, fifty of my followers at a clap!
    • 1749, [John Cleland], “(Please specify the letter or volume)”, in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure [Fanny Hill], London: […] G. Fenton [i.e., Fenton and Ralph Griffiths] […], →OCLC:
      When we had sufficiently graduated our advances towards the main point, by toying, kissing, clipping, feeling my breasts, now round and plump, feeling that part of me I might call a furnace-mouth, from the prodigious intense heat his fiery touches had rekindled there, my young sportsman, embolden'd by every freedom he could wish, wantonly takes my hand, and carries it to that enormous machine of his
    • 1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 3]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:
      White thy fambles, red thy gan / And thy quarrons dainty is. / Couch a hogshead with me then. / In the darkmans clip and kiss.
  4. (slang) To collect signatures, generally with the use of a clipboard.
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Noun[edit]

clip (plural clips)

A clip (1) on a penknife, to allow it to be attached to a belt.
Clips (4) for loading M1 (left) and SKS (right) rifles.
  1. Something which clips or grasps; a device for attaching one object to another.
    Use this clip to attach the check to your tax form.
  2. An 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.
  3. (obsolete) An embrace.
  4. (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.
  5. (military, colloquial) 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.
    • 1831-1850, William Youatt, On the Structure and the Diseases of the Horse
      The heel - clips are two clips at the heels of the side bars , which correspond to the toe - clip ; the latter embracing the toe of the crust , whilst the former embrace its heels
  7. (fishing, UK, Scotland) A gaff or hook for landing the fish, as in salmon fishing.
Derived terms[edit]
Terms derived from clip (noun)
Descendants[edit]
  • → Japanese: クリップ (kurippu)
  • → Portuguese: clipe
Translations[edit]

Etymology 2[edit]

From Middle English clippen, from Old Norse klippa (“to clip, cut the hair, shear sheep”). Cognate with Icelandic klippa (“to clip”), Swedish klippa (“to clip”), Danish klippe (“to clip”), Norwegian Bokmål klippe (“to clip”).

Verb[edit]

clip (third-person singular simple present clips, present participle clipping, simple past and past participle clipt or clipped)

  1. To 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.
  2. To curtail; to cut short.
    • c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene vii]:
      All my reports go with the modest truth; / No more nor clipped, but so.
    • 1712 March 4 (date written; Gregorian calendar), J[onathan] Swift, A Proposal for Correcting, Improving and Ascertaining the English Tongue; […], 2nd edition, London: […] Benj[amin] Tooke, […], published 1712, →OCLC, page 23:
      Not only the ſeveral Towns and Countries[sic – meaning Counties] of England, have a different way of pronouncing, but even here in London they clip their Words after one Manner about the Court, another in the City, and a third in the Suburbs; and in a few Years, it is probable, will all differ from themſelves, as Fancy or Faſhion ſhall direct: All which, reduced to Writing, would entirely confound Orthography.
  3. (dialectal, informal) To strike with the hand.
    I’ll clip ye round the lugs!
  4. To hit or strike, especially in passing.
    The car skidded off the road and clipped a lamppost.
  5. (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.
  6. (signal processing) To cut off a signal level at a certain maximum value.
    • 2004, John Jackman, Lighting for Digital Video and Television, page 25:
      The WFM display above shows a very contrasty picture with clipped whites and blacks.
  7. (computer graphics) To discard (an occluded part of a model or scene) rather than waste resources on rendering it.
  8. (computer graphics, video games, transitive, intransitive) To 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!
  9. (slang) To assassinate; to bump off.
    Synonym: whack
    • 2021, Peter McKenna, 10:49 from the start, in Kin, season 1, episode 8, spoken by Michael Kinsella (Charlie Cox):
      It was after they tried to clip me at the cafe.
  10. (slang, transitive) To cheat, swindle, or fleece.
  11. (slang, transitive) to grab or take stealthily.
  12. To 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.
  13. (surgery, transitive) To treat (an aneurysm) by closing it off with a physical clip.
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Translations[edit]

Noun[edit]

clip (countable and uncountable, plural clips)

  1. Something which has been clipped from a larger whole:
    1. The product of a single shearing of sheep.
    2. A season's crop of wool.
    4. A section of video taken from a film, broadcast, or other longer video.
      Synonym: video clip
      The morning news today played a clip of last night's debate.
      The 100th episode of Seinfeld consisted of clips from previous episodes.
    6. A short piece of audio (shortened version of audio clip, or alternatively clipping of audio).
      Synonyms: audio clip, sound bite, sound clip
    7. A newspaper clipping.
  2. An act of clipping, such as a haircut.
    I went into the salon to get a clip.
  3. (uncountable, Geordie) The condition of something, its state.
    Deeky the clip of that aad wife ower thor!
  4. (informal) A blow with the hand (often in the set phrase clip round the ear)
    Give him a clip round the ear!
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
video clip — see video clip
audio clip — see audio clip

References[edit]

  • Frank Graham (1987) The New Geordie Dictionary, →ISBN
  • National Football League (2007). Official Rules of the National Football League 2007. Triumph Books.

Anagrams[edit]

Catalan[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from English clip.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

clip m (plural clips)

  1. paper clip
  2. hairclip

Further reading[edit]

French[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from English clip.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

clip m (plural clips)

  1. music video
  2. clip-on (earring)

Derived terms[edit]

Further reading[edit]

Irish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Verb[edit]

clip (present analytic clipeann, future analytic clipfidh, verbal noun clipeadh, past participle clipthe)

  1. (transitive) prick; tease, torment
  2. (transitive) tire, wear, out

Conjugation[edit]

conjugation of clip (first conjugation – A)
singular plural relative autonomous
first second third first second third
indicative present clipim clipeann tú;
clipir† 		clipeann sé, sí clipimid clipeann sibh clipeann siad;
clipid† 		a chlipeann; a chlipeas /
a gclipeann*; a gclipeas* 		cliptear
past chlip mé; chlipeas chlip tú; chlipis chlip sé, sí chlipeamar; chlip muid chlip sibh; chlipeabhair chlip siad; chlipeadar a chlip /
ar chlip* 		clipeadh
past habitual chlipinn / gclipinn‡‡ chlipteá / gclipteᇇ chlipeadh sé, sí / gclipeadh sé, s퇇 chlipimis; chlipeadh muid / gclipimis‡‡; gclipeadh muid‡‡ chlipeadh sibh / gclipeadh sibh‡‡ chlipidís; chlipeadh siad / gclipidís‡‡; gclipeadh siad‡‡ a chlipeadh /
a gclipeadh* 		chliptí / gclipt퇇
future clipfidh mé;
clipfead 		clipfidh tú;
clipfir† 		clipfidh sé, sí clipfimid;
clipfidh muid 		clipfidh sibh clipfidh siad;
clipfid† 		a chlipfidh; a chlipfeas /
a gclipfidh*; a gclipfeas* 		clipfear
conditional chlipfinn / gclipfinn‡‡ chlipfeá / gclipfeᇇ chlipfeadh sé, sí / gclipfeadh sé, s퇇 chlipfimis; chlipfeadh muid / gclipfimis‡‡; gclipfeadh muid‡‡ chlipfeadh sibh / gclipfeadh sibh‡‡ chlipfidís; chlipfeadh siad / gclipfidís‡‡; gclipfeadh siad‡‡ a chlipfeadh /
a gclipfeadh* 		chlipfí / gclipf퇇
subjunctive present go gclipe mé;
go gclipead† 		go gclipe tú;
go gclipir† 		go gclipe sé, sí go gclipimid;
go gclipe muid 		go gclipe sibh go gclipe siad;
go gclipid† 		— go gcliptear
past dá gclipinn dá gclipteá dá gclipeadh sé, sí dá gclipimis;
dá gclipeadh muid 		dá gclipeadh sibh dá gclipidís;
dá gclipeadh siad 		— dá gcliptí
imperative clipim clip clipeadh sé, sí clipimis clipigí;
clipidh† 		clipidís — cliptear
verbal noun clipeadh
past participle clipthe

* indirect relative
† archaic or dialect form
‡‡ dependent form used with particles that trigger eclipsis

Derived terms[edit]

  • clipire m (“teaser, tormentor”)
  • cliptheach (“prickly; teasing, tormenting”, adjective)

Mutation[edit]

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
clip chlip gclip
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading[edit]

Italian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Unadapted borrowing from English clip.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

clip m (invariable)

  1. clip
  2. paper clip

References[edit]

  1. ^ clip in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

Romanian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from English clip.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

clip n (plural clipuri)

  1. clip (video)

Declension[edit]

Declension of clip
singular plural
indefinite articulation definite articulation indefinite articulation definite articulation
nominative/accusative (un) clip clipul (niște) clipuri clipurile
genitive/dative (unui) clip clipului (unor) clipuri clipurilor
vocative clipule clipurilor

Spanish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from English clip.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /ˈklip/ [ˈklip]
  • Rhymes: -ip
  • Syllabification: clip

Noun[edit]

clip m (plural clips)

  1. paper clip
    Synonym: sujetapapeles
  2. clip (something which clips or grasps; a device for attaching one object to another.)
    pendientes de clip ― clip earrings
  3. (firearms) clip (frame containing a number of bullets)
    Synonym: fragmento

Further reading[edit]

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