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Webster 1913 Edition

Clip

Clip

(klĭp)
,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Clipped
(klĭpt)
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Clipping
.]
[OE.
cluppen
,
clippen
, to embrace, AS.
clyran
to embrace, clasp; cf. OHG.
kluft
tongs, shears, Icel,
klȳpa
to pinch, squeeze, also OE.
clippen
to cut, shear, Dan.
klippe
to clip, cut, SW. & Icel.
klippa
.]
1.
To embrace, hence; to encompass.
O . . . that Neptune’s arms, who
clippeth
thee about,
Would bear thee from the knowledge of thyself.
Shakespeare
2.
To cut off; as with shears or scissors;
as, to
clip
the hair; to
clip
coin
.
Sentenced to have his ears
clipped
.
Macaulay.
3.
To curtail; to cut short.
All my reports go with the modest truth;
No more nor
clipped
, but so.
Shakespeare
In London they
clip
their words after one manner about the court, another in the city, and a third in the suburbs.
Swift.

Clip

(klĭp)
,
Verb.
I.
To move swiftly; – usually with indefinite it.
Straight flies as chek, and
clips
it down the wind.
Dryden.

Clip

,
Noun.
1.
An embrace.
Sir P. Sidney.
2.
A cutting; a shearing.
3.
The product of a single shearing of sheep; a season's crop of wool.
4.
A clasp or holder for letters, papers, etc.
5.
An embracing strap for holding parts together; the iron strap, with loop, at the ends of a whiffletree.
Knight.
6.
(Far.)
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
.
Youatt.
7.
A blow or stroke with the hand;
as, he hit him a
clip
.
[Colloq. U. S.]

Webster 1828 Edition

Clip

CLIP

, v.t.
1.
To cut off with shears or scissors; to separate by a sudden stroke; especially to cut off the ends or sides of a thing, to make it shorter or narrower, in distinction from shaving and paring, which are performed by rubbing the instrument close to the thing shaved; as, to clip the hair; to clip wings.
But love had clipped his wings and cut him short.
2.
To diminish coin by paring the edge.
3.
To curtail; to cut short.
4.
To confine, limit, restrain, or hold; to hug.
To clip it, is a vulgar phrase in New England for to run with speed. So cut issued; cut on, run fast. This seems to be the meaning in Dryden.
Some falcon stoops at what her eye designed,
And with her eagerness the quarry missed,
Straight flies at check, and clips it down the wind.
This sense would seem to be allied to that of leap.

CLIP

, n.
1.
A blow or stroke with the hand; as, he hit him a clip.
2.
An embrace; that is, a throwing the arms round.

Definition 2024

clip

clip

English

Verb

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.
    • Shakespeare
      O […] that Neptune's arms, who clippeth thee about, / Would bear thee from the knowledge of thyself.
    • 1749, John Cleland, Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, Part 5
      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
  2. (slang) To collect signatures, generally with the use of a clipboard.
Translations

Noun

clip ‎(plural clips)

  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. (slang) 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.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Sir Philip Sidney to this entry?)
  4. A frame containing a number of bullets which is intended to be inserted into the magazine of a firearm to allow for rapid reloading.
  5. 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.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Youatt to this entry?)
  6. (fishing, Britain, Scotland) A gaff or hook for landing the fish, as in salmon fishing.
Translations
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Probably from Old Norse klippa.

Verb

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.
    • Macaulay
      sentenced to have his ears clipped
  2. To curtail; to cut short.
    • Shakespeare
      All my reports go with the modest truth; / No more nor clipped, but so.
    • Jonathan Swift
      In London they clip their words after one manner about the court, another in the city, and a third in the suburbs.
  3. (dialectal, informal) To strike with the hand.
    I'll clip ye round the lugs!
  4. (American football) 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.
  5. (signal processing) to cut off a signal level at a certain maximum value
  6. (computer graphics) To discard (an occluded part of a model or scene) rather than waste resources on rendering it.
  7. To cheat, swindle, or fleece.
Derived terms
Translations

Noun

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.
    3. A 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.
    4. 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.
    Give him a clip round the ear!
Derived terms
Translations

References

  • The New Geordie Dictionary, Frank Graham, 1987, ISBN 0946928118
  • National Football League (2007). Official Rules of the National Football League 2007. Triumph Books.

Anagrams

French

Etymology

Borrowing from English clip.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /klip/

Noun

clip m ‎(plural clips)

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

Italian

Etymology

Borrowing from English clip.

Noun

clip m ‎(invariable)

  1. clip
  2. paper clip

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowing from English clip.

Noun

clip m ‎(plural clips)

  1. paper clip

Etymology

From Old English clyppan, from Proto-Germanic *klupjaną.

Pronunciation

  • enPR: klĭp, IPA(key): /klɪp/
  • Rhymes: -ɪp

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