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English

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Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

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

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: [] [Thomas Parker] for 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 Expression error: Unrecognized punctuation character "[".]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, [], →OCLC, part Expression error: Unrecognized punctuation character "["., [http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/4300 Chapter 3/mode/1up page Chapter 3]:
      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.
Translations

Noun

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.
    • Template:RQ:Youatt Structure
      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
Terms derived from clip (noun)
Descendants
  • Japanese: クリップ (kurippu)
Translations

Etymology 2

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

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. To cheat, swindle, or fleece.
  10. to grab or take stealthily
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 (often in the set phrase clip round the ear)
    Give him a clip round the ear!
Derived terms
Translations

References

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

Anagrams


French

Etymology

Borrowed from English clip.

Pronunciation

Noun

clip m (plural clips)

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

Derived terms

Further reading


Irish

Etymology

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

Verb

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

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

Conjugation

Derived terms

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

Mutation

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


Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English clip.

Pronunciation

Noun

clip m (invariable)

  1. clip
  2. paper clip

References

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

Romanian

Etymology

From English clip.

Noun

clip n (plural clipuri)

  1. clip (video)

Declension


Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from English clip.

Pronunciation

Noun

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 clipclip earrings
  3. clip (a frame containing a number of bullets which is intended to be inserted into the magazine of a firearm to allow for rapid reloading.)
    Synonym: fragmento

Further reading