clip
English
Pronunciation
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)
- To grip tightly.
- To fasten with a clip.
- Please clip the photos to the pages where they will go.
- (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.
- (slang) To collect signatures, generally with the use of a clipboard.
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Noun
clip (plural clips)
- Something which clips or grasps; a device for attaching one object to another.
- Use this clip to attach the check to your tax form.
- 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.
- (obsolete) An embrace.
- c. 1580s, Philip Sidney, “Astrophel and Stella”, in [Mary Sidney], editor, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia […] [The New Arcadia], 3rd edition, London: […] [John Windet] for William Ponsonbie, published 1598, →OCLC, sonnet 8, page 521:
- But finding theſe North climes do coldly him embrace, / Not vſde to frozen clips, he ſtraue to find ſome part, / Where with most eaſe & warmth he might employ his art: […]
- (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.
- 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
- Template:RQ:Youatt Structure
- (fishing, UK, Scotland) A gaff or hook for landing the fish, as in salmon fishing.
Derived terms
Descendants
- → Japanese: クリップ (kurippu)
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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)
- 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.
- 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter 18, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volumes (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:
- sentenced to have his ears clipped
- 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.
- (dialectal, informal) To strike with the hand.
- I’ll clip ye round the lugs!
- To hit or strike, especially in passing.
- The car skidded off the road and clipped a lamppost.
- (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.
- 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.
- 2004, John Jackman, Lighting for Digital Video and Television (page 25)
- (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).
- 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!
- To cheat, swindle, or fleece.
- to grab or take stealthily
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Noun
clip (countable and uncountable, plural clips)
- Something which has been clipped from a larger whole:
- An act of clipping, such as a haircut.
- I went into the salon to get a clip.
- (uncountable, Geordie) The condition of something, its state.
- Deeky the clip of that aad wife ower thor!
- (informal) A blow with the hand (often in the set phrase clip round the ear)
- Give him a clip round the ear!
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References
- Frank Graham (1987) The New Geordie Dictionary, →ISBN
- National Football League (2007). Official Rules of the National Football League 2007. Triumph Books.
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French
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
clip m (plural clips)
- music video
- clip-on (earring)
Derived terms
Further reading
- “clip”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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)
- (transitive) prick; tease, torment
- (transitive) tire, wear, out
Conjugation
* indirect relative
† archaic or dialect form
‡‡ dependent form used with particles that trigger eclipsis
Derived terms
- clipire m (“teaser, tormentor”)
- cliptheach (“prickly; teasing, tormenting”, adjective)
Mutation
Irish mutation | ||
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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
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “clip”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “clip”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
- “clip”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024
Italian
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
clip m (invariable)
References
- ^ clip in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
Romanian
Etymology
Noun
clip n (plural clipuri)
- clip (video)
Declension
singular | plural | |||
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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
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
clip m (plural clips)
- paper clip
- Synonym: sujetapapeles
- clip (something which clips or grasps; a device for attaching one object to another.)
- pendientes de clip ― clip earrings
- 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
- “clip”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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