clip
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: klĭp
ipa: /klɪp/
ipa: [kʰl̥ɪp]
rhymes: -ɪp
Forms: form: clips
form: clipping
form: clipt
form: clipt
form: clipped
form: clipped
Etymology: 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”).
Senses: examples: text: She clipped my hair with her scissors.
text: Please clip that coupon out of the newspaper.
text: sentenced to have his ears clipped
ref: 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter XVIII, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:
glosses: To cut, especially with scissors or shears as opposed to a knife etc.
examples: text: All my reports go with the modest truth; / No more nor clipped, but so.
ref: 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]:
text: 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.
ref: 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:
glosses: To curtail; to cut short.
examples: text: I’ll clip ye round the lugs!
glosses: To strike with the hand.
examples: text: The car skidded off the road and clipped a lamppost.
glosses: To hit or strike, especially in passing.
topics: American-football
ball-games
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: 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.
examples: text: The WFM display above shows a very contrasty picture with clipped whites and blacks.
ref: 2004, John Jackman, Lighting for Digital Video and Television, page 25:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
signal-processing
glosses: To cut off a signal level at a certain maximum value.
topics: computer-graphics
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To discard (an occluded part of a model or scene) rather than waste resources on rendering it.
examples: text: The camera keeps clipping that ceiling.
text: Clipping through walls is integral to the game's speedruns.
text: Oh, no, I clipped my avatar through the barrier!
topics: computer-graphics
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
video-games
glosses: To move (through or into) (a rendered object or barrier).
examples: text: It was after they tried to clip me at the cafe.
ref: 2021, Peter McKenna, 10:49 from the start, in Kin, season 1, episode 8, spoken by Michael Kinsella (Charlie Cox):
synonyms: whack
glosses: To assassinate; to bump off.
glosses: To cheat, swindle, or fleece.
glosses: to grab or take stealthily.
examples: text: I clipped the moment they beat the world record live on stream.
glosses: To make a clip; to cut a section of video from a film, broadcast, or other longer video.
topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: To treat (an aneurysm) by closing it off with a physical clip.
Derived terms: beclip
clipcock
clip it
clipjoint
clip-joint
clip joint
clipmapping
clippable
clippie
clip someone's wings
clip the wings of