clip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: klĭp
ipa: /klɪp/
ipa: [kʰl̥ɪp]
rhymes: -ɪp
Forms: form: clips
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: Early [teddy] bears were made of the clip of angora goats.
ref: 1971, Gwen White, Antique Toys And Their Background, page 161:
synonyms: word: cutting
word: snippet
word: bit
word: chip
word: chunk
word: clip
word: crumb
word: crumbling
word: cutting
word: flake
word: fleak
word: fragment
word: hunk
word: lump
word: mammock
word: ort
word: piece
word: piecemeal
word: portion
word: scrap
word: scraplet
word: slice
word: snead
word: snippet
word: steck
glosses: Something which has been clipped from a larger whole
synonyms: word: cutting
word: snippet
word: bit
word: chip
word: chunk
word: clip
word: crumb
word: crumbling
word: cutting
word: flake
word: fleak
word: fragment
word: hunk
word: lump
word: mammock
word: ort
word: piece
word: piecemeal
word: portion
word: scrap
word: scraplet
word: slice
word: snead
word: snippet
word: steck
glosses: Something which has been clipped from a larger whole:
The product of a single shearing of sheep.
synonyms: word: cutting
word: snippet
word: bit
word: chip
word: chunk
word: clip
word: crumb
word: crumbling
word: cutting
word: flake
word: fleak
word: fragment
word: hunk
word: lump
word: mammock
word: ort
word: piece
word: piecemeal
word: portion
word: scrap
word: scraplet
word: slice
word: snead
word: snippet
word: steck
glosses: Something which has been clipped from a larger whole:
A season's crop of wool.
examples: text: The morning news today played a clip of last night's debate.
text: The 100th episode of Seinfeld consisted of clips from previous episodes.
synonyms: word: cutting
word: snippet
word: bit
word: chip
word: chunk
word: clip
word: crumb
word: crumbling
word: cutting
word: flake
word: fleak
word: fragment
word: hunk
word: lump
word: mammock
word: ort
word: piece
word: piecemeal
word: portion
word: scrap
word: scraplet
word: slice
word: snead
word: snippet
word: steck
word: video clip
glosses: Something which has been clipped from a larger whole:
A section of video taken from a film, broadcast, or other longer video.
synonyms: word: cutting
word: snippet
word: bit
word: chip
word: chunk
word: clip
word: crumb
word: crumbling
word: cutting
word: flake
word: fleak
word: fragment
word: hunk
word: lump
word: mammock
word: ort
word: piece
word: piecemeal
word: portion
word: scrap
word: scraplet
word: slice
word: snead
word: snippet
word: steck
word: audio clip
word: sound bite
word: sound clip
glosses: Something which has been clipped from a larger whole:
A short piece of audio (shortened version of audio clip, or alternatively clipping of audio).
synonyms: word: cutting
word: snippet
word: bit
word: chip
word: chunk
word: clip
word: crumb
word: crumbling
word: cutting
word: flake
word: fleak
word: fragment
word: hunk
word: lump
word: mammock
word: ort
word: piece
word: piecemeal
word: portion
word: scrap
word: scraplet
word: slice
word: snead
word: snippet
word: steck
glosses: Something which has been clipped from a larger whole:
A newspaper clipping.
examples: text: I went into the salon to get a clip.
glosses: An act of clipping, such as a haircut.
examples: text: Deeky the clip of that aad wife ower thor!
glosses: The condition of something, its state.
examples: text: Give him a clip round the ear!
text: Oh sure, I got the odd clip under the ear.
ref: 1995, Paul Vautin, Turn It Up!, Sydney: Pan Macmillan Australia, page 67:
glosses: A blow with the hand (often in the set phrase clip round the ear)
Derived terms: clipbook
clippock
clipsheet
clip show
microclip
subclip
vidclip