clip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: klĭp
ipa: /klɪp/
ipa: [kʰl̥ɪp]
rhymes: -ɪp
Forms: form: clips
Etymology: 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”).
Senses: examples: text: Use this clip to attach the check to your tax form.
glosses: Something which clips or grasps; a device for attaching one object to another.
examples: text: She reads at a pretty good clip.
text: He was walking at a fair clip and I was out of breath trying to keep up.
glosses: An unspecified, but normally understood as rapid, speed or pace.
examples: text: 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: […]
ref: 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:
english: The New Arcadia
translation: The New Arcadia
glosses: An embrace.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: 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.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A removable magazine of a firearm.
examples: 1831-1850, William Youatt, On the Structure and the Diseases of the Horse
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
glosses: 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.
topics: fishing
hobbies
lifestyle
glosses: A gaff or hook for landing the fish, as in salmon fishing.
Derived terms: sense: Terms derived from clip (noun)
word: alligator clip
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word: at a clip
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word: at a fast clip
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word: autoclip
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word: banana clip
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word: banker's clip
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word: bicycle clip
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word: binder clip
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word: bread-bag clip
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word: bread clip
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word: bulldog clip
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word: butterfly clip
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word: C-clip
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word: circlip
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word: claw clip
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word: clip art
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word: clipboard
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word: clip board
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word: clip-clop
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word: clip farm
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word: clip farmer
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word: clip font
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word: clipless
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word: cliplock
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word: clipnosis
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word: clip point
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word: clip strip
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word: crocodile clip
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word: cycle clip
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word: declipping
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word: earclip
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word: empty the clip
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word: en bloc clip
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word: endoclip
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word: finclip
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word: foldback clip
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word: foldover clip
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word: gem clip
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word: go at a good clip
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word: hair clip
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word: hairclip
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word: hair-clip
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word: handbag clip
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word: hemoclip
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word: hose clip
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word: Inglefield clip
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word: Jesus clip
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word: Jubilee clip
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word: microclip
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word: money clip
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word: moon clip
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word: noseclip
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word: O clip
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word: paper clip
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word: reclip
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word: roach clip
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word: sister clip
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word: Smallman clip
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word: snap clip
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word: sound clip
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word: stick clip
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word: stripper clip
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word: tie clip
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word: unclip
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word: video clip
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word: wool clip