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Clip

Definition: Clip

Clip

Noun

1. A metal frame or container holding cartridges; can be inserted into an automatic gun.

2. An instance or single occasion for some event; "This time he succeeded"; "He called four times"; "he could do ten at a clip".

3. Any of various small fasteners used to hold loose articles together.

4. An article of jewelry that can be clipped onto a hat or dress.

5. The act of clipping or snipping.

6. A sharp slanting blow; "he gave me a clip on the ear".

Verb

1. Sever or remove by pinching or snipping; "nip off the flowers".

2. Run at a moderately swift pace.

3. Attach with a clip; "clip the papers together".

4. Cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of "dress the plants in the garden".

5. Terminate or abbreviate before its intended or proper end or its full extent; "My speech was cut short"; "Personal freedom is curtailed in many countries".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "clip" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references)

Note: Clip \Clip\ (kl[i^]p), transitive verb. [imperfect & past participle. Clipped(kl[i^]pt); Clipping.]. (references)

 

Specialty Definition: Clip

DomainDefinition

Computing

CLIP 1. Compiler Language for Information Processing. 2. Common LISP in Parallel. CLiP A documentation extractor by Eric W. van Ammers that recognises a particular style of comments. This style can be adjusted to suit virtually any programming language and target documentation language. CLiP was designed to be compatible with hypertext systems. Version 2.1 runs on MS-DOS, VAX/VMS and Unix (ftp://sun01.info.wau.nl/clip/) (1993-11-18). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.

Electrical Engineering

A resilient device which deflects on mating to produce a connection. Source: European Union. (references)

Engineering & Technology

A device, usually of metal, used to fasten a handle or other accessory to a container. (2) Steel. . . channel fitted over the folded end of a collapsible tube to prevent unfolding and leakage after f illing. Source: European Union. (references)

Food & Agriculture

A pole, 10 to 20ft(3 to 6m)long, ending in a steel point(the pike)and a hook or spur(termed a gaff), which is used in handling floating timber. Source: European Union. (references)

Industry

To cut a short distance into the seam allowance or selvage with point of scissors. Technique is used in curved seams, square corners, . . . so that seams will lie flat when pressed. Source: European Union. (references)
 Pour retenir le pantalon à bicyclette. Source: European Union. (references)

Mechanical Engineering

Small metallic piece whose goal is to hold parts together. Source: European Union. (references)

Mining

Connector between an underground tub, car, truck, or tram, and endless rope haulage. A clip pulley has a broad rim into which studs are set, to grip links of a haulage chain. See also:haulage clip; automatic clip;coupling; clam. (references)

Sports & Leisure

Hold the shoe in place. -- must be thin and bent to the angle of the hoof. Source: European Union. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: Clip

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
EntrySourceExpressionField

CLIP

EnglishCalling line identification presentationN/A

CLIP

Greekπαρουσίαση αναγνώρισης καλούσας γραμμήςComputing

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Synonyms: Clip

Synonyms: cartridge clip (n), cartridge holder (n), clipping (n), magazine (n), snip (n), time (n), crop (v), curtail (v), cut back (v), cut short (v), dress (v), jog (v), lop (v), nip (v), nip off (v), prune (v), snip off (v), trim (v), trot (v). (additional references)
Antonym: unclip (v). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Clip

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Hindrance

Thwart, frustrate, disconcert, balk, foil; faze, feaze, feeze; baffle, snub, override, circumvent; defeat; spike guns; (render useless); spoil, mar, clip the wings of; cripple; (injure); put an extinguisher on; damp; dishearten; (dissuade); discountenance, throw cold water on, spoil sport; lay a wet blanket, throw a wet blanket on; cut the ground from under one, take the wind out of one's sails, undermine; be in the way of, stand in the way of; act as a drag; hang like a millstone round one's neck.

Impotence

Render powerless; Adjective: deprive of power; disable, disenable; disarm, incapacitate, disqualify, unfit, invalidate, deaden, cramp, tie the hands; double up, prostrate, paralyze, muzzle, cripple, becripple, maim, lame, hamstring, draw the teeth of; throttle, strangle, garrotte, garrote; ratten, silence, sprain, clip the wings of, put hors de combat, spike the guns; take the wind out of one's sails, scotch the snake, put a spoke in one's wheel; break the neck, break the back; unhinge, unfit; put out of gear.

Impulse

Verb: give an impetus; Noun: impel, push; start, give a start to, set going; drive, urge, boom; thrust, prod, foin; cant; elbow, shoulder, jostle, justle, hustle, hurtle, shove, jog, jolt, encounter; run against, bump against, butt against; knock one's head against, run one's head against; impinge; boost; bunt, carom, clip y; fan, fan out; jab, plug.

Blow, dint, stroke, knock, tap, rap, slap, smack, pat, dab; fillip; slam, bang; hit, whack, thwack; cuff; squash, dowse, swap, whap, punch, thump, pelt, kick, punce, calcitration; ruade; arietation; cut, thrust, lunge, yerk; carom, carrom, clip, jab, plug, sidewinder, sidewipe, sideswipe.

Inutility

Render useless; Adjective: dismantle, dismast, dismount, disqualify, disable; unrig; cripple, lame; (injure); spike guns, clip the wings; put out of gear.

Motion

Step, rate, pace, tread, stride, gait, port, footfall, cadence, carriage, velocity, angular velocity; clip, progress, locomotion; journey; voyage; transit.

Prohibition

Keep in, keep within bounds; restrain; cohibit, withhold, limit, circumscribe, clip the wings of, restrict; interdict, taboo; put under an interdiction, place under an interdiction; put under the ban, place under the ban; proscribe; exclude, shut out; shut the door, bolt the door, show the door; warn off; dash the cup from one's lips; forbid the banns.

Shortness

Retrench, cut short, obtruncate; scrimp, cut, chop up, hack, hew; cut down, pare down; clip, dock, lop, prune, shear, shave, mow, reap, crop; snub; truncate, pollard, stunt, nip, check the growth of; foreshorten.

Slowness

Retard, relax; slacken, check, moderate, rein in, curb; reef; strike sail, shorten sail, take in sail; put on the drag, apply the brake; clip the wings; reduce the speed; slacken speed, slacken one's pace; lose ground.

Stammering

Mumble, mutter; maud, mauder; whisper; mince, lisp; jabber, gibber; sputter, splutter; muffle, mump; drawl, mouth; croak; speak thick, speak through the nose; snuffle, clip one's words; murder the language, murder the King's English, murder the Queen's English; mispronounce, missay.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Clip

English words defined with "clip": alligator clipbulldog clipcarabiner, Cizar, clipboard, clip-on, clipper, Clove hookgem cliphair slidejumper cable, jumper leadkarabinerlead, limiterpaperclip, pin curl, pincurl clipsnap ringThwiteunclip. (references)
Specialty definitions using "clip": CELL COVERER, CELL INSPECTOR, cleek, client/server, client-server, clip method, clip wrapper, CLIP-BOLTER AND WRAPPER, CLIP-LOADING-MACHINE FEEDER, CLIPPER, AUTOMATIC, Compiler Language for Information Processingdefect cutter, DOG BATHERfinding fastener, FISH-STRINGER ASSEMBLER, flamer-sealer, FLAT CLOTHIER, FUR DRESSERheating-fixture tenderInconel spring clip grid assembly, INSPECTOR, CLIP-ON SUNGLASSESloop haulageMESSENGER, COPY, miner's self-rescuer, mold inspector, MOLDER, MEAT, multifocal-button assembler, MULTIFOCAL-LENS ASSEMBLERparachute packer, PARACHUTE RIGGER, PIN-OR-CLIP FASTENER, POULTRY TENDER, proof runner, pull-out operator, purse ring, pursing ringrat belt, ROLL-TENSION TESTERSEASONING MIXER, Seiko RC-4000, shelving clerk, Siebe-Gorman self-rescuer, spice mixer, stack clerk, STRING-TOP SEALER, SUNGLASS-CLIP ATTACHERtracker ball, tram ropeWIRE INSERTER. (references)
Etymologies containing "clip": Royne. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Clip" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

German (hairclip), Italian (clip), Portuguese (clip, paperfastener), Scottish (a hook), Spanish (paper clip).

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Modern Usage: Clip

DomainUsage

Screenplays

Then we get into a jacuzzi filled with Pepto-Bismol, I clip your toenails, and you shave my buttocks (Rat Race; writing credit: Andy Breckman)

I was gonna get you a tie clip or some shaving lotion, but I didn't know what you'd like (Norma Rae; writing credit: Harriet Frank Jr.; Irving Ravetch)

She's calmed down a bit. I put a clip on one side, which seems to have stopped the curling (Friends; writing credit: Jörn O. Jensen; Birger Larsen)

People notice things about their significant other they don't like all the time--the way they chew their food or clip their toenails--it's a necessary part of a real relationship (Northern Exposure; writing credit: Khadijah Hashim)

That gun takes a 14 shot clip. You expecting an army (Serpico; writing credit: Peter Maas; Waldo Salt)

Lyrics

I'MMA RUN TILL I BUST MY GUN AND EMPTY THE CLIP (Come Back In One Piece; performing artist: Aaliyah)

Grab your gat with the extra clip and, (Fantastic Voyage; performing artist: Coolio)

You can let 'em clip your wings (Miracle; performing artist: Jon Bon Jovi)

Keep a D eagle with an extra clip (Saturday (Oooh! Oooh!); performing artist: Ludacris)

I got the calico with the black talions loaded in the clip (Warning; performing artist: The Notorious B.I.G.)

Movie/TV Titles

Woody's Clip Joint (1964)

Dans les coulisses du clip 'California' (1996)

Knödel Clip (1995)

Mamono Hunter Yôko: Super Music Clip (1993)

The Impossible Clip (1979)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Clip

DomainTitle

References

  • CLIP Corporation: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

    (more reference examples)

  

Books

  • Christmas Designs: 107 Different Copyright-Free Designs (Dover Electronic Clip Art Series) (reference)

  • Paper Clip Jewelry: A Paper Clip Jewelry Workshop (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Periodicals

  

Theater & Movies

  • Big Hits - Original Hits & Video Clip (reference)

  • Clip Art Use & Fundamentals:1 (reference)

  • The X-Files: The Blessing Way/Paper Clip (reference)

    (more DVD examples; more video examples)

  

Music

  

High Tech

  

Consumer Goods

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Clip

Photos:
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Photo Album: Clip

ThumbnailDescription & CreditThumbnailDescription & Credit

"Pretty Waves" (hi-res movie) by Tom Tredon. This is just one small clip from the movie. Use DPGraph's Scrollbar to vary A (the speed) and B (the whole graph's amplitude).

Joel Torres (right), NRCS District Conservationist, Zapata, TX, and landowner clip grass to determine grass stand and quality. [Slide 97CS3018]. Credit: Ken Hammond.

Joel Torres (right), NRCS, District Conservationist, Zapata, Texas, and Lauro Gutierrez (left) clip grass to determine grass stand and quality. Credit: USDA.

Preparing for the fall clip. Credit: Library of Congress.

An 85,000 wool clip, Rosewell, N.M. Credit: Library of Congress.

Accuracy comes first. Experienced inspectors check clip hoops for the ultimate in accuracy. The operation is part of the rush of defense orders in an eastern arsenal. Credit: Library of Congress.

U.S. anti-aircraft gun crew. Corporal Raymond Elliott holds a clip of anti-aircraft shells before loading the weapon of his Negro gun crew at a U.S. Army air base in the New Hebrides in the South Pacific. Credit: Library of Congress.

"A two minute clip!". Credit: Library of Congress.

Giant paper clip. Credit: Library of Congress.

  

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Digital Photo Gallery: Clip
 

"Paper clip" by Sebastian Mey - KrippsDesign
Commentary: "A silver paper clip on the table."
"Blue paper clip" by Nick Lobeck
Commentary: "A funky blue paper clip."

Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers.

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Sounds Captioned with "Clip".

PlayCaption
Clip clop of horse trotting by.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Familiar Quotations: Clip

AuthorQuotation

Emo Philips

The IRS sent back my tax return saying I owed $800. I said "If you'll notice, I sent a paper clip with my return. Given what you've been paying for things lately, that should more than make up the difference."

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Clip

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

In these procedures, the patient, with a nose clip in place, breathes in and out through a mouthpiece. (references)

Surgery is usually performed within the first 3 days to clip the ruptured aneurysm and to reduce the risk of rebleeding. (references)

Once the aneurysm is stabilized, a neurosurgeon can clip the aneurysm with less risk of hemorrhage and death to the patient. (references)

Economic History

China

The value of China's cable TV equipment market is estimated to be $2 billion in 2001. Growing at a 45% clip, the equipment market is expected to be worth $6 billion by 2005 and the size of the entire cable TV market, including cable TV programming services, will reach $12 billion. (references)

Political Economy

PHILIPPINES

After years of steady decline, from 3.08 percent per year in the 1960s to 2.32 percent per year for the 1990-1995 period, final 2000 census results estimated the Philippines' annual population expansion at a faster 2.36 percent clip. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Spoken Usage: Clip

SpeakerPhrase(s)

Rush Limbaugh

In the eighties, Taylor had a twice-weekly segment on a Denver television station, and the clip shown in an ad run by Democrats shows Taylor applying lotions to the face of a man sitting in the barber chair with Taylor discussing techniques.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Clip

"Clip" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 64.03% of the time. "Clip" is used about 392 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)64.03%25118,755
Lexical Verb (infinitive)17.6%6940,280
Lexical Verb (base form)17.09%6740,952
Unclassified Items0.77%3202,518
Noun (proper)0.26%1339,140
Noun (common)0.26%1339,140
                    Total100.00%392N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Usage in Company Names: Clip

CountryName
Japan

CLIP Corporation

 (more examples...)

Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.

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Expressions: Clip

Expressions using "clip": alligator clip ammunition clip at a good clip bulldog clip cartridge clip clip artist clip board clip brooch on the dress clip hook clip joint clip lead clip on clip one's wings clip round the ears clip smb.'s ear clip smb.'s wings clip smth. clip the wings clip the wings of clip together ear clip film clip gem clip hair clip Inconel spring clip grid assembly paper clip pincurl clip roach clip spring clip tie clip toe clip. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "clip": clip-around-the-nose, clip-arsed, clip-art, clip-board, clip-clipping, clip-clop, clip-clopped, clip-clopping, clip-girl, clip-in, clip-joint, clip-joints, clip-on, clip-on brooch, clip-on earrings, clip-ons, clip-out, clip-thunk, clip-together.

Ending with "clip": paper-clip, tie-clip.

Containing "clip": bulldog-clip-round-the-nose.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Clip

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

video clip

4,250

art clip day father

670

free sex clip

2,788

clip hunter

642

free porn clip

2,785

free movie clip

639

funny video clip

2,286

free xxx clip

619

movie clip

1,863

great clip

602

clip

1,769

free clip

593

sex clip

1,670

free sex movie clip

557

free sex video clip

1,391

music clip

518

funny clip

1,276

microsoft clip art gallery

485

sound clip

1,228

porn video clip

458

mini clip

1,168

4th of july clip art

454

money clip

1,164

american flag clip art

451

free video clip

1,160

clip art gallery

450

free porn video clip

1,082

clip.com mini

447

porn clip

997

free xxx video clip

445

graduation clip art

870

birthday clip art

444

clip directory

752

microsoft clip gallery

441

sex video clip

749

art clip gras mardi

435

free porn movie clip

741

clip art border

406

movie sound clip

705

angel clip art

374
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Clip

Language Translations for "clip"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Afrikaans

  

sny (cut, shear, slice). (various references)

   

Albanian

  

kllapë (cog, cramp, damper, dovetail, mortise, parenthesis, rabbet, scarf, valve), ecje e shpejtë (double, trot), ekstrakt (distillate, excerpt, extract, infusion), fashetë, godas (affect, astonish smb., bash, beat, biff, buffet, bump, butt, clout, conk, defeat, drop, hit, impinge, knock, pound, smite, stab, strike, whack), godit (bash, beat, biff, buffet, bump, butt, clout, conk, deal, defeat, hit, impinge, instigate, joggle, jostle, knock, pound, shock, shove, slam, smite, stab, strike, tap, thrash, thwack, whack), goditje (assault, bang, bash, batting, beat, biff, blow, buffet, bump, cant, chop, clean and jerk, dash, dint, drive, fib, flap, hit, ictus, impingement, incitement, infliction, jab, joggle, jolt, knock, knocking, lick, percussion, poke, pound, push, shock, slat, sock, stimulus, strike, stroke, thrust, thwack, tremor, welt), gris (rend, rent, rip, rip up, shred, slit, split, tear, torn), i ha, kap me kapëse (peg, pin up), bëj vrimë (recess), karficë (clasp-pin, hairpin, ouch, pin, pushpin), shtrëngoj (bind, brace, buckle, clamp, clasp, clench, clutch, coerce, compel, compress, constrict, enforce, fasten, force, grapple, grasp, grip, gripe, hold, hug, jam, keep, oblige, pinch, press, restrict, screw, shake, squash, squeeze, strain, strangle, tighten, vice, wring), krehër (comb, rake, raker), lesh i qethur, mbërthej (brace, clasp, clench, clutch, corner, do up, enchain, fasten, grip, hold, hook, hook up, make fast, nab, paw, peg, seize, snatch), pjesë e shkurtër, pres (amputate, anticipate, await, be asking for, be expecting, be on the watch, be waiting, bide, buck, chop, coin, cut, cut away, cut open, detruncate, disforest, dissect, entertain, expect, exscind, fell, hew, host, knife, look for, look forward to, mince, mint, Nick, notch, obtruncate, poll, prune, screw, section, sever, shut off, sit on the fence, slash, slot, snip, take, Tarry, undercut, wait, ween, whack), qëlloj (batter, clout, conk, discharge, fetch, flap, get, hammer, hit, impinge, knock, lay out, paddle, poke, pop, pot, pound, rifle, shoot, slap, slug, smite, strike, switch), qeth (cut, edge, fleece, shave, shear, whittle down), qethje (clipping, crop, fleece, shear, shearing), shkurtoj (abbreviate, abridge, ax, axe, buck, compress, condense, curtail, cut, cut back, cut down, detruncate, dock, epitomize, pare, poll, prune, razee, retrench, shorten, truncate, undercut, whittle down), shpullë (clout, slap, swipe, wallop), kapëse (dog, fastener, hold, pin, staple). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏سلبه ماله (clean, hustle, swindle, wrong), ‏ثبت بمشبك, ‏ثقب تذكرة القطار, ‏أمسك باحكام (clench), ‏إختصر (abbreviate, abridge, analyse, analyze, boil down, curtail, cut short, limit, nick, outline, reduce, shorten, syncopate), ‏إنطلق بسرعة (breeze, fleet, fly, lick, prick, rocket, scat, scoot, scorch, scud, steam, tear away), ‏جز (clipping, fleece, mow, shear, shear off), ‏خطو سريع, ‏ضرب بسرعة وعنف, ‏شوه حافة, ‏طوق (band, be hemmed in, belt, besiege, cincture, circle, circumvent, collar, compass, corral, embrace, encircle, enclose, encompass, enfold, entrench, envelop, fret, gird, girdle, hedge, hem, hoop, impale, inclose, include, invest, outflank, ring, round, strap, surround, take off, zone), ‏مقلمة الأظافر (clippers), ‏حلية مثبتة بمشبك, ‏قص (clipping, cut, narrate, recount, relate, report, scissor, shear, shearing, shorn, snip, styling, tell), ‏قصاصة (chip, clipping, cutting, scrap, slip, snip, snippet, trimming), ‏قصاصة من فيلم, ‏قلم (cut, cut back, liner, manicure, pare, pen, prune, streak, stria, stripe, trim), ‏مشبك (brace, buckle, clasp, fastener, fibula, paper clip, pin), ‏مشبك للأوراق, ‏مشط (card, coif the hair, coiffure the hair, comb, do the hair, do up the hair, dress, reed, scour, style the hair, tease), ‏مقدار الصوف المجزوز, ‏ضربة خفيفة (tip, touch, trait). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

откъс от филм, измамвам (abuse, befool, beguile, catch, chisel, chouse, cross, dash, defraud, diddle, fix, flam, fob, fool, gaff, go back on, green, gull, hijack, kid, mislead, mock, nobble, overreach, play false, pluck, prey, pull a fast one, put across, put on, screw, sell, shaft, short-change, slip over, spoof, swindle, take for a ride, take in, trick, trim), изрезка (cut, cutting, scrap), изяждам (consume, dispose of, eat up, manage, shift), подкастрям (cut back, prune off, trim), подрязвам (cut short, dock, lop, nip, pare, scissor, trim, undercut), подрязвам крилата на, пълнител (charger, refill), брошка (brooch, clasp-pin, fibula, ouch), защипвам (nip), намалявам (abate, abbreviate, allay, attenuate, bring down, contract, curtail, cut back, cut down, decline, decrease, deduct, deflate, degrade, deplete, detract, dim, diminish, ebb, extenuate, fine, impair, knock off, lessen, lighten, lull, minify, minimize, moderate, modify, pare down, prejudice, put back, put down, reduce, remit, run down, scant, shorten, shrink, sink, slacken, subdue, take from, thin, thin away, thin down, understate, wane, work down), настриг (cut, shear), движа се бързо (double, hasten, jump, scour, scud, shift, spank, speed, spin, travel, whirl, zoom), откъс от време, стяга (brace, clamp, jig, shackle, snap), орязвам (cut off, pare, trim), голяма скорост на движение, клипс (clasp, slip, snap), кламер (fastener), клещи (claw, clippers, pincer movement, pincers, pincers movement, pinchers, pliers, tongs), клъцвам (snick), цапвам силно, халка (circlet, hanger, hoop, loop, ring, wedding ring), силен удар (biff, lick, plunk, slog, slosh, smacker, smasher, sock, stinger, swipe, thump, wallop, welt, welter, whammy, whang, whop), скоба (brace, bracing, bracket, clamp, clinch, corbel, dog nail, girdle, holdfast, hoop, loop, rim, shackle, staple, tie, yoke), стрижа (crop, shear, shore, tip), стрижене, обръч (band, binding, collar, hoop, ring). (various references)

   

Catalan

  

tallar (cut, shear). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

(shorten, throw away), 夹子 (CLIPS, GRIP, Pincers, Pinchers), (folder, hold between, lined, narrow lane, to place in between, to press from both sides). (various references)

   

Czech

  

svorka (brace, dog, paper clip, pin, staple), stříhat (cut, shear, snip), spínátko (paper clip), skřipec (nippers), proštípnout (endorse), přistřihnout (trim), šot. (various references)

   

Danish

  

klippe (boulder, cut, rock, shear). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

snoeien (cut, prune, shear), scheren (cut, shave, shear, skim), knippen (cut, polish, shear). (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

tondi (cut, shear). (various references)

   

Faeroese

  

klippa (cut, shear). (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

پشم چینی , موزنی , محکم گرفتن (Clam, Clutch, Grip, Gripe, Hug), چیدن (Arrange, Crop, Cut, Lop, Mow, Pare, Pick, Pickup, Pluck, Pull, Set, Snip, Trim), گیره یاپنس , گیره کاغذ (Pin, Staple), شانه فشنگ , بغل گرفتن (Lock), برش (Broach, Cut, Cutting, Dissection, Excision, Hack, Incision, Recision, Section, Sectorial, Slash, Slice, Snip). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

leikata (carve, crop, cut, cut out, intersect, lance, operate, pare, prunce, shear, slice, trim). (various references)

   

French

  

tondre, découper, agrafe (clamp, clasp, paper clip). (various references)

   

German

  

klemme (clamp, crocodile clamp, fix, grip, hole, jam, morass, pickle, spot, tight spot), schur (shearing), schneiden (bite, carve, chop, cross, crosscutting, cut, cut down, cutting, cutting edges, edit, finesse, harvest, incise, intersect, lance, meet, mow, Nick, pare, reap, scissor, shave, shear, slice, snick, snub, to bite, to clip, to cut, to cutting edges, to scissor, to slice, trim), scheren (crop, cut, shave, shear, shears, to clip, trim), klammer (brace, bracket, clamp, cramp, dog, grip, paperclip, parenthesis, peg, staple), haarschnitt (crop, haircut, hairstyle), anklammern (hook, peg, staple). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

κουρεύω (crop, fleece, shear, trim), συνδετήρας (staple), πόρπη (brooch, buckle, clasp, hasp), ψαλιδίζω (scissor, shear, snip, trim). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

מהדק (clamp, fastener, fastening, stapler), לקצץ (chop, cut down, hack, hackle, lop, maul, prune, scale down, slash, whittle down), לזמור (prune, trim), להדק (brace, clasp, constrict, fasten, make fast, snug, strain, tie, tighten), לגזור (cut, cut out, decree, fell, ordain, shear), לגזוז (pare, set aside, trim), לגזום (cut back, lop, prune, trim), קולר (collar, neck chain, noose, torque), אדק (dropper), אטב (clasp, fastener), הדק (brace, clasp, terminal point, trigger), גזה (fleece, shorn wool), בירית (garter, hoop, kneeband), סכה (brooch, nail, pin, pinpoint). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

tölténytár (box magazine, cartridge, cartridge clip, magazine), juhnyírás, gemkapocs (clips, paper clip, paperclip). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

cantelan (clasp, hook), menjepit (wring), menggunting (clipper, scissor, swindle), gunting (clippers, nipper, scissors, shears). (various references)

   

Italian

  

clip. (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

(snip), クリーム色 (Christian, Christian Dior, Christian name, Christian Science Monitor, Christiania, Christmas, Christmas cake, Christmas card, Christmas carol, Christmas concert, Christmas Eve, Christmas present, Christmas tree, clean, clean energy, clean float, clean heater, clean hit, clean rice, clean room, clean up, cleanup trio, clear, clear lacquer, clearance, clearance sale, cleaver, click, clinic, clinometer, clipper, clipping, clitoris, cream, create, creation, creative, creative agency, creative group, creativity, creator, creole, cricket, crinoline, critic, critical, criticism, critique, crystal, crystal glass, EDTV, Extended Definition Television, Kripke, Kristiania, vented heater), (cut, prune, reap, shear, trim). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

せん (at length, attentively, beam, before, boastfully usurping, boil down, broil, carefully, choice, compilation, cork, deeply, editing, fire, former, gland, hermit, hundredth of a yen, late, line, old, parch, precedence, previous, priority, profoundly, roast, selection, snip, stopcock, stopper, the future, thousand, wire, wizard), かり (acting, assumed, borrowing, cut, debt, fleeting, hunting, informal, interim, loan, lower official, potash, potassium, provisional, prune, reap, shear, temporary, trim, unauthorized, wild goose), クリップ . (various references)

   

Korean 

  

클립 (CLIPS). (various references)

   

Manx

  

tasteen, kiangley ry-cheilley (join up), giarrey (abbreviate, abridge, abridging, axe, beat out, bob the tail; severance, bob; severance, carve, castrate, cleave, clip as words; slicing, clip; slicing, condensation, condense, condensing, crop, crop as tail, curtail, curtailment, cut, cut away, cut back, cut short, cut up, disconnect, disconnection, dissect, erupt, eruption, flux, gash, hack, hew, incise, incision, infliction, intersect, intersection, lance, levy, lop, mark out, nicking, prune, pruning, puncture, reaping, scission, section, sever, shear, sink, slash, slit, snip, truncate), cur fasteen er, baarey (bare, cut, dress, paring knife, poll, prune, shave). (various references)

   

Norwegian

  

klippe (cliff, cut, fleece, shear). (various references)

   

Papiamen

  

corta (cut, shear, slice). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ipclay.(various references)

   

Polish

  

strzyc (cut, shear). (various references)

   

Portuguese

  

tosquiar (fleece, shear), pinça (claw, cochleare, crimper, crowbill, forcep, pincers, pinchers, pliers, tongs, tweezers), grampo (brace, bracket, clam, clamp, clasp, claw, clinch, clincher, dog nail, holdfast, locket, parenthesis, spike, staple, tie-plate), cortar (bite, chaff, chip, chop, crop, curtail, cut, cut down, delete, detruncate, fell, gash, gouge, hack, hackle, hand back, hew, hew down, incise, indent, interrupt, intersect, let by, log, lop, lumber, mow, poll, pollard, sever, shave, shut off, slice, slit, strike off, strike out, whittle), clipe. (various references)

   

Romanian

  

clamã (clamp, clincher, cramp, fastener), tundere (clipping, cutting), tunde (crop, cut, edge, lop, pare, shear, trim), tãia (amputate, ax, axe, butcher, cancel, carve, carve out, castrate, chop, clap, cleave, crop, cross, Curdle, cut, cut on the bias, Dent, dissect, engrave, excise, exscind, fell, flench, foul, grave, hew, incise, intercept, kill, measure off, notch, notch off, pare, plough, prune, quarter, resect, rip, Rive, separate, sever, shear, shorten, shut the works down, slaughter, slay, slice, snick, split, Square, stop, strike out, switch off), strânge puternic, scoabã (bracer, chisel, clamp, clasp, clench, clincher, cramp, crampon, dog, Gib, gouge, link, staple, strap, yoke), reteza (cut, hoe, obtruncate, prune, sever, slash), prinde strâns, placã (pane, plaque, plate, record, sheet, slab, slate, table), perfora (drill, perforate, Pierce, prick, prickle, punch, thrill), pensã (forceps), menghinã (nipper, vice, vise), loviturã (attack, bang, bat, beat, beating, blow, box, bump, burglary, butt, calamity, cant, clap, coup, cuff, dash, drive, fib, flap, go, heading, hit, hunch, hurt, jab, jolt, kick, knock, lick, master stroke, pelt, push, round, set back, shack, shock, shot, slash, sling, smack, smash, stab, stick, strike, stroke, sweep, thrust), fixa strâns. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

обрубать (dub, lop), быстрая походка, быстро идти (nip along), зажим (adapter, clamp, clasp, clinch, cramp, dog, grip, gripe, lock), зажимать (cramp, jam, jig, pinch), зажимное приспособление, зажимные клещи, закреплять (clamp, consolidate, fix, jig, make fast, secure with), настриг шерсти, дерзкая девчонка (hussy, huzzy, minx), обрезать (circumcise, cut off, obtruncate, pare, prune, truncate), стрижка (clipping, haircut, hair-cut, shear, shearing), отрезать (cut away, cut off, snip off), вырезать;стричь клип;скрепка, глотать (gorge, gulp, ingest, swallow, swigged, swigging, swigs), клипс, сильный удар (bang, bash, biff, humming blow, lick, pelt, plunk, polt, slog, staggerer, swinger, swipe, thwack, wallop, whack), скоба (clamp, clevis, cramp, holdfast, hook, rim, shackle, staple, strap, yoke), скреплять (bond, brace, cement, clamp, knit, ratify, staple), скрепка (clinch, paper clip, paperclip, staple), обойма (cage, cartridge clip, fork, girdle, hoop, race, yoke). (various references)

   

Scottish

  

bèarr (prune, shave). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

veza (bond, bracing, bunch, communication, connection, contact, copula, fastener, fastening, liaison, ligament, link, nexus, rapport, relation, stay, tie, touch, union), strigati (shear), striženje, spojnica (rail, tie), seći (chip, chop, cut, hew, pare), podsečen, podrezan, podšišati (trim), ostrigati, ostrižen, okvir (cadre, cartridge clip, framework, limits, mounting, passe-partout), šišanje (haircut), šaržer (cartridge clip). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

cortar (ax, axe, bar, behead, block off, Bob, break, break in, chop, comminute, crop, cut, cut across, cut away, cut down, cut in, cut off, cut out, cut up, decapitate, detruncate, disbranch, excise, exscind, fell, hack, incise, intersect, joint, lop, lop away, lop off, lumber, mow, Nick, nip, open, pare, pick, pluck, prune, sever, shear, shear off, shear through, shut off, slice, slit, snick, strike off, tear off, trim away, trim off, turn off, turn out, Whittle), grapa (clamp, cramp, holdfast, paper fastener, staple). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

klämma (clamp, jam, pickle, pinch, press, scrape, shut, squash, squeeze). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

klipslemek, darbe (bash, beat, biff, blow, brunt, bump, chop, clout, concussion, coup, coup de main, coup d'etat, crusher, cut, dash, facer, finisher, hack, hit, ictus, impact, jolt, kayo, knock, pound, putsch, shock, smasher, stroke, thwack, whack, whammy), hile yapmak (cheat, chicane, cog, finagle, gerrymander, load the dice, manipulate, play a trick, practice a deceit, practise a deceit, renege, rig, rook, sharp, swindle), indirmek (bash, bring down, cast down, clout, clump, cut, degrade, dismount, down, draw down, drop off, dump, land, lay low, let down, lift down, lower, plant, put down, reduce, relegate, send down, set down, strike, take down, take from, take off, unlade), kırpılan miktar, kırpma (blinking, clipping, retrenchment, shearing, winking), kırpmak (bat, blink, crop, cut, pare, retrench, shave, shear, wink), kısaltmak (abbreviate, abridge, cancel, compress, curtail, cut down, dock, edit, make shorter, prune, reduce, retrench, short circuit, shorten, summarize, take up), kavramak (absorb, apperceive, appreciate, apprehend, bite, catch, catch on, clasp, clench, clutch, come home, compass, comprehend, conceive, cup, dawn on, digest, discern, fathom, get, get a grip, get hold of, grasp, grip, hold, latch on to, nail, perceive, pick up, realize, see into, seize, sum up, twig, understand), kazıklamak (bunco, cheat, chisel, do smb. brown, fleece, fob, fob smb. off, gouge, have smb. on, jew, Nick, overcharge, put it on, put it over on, rook, rush, sell, skin, soak, sting, stuff smb., take for a ride), kesme (abscission, curtailment, cut, cutback, cutting, discontinuation, interception, nip, scission, section, shearing, shutoff, stoppage, suppression, truncation), şarjör (drum, magazine), klips, vurmak (bang, bat, beat, beat down, bruise, bust, catapult, catch, chime, clap, clout, dash, deal, grass, gun, hit, impinge, inflict, kayo, knock, land, lay out, lay to, Lodge, Mall, nail, pack, percuss, pip, plant, plonk, plug, plunk, pound, prick, pummel, punch, putt, ram, shoot, shoot off, slog, smash, sock, strike, stroke, stub, swat, swinge, switch, whack, zap), koşmak (career, course, harness, jog, leg, leg it, run, rush, scamper, scamper about, scour, scurry, shin, team, yoke), mandallamak (click, fasten with latch, latch), okkalı yumruk, pens (dart, forceps, pincers, pliers), raptiye (drawing pin, fastener, paper clip, pin, staple, tack, thumbtack), sürat (career, celerity, promptitude, promptness, quickness, rapidity, rapidness, speed, speediness, swiftness, velocity), saç kesme (haircut), sarılmak (arm, be wrapped, canoodle, clasp, clasp smb. in one's arms, cling, coil, coil up, cuddle, give a hug, give smb. a hug, hold on, hug, snuggle, twine, wind), toka (bobby pin, buckle, clasp, fastener, fibula, grip, hairgrip, handshake, hasp, ouch, slide), tutturmak (attach, be hung up on, bind, bond, braid, clasp, fasten, hasp, infix, insist, latch, pin, rub in, seam together, stereotype, stick, stick together, tack, tack together), kesmek (abandon, amputate, Bate, blunt, break, butcher, carve, cease, chaff, chop, chop off, close, close down, crop, cut, cut back, cut off, cut out, deaden, disconnect, discontinue, dock, drop, dry up, excise, fair, fell, gash, give over, hack, hew, interrupt, intersect, kill, knife, lay off, lop, lop off, Nick, nick oneself, nip, nip off, occlude, pare, poll, prune, saw off, sever, shave, shear, shut down on, shut down upon, shut off, slash, slaughter, slice, slit, snick, stanch, staunch, stem, stop, truncate, wrap it up, wrap up). (various references)

   

Turkmen 

  

endiganlamak (level, straighten). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

стригти (beard, cut, shear), стрижка (clipping, cut, haircut), стискувати (clench, compact, compress, link, squeeze), скріпка (pushpin), скріпляти (anchor, annex, authenticate, brace, clamp, fasten, hold together, put together, tie), скріплення (bracer, fastening), скоба (bail, brace, bracket, buckle, clamp, clench, clinch, clincher, cramp, holdfast, staple, stirrup), кліпс (earclip), обрізати (amputate, detruncate), обхоплювати, захоплювати (absorb, bag, carry away, clench, delight, encroach, enrapture, enthuse, grab, inlace, invade, occupy, possess, rapture, ravish, take), затискувати (clamp, clutch), затискні кліщі, затискач (barnacle, clamp, clasp, cleat, clench, clinch, cramp), підрізати (barb, pare, prune, tip, trim). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

cái ghim, cái cặp, ranh con hỗn xược. (various references)

   

Welsh

  

tocio (dock, prune). (various references)

   

Yucatec

  

k'osik (cut, shear). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Clip

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Sumerian3100 BCE-2500 BCE

guru, guz. (various references)

Latin500 BCE-Modern

adtondebitis, adtondent, adtondentur, adtonsi, circumcidamini, circumcidatur, circumcide, circumcidebant, circumcidenti, circumcidere, circumciderunt, circumcidet, circumcidetis, circumcidetur, circumcidi, circumcidimini, circumcidit, circumcidite, circumciditis, circumciduntur, circumcisa, circumcisi, circumcisis, circumcisum, circumcisus, lift tondeo totonsi tonsum, tonde, tondeatur, tondebatur, tondebis, tondendas, tondente, tondentes, tondentur, tondeo totonsi tonsum, tondere, tonderent, tonderentur, tonderet, tonderetur, tonderi, tonsarum, tonso, totonderat, totonderunt. (various references)

Old French900-1400

retaillier. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Clip

Derivations

Words beginning with "clip": clipboard, clipboards, clipped, clipper, clippers, clipping, clippings, clips, clipsheet, clipsheets, clipt. (additional references)

Words ending with "clip": inclip, unclip. (additional references)

Words containing "clip": eclipse, eclipsed, eclipses, eclipsing, eclipsis, eclipsises, ecliptic, ecliptics, inclipped, inclipping, inclips, unclipped, unclipping, unclips. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Clip" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: calip, calipg, calipi, callip, cci, Celep, cgi, cgip, Ciip, cil, cilp, cip, clapp, clapt, claup, cleep, clep, clepht, clept, cli, clia, clib, clic, clid, Clie, cliep, clig, clii, cliii, clik, clim, climp, clin, clipe, clipp, clipt, clir, Clispa, cliv, cliw, cloph, clviii, clxiii, cly, clyn, clype, cnip, colip, collip, cpio, crip, Cripp, Cullip, cxli, cxliii, cxlix, cxlviii, eclip, glip, Klip, Lci, Lciii, mcmlii, Ucip, uclap, ucli. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Clip"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "clip" (pronounced kli"p)
3-l i" pblip, flip, lip, slip.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Clip

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-i-l-p"

-1 letter: lip, pic.

-2 letters: li, pi.

 Words containing the letters "c-i-l-p"
 

+1 letter: clips, clipt, pical, picul, plica.

 

+2 letters: apical, caliph, caplin, clypei, epical, inclip, oilcup, pelvic, pencil, phylic, pickle, piculs, placid, plaice, plicae, plical, police, policy, public, splice, unclip, upcoil.

 

+3 letters: apicals, apiculi, aplitic, calipee, caliper, caliphs, campily, capelin, capital, capitol, caplins, cipolin, cleping, clipped, clipper, clupeid, coalpit, compile, complin, copilot, cowslip, crimple, cripple, crisply, culprit, cuplike, delphic, diploic, eclipse, exciple, glyphic, glyptic, inclasp, inclips, insculp, jalapic, lipidic, oilcamp, oilcups, optical, panicle, peculia, pedicel, pedicle, pelagic, pelican, pelitic, peloric, pelvics, pencils, penicil, phallic, piccolo, pickled, pickles, picolin, pinocle, placing, placoid, plaices, plasmic, plastic, pliancy, plicate, plumbic, pockily, polemic, policed, polices, politic, prickle, prickly, psalmic