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Meaning
Verb
●
To
grip
tightly.
●
To
fasten
with a clip.
●
To
hug
, embrace.
●
To
collect
signatures
,
generally
with the use of a clipboard.
●
To
cut
, especially with
scissors
or
shears
as opposed to
a
knife
etc.
●
To
curtail
; to
cut
short.
●
To
strike
with the hand.
●
To
hit
or
strike
, especially in passing.
●
In Football (American):
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.
●
In Signal processing:
To
cut off
a
signal
level at a certain
maximum
value.
●
In Computer graphics:
To
discard
(an
occluded
part of a model or
scene
)
rather than
waste
resources on
rendering
it.
●
In Computer graphics & Video games:
To
move
(through or into) (a
rendered
object
or barrier).
●
To
cheat
,
swindle
, or fleece.
●
to
grab
or take stealthily
●
to make a
clip
, to
cut
a
section
of
video
from a
film
,
broadcast
, or other
longer
video
.
Noun
●
Something which
clips
or
grasps
; a
device
for
attaching
one
object
to another.
●
An
unspecified
, but
normally
understood
as
rapid
,
speed
or pace.
●
An embrace.
●
In 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.
●
In Military:
A
removable
magazine
of a firearm.
●
In Fasteners:
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.
●
In British English, Scottish English & Fishing:
A
gaff
or
hook
for
landing
the fish
,
as in
salmon
fish
ing.
●
Something which has been
clipped
from a
larger
whole:
The product of a
single
shearing
of sheep.
A season's
crop
of wool.
A
section
of
video
taken
from a
film
,
broadcast
, or other
longer
video
A
newspaper
clipping.
●
An
act
of
clipping
, such as a haircut.
●
In Geordie English:
The
condition
of something, its state.
●
A
blow
with the
hand
(often in the
set phrase
clip
round the ear)
Sourced from
Wiktionary
Origin
clip
English
clyppan
Old English (ca. 450-1100)
Sourced from
Etym
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