Definition of "clip"

clip¹

/klɪp/

verb
third-person singular simple present clips, present participle clipping, simple past and past participle clipped
1. To grip tightly.
2. To fasten with a clip.
3. (archaic) To hug, embrace.
  Quotations
  What, fifty of my followers at a clap!
  c. 1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Iohn”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act V, scene ii]
  When we had sufficiently graduated our advances towards the main point, by toying, kissing, clipping, feeling my breasts, now round and plump, feeling that part of me I might call a furnace-mouth, from the prodigious intense heat his fiery touches had rekindled there, my young sportsman, embolden'd by every freedom he could wish, wantonly takes my hand, and carries it to that enormous machine of his
  1749, [John Cleland], “(Please specify the letter or volume)”, in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure [Fanny Hill], London: […] G. Fenton [i.e., Fenton and Ralph Griffiths] […]
  White thy fambles, red thy gan / And thy quarrons dainty is. / Couch a hogshead with me then. / In the darkmans clip and kiss.
  1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 3]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […]
4. (slang) To collect signatures, generally with the use of a clipboard.
noun
plural clips
1. Something which clips or grasps; a device for attaching one object to another.
2. An unspecified, but normally understood as rapid, speed or pace.
3. (obsolete) An embrace.
  Quotations
  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: […]
  c. 1580s, Philip Sidney, “Astrophel and Stella”, in Mary Sidney, editor, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia […], 3rd edition, London: […] [John Windet] for William Ponsonbie, published 1598, sonnet 8, page 521
4. (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.
5. (military, colloquial) A removable magazine of a firearm.
6. 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.
  Quotations
  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
  1831-1850, William Youatt, On the Structure and the Diseases of the Horse
7. (fishing, UK, Scotland) A gaff or hook for landing the fish, as in salmon fishing.

clip²

/klɪp/

verb
third-person singular simple present clips, present participle clipping, simple past and past participle clipt or clipped
1. To cut, especially with scissors or shears as opposed to a knife etc.
  Quotations
  sentenced to have his ears clipped
  1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter 18, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volumes (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans
2. To curtail; to cut short.
  Quotations
  All my reports go with the modest truth; / No more nor clipped, but so.
  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, [Act IV, scene vii]
  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.
  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, page 23
3. (dialectal, informal) To strike with the hand.
4. To hit or strike, especially in passing.
5. (American football) 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.
6. (signal processing) To cut off a signal level at a certain maximum value.
  Quotations
  The WFM display above shows a very contrasty picture with clipped whites and blacks.
  2004, John Jackman, Lighting for Digital Video and Television, page 25
7. (computer graphics) To discard (an occluded part of a model or scene) rather than waste resources on rendering it.
8. (computer graphics, video games, transitive, intransitive) To move (through or into) (a rendered object or barrier).
9. (slang, transitive) To cheat, swindle, or fleece.
10. (slang, transitive) to grab or take stealthily.
11. To make a clip; to cut a section of video from a film, broadcast, or other longer video.
12. (surgery, transitive) To treat (an aneurysm) by closing it off with a physical clip.
noun
countable and uncountable, plural clips
1. Something which has been clipped from a larger whole:
  1. The product of a single shearing of sheep.
  2. A season's crop of wool.
  3. A section of video taken from a film, broadcast, or other longer video
  4. A short piece of audio (shortened version of "audio clip", or alternatively "clipping of audio").
  5. A newspaper clipping.
2. An act of clipping, such as a haircut.
3. (uncountable, Tyneside) The condition of something, its state.
4. (informal) A blow with the hand (often in the set phrase clip round the ear)

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