Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *gel-
Proto-Indo-European *b(ʰ)
Proto-Indo-European *gelb(ʰ)-der.
Proto-Germanic *klupjaną
Old English clyppan
Middle English clippen
English clip
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”).
Meanings
Something which clips or grasps; a device for attaching one object to another.
Use this clip to attach the check to your tax form.
An unspecified, but normally understood as rapid, speed or pace.
She reads at a pretty good clip.
He was walking at a fair clip and I was out of breath trying to keep up.
(obsolete) An embrace.
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 […] [The New Arcadia], 3rd edition, London: […] [John Windet] for William Ponsonbie, published 1598, →OCLC, sonnet 8, page 521:
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.
(colloquial, proscribed) A removable magazine of a firearm.
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.
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
(Scotland, UK) A gaff or hook for landing the fish, as in salmon fishing.
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go at a good clip (Terms derived from clip (noun)) · gem clip (Terms derived from clip (noun)) · clip point (Terms derived from clip (noun)) · hair clip (Terms derived from clip (noun)) · declipping (Terms derived from clip (noun)) · banana clip (Terms derived from clip (noun)) · clipboard (Terms derived from clip (noun)) · at a clip (Terms derived from clip (noun)) · binder clip (Terms derived from clip (noun)) · bicycle clip (Terms derived from clip (noun)) · bread-bag clip (Terms derived from clip (noun)) · bread clip (Terms derived from clip (noun)) · autoclip (Terms derived from clip (noun)) · hit a clip (Terms derived from clip (noun)) · clip font (Terms derived from clip (noun)) · hemoclip (Terms derived from clip (noun)) · clip art (Terms derived from clip (noun)) · noseclip (Terms derived from clip (noun)) · stick clip (Terms derived from clip (noun)) · hose clip (Terms derived from clip (noun)) · clipnosis (Terms derived from clip (noun)) · snap clip (Terms derived from clip (noun)) · clip farm (Terms derived from clip (noun)) · cycle clip (Terms derived from clip (noun)) · stripper clip (Terms derived from clip (noun)) · Jesus clip (Terms derived from clip (noun)) · clip board (Terms derived from clip (noun)) · roach clip (Terms derived from clip (noun)) · claw clip (Terms derived from clip (noun)) · moon clip (Terms derived from clip (noun)) · at a fast clip (Terms derived from clip (noun)) · handbag clip (Terms derived from clip (noun)) · Smallman clip (Terms derived from clip (noun)) · cliplock (Terms derived from clip (noun)) · Jubilee clip (Terms derived from clip (noun)) · O clip (Terms derived from clip (noun)) · crocodile clip (Terms derived from clip (noun)) · nipple clip (Terms derived from clip (noun)) · clipless (Terms derived from clip (noun)) · tie clip (Terms derived from clip (noun)) · en bloc clip (Terms derived from clip (noun)) · empty the clip (Terms derived from clip (noun)) · wool clip (Terms derived from clip (noun)) · sister clip (Terms derived from clip (noun)) · finclip (Terms derived from clip (noun)) · foldback clip (Terms derived from clip (noun)) · foldover clip (Terms derived from clip (noun)) · C-clip (Terms derived from clip (noun)) · money clip (Terms derived from clip (noun)) · butterfly clip (Terms derived from clip (noun)) · video clip (Terms derived from clip (noun)) · unclip (Terms derived from clip (noun)) · hairclip (Terms derived from clip (noun)) · clip farmer (Terms derived from clip (noun)) · clip strip (Terms derived from clip (noun)) · Inglefield clip (Terms derived from clip (noun)) · earclip (Terms derived from clip (noun)) · banker's clip (Terms derived from clip (noun)) · hair-clip (Terms derived from clip (noun)) · alligator clip (Terms derived from clip (noun)) · reclip (Terms derived from clip (noun)) · clip-clop (Terms derived from clip (noun)) · sound clip (Terms derived from clip (noun)) · bulldog clip (Terms derived from clip (noun)) · microclip (Terms derived from clip (noun)) · circlip (Terms derived from clip (noun)) · paper clip (Terms derived from clip (noun)) · endoclip (Terms derived from clip (noun))
mi rawhi (something which clips or grasps; a device for attaching one object to another.) · ru кли́пса (something which clips or grasps; a device for attaching one object to another.) · be заціска́ч (something which clips or grasps; a device for attaching one object to another.) · ru зажи́м (something which clips or grasps; a device for attaching one object to another.) · de Klammer (something which clips or grasps; a device for attaching one object to another.) · as কিলিপ (something which clips or grasps; a device for attaching one object to another.) · fi kampa (frame containing bullets) · vi kẹp (cái) (something which clips or grasps; a device for attaching one object to another.) · ru скоба́ (something which clips or grasps; a device for attaching one object to another.) · uk затиска́ч (something which clips or grasps; a device for attaching one object to another.) · bg кламер (something which clips or grasps; a device for attaching one object to another.) · de Klemme (something which clips or grasps; a device for attaching one object to another.) · sk sponka (something which clips or grasps; a device for attaching one object to another.) · gsw Chlempi (something which clips or grasps; a device for attaching one object to another.) · de Klips (something which clips or grasps; a device for attaching one object to another.) · fr étreinte ((obsolete) an embrace) · az sıxac (something which clips or grasps; a device for attaching one object to another.) · fi klipsi (something which clips or grasps; a device for attaching one object to another.) · pt abraço ((obsolete) an embrace) · fi patruunaside (frame containing bullets) · ru обойма (frame containing bullets) · pt amplexo ((obsolete) an embrace) · bg скоба (something which clips or grasps; a device for attaching one object to another.) · cs spona (something which clips or grasps; a device for attaching one object to another.) · de Ladestreifen (frame containing bullets) · bg прегръдка ((obsolete) an embrace) · fi halaus ((obsolete) an embrace) · cs svorka (something which clips or grasps; a device for attaching one object to another.) · be за́ціск (something which clips or grasps; a device for attaching one object to another.) · uk скоба́ (something which clips or grasps; a device for attaching one object to another.) · de Clips (something which clips or grasps; a device for attaching one object to another.) · pt pente (frame containing bullets) · ru клипс (something which clips or grasps; a device for attaching one object to another.) · az qısqac (something which clips or grasps; a device for attaching one object to another.) · tr kıskaç (something which clips or grasps; a device for attaching one object to another.) · ru скре́пка (something which clips or grasps; a device for attaching one object to another.) · uk скрі́пка (something which clips or grasps; a device for attaching one object to another.) · be сашчэ́пка (something which clips or grasps; a device for attaching one object to another.) · fr accolade ((obsolete) an embrace) · be скаба́ (something which clips or grasps; a device for attaching one object to another.) · be кліпс (something which clips or grasps; a device for attaching one object to another.) · ar مِشْبَك (something which clips or grasps; a device for attaching one object to another.) · bg щипка (something which clips or grasps; a device for attaching one object to another.) · ro agrafă (something which clips or grasps; a device for attaching one object to another.) · pt clipe (frame containing bullets) · fr pince (something which clips or grasps; a device for attaching one object to another.) · pt clips (something which clips or grasps; a device for attaching one object to another.) · uk кліпс (something which clips or grasps; a device for attaching one object to another.) · fi nipistin (something which clips or grasps; a device for attaching one object to another.) · vi ghim (cái) (something which clips or grasps; a device for attaching one object to another.) · pt clipe (something which clips or grasps; a device for attaching one object to another.) · fi syleily ((obsolete) an embrace) · uk за́тиск (something which clips or grasps; a device for attaching one object to another.) · fi patruunakampa (frame containing bullets) · mk шти́пка (something which clips or grasps; a device for attaching one object to another.) · bg пълнител (frame containing bullets) · pl łódka nabojowa (frame containing bullets)
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *gel-
Proto-Indo-European *b(ʰ)
Proto-Indo-European *gelb(ʰ)-der.
Proto-Germanic *klupjaną
Old English clyppan
Middle English clippen
English clip
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”).
Meanings
To grip tightly.
To fasten with a clip.
Please clip the photos to the pages where they will go.
(archaic) To hug, embrace.
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: […] [Thomas Parker] for G. Fenton [i.e., Fenton and Ralph Griffiths] […], →OCLC:
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, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii]:
"As how, my lambkin," blushing, she replide, / "Because I in this dancing schoole abide? / If that it be, that breede's this discontent, / We will remoue the camp incontinent: / For shelter onelie, sweete heart, came I hither, / And to auoide the troblous stormie weather; / But now the coaste is cleare, we will be gonne, / Since, but thy self, true louer I haue none." / With that she sprung full lightlie to my lips / And fast about the neck me colle's, and clips ... 1593, Thomas Nashe, The Choice of Valentines:
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 2, James Joyce, “[Episode 3]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC:
(slang) To collect signatures, generally with the use of a clipboard.
fi kiinnittää paperiliittimellä (to fasten with a clip) · da clipse (to fasten with a clip) · ru закрепля́ть (to fasten with a clip) · fi liittää (to fasten with a clip) · fr pincer (to fasten with a clip) · de festklemmen (to grip tightly) · mi rarawhi (to grip tightly) · bg прикачам (to fasten with a clip) · mi rawhi (to grip tightly) · bg защипвам (to grip tightly) · pt grampear (to fasten with a clip) · vi ghim (to grip tightly) · fr maintenir (to grip tightly) · de klammern (to fasten with a clip) · ru закрепи́ть (to grip tightly) · de klammern (to grip tightly) · vi kẹp (to grip tightly) · da klipse (to fasten with a clip) · ru закрепля́ть (to grip tightly) · ru зажа́ть (to grip tightly) · ru зажима́ть (to grip tightly) · ru закрепи́ть (to fasten with a clip) · de klemmen (to fasten with a clip) · pt agarrar (to grip tightly)
Etymology tree
Old Norse klippader.
Middle English clippen
English clip
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”).
Meanings
(countable, uncountable) Something which has been clipped from a larger whole
Early [teddy] bears were made of the clip of angora goats. 1971, Gwen White, Antique Toys And Their Background, page 161:
(countable, uncountable) Something which has been clipped from a larger whole: ▸ The product of a single shearing of sheep.
(countable, uncountable) Something which has been clipped from a larger whole: ▸ A season's crop of wool.
(countable, uncountable) Something which has been clipped from a larger whole: ▸ A section of video taken from a film, broadcast, or other longer video.
The 100th episode of Seinfeld consisted of clips from previous episodes.
The morning news today played a clip of last night's debate.
(countable, uncountable) Something which has been clipped from a larger whole: ▸ A short piece of audio (shortened version of audio clip, or alternatively clipping of audio).
(countable, uncountable) Something which has been clipped from a larger whole: ▸ A newspaper clipping.
(countable, uncountable) An act of clipping, such as a haircut.
I went into the salon to get a clip.
(Geordie, uncountable) The condition of something, its state.
Deeky the clip of that aad wife ower thor!
(countable, informal, uncountable) A blow with the hand (often in the set phrase clip round the ear)
Oh sure, I got the odd clip under the ear. 1995, Paul Vautin, Turn It Up!, Sydney: Pan Macmillan Australia, page 67:
ru вы́резка (something which has been clipped) · ru клип (something which has been clipped) · fr tonte (an act of clipping) · mi topenga pāpāho) (something which has been clipped) · mk стри́жење (an act of clipping) · ar كْلِيبْ (something which has been clipped) · fi klippi (something which has been clipped) · pt excerto (something which has been clipped) · ru стри́жка (an act of clipping) · eo filmeto (something which has been clipped) · pt recorte (something which has been clipped) · bg изрезка (something which has been clipped) · fr extrait (something which has been clipped) · fr clip (something which has been clipped) · pt corte (an act of clipping) · fi leike (something which has been clipped) · ru выреза́ние (an act of clipping) · bg клип (something which has been clipped) · bg стригане (an act of clipping) · gd cliop (an act of clipping) · pt trecho (something which has been clipped) · bg подрязване (an act of clipping) · pt fragmento (something which has been clipped) · fi videoleike (something which has been clipped)
Etymology tree
Old Norse klippader.
Middle English clippen
English clip
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”).
Meanings
To cut, especially with scissors or shears as opposed to a knife etc.
Please clip that coupon out of the newspaper.
sentenced to have his ears clipped 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter XVIII, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:
She clipped my hair with her scissors.
To curtail; to cut short.
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, →OCLC, page 23:
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, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene vii]:
(dialectal, informal) To strike with the hand.
I’ll clip ye round the lugs!
To hit or strike, especially in passing.
The car skidded off the road and clipped a lamppost.
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.
To cut off a signal level at a certain maximum value.
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:
To discard (an occluded part of a model or scene) rather than waste resources on rendering it.
(ambitransitive) To move (through or into) (a rendered object or barrier).
Oh, no, I clipped my avatar through the barrier!
Clipping through walls is integral to the game's speedruns.
The camera keeps clipping that ceiling.
(slang) To assassinate; to bump off.
It was after they tried to clip me at the cafe. 2021, Peter McKenna, 10:49 from the start, in Kin, season 1, episode 8, spoken by Michael Kinsella (Charlie Cox):
(slang, transitive) To cheat, swindle, or fleece.
(slang, transitive) to grab or take stealthily.
To make a clip; to cut a section of video from a film, broadcast, or other longer video.
I clipped the moment they beat the world record live on stream.
(transitive) To treat (an aneurysm) by closing it off with a physical clip.
pl przyciąć (to cut, especially with scissors or shears as opposed to a knife etc.) · bg стрижа (to cut, especially with scissors or shears as opposed to a knife etc.) · ota قرقمق (to cut, especially with scissors or shears as opposed to a knife etc.) · pt recortar (to cut, especially with scissors or shears as opposed to a knife etc.) · da klippe (to cut, especially with scissors or shears as opposed to a knife etc.) · pl przycinać (to cut, especially with scissors or shears as opposed to a knife etc.) · bg кастря (to cut, especially with scissors or shears as opposed to a knife etc.) · pt esbofetear (to strike with the hand) · ru постри́чь (to cut, especially with scissors or shears as opposed to a knife etc.) · pt cortar (to cut, especially with scissors or shears as opposed to a knife etc.) · bg подрязвам (to cut, especially with scissors or shears as opposed to a knife etc.) · fi saksia (to cut, especially with scissors or shears as opposed to a knife etc.) · pt tapear (to strike with the hand) · vi hớt (to cut, especially with scissors or shears as opposed to a knife etc.) · fr accrocher (to hit or strike in passing) · vi cắt (to cut, especially with scissors or shears as opposed to a knife etc.) · eo tondi (to cut, especially with scissors or shears as opposed to a knife etc.) · gd cliop (to cut, especially with scissors or shears as opposed to a knife etc.) · ru стричь (to cut, especially with scissors or shears as opposed to a knife etc.) · bg удрям (to strike with the hand) · mk у́дри (to strike with the hand) · fr découper (to cut, especially with scissors or shears as opposed to a knife etc.) · pt estapear (to strike with the hand) · vi xén (to cut, especially with scissors or shears as opposed to a knife etc.) · fr taper (to strike with the hand) · mk стри́же (to cut, especially with scissors or shears as opposed to a knife etc.) · mk ка́стри (to cut, especially with scissors or shears as opposed to a knife etc.) · cs stříhat (to cut, especially with scissors or shears as opposed to a knife etc.)