Sekirov Dictionary

clip

/klɪp/

noun16

  1. a few minutes of video taken out of a longer film or show, to be watched on its own
  2. Something which has been clipped from a larger whole
  3. The product of a single shearing of sheep.
  4. A season's crop of wool.
  5. A short piece of audio (shortened version of audio clip, or alternatively clipping of audio).
  6. A newspaper clipping.
  7. Something which clips or grasps; a device for attaching one object to another.
  8. 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.
  9. An unspecified, but normally understood as rapid, speed or pace.
  10. 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.
  11. (informal, nonstandard) A removable magazine of a firearm.
  12. (informal) A blow with the hand (often in the set phrase clip round the ear)
  13. An act of clipping, such as a haircut.
  14. (UK, Scotland) A gaff or hook for landing the fish, as in salmon fishing.
  15. The condition of something, its state.
  16. (no longer used) An embrace.

verb17

  1. To cut, especially with scissors or shears as opposed to a knife etc.
  2. To make a clip; to cut a section of video from a film, broadcast, or other longer video.
  3. To treat (an aneurysm) by closing it off with a physical clip.
  4. To fasten with a clip.
  5. To hit or strike, especially in passing.
  6. 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.
  7. (dialect, informal) To strike with the hand.
  8. To curtail; to cut short.
  9. To cut off a signal level at a certain maximum value.
  10. To discard (an occluded part of a model or scene) rather than waste resources on rendering it.
  11. To move (through or into) (a rendered object or barrier).
  12. (slang) To assassinate; to bump off.
  13. To grip tightly.
  14. (slang) To cheat, swindle, or fleece.
  15. (slang) to grab or take stealthily.
  16. (slang) To collect signatures, generally with the use of a clipboard.
  17. (no longer used) To hug, embrace.
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Phrases with clip

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