clipping (See clip)
Dictionary Definition
Noun
1 a metal frame or container holding cartridges;
can be inserted into an automatic gun [syn: cartridge
holder, cartridge
clip, magazine]
2 an instance or single occasion for some event;
"this time he succeeded"; "he called four times"; "he could do ten
at a clip" [syn: time]
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
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" [syn: nip,
nip off,
snip, snip off]
3 attach with a clip; "clip the papers together"
[ant: unclip]
4 cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of;
"dress the plants in the garden" [syn: snip, crop, trim, lop, dress, prune, cut back]
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" [syn: curtail, cut short]
[also: clipping,
clipped]clipping
Noun
1 an excerpt cut from a newspaper or magazine;
"he searched through piles of letters and clippings" [syn: newspaper
clipping, press
clipping, cutting,
press
cutting]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
- Rhymes with: -ɪpɪŋ
Verb
clipping- present participle of clip
Noun
- The action of the verb to clip.
- A piece of something removed by clipping.
- a clipping of hair
- grass clippings
- a clipping of hair
- An article clipped from a newspaper.
- A short form (of
a word).
- The word "ad" is a clipping of "advertisement".
Synonyms
- offcut, snippet
- sense article clipped from a newspaper cutting, newspaper clipping, newspaper cutting
- See short form
Translations
action of the verb "to clip"
piece of something removed by clipping
article clipped from a newspaper
short form
Extensive Definition
Clipping has several meanings:
- Coin clipping, shaving off a small portion of precious metal for profit
- Wing clipping, trimming a bird's primary flight feathers to disable flight
- Clipping (computer graphics), only drawing things that will be visible to the viewer
- Clipping (gardening), or pruning, removing unwanted portions from a plant
- Clipping (hockey), hitting an opposing player below the knees
- Clipping (American football), an illegal block from behind, below the waist
- Clipping (publications), the cutting-out of articles from a paper publication
- Clipping (phonetics), shortening the articulation of a speech sound, usually a vowel
- Clipping (morphology), the formation of a new word by shortening it, e.g. ad from advertisement
- Clipping (medicine), used to treat an aneurysm
-
Clipping (signal processing), a form of distortion that limits
a signal once it exceeds a threshold. Some forms include:
- clipping (audio), the clipping of the top and bottom of a sound wave, referred to as distortion or overdrive
- clipping (photography), the clipping of overexposed area by digital cameras and film. The clipped areas turn to pure white.
- soft clipping
- Horse clippinghttp://www.horsemagazine.com/CLINIC/B/BROWN_ROBYN/clipping.htm
See also
clipping in German: Clipping
clipping in Dutch: Clipping
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
abbreviation, ana, analects, anthology, apocope, aposiopesis, bit, butt, chip, chunk, clip, clippings, collectanea, collection, collop, contraction, crasis, crumb, cut, cutting, cuttings, dollop, elision, ellipsis, end, excerpta, excerpts, extracts, florilegium, flowers, fragment, fragments, gleanings, gob, gobbet, hunk, lump, miscellanea, miscellany, modicum, moiety, morsel, paring, particle, piece, pruning, rasher, scoop, scrap, shard, shaving, shiver, shortening, shred, slice, sliver, smithereen, snack, snatch, snip, snippet, splinter, stitch, stump, syncope, syneresis, tatter, truncation