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clip English

Meaning clip meaning

What does clip mean?
Definitions in simple English

clip Noun

— A clip is a small item to hold things on to another. We need more clips to hang the laundry. — Clip is another word for video. The clip that we saw just now was very touching. — A clip is a container that is attached to a gun and holds the bullets for the gun, to be inserted into the magazine. Bullets leave the clip and go into the gun for firing.

clip Verb

— To use a clipper to hold something tightly. It is important to clip your laundry properly on a windy day.

clip

— noun (= cartridge holder) a metal frame or container holding cartridges; can be inserted into an automatic gun — verb (= nip, nip off, snip) sever or remove by pinching or snipping nip off the flowers — noun any of various small fasteners used to hold loose articles together — noun (= time) an instance or single occasion for some event this time he succeeded he called four times he could do ten at a clip — noun an article of jewelry that can be clipped onto a hat or dress — noun (= clipping, snip) the act of clipping or snipping — noun a sharp slanting blow he gave me a clip on the ear — verb (= curtail, cut short) 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 — verb attach with a clip clip the papers together — verb (= dress, cut back) cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of dress the plants in the garden — verb (= trot) run at a moderately swift pace

Synonyms clip synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as clip?

clip English » English

cut trim snip shear cut off prune lop clamp paper clip nip crop clipping trim off pinch mow magazine curtail time sever fasten clasp trot snick shave reap pluck pin pare nip off jog fastener dress cut short cut out cut back chop cartridge holder cartridge clip truncate swat strike squeeze snip off slice shears shearing scissors scissor run over paperclip

Topics clip topics

What do people use clip to talk about?
Social behavior Conflict War

Weapon, shoot
Daily life Adornment

Care for the fingernails
Work and occupation Agriculture Tend a field

Cut grass
Work and occupation Tool

Fastening tool
Physical actions Arrange

Join, attach
States Quantity Whole, complete

Part
Physical actions Move Manner of movement

Move quickly

Conjugation clip conjugation

How do you conjugate clip?

clip · verb

Examples clip examples

How do I use clip in a sentence?

Simple sentences

A note was attached to the document with a paper clip.
How can I extract the audio from a video clip?
The basic design of the humble paper clip has not changed in over one hundred years.
We must especially beware of that small group of selfish men who would clip the wings of the American Eagle in order to feather their own nests.
Tom wears a clip-on tie.
Do they clip the sheep every year?
Clip your nails.
Do you have a paper clip?

Movie subtitles

Just a small cut from that paper clip.
Sorry I have to clip you, George.
Well, I suppose that clip will hold all right. I don't know.
Working for me or any other real trucking outfit, you can only drive 8 hours at a clip and you're sure of both your sleep and your pay.
Sometimes 1,700 at a clip.
I lost the clip you gave me.
A clip can be replaced.
This is a.30-caliber, gas-operated, clip-fed, semiautomatic rifle.
To load it, you just pull the bolt back like this, and stick the clip in.
The gun that goes with this clip Miss Elcott gave us.
What a ghastly bow tie! It looks like a clip-on.
Just clip coupons.
I wonder if I could clip a flower off it. Hold steady, now.
Clip me off a piece of that.
All I aim to do is clip a wing.
I saw one producer, he made this clip.
Clip you again, soldier?
By my soul, I'd rather clip a horse.
You're all set to clip me one, aren't you?
Even things that don't go together, like this hat clip on the dashboard.
Get rid of that silly clip.
This is eine kleine clip joint.
Very important. Still, if you're in a hurry, you could clip them on the way.
You're leading with your chin. Working for me or any other real trucking outfit, you can only drive 8 hours at a clip and you're sure of both your sleep and your pay.
I lost that beautiful clip you gave me. - The one that cost so much.
A clip can be replaced. You see, I thought I had lost you.
Some of these young punks might clip you just to get a clean shirt.
So it's a clip joint. So what?
Certainly not but there's a clip of bullets in the case.
There's a small clip at the top.
By putting one real bullet into the clip and letting you fire it into the fireplace. you'd be less likely to realize that the remainder were blanks.
You bought me a mink coat and a diamond clip.
That other one earlier I emptied a full clip into him.

News and current affairs

Do you want to know which video clip will soon be scaring the daylights out of policymakers throughout the world?
But the real fear is not inflation itself - that is, that prices might rise at a surprisingly fast clip this year or next.
First, private news channels broadcast across the country a video clip recorded on a cell phone of the public flogging of a 17-year-old Swat girl.
And now it is seen as a major testing ground for Sino-American rivalry, with China stretching its new wings, and the United States trying to clip them enough to maintain its own regional and global primacy.

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