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clipping

[klip-ing]

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noun

the act of a person or thing that clips. clip.
a piece clipped clip clipped off or out, especially an article, advertisement, etc., clipped clip clipped from a newspaper or magazine.
clipped form.

adjective

serving or tending to clip.
Informal.��swift.
a clipping pace.

clipping

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noun

something cut out or trimmed off, esp an article from a newspaper; cutting
the distortion of an audio or visual signal in which the tops of peaks with a high amplitude are cut off, caused by, for example, overloading of amplifier circuits

adjective

informal��(prenominal) fast
a clipping pace

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Other Word Forms

clippingly adverb

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Word History and Origins

Origin of clipping¹

1300–50; Middle English. See clip ¹, -ing ², -ing ¹

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A few spots down, a conservationist’s compost pile houses rotten fruit and plant clippings.

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Root was fortunate to survive an lbw shout off Forde when he was on six, given not out and the Windies' review showing it was clipping the bails but umpire's call.

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Wednesday's episode with South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa was a classic of its kind, with the added twist of an ambush involving dimmed lights, a lengthy video screening and stacks of news story clippings.

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There is hope the skeletal finger species can hang on in the valley after clippings were relocated to five other old trees nearby.

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Footage has emerged showing towering masts of the Cuauhtémoc clipping the bridge as the sailing vessel was passing under the famous structure on Saturday evening.

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clippie clipshears

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