Clipped

6 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Clip \Clip\ (kl[i^]p), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Clipped} (kl[i^]pt);
     p. pr. & vb. n. {Clipping}.] [OE. cluppen, clippen, to
     embrace, AS. clyran to embrace, clasp; cf. OHG. kluft tongs,
     shears, Icel, kl[=y]pa to pinch, squeeze, also OE. clippen to
     cut, shear, Dan. klippe to clip, cut, SW. & Icel. klippa.]
     1. To embrace, hence; to encompass.


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              O . . . that Neptune's arms, who clippeth thee
              about,
              Would bear thee from the knowledge of thyself.
                                                    --Shak.
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     2. To cut off; as with shears or scissors; as, to clip the
        hair; to clip coin.
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              Sentenced to have his ears clipped.   --Macaulay.
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     3. To curtail; to cut short.
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              All my reports go with the modest truth;
              No more nor clipped, but so.          --Shak.
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              In London they clip their words after one manner
              about the court, another in the city, and a third in
              the suburbs.                          --Swift.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  clipped \clipped\ adj.
     1. trimmed with clippers; as, a clipped hedge.
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     2. (music) staccato; -- contrasted with {legato}.
  
     Syn: short.
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     3. effectively concise.
  
     Syn: brief, crisp, curt, laconic, short, terse, to the
          point(predicate).
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  clipped
       See {clip}

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  clip
       n 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
       5: the act of clipping or snipping [syn: {clipping}, {snip}]
       6: a sharp slanting blow; "he gave me a clip on the ear"
       v 1: sever or remove by pinching or snipping; "nip off the
            flowers" [syn: {nip}, {nip off}, {snip}, {snip off}]
       2: run at a moderately swift pace [syn: {trot}, {jog}]
       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}]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  clipped
       adj 1: having an end or small portion cut off; "birds with clipped
              wings cannot fly" [ant: {unclipped}]
       2: (of animals) having ears or tail cut short; "doberman
          pinschers with docked tails and ears" [syn: {docked}]
       3: cut or trimmed by clipping; "a handsome man with a clipped
          moustache"; "clipped hedges"; "close-clipped lawns"; "a
          clipped poodle"
       4: (of speech) having quick short sounds; "a clipped
          upper-class accent"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  58 Moby Thesaurus words for "clipped":
     Spartan, abbreviated, abridged, abstracted, aposiopestic, bobbed,
     brief, brusque, capsule, capsulized, close, compact, compendious,
     compressed, concise, condensed, contracted, crisp, cropped, curt,
     curtailed, cut, cut short, digested, docked, elided, elliptic,
     epigrammatic, gnomic, laconic, mowed, mown, nipped, pithy, pointed,
     pollard, polled, pruned, reaped, reserved, sententious, shaved,
     sheared, short, short and sweet, short-cut, shortened, snub,
     snubbed, succinct, summary, synopsized, taciturn, terse, tight,
     to the point, trimmed, truncated