clip

Signification

Verb

1. To grip tightly.
2. To fasten with a clip.
3. To hug, embrace.
4. (slang) To collect signatures, generally with the use of a clipboard.

Noun

1. Something which clips or grasps; a device for attaching one object to another.
2. An unspecified, but normally understood as rapid, speed or pace.
3. (obsolete) An embrace.
4. 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.
5. (colloquial) A removable magazine of a firearm.
6. 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.
7. A gaff or hook for landing the fish, as in salmon fishing.

Noun

1. Something which has been clipped from a larger whole:
2. Something which has been clipped from a larger whole:
3. Something which has been clipped from a larger whole:
4. Something which has been clipped from a larger whole:
5. Something which has been clipped from a larger whole:
6. An act of clipping, such as a haircut.
7. The condition of something, its state.
8. (informal) A blow with the hand (often in the set phrase clip round the ear)

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/klɪp/

Étymologie

From Middle English clippen, cleppen, clüppen, from Old English clyppan (“to hug, embrace, cherish, clasp”), from Proto-Germanic *klumpijaną, from Proto-Indo-European *glemb-, *glembʰ- (“lump, clump, clod, clamp”). Cognate with Old Frisian kleppa, klippa (“to hug, embrace”), Middle High German klimpen, klimpfen (“to contract tightly, constrict, squeeze”).