clip

Inglese

Verbo

   (3° persona sing. presente clips, participio presente clipping, passato semplice e participio passato clipped)

Pronuncia

• Template:AHD, IPA: /klɪp/ SAMPA: /klIp/

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Etimologia / Derivazione

dal inglese clyppan, from Germanic *kluppjan.

1. Template:archaic To hug, embrace.
2. To grip tightly.
3. To fasten with a clip.

   Please clip the photos to the pages where they will go.

Sostantivo

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1. Template:obsolete An embrace.
2. Something which clips or grasps; a device for attaching one object to another.

   Use this clip to attach the check to your tax form.

Etymology 2

Probably from Old Norse klippa.

=== Verbo==

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   (3° persona sing. presente clips, participio presente clipping, passato semplice e participio passato [[clipt or clipped]])

1. To cut, especially with scissors or shears as opposed to a knife etc.

   She clipped my hair with her scissors.

   Please clip that coupon out of the newspaper.

2. Template:colloquial To strike with the hand.

   Aall clip ye round the lugs!

Sostantivo

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1. Template:countable Something which has been clipped; a small portion of a larger whole, especially an excerpt of a larger work.

   They played a clip of last night's debate.

2. An act of clipping, such as a haircut.

   I went into the salon to get a clip.

3. Template:context A speed or pace.

   He was walking at a pretty good clip and I was out of breath trying to keep up.

4. Template:context The condition of something, its state.

   "Deeky the clip of that aad wife ower theor!"

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Italiano

Sostantivo

clip m inv

1. clip
2. paper clip

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