Note: these 'words' (valid or invalid) are all the permutations of the word clip. These words are obtained by scrambling the letters in clip.
Definitions and meaning of clip
clip
Pronunciation
enPR: klĭp, IPA(key): /klɪp/, [kl̥ʰɪp]
Rhymes: -ɪp
Etymology 1
From Middle Englishclippen, cleppen, clüppen, from Old Englishclyppan(“to hug, embrace, cherish, clasp”), from Proto-Germanic*klumpijaną, from Proto-Indo-European*glemb-, *glembʰ-(“lump, clump, clod, clamp”). Cognate with Old Frisiankleppa, klippa(“to hug, embrace”), Middle High Germanklimpen, klimpfen(“to contract tightly, constrict, squeeze”).
Verb
clip (third-person singular simple presentclips, present participleclipping, simple past and past participleclipped)
To grip tightly.
To fasten with a clip.
(archaic) To hug, embrace.
(slang) To collect signatures, generally with the use of a clipboard.
Derived terms
clip the church
Translations
Noun
clip (pluralclips)
Something which clips or grasps; a device for attaching one object to another.
An unspecified, but normally understood as rapid, speed or pace.
(obsolete) An embrace.
(military) 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.
(military, colloquial) A removable magazine of a firearm.
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.
1831-1850, William Youatt, On the Structure and the Diseases of the Horse
The heel - clips are two clips at the heels of the side bars , which correspond to the toe - clip ; the latter embracing the toe of the crust , whilst the former embrace its heels
(fishing, UK, Scotland) A gaff or hook for landing the fish, as in salmon fishing.
Derived terms
Descendants
→ Japanese: クリップ(kurippu)
→ Portuguese: clipe
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle Englishclippen, from Old Norseklippa(“to clip, cut the hair, shear sheep”). Cognate with Icelandicklippa(“to clip”), Swedishklippa(“to clip”), Danishklippe(“to clip”), Norwegian Bokmålklippe(“to clip”).
Verb
clip (third-person singular simple presentclips, present participleclipping, simple past and past participlecliptorclipped)
To cut, especially with scissors or shears as opposed to a knife etc.
To curtail; to cut short.
(dialectal, informal) To strike with the hand.
To hit or strike, especially in passing.
(American football) To perform an illegal tackle, throwing the body across the back of an opponent's leg or hitting him from the back below the waist while moving up from behind unless the opponent is a runner or the action is in close line play.
(signal processing) To cut off a signal level at a certain maximum value.
(computer graphics) To discard (an occluded part of a model or scene) rather than waste resources on rendering it.
(computer graphics, video games, transitive, intransitive) To move (through or into) (a rendered object or barrier).
(slang) To assassinate; to bump off.
Synonym:whack
(slang, transitive) To cheat, swindle, or fleece.
(slang, transitive) to grab or take stealthily.
To make a clip; to cut a section of video from a film, broadcast, or other longer video.
(surgery, transitive) To treat (an aneurysm) by closing it off with a physical clip.
Derived terms
Translations
Noun
clip (countable and uncountable, pluralclips)
Something which has been clipped from a larger whole:
The product of a single shearing of sheep.
A season's crop of wool.
A section of video taken from a film, broadcast, or other longer video.
Synonym:video clip
A short piece of audio (shortened version of audio clip, or alternatively clipping of audio).
Synonyms:audio clip, sound bite, sound clip
A newspaper clipping.
An act of clipping, such as a haircut.
(uncountable, Geordie) The condition of something, its state.
(informal) A blow with the hand (often in the set phrase clip round the ear)
Derived terms
clip show
Translations
References
Frank Graham (1987) The New Geordie Dictionary, →ISBN
National Football League (2007). Official Rules of the National Football League 2007. Triumph Books.
Anagrams
ILPC
Catalan
Etymology
Borrowed from Englishclip.
Pronunciation
IPA(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencian)[ˈklip]
Noun
clipm (pluralclips)
paper clip
hairclip
Further reading
“clip” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
“clip”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Englishclip.
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /klip/
Noun
clipm (pluralclips)
music video
clip-on (earring)
Derived terms
vidéoclip
Further reading
“clip”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé[Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Irish
Etymology
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Verb
clip (present analyticclipeann, future analyticclipfidh, verbal nounclipeadh, past participleclipthe)
(transitive) prick; tease, torment
(transitive) tire, wear, out
Conjugation
Derived terms
Mutation
Further reading
Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “clip”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
Entries containing “clip” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
Entries containing “clip” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.
Italian
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from Englishclip.
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /ˈklip/
Rhymes: -ip
Hyphenation: clìp
Noun
clipm (invariable)
clip
paper clip
References
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from Englishclip.
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /klip/
Noun
clipn (pluralclipuri)
clip(video)
Declension
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from Englishclip.
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /ˈklip/[ˈklip]
Rhymes: -ip
Syllabification: clip
Noun
clipm (pluralclips)
paper clip
Synonym:sujetapapeles
clip(something which clips or grasps; a device for attaching one object to another.)
pendientes de clip ― clip earrings
(firearms)clip(frame containing a number of bullets)
Synonym:fragmento
Further reading
“clip”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014