Meaning of CLIPPING
| Pronunciation: | | 'kliping
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- [n] the act of clipping or snipping
- [n] cutting down to the desired size or shape
- [n] an excerpt cut from a newspaper or magazine; "he searched through piles of letters and clippings"
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| | Synonyms: | | clip, cutting, newspaper clipping, press clipping, press cutting, snip, trim, trimming |
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| | See Also: | | cut, cutting, cutting off, excerpt, extract, pruning, selection | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Clip"ping\, n.
1. The act of embracing. [Obs.]
2. The act of cutting off, curtailing, or diminishing; the
practice of clipping the edges of coins.
clipping by Englishmen is robbing the honest man who
receives clipped money. --Locke.
3. That which is clipped off or out of something; a piece
separated by clipping; as, newspaper clippings.
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| | Related Terms: | | abbreviation, ana, analects, anthology, apocope, aposiopesis, bit, butt, chip, chunk, clip, clippings, collectanea, collection, collop, contraction, crasis, crumb, cut, cutting, cuttings, dollop, elision, ellipsis, end, excerpta, excerpts, extracts, florilegium, flowers, fragment, fragments, gleanings, gob, gobbet, hunk, lump, miscellanea, miscellany, modicum, moiety, morsel, paring, particle, piece, pruning, rasher, scoop, scrap, shard, shaving, shiver, shortening, shred, slice, sliver, smithereen, snack, snatch, snip, snippet, splinter, stitch, stump, syncope, syneresis, tatter, truncation |
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