clip

clip is a 4-letter English word with 22 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To embrace, hence; to encompass. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

4 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 11 · 22 senses

Definitions

1. transitive verb. To embrace, hence; to encompass.
2. transitive verb. To cut off; as with shears or scissors; as, to clip the hair; to clip coin.
3. transitive verb. To curtail; to cut short.
4. intransitive verb. To move swiftly; -- usually with indefinite it.
5. noun. An embrace.
6. noun. A cutting; a shearing.
7. noun. The product of a single shearing of sheep; a season's crop of wool.
8. noun. A clasp or holder for letters, papers, etc.
9. noun. An embracing strap for holding parts together; the iron strap, with loop, at the ends of a whiffletree.
10. noun. A projecting flange on the upper edge of a horseshoe, turned up so as to embrace the lower part of the hoof; -- called also toe clip and beak.
11. noun. A blow or stroke with the hand; as, he hit him a clip.
12. noun. a sharp slanting blow

    "he gave me a clip on the ear"

13. noun. the act of clipping or snipping

    Synonyms: clipping, snip

14. noun. a metal frame or container holding cartridges; can be inserted into an automatic gun

    Synonyms: magazine

15. noun. any of various small fasteners used to hold loose articles together
16. noun. an article of jewelry that can be clipped onto a hat or dress
17. noun. an instance or single occasion for some event

    "this time he succeeded"

    "he called four times"

    Synonyms: time

18. verb. 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"

    Synonyms: curtail

19. verb. cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of

    "dress the plants in the garden"

    Synonyms: crop, dress, lop, prune, snip, trim

20. verb. attach with a clip

    "clip the papers together"

21. verb. sever or remove by pinching or snipping

    "nip off the flowers"

    Synonyms: nip, snip

22. verb. run at a moderately swift pace

    Synonyms: jog, trot

Synonyms

clipping, snip, magazine, time, curtail, crop, dress, lop, prune, trim, nip, jog, trot

Common word forms

clips, clipped, clipper, clipping

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