Dictionary Entry
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
- 1transitive verb
To embrace, hence; to encompass.
- 2transitive verb
To cut off; as with shears or scissors; as, to clip the hair; to clip coin.
- 3transitive verb
To curtail; to cut short.
- 4intransitive verb
To move swiftly; -- usually with indefinite it.
- 5noun
An embrace.
- 6noun
A cutting; a shearing.
- 7noun
The product of a single shearing of sheep; a season's crop of wool.
- 8noun
A clasp or holder for letters, papers, etc.
- 9noun
An embracing strap for holding parts together; the iron strap, with loop, at the ends of a whiffletree.
- 10noun
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.
- 11noun
A blow or stroke with the hand; as, he hit him a clip.
- 12noun
a sharp slanting blow
"he gave me a clip on the ear"
- 13noun
the act of clipping or snipping
- 14noun
a metal frame or container holding cartridges; can be inserted into an automatic gun
Synonyms
- 15noun
any of various small fasteners used to hold loose articles together
- 16noun
an article of jewelry that can be clipped onto a hat or dress
- 17noun
an instance or single occasion for some event
"this time he succeeded"
"he called four times"
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- 18verb
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
- 19verb
cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of
"dress the plants in the garden"
- 20verb
attach with a clip
"clip the papers together"
- 21verb
sever or remove by pinching or snipping
"nip off the flowers"
- 22verb
run at a moderately swift pace
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