Noun: clip
Sample Sentences
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Use this clip to attach the check to your tax form.
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She reads at a pretty good clip.
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He was walking at a fair clip and I was out of breath trying to keep up.
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But finding theſe North climes do coldly him embrace, / Not vſde to frozen clips, he ſtraue to find ſome part, / Where with most eaſe & warmth he might employ his art: […] (The New Arcadia) [c. 1580s, Philip Sidney, “Astrophel and Stella”, in [Mary Sidney], editor, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia […] [The New Arcadia], 3rd edition, London: […] [John Windet] for William Ponsonbie, published 1598, →OCLC, sonnet 8, page 521:]
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1831-1850, William Youatt, On the Structure and the Diseases of the Horse
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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
Nouns inflected like clip
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English clippen, cleppen, clüppen, from Old English clyppan (“to hug, embrace, cherish, clasp”), from Proto-Germanic *klumpijaną, from Proto-Indo-European *glemb-, *glembʰ- (“lump, clump, clod, clamp”). Cognate with Old Frisian kleppa, klippa (“to hug, embrace”), Middle High German klimpen, klimpfen (“to contract tightly, constrict, squeeze”). See: Old English Nouns '
clyppan'.
Verbs referencing "clip"
Catalan Nouns
clip, Italian Nouns
clip, Romanian Nouns
clip, Hungarian Nouns
klip, Polish Nouns
klip, Russian Nouns
клип, Finnish Nouns
klipsi, Finnish Nouns
klippi, Belarusan Nouns
кліп, Ukrainian Nouns
кліп, Spanish Nouns
clipero.