meaning of clip

1. To embrace, hence; to encompass.
2. To cut off; as with shears or scissors; as, to clip the hair; to clip coin.
3. To curtail; to cut short.
4. To move swiftly; -- usually with indefinite it.
5. An embrace.
6. A cutting; a shearing.
7. The product of a single shearing of sheep; a seasons crop of wool.
8. A clasp or holder for letters, papers, etc.
9. An embracing strap for holding parts together; the iron strap, with loop, at the ends of a whiffletree.
10. 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. A blow or stroke with the hand; as, he hit him a clip.
12. CLIP 1. Compiler Language for Information Processing. 2. Common LISP in Parallel. CLiP tool> A documentation extractor by Eric W. van Ammers that recognises a particular style of comments. This style can be adjusted to suit virtually any programming language and target documentation language. CLiP was designed to be compatible with hypertext systems. Version 2. 1 runs on MS-DOS, VAX/VMS and Unix ftp://sun01. info. wau. nl/clip/.
13. a sharp slanting blow; "he gave me a clip on the ">ear"

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