Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Cut off by clipping; cut short: having the ends or edges cut off.
Wiktionary
- v. Simple past tense and past participle of clip.
- adj. Having an end cut off; trimmed or cut back.
- adj. of speech With each word pronounced separately and distinctly.
- adj. informal Circumcised.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. trimmed with clippers.
- adj. (music) staccato; -- contrasted with
legato . - adj. effectively concise.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. (of speech) having quick short sounds
- adj. cut or trimmed by clipping
Examples
“Gita Patel—at least, that was the name on the tag clipped on to her lab coat—set her instruments down and slid around on her wheeled stool to face me as I struggled into a sitting position.”
“I speak in short-clipped sentences and keep my head very still," Eisenberg said.”
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“But wait … here on my desk is this wonderful photograph with accompanying story I clipped from the New York Times just recently — January 16, 2009.”
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“Written in clipped, precise, instantly recognizable prose, The Fall of Troy is a novel about oppositesof truth and deception, fact and fiction, history and romance, love and loyalty. ”
“The above sentence, clipped from a multi-page letter received May 4, 2001 and signed by Stormhawk states: I HAVE NEVER”
“Modi spoke to me in clipped, to-the-point phrases, with a didactic tone, about the cosmopolitan trading history of Gujarat going back 5,000 years, and how Parsis and others had come to its shores and been assimilated into the Hindu culture.”
“Somewhere in all my wanderings I've lost the original of this I clipped from a Sunday comics section.”
“I have a tiny picture clipped from a magazine of a tarsier staring with its trademark surprised look at the camera with a big bug sticking out of its mouth.”
“LadyLydiaSpeaks said ... the ribbon used to tie this little book was clipped from a used gift bag.”
“Her novels, told almost entirely in clipped, unnatural dialogue, are among the most bitter, violent, and seething books we publish — they more than give Georges Simenon a run for his money.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘clipped’.
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Murdered, you say?
Terms of homicide; weapons, poisons, synonyms &c.
slaughtered, goes and gets her..., done in, rubbed out, bumped off, malice aforethought, marble baluster, lead spoon, stone idol, atropine, burned, clipped and 90 more...
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11250 more...
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kingrat47's Words
procrustean, devolution, cacophony, hippopotamus, crunch, beware, chortled, sibilant, subtle, undermine, acromegaly, acropolis and 645 more...
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Minty Fresh
Terms used in coin collecting.
die, hallmarking, high relief, obverse, reverse, alloy, pantograph, planchet, proof, strike, riddle, bag marks and 93 more...
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Creative Onomatopoeia
Words that sound like what they mean, but they're not *technically* onomatopoetic.
(another edit: this list is morphing into something I can't quite describe. But I still like it.)ugly, icon, hang, weenie, bell, zit, ennui, sour, speed, rankle, muddle, disgruntle and 129 more...
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MEC4 Lesson 154
bird's eye view, subtitle, dry humor, outraged, credence, heated, defile, purist, affected, pompous, incisive, straightforward and 32 more...
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reesetee In coinmaking, the term used to describe an irregularly cut planchet. A clip can be straight or curved, depending upon where it was cut from the strip of metal. Apr 21, 2008