English Dictionary

clip

/klɪp/

verb

To cut, especially with scissors or shears as opposed to a knife etc. / To curtail; to cut short. / (dialectal, informal) To strike with the hand. / To hit or strike, especially in passing.

She used scissors to clip the coupons.

意味（1）

To cut, especially with scissors or shears as opposed to a knife etc.

She clipped my hair with her scissors.

意味（2）

To curtail; to cut short.

All my reports go with the modest truth; / No more nor clipped, but so.

意味（3）

(dialectal, informal) To strike with the hand.

I’ll clip ye round the lugs!

意味（4）

To hit or strike, especially in passing.

The car skidded off the road and clipped a lamppost.

意味（5）

(American football) To perform an illegal tackle, throwing the body across the back of an opponent's leg or hitting him from the back below the waist while moving up from behind unless the opponent is a runner or the action is in close line play.

意味（6）

(signal processing) To cut off a signal level at a certain maximum value.

The WFM display above shows a very contrasty picture with clipped whites and blacks.

意味（7）

(computer graphics) To discard (an occluded part of a model or scene) rather than waste resources on rendering it.

意味（8）

(computer graphics, video games, transitive, intransitive) To move (through or into) (a rendered object or barrier).

The camera keeps clipping that ceiling.

意味（9）

To cheat, swindle, or fleece.

意味（10）

to grab or take stealthily