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Editorial note

Wow, watching that news clip reminds me about why I never watch the news.

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Quick take

a metal frame or container holding cartridges; can be inserted into an automatic gun

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of clip gathered in one view.

noun

a metal frame or container holding cartridges; can be inserted into an automatic gun

noun

an instance or single occasion for some event; "this time he succeeded"; "he called four times"; "he could do ten at a clip"

noun

any of various small fasteners used to hold loose articles together

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for clip.

noun

a metal frame or container holding cartridges; can be inserted into an automatic gun

noun

an instance or single occasion for some event; "this time he succeeded"; "he called four times"; "he could do ten at a clip"

noun

any of various small fasteners used to hold loose articles together

noun

an article of jewelry that can be clipped onto a hat or dress

noun

the act of clipping or snipping

noun

a sharp slanting blow; "he gave me a clip on the ear"

verb

sever or remove by pinching or snipping; "nip off the flowers"

verb

run at a moderately swift pace

verb

attach with a clip; "clip the papers together"

verb

cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of; "dress the plants in the garden"

See also: snip, crop, trim, lop, dress, prune

verb

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"

Example sentences

Wow, watching that news clip reminds me about why I never watch the news.

This reminds me of a relevant Mitchell ans Webb clip, "Are we the baddies?".

For some businesses, clip art of the Eiffel Tower suffices to bring 80-90% of the value.

When the clip is not available anyhwere else and it kills the conversation.

In a few weeks we will launch a cloud-based Beamr Video encoding service, where everyone will be able to process their own clips and reach their own conclusions.

If you show someone a clip from a Disney movie and a clip from a Hanna-Barbera cartoon, they will be able to tell that the animation quality is much crappier in the latter.

This shall be our vanilla x264 equivalent of your "technology that can adaptively reduce the bitrate of any clip to the minimum amount possible, while ensuring that quality of the output clip is perceptually identical to the quality of the input clip".

Reason being, the ''L'' shaped conductor hugs the body so closely it cannot establish a connection if 3/64" clearance is not provided...Anecdotal evidence supports the view that the 90 magsafe connector design that Apple has reverted to using is the safer of the two designs in terms of accidents as it reduces the chances of a 'shear pull' which made the ''L'' clip vulnerable to pull downs when the Macbook is left on slick or glass like surfaces.