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n.夹子, 别针;v.修剪
［英］ n.夹子, 别针（metal devices for holding things together）; v.修剪 ( cut sth with scissors or shears)
［例］ clip one's finger-nails

I. transitive verb (clipped; clipping)

Etymology: Middle English clippen, from Old English clyppan; akin to Old High German klāftra fathom, Lithuanian globti to embrace
Date: before 12th century
1. encompass
2.
- a. to hold in a tight grip ; clutch
- b. to clasp, fasten, or secure with a clip

II. noun

Date: 15th century
1. any of various devices that grip, clasp, or hook
2. a device to hold cartridges for charging the magazines of some rifles; also a magazine from which ammunition is fed into the chamber of a firearm
3. a piece of jewelry held in position by a clip

III. verb (clipped; clipping)

Etymology: Middle English clippen, from Old Norse klippa
Date: 13th century
transitive verb
- 1.
  - a. to cut or cut off with or as if with shears <clip a dog's hair<clip an hour off traveling time
  - b. to cut off the distal or outer part of
  - c.
    - (1) excise III
    - (2) to cut items out of (as a newspaper)
- 2.
  - a. curtail, diminish
  - b. to abbreviate in speech or writing
- 3. hit, punch; especially to strike in passing <the car skidded off the road and clipped a lamppost
- 4. to illegally block (an opposing player) in football
- 5. to take money from unfairly or dishonestly especially by overcharging <the nightclub clipped the tourist for $200
intransitive verb
- 1. to clip something
- 2. to travel or pass rapidly
- 3. to clip an opposing player in football

IV. noun

Date: 15th century
1.
- a. plural, Scottish shears
- b. a 2-bladed instrument for cutting especially the nails
2. something that is clipped: as
- a. the product of a single shearing (as of sheep)
- b. a crop of wool of a sheep, a flock, or a region
- c. a section of filmed, videotaped, or recorded material
- d. a clipping especially from a newspaper