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Definition: Clipped |
ClippedAdjective1. Having an end or small portion cut off; "birds with clipped wings cannot fly". 2. (of animals) having ears or tail cut short; "doberman pinschers with docked tails and ears". 3. Cut or trimmed by clipping; "a handsome man with a clipped moustache"; "clipped hedges"; "close-clipped lawns"; "a clipped poodle". 4. (of speech) having quick short sounds; "a clipped upper-class accent". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "clipped" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Slang | Circumcised. (references) |
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Synonym: ClippedSynonym: docked (adj). (additional references) |
| Antonym: unclipped (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Slowness | Adverb: slowly; Adjective: leisurely; piano, adagio; largo, larghetto; at half speed, under easy sail; at a foots pace, at a snail's pace, at a funeral pace; in slow time, with mincing steps, with clipped wings; haud passibus aequis. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Clipped |
| English words defined with "clipped": clinical, clip ♦ earring ♦ Lion dog ♦ mock privet ♦ pince-nez, poodle, poodle dog ♦ sheared, shorn ♦ Tonsile, topiary ♦ unclipped. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "clipped": Caius, cap light, circumcised penis , clipped grain, CLIPPER, AUTOMATIC, clipping marker, C-shaped traveler ♦ defect cutter, drop clipper, dry-clipper tender ♦ overrope haulage ♦ press reader, press-service reader ♦ SUPERVISOR, GREEN END DEPARTMENT ♦ This can't happen, TOWER ♦ VENEER CLIPPER, veneer cutter, veneer trimmer, VENEER-CLIPPER HELPER. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "clipped": tosh. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Not if you want him clipped over it. (The Sopranos; writing credit: Isabel Clara-Simo; Ramón De España) Well they're not gonna feel any better about their life if you get clipped. (The Sopranos; writing credit: Isabel Clara-Simo; Ramón De España) Do you see a slender plastic tag clipped to my shirt with my name printed on it (Unbreakable; writing credit: M. Night Shyamalan) | |
Tongue Twisters | The queen coined quick clipped quips. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Clipped Wings (1953) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | The forward magazines of USS Arizona (BB-39) explode after she was hit by a Japanese bomb, Dec. 7, 1941. Frame clipped from a color motion picture taken from on board USS Solace (AH-5). (Navy archive photo). |  | The forward magazines of USS Arizona (BB-39) explode after she was hit by a Japanese bomb, 7 December 1941. Frame clipped from a color motion picture taken from on board USS Solace (AH-5). Credit: NAVY. |
 | Photograph taken during World War II, showing the Medal of Honor with its anchor suspension device clipped to the outside of the ribbon. Credit: NAVY. | ||
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Title | Author | Quote |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | Ma clipped the needles off and pulled one knot of each thread through the lobes |
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Health | They also knew that another enzyme, alpha secretase, clipped APP in the middle of the amyloid region, preventing beta-amyloid from being formed. (references) | |
The genetic defect is a single base mutation in the same gene as FBD. Its presence, too, results in the formation of a longer than usual protein that is clipped to form amyloid. (references) | ||
The mutation in the BRI gene causes longer than usual forms of the protein to be made. Part of the new protein is clipped off and deposited in the brain as amyloid plaques, which leads to neuronal dysfunction and dementia. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Clipped" is generally used as a lexical verb (past tense) -- approximately 43.54% of the time. "Clipped" is used about 333 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 43.54% | 145 | 26,217 |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 31.23% | 104 | 31,955 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 24.92% | 83 | 36,350 |
| Noun (common) | 0.3% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 333 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "clipped": clipped corner ♦ clipped grain ♦ clipped pel array ♦ clipped time series ♦ clipped wing ♦ with clipped wings. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "clipped": clipped-haired, clipped-off, clipped-on, clipped-toned, clipped-voiced. | |
Ending with "clipped": ball-clipped, close-clipped, crew-clipped, double-clipped, harshly-clipped, metal-clipped, severely-clipped, yew-clipped. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
clipped cub wing | 7 |
clipped head nail | 6 |
clipped wings | 6 |
clipped | 4 |
clipped taylorcraft wing | 4 |
3 clipped cub j piper wing | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "clipped"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Arabic | مقصوص (sheared, snipped). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | подрязан (bobbed, pared, trimmed, undercut). (various references) | |
Chinese | 截去. (various references) | |
Danish | tilskåret pixelopstilling (clipped pel array), tilskåret pelopstilling (clipped pel array), studsede kerner (clipped grain), spidset korn (clipped grain), spidset havre (clipped oats), skåret textil (clipped cloth, sheared cloth), klippet hjoerne (clipped corner), beskårne tidsserier (clipped time series), baereplan med afskaaren plantip (clipped wing), bæreplaner med kantede tipper (clipped wing). (various references) | |
Dutch | vleugel met rechte tip (clipped wing), twee-dimensionale reeks met pixels van een afgeknipt beeld (clipped pel array), tijdreeks met discreet gemaakte variabele (clipped time series), ontpunte haver (clipped oats), ontpunte granen (clipped grain), afgesneden hoek (clipped corner), afgeknotte vleugel (clipped wing). (various references) | |
Finnish | typistetty siipi (clipped wing), siipirikko (with a broken wing, with clipped wings), katkaistu siipi (clipped wing). (various references) | |
French | coupé. (various references) | |
German | angeklammert (clinged). (various references) | |
Greek | κομμένη γωνία (clipped corner), συνδεδεμένη συστοιχία εικονοστοιχείων (clipped pel array), πτέρυγα με τετραγωνισμένα άκρα (clipped wing), πτερύγιο ψαλιδισμένο στα άκρα (clipped wing), αμβλείς κόκκοι (clipped grain), διακριτοποιημένη χρονοσειρά (clipped time series). (various references) | |
Hungarian | rövidített szóalak (clipped form). (various references) | |
Indonesian | campung (lopped off). (various references) | |
Italian | tessuto rasato (clipped cloth, sheared cloth), tessuto cimato (clipped cloth, sheared cloth), serie storica con approssimazione discreta (clipped time series), avena spuntata (clipped oats), array di pel vincolato (clipped pel array), angolo tagliato (clipped corner), ala squadrata alle estremit (clipped wing), ala ad estremit squadrata (clipped wing). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | して言えば (always, be in shape, being downhearted, blearily, chat, constantly, crisp, Damn it!, drizzling, easy to do, easy to make, gently, hold a dignified appearance, if I must say, precise, rice prepared for sushi, shamelessly, stubborn, style of Japanese cooking, talk, tenacious, to be dejected, to be disheartened, to be dispirited, to chew, to lose heart, to pee, to piss, to squat, to suck, weakly). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | しゃきしゃき (crisp, precise). (various references) | |
Korean | 자르" (Snipped). (various references) | |
Manx | pollit (polled), lhommit, giarrit (carved, censored, chopped, condensed, curtailed, disconnected, hewn, intersected, lanced, lopped, nicked, shortened, slashed, trimmed, truncated), baarit (lopped, shaved, shaven, shorn). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ippedclay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | canto cortado (clipped corner), tecido laminado (clipped cloth, hard tissue, impregnated tissue, laminated fabric, phenolic-resin bonded tissue, sheared cloth), matriz de elementos de imagem cortada (clipped pel array), grãos despontados (clipped grain), aveia despontada (clipped oats), asa de ponta quadrada (clipped wing). (various references) | |
Russian | вырезать;стричь. (various references) | |
Spanish | cortado (abbreviated, corded, crannied, cut, cut with cream, disengaged, felled, off, shaky, sour). (various references) | |
Swedish | klippt hörn (clipped corner), beskurna tidsserier (clipped time series), beskuren peluppställning (clipped pel array), beskuren bildpunktsuppställning (clipped pel array). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | скорочений (abbreviated, abridged, reduced, telegraphic, truncated), вирізаний, обрізаний, підстрижений (bobbed, polled, shaven), підрізаний. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | praecisa, praecisam, praecisi, praecisum. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "clipped": inclipped, unclipped. (additional references) | |
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"Clipped" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Calippo, clipe, cliped, clipet, Clippard, clippety, clipt, cloppet, clype, Clyppan, Klaipeda, Klippe. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "clipped" (pronounced kli"pt) |
| 4 | -l i" p t | flipped, lipped, slipped. |
| 3 | -i" p t | chipped, crypt, dipped, dripped, encrypt, equipped, gripped, gypped, nipped, nondescript, outstripped, quipped, ripped, script, shipped, sipped, skipped, stripped, tipped, tripped, unzipped, whipped, zipped. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-d-e-i-l-p-p" | |
-1 letter: lipped. | |
-2 letters: piled, piped, plied. | |
-3 letters: cedi, ceil, clip, deil, deli, dice, diel, epic, iced, idle, lice, lied, lipe, pice, pied, pile, pipe, pled, plie. | |
-4 letters: cel, cep, del, die, dip, eld, ice, led, lei, lid, lie, lip, pec, ped, pep, pic, pie, pip. | |
-5 letters: de, ed, el, id, li, pe, pi. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-d-e-i-l-p-p" | |
+1 letter: crippled. | |
+2 letters: inclipped, unclipped. | |
+3 letters: pedophilic, pitchpoled, principled, uncrippled. | |
+4 letters: pedophiliac, supplicated. | |
+5 letters: appendicular, discipleship, glycopeptide, polypeptidic, unprincipled. | |
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