Brace vs Clip - What's the difference?
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(obsolete) Armor for the arm; vambrace.
(obsolete) A measurement of length, originally representing a person's outstretched arms.
A curved instrument or handle of iron or wood, for holding and turning bits, etc.; a bitstock.
That which holds anything tightly or supports it firmly; a bandage or a prop.
A cord, ligament, or rod, for producing or maintaining tension.
A thong used to regulate the tension of a drum.
* Derham
The state of being braced or tight; tension.
* Holder
Harness; warlike preparation.
* Shakespeare
(typography) A curved, pointed line, also known as "curly bracket": { or } connecting two or more words or lines, which are to be considered together, such as in ; in music, used to connect staves.
A pair, a couple; originally used of dogs, and later of animals generally and then other things, but rarely human persons. (The plural in this sense is unchanged.) In British use (as plural ), this is a particularly common reference to game birds.
* 1610 , , act 5 scene 1
* Addison
* Fuller
A piece of material used to transmit, or change the direction of, weight or pressure; any one of the pieces, in a frame or truss, which divide the structure into triangular parts. It may act as a tie, or as a strut, and serves to prevent distortion of the structure, and transverse strains in its members. A boiler brace is a diagonal stay, connecting the head with the shell.
(nautical) A rope reeved through a block at the end of a yard, by which the yard is moved horizontally; also, a rudder gudgeon.
(UK, Cornwall, mining) The mouth of a shaft.
(mostly, in the plural) Straps or bands to sustain trousers; suspenders.
(mostly, in the plural) A system of wires, brackets, and elastic bands used to correct crooked teeth or to reduce overbite.
(soccer) Two goals scored by one player in a game.
(intransitive) To prepare for something bad, as an impact or blow.
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To place in a position for resisting pressure; to hold firmly.
* Fairfax
(nautical) To swing round the yards of a square rigged ship, using braces, to present a more efficient sail surface to the direction of the wind
To stop someone for questioning, usually said of police.
To confront with questions, demands or requests.
To furnish with braces; to support; to prop.
To draw tight; to tighten; to put in a state of tension; to strain; to strengthen.
* Campbell
To bind or tie closely; to fasten tightly.
* John Locke
* Sir Walter Scott
To grip tightly.
To fasten with a clip.
(archaic) To hug, embrace.
* Shakespeare
(slang) To collect signatures, generally with the use of a clipboard.
Something which clips or grasps; a device for attaching one object to another.
(slang) An unspecified but normally understood as rapid speed or pace.
(obsolete) An embrace.
A frame containing a number of bullets which is intended to be inserted into the magazine of a firearm to allow for rapid reloading.
A projecting flange on the upper edge of a horseshoe, turned up so as to embrace the lower part of the hoof; a toe clip or beak.
To cut, especially with scissors or shears as opposed to a knife etc.
* Macaulay
To curtail; to cut short.
* Shakespeare
* Jonathan Swift
(dialectal, informal) To strike with the hand.
(American football) 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.
(signal processing) to cut off a signal level at a certain maximum value
(computer graphics) To discard (an occluded part of a model or scene) rather than waste resources on rendering it.
Something which has been clipped; a small portion of a larger whole, especially an excerpt of a larger work.
An act of clipping, such as a haircut.
The product of a single shearing of sheep; a season's crop of wool.
(uncountable, informal) A speed or pace.
(uncountable, Geordie) The condition of something, its state.
(informal) A blow with the hand.
In obsolete terms the difference between brace and clip
is that brace is a measurement of length, originally representing a person's outstretched arms while clip is an embrace.brace
English
Noun
(en noun)- The little bones of the ear drum do in straining and relaxing it as the braces of the war drum do in that.
- the laxness of the tympanum, when it has lost its brace or tension
- for that it stands not in such warlike brace
- But you, my brace of lords, were I so minded,
- I here could pluck his highness' frown upon you,
- And justify you traitors
- He is said to have shot fifty brace of pheasants.
- A brace of brethren, both bishops, both eminent for learning and religion, now appeared in the church.
Verb
(brac)- All hands, brace for impact!
- Brace yourself!
- The boy has no idea about everything that's been going on. You need to brace him for what's about to happen.
- He braced himself against the crowd.
- A sturdy lance in his right hand he braced .
- to brace the yards
- to brace a beam in a building
- to brace the nerves
- And welcome war to brace her drums.
- The women of China, by bracing and binding them from their infancy, have very little feet.
- some who spurs had first braced on
Anagrams
* ----clip
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) clyppan, from (etyl) .Verb
(clipp)- Please clip the photos to the pages where they will go.
- O that Neptune's arms, who clippeth thee about, / Would bear thee from the knowledge of thyself.
Noun
(en noun)- Use this clip to attach the check to your tax form.
- She reads at a pretty good clip .
- (Sir Philip Sidney)
- (Youatt)
Derived terms
* binder clip * paper clipEtymology 2
Probably from (etyl) klippa.Verb
- She clipped my hair with her scissors.
- Please clip that coupon out of the newspaper.
- sentenced to have his ears clipped
- All my reports go with the modest truth; / No more nor clipped , but so.
- In London they clip their words after one manner about the court, another in the city, and a third in the suburbs.
- I'll clip ye round the lugs!
Noun
- They played a clip of last night's debate.
- I went into the salon to get a clip .
- He was walking at a pretty good clip and I was out of breath trying to keep up.
- Deeky the clip of that aad wife ower thor!
- Give him a clip round the ear!