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Chopping vs Clipping - What's the difference?

chopping | clipping |

As verbs the difference between chopping and clipping

is that chopping is while clipping is .

As nouns the difference between chopping and clipping

is that chopping is the action by which something is chopped while clipping is (countable) a piece of something removed by clipping.

As an adjective chopping

is shifting or changing suddenly, as the wind; also, having tumbling waves dashing against each other.

chopping

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The action by which something is chopped.

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Shifting or changing suddenly, as the wind; also, having tumbling waves dashing against each other.
    • a chopping sea
  • (obsolete) stout; large; plump
  • * Elijah Fenton
    • Yet some prolific planet smil'd, / And gave the pair a chopping child

    clipping

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

  • (countable) A piece of something removed by clipping.
    • a clipping of hair
    grass clippings
  • (countable) An article clipped from a newspaper.
  • (countable, linguistics) A short form (of a word).
    • The word "ad" is a clipping of "advertisement".
  • (uncountable, signal processing) the process of cutting off a signal level that rises above a certain maximum level

    • Synonyms

    * (piece of something removed by clipping) offcut, snippet * (article clipped from a newspaper) cutting, newspaper clipping, newspaper cutting * (word formed by shortening another) short form