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clip | alice |

As nouns the difference between clip and alice

is that clip is something which clips or grasps; a device for attaching one object to another or clip can be something which has been clipped; a small portion of a larger whole, especially an excerpt of a larger work while alice is (military|us|initialism) (all-purpose lightweight individual carrying equipment).

As a verb clip

is to grip tightly or clip can be to cut, especially with scissors or shears as opposed to a knife etc.

clip

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) clyppan, from (etyl) .

Verb

(clipp)
  • To grip tightly.
  • To fasten with a clip.
    • Please clip the photos to the pages where they will go.
  • (archaic) To hug, embrace.
  • * Shakespeare
    • O that Neptune's arms, who clippeth thee about, / Would bear thee from the knowledge of thyself.
    {{quote-Fanny Hill, part=5 , When we had sufficiently graduated our advances towards the main point, by toying, kissing, clipping , feeling my breasts, now round and plump, feeling that part of me I might call a furnace-mouth, from the prodigious intense heat his fiery touches had rekindled there, my young sportsman, embolden'd by every freedom he could wish, wantonly takes my hand, and carries it to that enormous machine of his}}
  • (slang) To collect signatures, generally with the use of a clipboard.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • Something which clips or grasps; a device for attaching one object to another.
    • Use this clip to attach the check to your tax form.
  • (slang) An unspecified but normally understood as rapid speed or pace.
    • She reads at a pretty good clip .
  • (obsolete) An embrace.
    • (Sir Philip Sidney)
  • 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.
    • (Youatt)
    Derived terms
    * binder clip * paper clip

    Etymology 2

    Probably from (etyl) klippa.

    Verb

  • To cut, especially with scissors or shears as opposed to a knife etc.
    • She clipped my hair with her scissors.
    Please clip that coupon out of the newspaper.
  • * Macaulay
    • sentenced to have his ears clipped
  • To curtail; to cut short.
  • * Shakespeare
    • All my reports go with the modest truth; / No more nor clipped , but so.
  • * Jonathan Swift
    • In London they clip their words after one manner about the court, another in the city, and a third in the suburbs.
  • (dialectal, informal) To strike with the hand.
    • I'll clip ye round the lugs!
  • (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.

    • Noun

  • Something which has been clipped; a small portion of a larger whole, especially an excerpt of a larger work.
    • They played a clip of last night's debate.
  • An act of clipping, such as a haircut.
    • I went into the salon to get a clip .
  • The product of a single shearing of sheep; a season's crop of wool.
  • (uncountable, informal) A speed or pace.
    • He was walking at a pretty good clip and I was out of breath trying to keep up.
  • (uncountable, Geordie) The condition of something, its state.
    • Deeky the clip of that aad wife ower thor!
  • (informal) A blow with the hand.
    • Give him a clip round the ear!

    References

    * * National Football League (2007). Official Rules of the National Football League 2007 . Triumph Books.

    Anagrams

    * English contranyms ----

    alice

    English

    Proper noun

    (Alice and Bob) (Alice Springs) (en proper noun)
  • popular in England since the Middle Ages .
  • * 1380s-1390s , (Geoffrey Chaucer), :
    • That Iankin clerk, and my gossib dame Alis , / And I my-self, in-to the feldes wente.
  • * 1871 :
    • "My name is Alice , but - "
    "It's a stupid name enough!" Humpty Dumpty interrupted impatiently. "What does it mean?"
    "Must a name mean something?" Alice asked doubtfully.
    "Of course it must," Humpty Dumpty said with a short laugh, "my name means the shape I am - and a good handsome shape it is, too. With a name like yours, you might be any shape, almost."
  • * 1968 (Kurt Vonnegut), Welcome to the Monkey House , Delacorte Press, page xiv:
    • She was heavenly to look at, and graceful, both in and out of water. She was a sculptress. She was christened 'Alice'', but she used to deny that she was really an ' Alice . I agreed. Everybody agreed. Sometime in a dream maybe I will find out what her real name was.
  • (cryptography, physics) a placeholder name for the person or system that sends a message to another person or system conventionally known as Bob.
  • (Alice Springs), Australia.
  • * 2002 , Sylvia Lawson, Budgerigars, and Positions of Ignorance'', in ''How Simone de Beauvoir died in Australia: stories and essays , page 17,
    • At that point in my second visit to the Alice', I'd been there only a day. they're ''doing'' Australia in two weeks, with a few days each for Sydney, the ' Alice and the Rock, Kakadu and Cairns.
  • * 2003 , Janet Judy McIntyre-Mills, quoting Olive Veverbrants, Critical systemic praxis for social and environmental justice (page 27),
    • In 1892 my Chinese grandfather lived in Alice .
  • * 2004 , Larry Habegger, Travelers' Tales Australia: True Stories (page 7),
    • "Don't waste yer time in The Alice , get out and see the country — that's what yer 'ere for."
  • A city in North Dakota.
  • A city in Texas.

    • Derived terms

    * Alice band * Alice blue * Alice in Wonderland

    Synonyms

    * Party A (placeholder) * Alice Springs (city)

    Related terms

    * given names : Adelaide, Alicia, Alison, Allison, Alyssa, Heidi

    See also

    * Bob *

    Anagrams

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