Clip vs Bob - What's the difference?

Clip is a synonym of bob.

As nouns the difference between clip and bob

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 bob is broad bean, horse bean.

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.

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(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

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bob

English

Etymology 1

Verb

(bobb)

To move gently and vertically, in either a single motion or repeatedly up and down, at or near the surface of a body of water.

The cork bobbed gently in the calm water.

The ball, which we had thought lost, suddenly bobbed up out of the water.

To move (something) as though it were bobbing in water.

I bobbed my head under water and saw the goldfish.

bob''' one's head'' (= to ' nod )

To curtsy.

To strike with a quick, light blow; to tap.

* Elyot

He was suddenly bobbed on the face by the servants.

Derived terms

* bobber * bob for apples * bob up

Noun

(en noun)

A bobbing motion.

a bob of the head

A bobber.

* Lauson

Or yellow bobs turn'd up before the plough / Are chiefest baits, with cork and lead enough.

A curtsy.

Etymology 2

Noun

(en noun)

A bob haircut.

Any round object attached loosely to a flexible line, a rod, a body part etc., so that it may swing when hanging from it

* 1773 ,

Ecod! I have got them. Here they are. My cousin Con's necklaces, bobs and all.

The dangling mass of a pendulum or plumb line.

The docked tail of a horse.

A short line ending a stanza of a poem.

The short runner of a sled.

A small wheel, made of leather, with rounded edges, used in polishing spoons, etc.

A working beam in a steam engine.

A particular style of ringing changes on bells.

A blow; a shake or jog; a rap, as with the fist.

(obsolete) A knot or short curl of hair; also, a bob wig.

* Shenstone

A plain brown bob he wore.

(obsolete) The refrain of a song.

* L'Estrange

To bed, to bed, will be the bob of the song.

(obsolete) A jeer; a sharp jest or taunt.

* Shakespeare

He that a fool doth very wisely hit, / Doth very foolishly, although he smart, / Not to seem senseless of the bob .

Verb

(bobb)

To cut (hair) into a bob haircut.

I got my hair bobbed . How do you like it?

To shorten by cutting; to dock; to crop

Short form of bobsleigh

Etymology 3

Noun

(bob)

A shilling.

* , Episode 12, The Cyclops

One of the bottlenosed fraternity it was went by the name of James Wought alias Saphiro alias Spark and Spiro, put an ad in the papers saying he'd give a passage to Canada for twenty bob .

:1933 , (George Orwell), (Down and Out in Paris and London) , xxix

::‘’Ere]] s for the trousers, one and a tanner for the boots, and a [['og, ’og for the cap and scarf. That’s seven bob.’

* 1960 , , (Jeeves in the Offing) , chapter XVII

A 10-cent coin.

(slang) An unspecified amount of money.

* Spot me a few bob , Robert.

Derived terms

* bob-a-job * bent as a nine-bob note * two-bob bit

Usage notes

* The use of bob for shilling is dated slang in the UK and Australia, since decimalisation. In East African countries where the currency is the shilling, it is current usage, and not considered slang. OED gives first usage as 1789. * The use of bob to describe a 10-cent coin is derived from the fact that it was of equal worth to a shilling during decimalisation, however since then, the term has slowly dropped out of usage and is seldom used today.

Etymology 4

Noun

(en noun)

Etymology 5

(blitter) (object)

Noun

(en noun)

(computer graphics) A graphical element, resembling a hardware sprite, that can be blitted around the screen in large numbers.

* 1986 , Eugene P Mortimore, Amiga programmer's handbook, Volumes 1-2

The bob list determines the drawing priority...

* 1995 , "John Girvin", Blitting bobs'' (on Internet newsgroup ''comp.sys.amiga.programmer )

IMHO, youd (SIC) be better doing other things with the CPU and letting the blitter draw bobs , esp on a machine with fast ram.

* 2002 , "demoeffects", Demotized 0.0.1 - A collection of demo effects from the early days of the demo scene.'' (on Internet newsgroup ''fm.announce )

Changes: This release adds 2 new effects (bobs and unlimited bobs), has a GFX directory for sharing graphics, adds utility functions to the common code...

Derived terms

* shadebob

Anagrams

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