Clip vs Bracket - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between clip and bracket

is that clip is to grip tightly or clip can be to cut, especially with scissors or shears as opposed to a knife etc while bracket is to bound on both sides, to surround as enclosing with brackets.

As nouns the difference between clip and bracket

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 bracket is (senseid)a fixture attached to a wall to hold up a shelf.

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

* English contranyms ----

bracket

English

Noun

(en noun)

(senseid)A fixture attached to a wall to hold up a shelf.

(engineering) Any intermediate object that connects a smaller part to a larger part, the smaller part typically projecting sideways from the larger part.

(nautical) A short crooked timber, resembling a knee, used as a support.

(military) The cheek or side of an ordnance carriage.

Any of the characters "(", ")", "[", "]", "{", "}", and, in the area of computer languages, "<" and ">".

"(" and ")" specifically, the other forms above requiring adjectives for disambiguation.

(technical) "[" and "]" specifically - opposed to the other forms of which have their own technical names.

(sports) Printed diagram of games in a tournament.

(sports) Prediction of the outcome of games in a tournament, used for betting purposes.

One of several ranges of numbers.

tax bracket''''', ''age '''bracket

(military) In artillery, the endangered region between two shell impacts (one long and one short). The next shell fired is likely to hit accurately.

Synonyms

* parentheses, parens

Derived terms

* angle bracket * bracketology * bulge bracket * curly bracket * gas bracket * income bracket/income tax bracket/tax bracket * price bracket * round bracket * shelf bracket * square bracket

Hyponyms

* See also

Verb

(en verb)

To bound on both sides, to surround as enclosing with brackets.

I tried to hit the bullseye by first bracketing it with two shots and then splitting the difference with my third, but I missed.

To place in the same category.

Because the didn't have enough young boys for two full teams, they bracketed the seven-year olds with the eight-year olds.

To mark distinctly for special treatment.

To set aside, discount, ignore.

* 2009 , Michael Erard, “ Holy Grammar, Inc.”, in Search Magazine , July–August 2009:

SIL got access to academic legitimacy; linguists bracketed the evangelical engine that drives SIL because they got access to data and tools.

(photography) To take multiple images of the same subject, using a range of exposure settings, in order to help ensure that a satisfactory image is obtained.

(philosophy, phenomenology) In the philosophical system of and his followers, to set aside metaphysical theories and existential questions concerning what is real in order to focus philosophical attention simply on the actual content of experience.