Clip vs Crack - What's the difference?
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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.
(senseid)To form cracks.
To break apart under pressure.
To become debilitated by psychological pressure.
To break down or yield, especially under interrogation or torture.
To make a cracking sound.
(of a voice) To change rapidly in register.
(of a pubescent boy's voice) To alternate between high and low register in the process of eventually lowering.
To make a sharply humorous comment.
To make a crack or cracks in.
To break open or crush to small pieces by impact or stress.
To strike forcefully.
To open slightly.
To cause to yield under interrogation or other pressure. (Figurative )
To solve a difficult problem.
To overcome a security system or a component.
To cause to make a sharp sound.
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To tell (a joke).
(transitive, chemistry, informal) To break down (a complex molecule), especially with the application of heat: to pyrolyse.
(computing) To circumvent software restrictions such as regional coding or time limits.
(informal) To open a canned beverage, or any packaged drink or food.
(obsolete) To brag, boast.
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* Shakespeare
(archaic, colloquial) To be ruined or impaired; to fail.
* Dryden
(senseid)A thin and usually jagged space opened in a previously solid material.
A narrow opening.
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A sharply humorous comment; a wisecrack.
A potent, relatively cheap, addictive variety of cocaine; often a rock, usually smoked through a crack-pipe.
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(onomatopoeia) The sharp sound made when solid material breaks.
(onomatopoeia) Any sharp sound.
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(informal) An attempt at something.
(vulgar, slang) vagina.
(vulgar) The space between the buttocks.
(Northern England, Scotland, Ireland) Conviviality; fun; good conversation, chat, gossip, or humourous storytelling; good company.
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* 2004 , Bill Griffiths, Dictionary of North East Dialect , Northumbria University Press (quoting Dunn, 1950)
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(Northern England, Scotland, Ireland) Business/events/news
(computing) A program or procedure designed to circumvent restrictions or usage limits on software.
(Cumbria, elsewhere throughout the North of the UK) a meaningful chat.
(Internet slang) Extremely silly, absurd or off-the-wall ideas or prose.
The tone of voice when changed at puberty.
* Shakespeare
(archaic) A mental flaw; a touch of craziness; partial insanity.
(archaic) A crazy or crack-brained person.
* Addison
(obsolete) A boast; boasting.
* Burton
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) Breach of chastity.
(obsolete) A boy, generally a pert, lively boy.
* Shakespeare
(slang, dated, UK) A brief time; an instant; a jiffy.
Highly trained and competent.
Excellent, first-rate, superior, top-notch.
Clip is a related term of crack.
In archaic|lang=en terms the difference between clip and crack
is that clip is (archaic) to hug, embrace while crack is (archaic) a crazy or crack-brained person.In obsolete|lang=en terms the difference between clip and crack
is that clip is (obsolete) an embrace while crack is (obsolete) a boy, generally a pert, lively boy.In informal|lang=en terms the difference between clip and crack
is that clip is (informal) a blow with the hand while crack is (informal) an attempt at something.As verbs the difference between clip and crack
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 crack is (senseid)to form cracks.As nouns the difference between clip and crack
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 crack is (senseid)a thin and usually jagged space opened in a previously solid material.As an adjective crack is
highly trained and competent.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!
References
* * National Football League (2007). Official Rules of the National Football League 2007 . Triumph Books.Anagrams
* English contranyms ----crack
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) crakken, craken, from (etyl) .Verb
(en verb)- It's been so dry, the ground is starting to crack .
- When I tried to stand on the chair, it cracked .
- Anyone would crack after being hounded like that.
- When we showed him the pictures of the murder scene, he cracked .
- The bat cracked with authority and the ball went for six.
- His voice cracked with emotion.
- His voice finally cracked when he was fourteen.
- "I would too, with a face like that," she cracked .
- The ball cracked the window.
- You'll need a hammer to crack a black walnut.
- She cracked him over the head with her handbag.
- Could you please crack the window?
- They managed to crack him on the third day.
- I've finally cracked it, and of course the answer is obvious in hindsight.
- It took a minute to crack''' the lock, three minutes to '''crack''' the security system, and about twenty minutes to ' crack the safe.
- They finally cracked the code.
- to crack a whip
- Hershell cracked his knuckles, a nervous habit that drove Inez crazy
- The performance was fine until he cracked that dead baby joke.
- Acetone is cracked to ketene and methane at 700°C.
- That software licence will expire tomorrow unless we can crack it.
- I'd love to crack open a beer .
- Cardan cracks that he can cure all diseases with water alone, as Hippocrates of old did most infirmities with one medicine.
- Ethoipes of their sweet complexion crack .
- The creditof exchequers cracks , when little comes in and much goes out.
Derived terms
* bumcrack * crack a crib * crack a fat * crack baby * crack down * cracked * cracker * crack house * crack kills * crack of dawn * crack on * crack seed * crack up * crack whore * fall between the cracks * difficult nut to crack * hard nut to crack * tough nut to crack * what's the crack * wisecrackNoun
(en noun)- A large crack had formed in the roadway.
- We managed to squeeze through a crack in the rock wall.
- Open the door a crack .
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- I didn't appreciate that crack about my hairstyle.
- I wouldn't use it, if I was going to use it I can afford real cocaine. Crack is wack.
- The crack of the falling branch could be heard for miles.
- The crack of the bat hitting the ball.
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- I'd like to take a crack at that game.
- I'm so horny even the crack of dawn isn't safe!
- Pull up your pants! Your crack is showing.
- Being a native of Northumberland, she was enjoying their banter and Geordie good humour. This was what she needed — good company and good crack .
- "his a bit o' good crack — interesting to talk to"
- By the time we've got a good drunk on us there'll be more crack in this valley than the night I pissed on the electric fence!
- The crack was good.
- That was good crack .
- He/she is quare good crack .
- The party was great crack .
- What's the crack ?
- Has anyone got a crack for DocumentWriter 3.0?
- Though now our voices / Have got the mannish crack .
- He has a crack .
- I can not get the Parliament to listen to me, who look upon me as a crack and a projector.
- crack and brags
- vainglorious cracks
- (Shakespeare)
- - 'Tis a noble child.
- A crack , madam.
- I'll be with you in a crack .
Usage notes
* In the last few decades the word has been adopted into Gaelic; as there is no "k" in the Irish language the spelling (craic) has been devised.Synonyms
* bum crack (UK), arse crack (UK), ass crack (US) * (cocaine that is heat-altered at the moment of inhalation) crack cocaineEtymology 2
1793 slang, of originAdjective
(-)- Even a crack team of investigators would have trouble solving this case.
- She's a crack shot with that rifle.