Clip vs Creep - What's the difference?

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.

As a noun 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.

As a proper noun creep is

(derogatory) the committee]] to re-elect the president, which raised money for [[w:richard nixon|richard nixon's campaign for 1972 reelection.

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 ----

creep

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) crepen, from (etyl) .

Verb

To move slowly with the abdomen close to the ground.

Lizards and snakes crept over the ground.

* 1922 , (Margery Williams), (The Velveteen Rabbit)

One evening, while the Rabbit was lying there alone, watching the ants that ran to and fro between his velvet paws in the grass, he saw two strange beings creep out of the tall bracken near him.

Of plants, to grow across a surface rather than upwards.

To move slowly and quietly in a particular direction.

He tried to creep past the guard without being seen.

To make small gradual changes, usually in a particular direction.

Prices have been creeping up all year.

To move in a stealthy or secret manner; to move imperceptibly or clandestinely; to steal in; to insinuate itself or oneself.

Old age creeps upon us.

* John Locke

the sophistry which creeps into most of the books of argument

To slip, or to become slightly displaced.

The collodion on a negative, or a coat of varnish, may creep in drying.

The quicksilver on a mirror may creep .

To move or behave with servility or exaggerated humility; to fawn.

a creeping sycophant

* Shakespeare

to come as humbly as they used to creep

To have a sensation as of insects creeping on the skin of the body; to crawl.

The sight made my flesh creep .

To drag in deep water with creepers, as for recovering a submarine cable.

Synonyms

* (move slowly with the abdomen close to the ground) crawl * (grow across a surface rather than upwards) * (move slowly and quietly in a particular direction) * (make small gradual changes)

Derived terms

* creep up on * creepy / creepy-crawly * give someone the creeps * creep someone out

Etymology 2

From the above verb.

Noun

(en noun)

The movement of something that creeps (like worms or snails)

A relatively small gradual change, variation or deviation (from a planned value) in a measure.

A slight displacement of an object: the slight movement of something

The gradual expansion or proliferation of something beyond its original goals or boundaries, considered negatively.

Christmas creep'''. Feature '''creep'''. Instruction '''creep'''. Mission ' creep

(publishing) In sewn books, the tendency of pages on the inside of a quire to stand out farther than those on the outside of it.

(materials science) An increase in strain with time; the gradual flow or deformation of a material under stress.

(geology) The imperceptible downslope movement of surface rock.

(informal, pejorative) An annoying irritating person

(informal, pejorative) A frightening and/or disconcerting person, especially one who gives the speaker chills or who induces psychosomatic facial itching.

Stop following me, you creep !

(agriculture) A barrier with small openings used to keep large animals out while allowing smaller animals to pass through.

Derived terms

* bracket creep * Christmas creep * feature creep * focus creep * function creep ((function creep)) * instruction creep ((instruction creep)) * mission creep ((mission creep)) * requirement creep ((requirement creep)) * scope creep * season creep

Anagrams

* English irregular verbs