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clip | excise |

As verbs the difference between clip and excise

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 excise is .

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.

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

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    excise

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) excijs, altered under the influence of Latin .

    Alternative forms

    * (l) (obsolete)

    Noun

    (wikipedia excise) (en noun)
  • A tax charged on goods produced within the country (as opposed to customs duties, charged on goods from outside the country).
  • * 1668 July 3rd, , “Thomas Rue contra'' Andrew Hou?toun” in ''The Deci?ions of the Lords of Council & Se??ion I (Edinburgh, 1683), page 547
    • Andrew Hou?toun'' and ''Adam Mu?het'', being Tack?men of the Excize , did Imploy ''Thomas Rue'' to be their Collector, and gave him a Sallary of 30. pound ''Sterling for a year.
  • * 1755, , A Dictionary of the English Language , "excise",
    • A hateful tax levied upon commodities, and adjudged not by the common judges of property, but wretches hired by those to whom Excise is paid.
  • * 1787, ,
    • The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts, and excises , to pay the debts of the United States;
    Synonyms
    * excise tax
    Derived terms
    * central excise * excise house * exciseman * unexcised

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • To impose an excise tax on something.

    • Etymology 2

    From (etyl) exciser, from (etyl) excisus, past participle of .

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • To cut out; to remove.
  • * 1846 , William Youatt, The Dog ,
    • [T]hey [warts] may be lifted up with the forceps, and excised with a knife or scissors, and the wound touched with nitrate of silver.
  • * 1901, , Preface to the second edition of Myth, Ritual, and Religion ,
    • In revising the book I have excised certain passages which, as the book first appeared, were inconsistent with its main thesis.
  • * 1987 , , page 442 of Small Sacrifices ,
    • Insanity]] can be cured. Personality disorders are so [[inextricable, inextricably entwined with the heart and mind and soul that it is well-nigh impossible to excise them.
  • (rare) To perform certain types of female circumcision.
    • Related terms
    * excision