Clip vs Lop - What's the difference?
clip | lop |
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.
(usually with off) To cut off as the top or extreme part of anything, especially to prune a small limb off a shrub or tree, or sometimes to behead someone.
To hang downward; to be pendent; to lean to one side.
To allow to hang down.
That which is lopped from anything, such as branches from a tree.
(US, slang) A disabled person, a cripple.
* 1935 : Rex Stout, The League of Frightened Men , p5
Any of several breeds of rabbits whose ears lie flat.
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As verbs the difference between clip and lop
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 lop 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)- 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 ----lop
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) .References
* * * * * * * *Etymology 2
From (etyl) loppe.Verb
(lopp)- to lop the head
Synonyms
* (to cut off)Derived terms
* lopper, loppersSee also
* defalcateNoun
(en noun)- (Shakespeare)
- (Mortimer)
References
*Etymology 3
from lopsided.Noun
(en noun)- "He's a lop ; it mentions here about his getting up to the stand with his crippled leg but it doesn't say which one."