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Clipped vs Clipping - What's the difference?

clipped | clipping |

As verbs the difference between clipped and clipping

is that clipped is (clip) while clipping is .

As an adjective clipped

is having an end cut off; trimmed or cut back.

As a noun clipping is

(countable) a piece of something removed by clipping.

clipped

English

Alternative forms

* clipt

Verb

(head)
  • (clip)

    • Adjective

    (-)
  • Having an end cut off; trimmed or cut back.
  • (of speech) With each word pronounced separately and distinctly.
  • (informal) Circumcised.
  • * 1999 , Ben Edward Akerley, The X-Rated Bible: An Irreverent Survey of Sex in the Scriptures , Feral House (1999), ISBN 9780922915552, page 102:
    • After all, Jehovah had instituted the rite of circumcision in which the clipped penis became consecrated to him,
  • *

    • Synonyms

    *(circumcised) see also .

    clipping

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

  • (countable) A piece of something removed by clipping.
    • a clipping of hair
    grass clippings
  • (countable) An article clipped from a newspaper.
  • (countable, linguistics) A short form (of a word).
    • The word "ad" is a clipping of "advertisement".
  • (uncountable, signal processing) the process of cutting off a signal level that rises above a certain maximum level

    • Synonyms

    * (piece of something removed by clipping) offcut, snippet * (article clipped from a newspaper) cutting, newspaper clipping, newspaper cutting * (word formed by shortening another) short form