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Clipping vs Blending - What's the difference?

clipping | blending |

As verbs the difference between clipping and blending

is that clipping is present participle of lang=en while blending is present participle of lang=en.

As nouns the difference between clipping and blending

is that clipping is a piece of something removed by clipping while blending is the act or result of something being blended.

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

    blending

    English

    (wikipedia blending)

    Verb

    (head)
  • * {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=May-June, author= William E. Conner
    • , title= An Acoustic Arms Race , volume=101, issue=3, page=206-7, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Earless ghost swift moths become “invisible” to echolocating bats by forming mating clusters close (less than half a meter) above vegetation and effectively blending into the clutter of echoes that the bat receives from the leaves and stems around them.}}

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act or result of something being blended.
    • blendings of old and new