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Lessening vs Clipping - What's the difference?

lessening | clipping |

As verbs the difference between lessening and clipping

is that lessening is while clipping is .

As nouns the difference between lessening and clipping

is that lessening is a growing lesser; reduction or decrease while clipping is (countable) a piece of something removed by clipping.

lessening

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A growing lesser; reduction or decrease.

    • 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