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Elision vs Clipping - What's the difference?

elision | clipping |

As nouns the difference between elision and clipping

is that elision is elision (the omission of a letter or syllable) while clipping is (countable) a piece of something removed by clipping.

As a verb clipping is

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elision

English

(wikipedia elision)

Noun

(en noun)
  • The deliberate omission of something.
  • The omission of a letter or syllable between two words; sometimes marked with an apostrophe.

    • Related terms

    * elide

    See also

    * syncope

    References

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    Anagrams

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    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