Goods vs Clip - What's the difference?
goods | clip |
(business, economics, plurale tantum) That which is produced, then traded, bought or sold, then finally consumed.
(informal, often preceded by the) Something authentic, important, or revealing.
(transport) freight (not passengers)
English plurals
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.
As nouns the difference between goods and clip
is that goods is that which is produced, then traded, bought or sold, then finally consumed while clip is something which clips or grasps; a device for attaching one object to another.As a verb clip is
to grip tightly.goods
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Noun
(head)Usage notes
* Adjectives often applied to produced, traded, or consumed "goods": returned, used, damaged, stolen, lost, dangerous, non-traded, intermediate, promotional, industrial, agricultural, imported, cheap, expensive, luxury, inferior, counterfeit, raw, processed, scarce, durable, perishable, baked, public, collective, digital, virtual, necessary, essential.Synonyms
* (that which is consumed) wares * evidence, factsAntonyms
* (that which is consumed) capital, servicesDerived terms
* baked goods * bill of goods * brown goods * capital goods * come up with the goods * consumer goods * cost of goods sold * damaged goods * dangerous goods * deliver the goods * digital goods * dry goods * fancy goods * finished goods * get the goods on, have the goods on * goods and sales tax * goods train, goods van, goods wagon * grave goods * greige goods * heavy goods vehicle * leathergoods * nongoods * red goods * sell someone a bill of goods * smallgoods * softgoods * white goodsExternal links
* (wikipedia "goods")Anagrams
*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!