Shorten vs Clipped - What's the difference?

shorten | clipped |

As verbs the difference between shorten and clipped

is that shorten is to make shorter; to abbreviate while clipped is (clip).

As an adjective clipped is

having an end cut off; trimmed or cut back.

shorten

English

Verb

(en verb)

To make shorter; to abbreviate.

* 1877 , (Anna Sewell), (Black Beauty) Chapter 22[http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Black_Beauty/22]

York came round to our heads and shortened the rein himself, one hole I think; every little makes a difference, be it for better or worse, and that day we had a steep hill to go up.

To become shorter.

To make deficient (as to); to deprive (of).

* Dryden

Spoiled of his nose, and shortened of his ears.

To make short or friable, as pastry, with butter, lard, etc.

To reduce or diminish in amount, quantity, or extent; to lessen.

to shorten an allowance of food

* Dryden

Here, where the subject is so fruitful, I am shortened by my chain.

(nautical) To take in the slack of (a rope).

(nautical) To reduce (sail) by taking it in.

Synonyms

* See also .

Antonyms

* lengthen

Anagrams

* * English ergative verbs

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 .