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Terminal vs Clip - What's the difference?

terminal | clip |

As nouns the difference between terminal and clip

is that terminal is terminal (at an airport etc) while clip is something which clips or grasps; a device for attaching one object to another or clip can be something which has been clipped; a small portion of a larger whole, especially an excerpt of a larger work.

As a verb clip is

to grip tightly or clip can be to cut, especially with scissors or shears as opposed to a knife etc.

terminal

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A building in an airport where passengers transfer from ground transportation to the facilities that allow them to board airplanes.
  • A rail station where service begins and ends; the end of the line. For example: Grand Central Terminal in New York City.
  • In electronics, the end of a line where signals are either transmitted or received, or a point along the length of a line where the signals are made available to apparatus.
  • An electric contact on a battery.
  • In telecommunications, the apparatus to send and/or receive signals on a line, such as a telephone or network device.
  • (computing) In the context of computer hardware, a device for entering data into a computer or a communications system and/or displaying data received, especially a device equipped with a keyboard and some sort of textual display.
  • (computing) A computer program that emulates a terminal (6).
  • (computing theory) A terminal symbol in a formal grammar.

    • Related terms

    * coterminal * term * terminable * terminally * terminate * terminus

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (illness) Fatal; resulting in death.
    • (example) terminal cancer
  • Appearing at the end; top or apex of a physical object.
  • Occurring at the end of a word, sentence, or period of time.

    • Related terms

    * term * terminus * terminate * termination * (illness) uncurable

    Synonyms

    * (appearing at the end) final, late

    Antonyms

    * (l) * (illness) early * (appearing at the end) initial, early

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    clip

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) clyppan, from (etyl) .

    Verb

    (clipp)
  • To grip tightly.
  • To fasten with a clip.
    • Please clip the photos to the pages where they will go.
  • (archaic) To hug, embrace.
  • * Shakespeare
    • O that Neptune's arms, who clippeth thee about, / Would bear thee from the knowledge of thyself.
    {{quote-Fanny Hill, part=5 , When we had sufficiently graduated our advances towards the main point, by toying, kissing, clipping , feeling my breasts, now round and plump, feeling that part of me I might call a furnace-mouth, from the prodigious intense heat his fiery touches had rekindled there, my young sportsman, embolden'd by every freedom he could wish, wantonly takes my hand, and carries it to that enormous machine of his}}
  • (slang) To collect signatures, generally with the use of a clipboard.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • Something which clips or grasps; a device for attaching one object to another.
    • Use this clip to attach the check to your tax form.
  • (slang) An unspecified but normally understood as rapid speed or pace.
    • She reads at a pretty good clip .
  • (obsolete) An embrace.
    • (Sir Philip Sidney)
  • 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.
    • (Youatt)
    Derived terms
    * binder clip * paper clip

    Etymology 2

    Probably from (etyl) klippa.

    Verb

  • To cut, especially with scissors or shears as opposed to a knife etc.
    • She clipped my hair with her scissors.
    Please clip that coupon out of the newspaper.
  • * Macaulay
    • sentenced to have his ears clipped
  • To curtail; to cut short.
  • * Shakespeare
    • All my reports go with the modest truth; / No more nor clipped , but so.
  • * Jonathan Swift
    • In London they clip their words after one manner about the court, another in the city, and a third in the suburbs.
  • (dialectal, informal) To strike with the hand.
    • I'll clip ye round the lugs!
  • (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.

    • Noun

  • Something which has been clipped; a small portion of a larger whole, especially an excerpt of a larger work.
    • They played a clip of last night's debate.
  • An act of clipping, such as a haircut.
    • I went into the salon to get a clip .
  • The product of a single shearing of sheep; a season's crop of wool.
  • (uncountable, informal) A speed or pace.
    • He was walking at a pretty good clip and I was out of breath trying to keep up.
  • (uncountable, Geordie) The condition of something, its state.
    • Deeky the clip of that aad wife ower thor!
  • (informal) A blow with the hand.
    • Give him a clip round the ear!

    References

    * * National Football League (2007). Official Rules of the National Football League 2007 . Triumph Books.

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