CLIPPING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does clipping mean? 

• CLIPPING (noun)
  The noun CLIPPING has 3 senses:

1. an excerpt cut from a newspaper or magazine

2. cutting down to the desired size or shape

3. the act of clipping or snipping

  Familiarity information: CLIPPING used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CLIPPING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An excerpt cut from a newspaper or magazine

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

clipping; cutting; newspaper clipping; press clipping; press cutting

Context example:

he searched through piles of letters and clippings

Hypernyms ("clipping" is a kind of...):

excerpt; excerption; extract; selection (a passage selected from a larger work)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Cutting down to the desired size or shape

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

clipping; trim; trimming

Hypernyms ("clipping" is a kind of...):

cut; cutting; cutting off (the act of shortening something by chopping off the ends)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "clipping"):

pruning (the act of trimming a plant)

Derivation:

clip (cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of)

Sense 3

Meaning:

The act of clipping or snipping

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

clip; clipping; snip

Hypernyms ("clipping" is a kind of...):

cut; cutting; cutting off (the act of shortening something by chopping off the ends)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "clipping"):

nip; pinch (a small sharp bite or snip)

Derivation:

clip (sever or remove by pinching or snipping)

 Context examples 

He made a futile rush at White Fang, clipping the empty air with an outraged snap.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Itaipu Binacional, the world's biggest generator of hydroelectric energy, founded the first biomethane plant that uses a mixture of sewage, grass clippings, and restaurant leftover food as raw material.

(Biomethane rises as alternate source of energy in Brazil, Agência Brasil)

He turned to the huge bundle of clippings which had come in from his press bureau, and read about himself and his vogue, which had become a furore.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

At the sharp, clipping tone of the parrot, the sleepers awoke and sprang up; and with a mighty oath, the voice of Silver cried, “Who goes?”

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

But I doubt not that you are right, and that Maude's wings need clipping, which I may leave in your hands when I am gone, for, in sooth, this peaceful life is not for me, and were it not for your gracious kindness and loving care I could not abide it a week.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The wolf whirled about, pivoting on his hind legs after the fashion of Joe and of all cornered husky dogs, snarling and bristling, clipping his teeth together in a continuous and rapid succession of snaps.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

In return he feigned anger, bristling and growling ferociously, and clipping his teeth together in snaps that had all the seeming of deadly intention.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

There was no breath of life in it, and yet it sold, at two cents a word, twenty dollars a thousand—the newspaper clipping had said so.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

But no matter how Spitz circled, Joe whirled around on his heels to face him, mane bristling, ears laid back, lips writhing and snarling, jaws clipping together as fast as he could snap, and eyes diabolically gleaming—the incarnation of belligerent fear.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

He came out of the tangle a spectacle of malignancy, ears flattened back, lips writhing, nose wrinkling, his teeth clipping together as the fangs barely missed the hound's soft throat.

(White Fang, by Jack London)