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clip 1

 (klĭp)
v. clipped, clip·ping, clips
v.tr.
1. To cut, cut off, or cut out with or as if with shears: clip coupons; clipped three seconds off the record.
2. To make shorter by cutting; trim: clip a hedge.
3. To cut off the edge of: clip a coin.
4. To cut short; curtail.
5.
a. To shorten (a word or words) by leaving out letters or syllables.
b. To enunciate with clarity and precision: clip one's words.
6. Informal To hit with a sharp blow: clipped me under the eye.
7. Football To block (an opponent) illegally from the rear.
8. Sports To hit or kick (the ball) in a certain direction.
9. Slang To cheat, swindle, or rob.
v.intr.
1. To cut something.
2. Informal To move rapidly.
n.
1. The act of clipping.
2. Something clipped off, especially:
a. The wool shorn at one shearing, as of sheep.
b. A season's shearing.
3. A short extract from a movie or television program.
4. Informal A quick sharp blow: a clip on the ear.
5. Football An illegal block from the rear.
6. Informal A pace or rate: go at a fast clip.
7. A single occasion; a time: could write nine pages at a clip.
8. clips A pair of shears or clippers.
[Middle English clippen, from Old Norse klippa.]

clip 2

 (klĭp)
n.
1. Any of various devices for gripping or holding things together; a clasp or fastener.
2. A piece of jewelry that fastens with a clasp or clip, such as an earring or a brooch.
3. A cartridge clip.
tr.v. clipped, clip·ping, clips
1. To fasten with or as if with a clip; hold tightly.
2. Archaic To embrace or encompass.
[Middle English, hook, from clippen, to clasp, embrace, from Old English clyppan.]
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clipped

(klɪpt)
adj
(Phonetics & Phonology) (of speech or voice) abrupt and distinct
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clipped

(klɪpt)

adj.
characterized by quick, terse, clear enunciation.
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Adj.1.clipped - cut or trimmed by clipping; "a handsome man with a clipped moustache"; "clipped hedges"; "close-clipped lawns"; "a clipped poodle"
trimmed, cut - made neat and tidy by trimming; "his neatly trimmed hair"
2.clipped - (of speech) having quick short sounds; "a clipped upper-class accent"
short - primarily temporal sense; indicating or being or seeming to be limited in duration; "a short life"; "a short flight"; "a short holiday"; "a short story"; "only a few short months"
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Translations

clipped

[klɪpt] ADJ [accent] → entrecortado; [style] → sucinto; [hair] → corto
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clipped

adj accent → abgehackt; clipped form → Kurzform f
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clipped

[klɪpt] adj in a clipped voice → scandendo bene le sillabe
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995
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To this Dona Rodriguez, who was present, made answer, "My lady the duchess has duennas in her service that might be countesses if it was the will of fortune; 'but laws go as kings like;' let nobody speak ill of duennas, above all of ancient maiden ones; for though I am not one myself, I know and am aware of the advantage a maiden duenna has over one that is a widow; but 'he who clipped us has kept the scissors.'"
"For all that," said Sancho, "there's so much to be clipped about duennas, so my barber said, that 'it will be better not to stir the rice even though it sticks.'"
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AN EAGLE was once captured by a man, who immediately clipped his wings and put him into his poultry-yard with the other birds, at which treatment the Eagle was weighed down with grief.
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His bulging hawk eyes were frozen, and his open mouth under his clipped moustache was full of snow.
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a woman, by my soul!" and in an instant he had clipped Dame Eliza round the waist and was kissing her violently.
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clipped it full of holes, and then fumigated it with villainous
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"There is not a bit of vice in him," said the man; "his mouth is very tender, and I think myself that was the cause of the accident; you see he had just been clipped, and the weather was bad, and he had not had exercise enough, and when he did go out he was as full of spring as a balloon.
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When a hillock came he changed his action, and at one time with the heel, and at another with the tip of his scythe, clipped the hillock round both sides with short strokes.
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The clipped optical OFDM signal with low PAPR may obtain two benefits compared to the conventional optical OFDM signal: one is that clipped OFDM results in nonlinear interference reduction caused by the Kerr effect in a fiber-optic channel [26-28] and the second is that clipped OFDM may reduce to the impact of the MZM nonlinear on the system [5,29].
Theoretical and Experimental Investigation of Direct Detection Optical OFDM Systems with Clipping and Normalization

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