Clipping is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for CLIPPING in dictionary:

VERB:
• fasten or be fastened with a clip or clips
• cut short or trim (hair, vegetation, etc.) with shears or scissors
• trim or remove the hair or wool of (an animal)
• cut off a thing or part of a thing with shears or scissors
• cut (a section) from a newspaper or periodical
• illicitly pare the edge of (a coin)
• remove a small piece of (a bus or train ticket) to show that it has been used.
• process (an image) so as to remove the parts outside a certain area
• truncate the amplitude of (a signal) above or below predetermined levels
• strike smartly or with a glancing blow
• swindle or rob
• move quickly
NOUN:
• something that is clipped off
• a flexible or spring-loaded device for holding an object or objects together or in place
• a piece of jewellery fastened by a clip
• a clip for holding banknotes
• a metal holder containing cartridges for an automatic firearm
• an act of clipping or trimming something
• the quantity of wool clipped from a sheep or flock
• a short sequence taken from a film or broadcast
• a smart or glancing blow
• a specified speed or rate of movement, especially when rapid
• The act of embracing.
• The act of cutting off, curtailing, or diminishing; the practice of clipping the edges of coins.
• That which is clipped off or out of something; a piece separated by clipping; as, newspaper clippings.
• an excerpt cut from a newspaper or magazine
• cutting down to the desired size or shape
• the act of clipping or snipping
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to trim by cutting
• something that is clipped out or off

Words related to CLIPPING

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Words that contain CLIPPING

clippings16 inclipping17 unclipping17

How to use CLIPPING in a sentence

• He turned his back to her, then, and began clipping away as before.
• About ten miles south of West Point they were clipping along a mountain road when something happened.
• A little time may be well spent among the flowers and bulbs of the apartment, clipping here a leaf and here a stem, and removing the young buds and bugs.
• The story back of this vile clipping is on the lips of every gossip in town.
• It was a newspaper clipping, worn and faded, with a date two years old.
• Or if a new organization was formed, it was but a mere clipping off the whole body of operatives.
• Driven from their chief means of earning their living, the Jews had recourse to clipping and sweating the coin.
• Among other frauds upon the bank was that of clipping the guineas, by one of the clerks employed in the bullion office.
• The people of Genoa have, or had, in speaking, a peculiar way of clipping or cutting short their syllables.
• The rifle balls whistled through the woods, clipping boughs, barking the trees, and hurling the Federal pickets back on their support.
• Each clipping during the season, of course, cuts down weeds and prevents them from making seed.
• In crops that are not grazed, it may be necessary to use the scythe in clipping back weeds and in cutting off any stray heads of timothy that may be pushing up toward maturity.
• Rose fell into silence, clipping the scissors daintily in and out the white sheet through twinkling intricacies.
• Adolf Lorey for his letter to him of July 30, enclosing a newspaper clipping concerning Sohrab.
• He reached over and held a stick in the fire till the end of it was all flaming, then he stuck it in the ground near his head and pulled a clipping out of his pocket.
• Cutter would come home at noon, find the mutilated journal in the paper-rack, and triumphantly fit the clipping into the space from which it had been cut.
• She came to my house at once in violent excitement and with her bonnet over her ear, and gave me the newspaper clipping to read.
• He knew that the men had only been clipping the long wool from the Sheep, and that they were now ready for warm weather.
• I had a clipping in my shopping-bag cut from the morning paper.
• Now I come to think on it, the clipping befell on a day like to-day.
• But he did notable service in clipping the wings of Spain.
• It bears clipping, and forms a very ornamental fence.
• Lane exhausted his resources of memory and searched in his notes for a clipping he had torn from a magazine.
• So the Traverses, having given up all that had made life for them, sent a clipping only, and no comment.
• Slipping the newspaper clipping back into his pocket, Grimsby picked up three letters and read them through.

Similar words containing CLIPP without suffix ing

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