different between clip vs medal

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: kl?p, IPA^(key): /kl?p/, [kl???p]
• Rhymes: -?p

Etymology 1

From Middle English clippen, cleppen, clüppen, from Old English clyppan (“to hug, embrace, cherish, clasp”), from Proto-Germanic *klumpijan?, from Proto-Indo-European *glemb-, *glemb?- (“lump, clump, clod, clamp”). Cognate with Old Frisian kleppa, klippa (“to hug, embrace”), Middle High German klimpen, klimpfen (“to contract tightly, constrict, squeeze”).

Verb

clip (third-person singular simple present clips, present participle clipping, simple past and past participle clipped)

1. To grip tightly.
2. To fasten with a clip.

3. (archaic) To hug, embrace.
   • 1922 , James Joyce, Ulysses, chapter III:^[1]

     White thy fambles, red thy gan
     And thy quarrons dainty is.
     Couch a hogshead with me then.
     In the darkmans clip and kiss.

4. (slang) To collect signatures, generally with the use of a clipboard.

Translations

Noun

clip (plural clips)

1. Something which clips or grasps; a device for attaching one object to another.

2. An unspecified but normally understood as rapid speed or pace.

3. (obsolete) An embrace.
4. A frame containing a number of bullets which is intended to be inserted into the magazine of a firearm to allow for rapid reloading.
5. 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.
   • 1831-1850, William Youatt, On the Structure and the Diseases of the Horse

     The heel - clips are two clips at the heels of the side bars , which correspond to the toe - clip ; the latter embracing the toe of the crust , whilst the former embrace its heels

6. (fishing, Britain, Scotland) A gaff or hook for landing the fish, as in salmon fishing.

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Japanese: ???? (kurippu)

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English clippen, from Old Norse klippa (“to clip, cut the hair, shear sheep”). Cognate with Icelandic klippa (“to clip”), Swedish klippa (“to clip”), Danish klippe (“to clip”), Norwegian Bokmål klippe (“to clip”).

Verb

clip (third-person singular simple present clips, present participle clipping, simple past and past participle clipt or clipped)

1. To cut, especially with scissors or shears as opposed to a knife etc.
2. To curtail; to cut short.
   • 1712, Jonathan Swift, s:A Proposal for Correcting, Improving and Ascertaining the English Tongue

     In London they clip their words after one manner about the court, another in the city, and a third in the suburbs.

3. (dialectal, informal) To strike with the hand.

4. To hit or strike, especially in passing.

5. (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.
6. (signal processing) To cut off a signal level at a certain maximum value.
7. (computer graphics) To discard (an occluded part of a model or scene) rather than waste resources on rendering it.
8. (computer graphics, transitive, intransitive) (Of a camera, character model, etc.) To move (through or into) (a rendered object or barrier).
   1. (computer graphics, ergative) To move the camera, a character model, or another object (through or into a rendered object or barrier).

9. To cheat, swindle, or fleece.
10. to grab or take stealthily

Derived terms

• clipjoint, clip-joint, clip joint
• clip it

Translations

Noun

clip (countable and uncountable, plural clips)

1. Something which has been clipped from a larger whole:
   1. The product of a single shearing of sheep.
   2. A season's crop of wool.
   3. A section of video taken from a film, broadcast, or other longer video

   4. A newspaper clipping.
2. An act of clipping, such as a haircut.

3. (uncountable, Tyneside) The condition of something, its state.

4. (informal) A blow with the hand (often in the set phrase clip round the ear)

Derived terms

• clip show

Translations

References

• Frank Graham (1987) The New Geordie Dictionary, ?ISBN
• National Football League (2007). Official Rules of the National Football League 2007. Triumph Books.

Anagrams

• ILPC

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English clip.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /klip/

Noun

clip m (plural clips)

1. music video
2. clip-on (earring)

Derived terms

• vidéoclip

Further reading

• “clip” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Irish

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Verb

clip (present analytic clipeann, future analytic clipfidh, verbal noun clipeadh, past participle clipthe)

1. (transitive) prick; tease, torment
2. (transitive) tire, wear, out

Conjugation

Derived terms

Mutation

Further reading

• "clip" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• Entries containing “clip” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
• Entries containing “clip” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English clip.

Noun

clip m (invariable)

1. clip
2. paper clip

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from English clip.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?klip/, [?klip]

Noun

clip m (plural clips)

1. paper clip

   Synonym: sujetapapeles

2. clip (something which clips or grasps; a device for attaching one object to another.)

3. clip (a frame containing a number of bullets which is intended to be inserted into the magazine of a firearm to allow for rapid reloading.)

   Synonym: fragmento

English

Etymology

From Middle English [Term?], from Middle French medaille, medale, from Italian medaglia (originally "half a denarius"), from Vulgar Latin *med?lia, dissimilated form of the unattested *medi?lia, neuter plural (taken for a feminine singular) of the adjective *medi?lis (“of the middle”), from Late Latin medi?le (“middle”), from Latin medius.

Pronunciation

• enPR: m?d?-?l, IPA^(key): /?m?d?l/
  • (UK) IPA^(key): [?m?d.??]
    • Homophone: meddle
  • (US) IPA^(key): [?m??.??]
    • Homophones: meddle, metal, mettle
  • (General Australian) IPA^(key): [?me?.??]
    • Homophones: meddle, metal, mettle
• Rhymes: -?d?l

Noun

medal (plural medals)

1. A stamped metal disc used as a personal ornament, a charm, or a religious object.
   • , II.i.3:

     Whether their images, shrines, relics, consecrated things, holy water, medals, benedictions, those divine amulets, holy exorcisms, and the sign of the cross, be available in this disease?

2. A stamped or cast metal object (usually a disc), particularly one awarded as a prize or reward.

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

• ? Japanese: ??? (medaru)
• ? Korean: ?? (medal)

Translations

Verb

medal (third-person singular simple present medals, present participle medaling or medalling, simple past and past participle medaled or medalled)

1. (intransitive, sports, colloquial) To win a medal.
2. (transitive) To award a medal to.

Anagrams

• Delma, damel, delam, lamed

Azerbaijani

Etymology

From French médaille, from Italian medaglia.

Noun

medal (definite accusative medal?, plural medallar)

1. medal

Declension

Derived terms

• medalç?

Further reading

• “medal” in Obastan.com.

Crimean Tatar

Noun

medal

1. medal.

Declension

References

• Mirjejev, V. A.; Usejinov, S. M. (2002) Ukrajins?ko-kryms?kotatars?kyj slovnyk [Ukrainian – Crimean Tatar Dictionary]?^[1], Simferopol: Dolya, ?ISBN

Estonian

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

medal (genitive medali, partitive medalit)

1. medal

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Derived terms

• hõbemedal
• kuldmedal
• pronksmedal

Further reading

• medal in Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat

Polish

Etymology

From French médaille, from Italian medaglia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m?.dal/

Noun

medal m inan (diminutive medalik)

1. medal (stamped metal disc)

Declension

Derived terms

• (nouns) medalista, medalistka, medalier
• (adjective) medalowy

Related terms

• (nouns) medalierstwo, medaliernia, medaliera
• (adjective) medalierski

Further reading

• medal in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• medal in Polish dictionaries at PWN