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clipping
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?kl?p??/
- Rhymes: -?p??
- Hyphenation: clip?ping
Verb
clipping
- present participle of clip
Noun
clipping (countable and uncountable, plural clippings)
- (countable) A piece of something removed by clipping.
- (countable) An article clipped from a newspaper.
- (countable, linguistics) A short form (of a word) created by removing syllables.
- (uncountable, signal processing) The process of cutting off a signal level that rises above a certain maximum level.
- (uncountable, computer graphics) The use of a mask to hide part of an object or image.
- (uncountable, American football, Canadian football) Falling, rolling, or throwing one's body on the back of an opponent's legs after approaching from behind.
Synonyms
- (piece of something removed by clipping): offcut, snippet
- (article clipped from a newspaper): cutting, newspaper clipping, newspaper cutting
- (word formed by shortening another): short form
Hyponyms
- (linguistics): apheresis (initial clipping); syncope (medial clipping); apocope (final clipping)
Translations
See also
- Wiktionary's coverage of clippings by language
- (short form of a word): metaplasm, aphaeresis, procope, syncope, apocope
Adjective
clipping (not comparable)
- (Britain, slang, obsolete) Excellent; very good.
- 1880, Richard Mounteney Jephson, A Pink Wedding (volume 1, page 124)
- A Yankee fellow told a clipping good story.
- 1887, Fores's Sporting Notes & Sketches (page 270)
- Rather! a clipping good run!
- 1880, Richard Mounteney Jephson, A Pink Wedding (volume 1, page 124)
Further reading
- clipping on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- clipping (morphology) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- clipping (phonetics) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- clipping (signal processing) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- clipping (computer graphics) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- clipping (gridiron football) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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backformation
English
Etymology
From back +? formation
Noun
backformation (plural backformations)
- Alternative spelling of back-formation
backformation From the web:
- back formation linguistics
- back formation in morphology
- back formation examples
- what is a back formation
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