different between clipping vs snipping

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kl?p??/
• Rhymes: -?p??
• Hyphenation: clip?ping

Verb

clipping

1. present participle of clip

Noun

clipping (countable and uncountable, plural clippings)

1. (countable) A piece of something removed by clipping.
2. (countable) An article clipped from a newspaper.
3. (countable, linguistics) A short form (of a word) created by removing syllables.
4. (uncountable, signal processing) The process of cutting off a signal level that rises above a certain maximum level.
5. (uncountable, computer graphics) The use of a mask to hide part of an object or image.
6. (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)

1. (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!

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

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sn?p??/

Verb

snipping

1. present participle of snip

Noun

snipping (plural snippings)

1. The act by which something is snipped or cut.
   • 1993, Raymond Leppard, Thomas P. Lewis, Raymond Leppard on Music (page 78)

     There was a time when all manner of snippings were made to keep Handel's operas within bounds.

2. A piece cut off; a clipping.
   • 1975, Gerald Brenan, St John of the Cross: His Life and Poetry (page 82)

     One of them bit off his toe, others took snippings from his hair or tore off his nails and would have cut pieces from his flesh had they not been prevented.

Anagrams

• nippings