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English

Alternative forms

• secuer (obsolete)

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin securus (“of persons, free from care, quiet, easy; in a bad sense, careless, reckless; of things, tranquil, also free from danger, safe, secure”), from se- (“without”) + cura (“care”); see cure. Doublet of sure and the now obsolete or dialectal sicker (“certain, safe”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /s??kj??(?)/, /s??kj??(?)/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /s??kj??/, /s??kj?/, /s??kj??/
• Rhymes: -??(?)
• Hyphenation: se?cure

Adjective

secure (comparative securer or more secure, superlative securest or most secure)

1. Free from attack or danger; protected.
2. Free from the danger of theft; safe.
3. Free from the risk of eavesdropping, interception or discovery; secret.
4. Free from anxiety or doubt; unafraid.

   • But thou, secure of soul, unbent with woes.

5. Firm and not likely to fail; stable.
6. Free from the risk of financial loss; reliable.
7. Confident in opinion; not entertaining, or not having reason to entertain, doubt; certain; sure; commonly used with of.
8. (obsolete) Overconfident; incautious; careless.
9. Certain to be achieved or gained; assured.

Antonyms

• insecure

Hyponyms

Derived terms

• securely

Related terms

• security

Translations

Verb

secure (third-person singular simple present secures, present participle securing, simple past and past participle secured)

1. To make safe; to relieve from apprehensions of, or exposure to, danger; to guard; to protect.

   • I spread a cloud before the victor's sight, / Sustained the vanquished, and secured his flight.

2. To put beyond hazard of losing or of not receiving; to make certain; to assure; frequently with against or from, or formerly with of.

   to secure a creditor against loss; to secure a debt by a mortgage

   • 1831, Thomas Dick, The Philosophy of Religion

     It secures its possessor of eternal happiness.

3. To make fast; to close or confine effectually; to render incapable of getting loose or escaping.

   to secure a prisoner; to secure a door, or the hatches of a ship

4. To get possession of; to make oneself secure of; to acquire certainly.

   to secure an estate

   • 2014, Jamie Jackson, "Ángel di María says Manchester United were the ‘only club’ after Real", The Guardian, 26 August 2014:

     With the Argentinian secured United will step up their attempt to sign a midfielder and, possibly, a defender in the closing days of the transfer window. Juventus’s Arturo Vidal, Milan’s Nigel de Jong and Ajax’s Daley Blind, who is also a left-sided defensive player, are potential targets.
5. (transitive, obsolete) To plight or pledge.

Derived terms

• securement

Translations

Further reading

• secure in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• secure in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• Creuse, Rescue, cereus, ceruse, cursee, recuse, rescue, secuer

Italian

Adjective

secure

1. feminine plural of securo

Latin

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /se?ku?.re/, [s???ku???]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /se?ku.re/, [s??ku???]

Noun

sec?re

1. ablative singular of sec?ris

Etymology 2

securus +? -?

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /se??ku?.re?/, [s?e??ku??e?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /se?ku.re/, [s??ku???]

Adverb

s?c?r? (comparative s?c?rius, superlative s?c?rissim?)

1. carelessly
2. fearlessly
3. quietly

References

• secure in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• secure in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• secure in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Romanian

Alternative forms

• s?cure (archaic)

Etymology

From Latin sec?ris, sec?rem. Compare Italian scure.

Noun

secure f (plural securi)

1. axe, hatchet
2. battle axe, halberd

Declension

Synonyms

• topor

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

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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