different between shortening vs clipping

English

Noun

shortening (countable and uncountable, plural shortenings)

1. (US, cooking) Fat that is solid at room temperature, such as margarine or lard (not usually used of butter), used to make shortcrust pastry.
2. verbal noun of shorten: the process by which something is made shorter; a reduction in length.

   Antonyms: extension, lengthening

Translations

Verb

shortening

1. present participle of shorten

Anagrams

• Heringtons

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