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Clipping

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Noun

1. clipping, cutting, newspaper clipping, press clipping, press cutting

an excerpt cut from a newspaper or magazine

Example Sentences:
'he searched through piles of letters and clippings'

2. clipping, trim, trimming

cutting down to the desired size or shape

3. clip, clipping, snip

the act of clipping or snipping

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Clipping

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noun
1. 
something cut out or trimmed off, esp an article from a newspaper; cutting
2. 
the distortion of an audio or visual signal in which the tops of peaks with a high amplitude are cut off, caused by, for example, overloading of amplifier circuits
adjective
3. (prenominal) informal
fast
a clipping pace

Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers

Clipping

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noun
1. 
the act of cutting out or trimming off
2. 
something cut out or trimmed off
hair clippings
3.  US
a news story or other item clipped from a newspaper, magazine, etc.

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Clipping

see synonyms of clipping
n.
1. Something cut off or out, especially an item clipped from a newspaper or magazine.
2. See clipped form.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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