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1. An excerpt cut from a newspaper or magazine
   "he searched through piles of letters and clippings";
   - newspaper clipping, press clipping, cutting, press cutting
    
2. Cutting down to the desired size or shape
   - trim, trimming
    
3. The act of clipping or snipping
   - clip, snip

1. Cut or sever by pinching or cutting with small strokes of scissors, pruning shears, etc.
   "clip off the flowers";
   - nip, nip off, snip, snip off
    
2. Run at a moderately swift pace
   - trot, jog
    
3. Attach with a clip
   "clip the papers together"
    
4. Cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of
   "clip the plants in the garden";
   - snip, crop, trim, lop, dress, prune, cut back
    
5. Terminate or abbreviate before its intended or proper end or its full extent
   "Personal freedom is clipped in many countries";
   - curtail, cut short
    
6. (computing) discard data outside a specific range of values, or assign out-of-range values to the nearest value in range; remove parts of an image etc. outside a given area

Derived forms: clippings

Type of: attach, cut, cutting, cutting off, excerpt, excerption, extract, run, selection, shorten, thin out

Antonym: unclip

Encyclopedia: Clipping