clipped
Because it is a word with a single syllable, clipped is not hyphenated. The words that have a single syllable are called monosyllabic words.
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Definitions ofclipped
- To grip tightly.
- To fasten with a clip.
Example: "Please clip the photos to the pages where they will go."
- To hug, embrace.
- To collect signatures, generally with the use of a clipboard.
- To cut, especially with scissors or shears as opposed to a knife etc.
Example: "Please clip that coupon out of the newspaper."
- To curtail; to cut short.
- To strike with the hand.
Example: "I'll clip ye round the lugs!"
- To hit or strike, especially in passing.
Example: "The car skidded off the road and clipped a lamppost."
- 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.
- To cut off a signal level at a certain maximum value.
- To discard (an occluded part of a model or scene) rather than waste resources on rendering it.
- (Of a camera, character model, etc.) To move (through or into) (a rendered object or barrier).
Example: "Clipping through walls is integral to the game's speedruns."
- To cheat, swindle, or fleece.
- To grab or take stealthily
- Having an end cut off; trimmed or cut back.
- (of speech) With each word pronounced separately and distinctly.
- Circumcised.
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