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Clip can be a verb or a noun.

clip used as a verb:

  1. To grip tightly.
  2. To fasten with a clip.
    "Please clip the photos to the pages where they will go."
  3. To hug, embrace.
  4. To collect signatures, generally with the use of a clipboard.
  5. To cut, especially with scissors or shears as opposed to a knife etc.
    "She clipped my hair with her scissors."
  6. To strike with the hand.
    "Aall clip ye round the lugs!"
  7. 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.
  8. To discard (an occluded part of a model or scene) rather than waste resources on rendering it.

Verbs are action words and state of being words. Examples of action words are: ran, attacking, dreamed. Examples of "state of being" words are: is, was, be. Learn more →

clip used as a noun:

  1. Something which clips or grasps; a device for attaching one object to another.
    "Use this clip to attach the check to your tax form."
  2. An unspecified but normally understood as rapid speed or pace.
    "She reads at a pretty good clip."
  3. An embrace.
  4. Something which has been clipped; a small portion of a larger whole, especially an excerpt of a larger work.
    "They played a clip of last night's debate."
  5. An act of clipping, such as a haircut.
    "I went into the salon to get a clip."
  6. A speed or pace.
    "He was walking at a pretty good clip and I was out of breath trying to keep up."
  7. The condition of something, its state.
    "Deeky the clip of that aad wife ower thor!"

Nouns are naming words. They are used to represent a person (soldier, Jamie), place (Germany, beach), thing (telephone, mirror), quality (hardness, courage), or an action (a run, a punch). Learn more →

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What type of word is clip?

As detailed above, 'clip' can be a verb or a noun. Here are some examples of its usage:
  1. Verb usage: Please clip the photos to the pages where they will go.
  2. Verb usage: She clipped my hair with her scissors.
  3. Verb usage: Please clip that coupon out of the newspaper.
  4. Verb usage: Aall clip ye round the lugs!
  5. Noun usage: Use this clip to attach the check to your tax form.
  6. Noun usage: She reads at a pretty good clip.
  7. Noun usage: They played a clip of last night's debate.
  8. Noun usage: I went into the salon to get a clip.
  9. Noun usage: He was walking at a pretty good clip and I was out of breath trying to keep up.
  10. Noun usage: Deeky the clip of that aad wife ower thor!

Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of clip are used most commonly. I've got ideas about how to fix this but will need to find a source of "sense" frequencies. Hopefully there's enough info above to help you understand the part of speech of clip, and guess at its most common usage.

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The dictionary is based on the amazing Wiktionary project by wikimedia. I initially started with WordNet, but then realised that it was missing many types of words/lemma (determiners, pronouns, abbreviations, and many more). This caused me to investigate the 1913 edition of Websters Dictionary - which is now in the public domain. However, after a day's work wrangling it into a database I realised that there were far too many errors (especially with the part-of-speech tagging) for it to be viable for Word Type.

Finally, I went back to Wiktionary - which I already knew about, but had been avoiding because it's not properly structured for parsing. That's when I stumbled across the UBY project - an amazing project which needs more recognition. The researchers have parsed the whole of Wiktionary and other sources, and compiled everything into a single unified resource. I simply extracted the Wiktionary entries and threw them into this interface! So it took a little more work than expected, but I'm happy I kept at it after the first couple of blunders.

Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: the UBY project (mentioned above), @mongodb and express.js.

Currently, this is based on a version of wiktionary which is a few years old. I plan to update it to a newer version soon and that update should bring in a bunch of new word senses for many words (or more accurately, lemma).

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