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# clipped

verb, past of clip (clip, clips, clipped, clipping); adjective (clipped)

«clipped» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. Clipped is the past form of «clip»: cut something short or neat with scissors or clippers (clipped the hedge, clipped his nails). [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/clipped/#m1)
2. Clipped also means fastened with a clip (clipped the papers together). [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/clipped/#m2)
3. Clipped means hit something lightly or quickly on the edge. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/clipped/#m3)
4. A clipped voice or way of speaking is short, quick and rather unfriendly. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/clipped/#m4)

### In the lessons

In everyday life hair, nails, hedges and coupons are clipped; papers and badges are clipped on. In stories, a clipped answer shows a character is cross or in a hurry; a car that clipped a kerb just touched it. Phrases: clipped on, clipped together, clipped hedge, a clipped voice, clipped wings.

### Examples

- Dad clipped the hedge in the front garden. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/clipped/#x1)
- The vet clipped the dog's nails. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/clipped/#x2)
- She clipped her name badge onto her jumper. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/clipped/#x3)
- The papers were clipped together. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/clipped/#x4)
- The ball clipped the top of the bar and went over. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/clipped/#x5)
- «Fine,» she said in a clipped voice. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/clipped/#x6)
- The bird's wings had been clipped so it could not fly away. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/clipped/#x7)
- Running up, he caught the bird and clipped its wings. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/clipped/#x8)

### Note

Past of «clip»: double the p before -ed and -ing (clipped, clipping). Pronounced with one syllable: KLIPT. «Clip someone's wings» means to limit their freedom.

## In Jewish tradition

Beards were clipped as a sign of deep mourning, along with shaved heads and sackcloth.

**Interpretation.** Jewish law forbids shaving the corners of the beard as a pagan mourning custom, and the prophet shows the grief of Moab.

### Examples

- For every head is bald, and every beard clipped; upon all the hands are cuttings, and upon the loins sackcloth. (Prophets JER.48.37, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/clipped/#x1)

### Note

Past of «clip»: double the p before -ed and -ing (clipped, clipping). Pronounced with one syllable: KLIPT. «Clip someone's wings» means to limit their freedom.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «clipped» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/clipped/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«clipped» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/clipped.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of «clipped» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/clipped/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«clipped» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/clipped.html) on Mova free.