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clipped 音標拼音: [kl'ɪpt] a. 省略一部分的,發音清楚的 省略一部分的,發音清楚的 clipped adj 1: cut or trimmed by clipping; " a handsome man with a clipped moustache"; " clipped hedges"; " close- clipped lawns"; " a clipped poodle" 2: ( of speech) having quick short sounds; " a clipped upper- class accent" Clip \ Clip\ ( kl[ i^] p), v. t. [ imp. & p. p. { Clipped} ( kl[ i^] pt); p. pr. & vb. n. { Clipping}.] [ OE. cluppen, clippen, to embrace, AS. clyran to embrace, clasp; cf. OHG. kluft tongs, shears, Icel, kl[= y] pa to pinch, squeeze, also OE. clippen to cut, shear, Dan. klippe to clip, cut, SW. & Icel. klippa.] 1. To embrace, hence; to encompass. [ 1913 Webster] O . . . that Neptune' s arms, who clippeth thee about, Would bear thee from the knowledge of thyself. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] 2. To cut off; as with shears or scissors; as, to clip the hair; to clip coin. [ 1913 Webster] Sentenced to have his ears clipped. -- Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster] 3. To curtail; to cut short. [ 1913 Webster] All my reports go with the modest truth; No more nor clipped, but so. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] In London they clip their words after one manner about the court, another in the city, and a third in the suburbs. -- Swift. [ 1913 Webster]
clipped \ clipped\ adj. 1. trimmed with clippers; as, a clipped hedge. [ WordNet 1. 5] 2. ( music) staccato; -- contrasted with { legato}. Syn: short. [ WordNet 1. 5] 3. effectively concise. Syn: brief, crisp, curt, laconic, short, terse, to the point( predicate). [ WordNet 1. 5] 58 Moby Thesaurus words for " clipped": Spartan, abbreviated, abridged, abstracted, aposiopestic, bobbed, brief, brusque, capsule, capsulized, close, compact, compendious, compressed, concise, condensed, contracted, crisp, cropped, curt, curtailed, cut, cut short, digested, docked, elided, elliptic, epigrammatic, gnomic, laconic, mowed, mown, nipped, pithy, pointed, pollard, polled, pruned, reaped, reserved, sententious, shaved, sheared, short, short and sweet, short- cut, shortened, snub, snubbed, succinct, summary, synopsized, taciturn, terse, tight, to the point, trimmed, truncated
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