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# clipping

«clipping» in Mova's school dictionary: **an article or picture cut out of a newspaper or magazine** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a clipping, clippings); verb form of clip (clipping)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A clipping is an article or picture cut out of a newspaper or magazine. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/clipping/#m1)

2) Clippings are small pieces cut off something, such as grass, hair or nails. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/clipping/#m2)

3) Clipping is the -ing form of «clip»: cutting something short, or fastening with a clip. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/clipping/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In school projects children stick newspaper clippings into a scrapbook. In the garden, grass clippings go into the compost. Phrases: newspaper clipping, grass clippings, hedge clippings, toenail clippings.

### examples

- Mum kept a newspaper clipping about my football team. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/clipping/#x1)
- We glued magazine clippings onto our poster. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/clipping/#x2)
- Put the grass clippings in the compost bin. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/clipping/#x3)
- Dad is clipping the hedge. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/clipping/#x4)
- There were hair clippings all over the barber's floor. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/clipping/#x5)
- She is clipping the pages together. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/clipping/#x6)

### note

Countable noun: a clipping, clippings. British English also says «a cutting» for a newspaper clipping. Verb: clip, clips, clipped, clipping (double p).

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «clipping» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/clipping/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.