Difference between Nip and Clip

What is the difference between Nip and Clip?

Nip as a verb is to catch and enclose or compress tightly between two surfaces, or points which are brought together or closed; to pinch; to close in upon. while Clip as a verb is to grip tightly.

Nip

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To catch and enclose or compress tightly between two surfaces, or points which are brought together or closed; to pinch; to close in upon. To remove by pinching, biting, or cutting with two meeting edges of anything; to clip. To blast, as by frost; to check the growth or vigor of; to destroy. To vex or pain, as by nipping; hence, to taunt. To make a quick, short journey or errand; usually roundtrip.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A small quantity of something edible or a potable liquor. A nipple, usually of a woman. A playful bite. A pinch with the nails or teeth. Briskly cold weather. A seizing or closing in upon; a pinching; as, in the northern seas, the nip of masses of ice. A small cut, or a cutting off the end. A blast; a killing of the ends of plants by frost. A biting sarcasm; a taunt. (Hugh Latimer.) A short turn in a rope. Nip and tuck, a phrase signifying equality in a contest. [Low, U.S.] A pickpocket.

Clip

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To grip tightly.To fasten with a clip.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.To strike with the hand.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 discard (an occluded part of a model or scene) rather than waste resources on rendering it.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: Something which clips or grasps; a device for attaching one object to another.An unspecified but normally understood as rapid speed or pace.An embrace.Something which has been clipped; a small portion of a larger whole, especially an excerpt of a larger work.An act of clipping, such as a haircut.A speed or pace.The condition of something, its state.

Example sentence: There's a clip where he had someone miming me running around from keyboard to keyboard. Oh dear, I am sure a lot of people didn't know what he was going on about.

We hope you now know whether to use Nip or Clip in your sentence.

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