clip vs strike

clip

verb
  • To hit or strike, especially in passing. 

  • To curtail; to cut short. 

  • To grip tightly. 

  • To move (through or into) (a rendered object or barrier). 

  • To strike with the hand. 

  • to grab or take stealthily 

  • To cut off a signal level at a certain maximum value. 

  • To cut, especially with scissors or shears as opposed to a knife etc. 

  • To collect signatures, generally with the use of a clipboard. 

  • To discard (an occluded part of a model or scene) rather than waste resources on rendering it. 

  • To perform 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 fasten with a clip. 

  • To cheat, swindle, or fleece. 

noun
  • A gaff or hook for landing the fish, as in salmon fishing. 

  • A frame containing a number of rounds of ammunition which is intended to be inserted into an internal magazine of a firearm to allow for rapid reloading. 

  • A newspaper clipping. 

  • A section of video taken from a film, broadcast, or other longer video 

  • A projecting flange on the upper edge of a horseshoe, turned up so as to embrace the lower part of the hoof; a toe clip or beak. 

  • An act of clipping, such as a haircut. 

  • The product of a single shearing of sheep. 

  • The condition of something, its state. 

  • A removable magazine of a firearm. 

  • A blow with the hand (often in the set phrase clip round the ear) 

  • Something which clips or grasps; a device for attaching one object to another. 

  • An unspecified, but normally understood as rapid, speed or pace. 

  • A season's crop of wool. 

strike

verb
  • To hit. 

  • To give, as a blow; to impel, as with a blow; to give a force to; to dash; to cast. 

  • To create an impression. 

  • To cut off (a mortar joint, etc.) even with the face of the wall, or inward at a slight angle. 

  • To affect by a sudden impression or impulse. 

  • To sound by percussion, with blows, or as if with blows. 

  • To haul down or lower (a flag, mast, etc.) 

  • To make a sudden impression upon, as if by a blow; to affect with some strong emotion. 

  • To balance (a ledger or account). 

  • To dismantle and take away (a theater set; a tent; etc.). 

  • To hit upon, or light upon, suddenly. 

  • To cause or produce by a stroke, or suddenly, as by a stroke. 

  • To become attached to something; said of the spat of oysters. 

  • To stroke or pass lightly; to wave. 

  • To act suddenly, especially in a violent or criminal way. 

  • To impress, seem or appear (to). 

  • To capitulate; to signal a surrender by hauling down the colours. 

  • To level (a measure of grain, salt, etc.) with a straight instrument, scraping off what is above the level of the top. 

  • To impinge upon. 

  • To discover a source of something, often a buried raw material such as ore (especially gold) or crude oil. 

  • To pass with a quick or strong effect; to dart; to penetrate. 

  • To touch; to act by appulse. 

  • To manufacture, as by stamping. 

  • To make and ratify. 

  • To deliver a quick blow or thrust; to give blows. 

  • To cause to sound by one or more beats; to indicate or notify by audible strokes. Of a clock, to announce (an hour of the day), usually by one or more sounds. 

  • To cause to ignite by friction. 

  • To delete or cross out; to scratch or eliminate. 

  • To set off on a walk or trip. 

  • To score a goal. 

  • To thrust in; to cause to enter or penetrate. 

  • To punish; to afflict; to smite. 

  • To carry out a violent or illegal action. 

  • To unfasten, to loosen (chains, bonds, etc.). 

  • To stop working as a protest to achieve better working conditions. 

noun
  • A nibble on the bait by a fish. 

  • In an option contract, the price at which the holder buys or sells if they choose to exercise the option. 

  • The strike plate of a door. 

  • A cancellation postmark. 

  • An iron pale or standard in a gate or fence. 

  • The primary face of a hammer, opposite the peen. 

  • An instrument with a straight edge for levelling a measure of grain, salt, etc., scraping off what is above the level of the top; a strickle. 

  • A status resulting from a batter swinging and missing a pitch, or not swinging at a pitch when the ball goes in the strike zone, or hitting a foul ball that is not caught. 

  • The status of being the batsman that the bowler is bowling at. 

  • The act of knocking down all ten pins in on the first roll of a frame. 

  • An old English measure of corn equal to the bushel. 

  • A blow or application of physical force against something. 

  • A work stoppage (or otherwise concerted stoppage of an activity) as a form of protest. 

  • The compass direction of the line of intersection between a rock layer and the surface of the Earth. 

  • The discovery of a source of something. 

  • A puddler's stirrer. 

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