clip vs punch

clip

verb
  • To strike with the hand. 

  • To curtail; to cut short. 

  • To grip tightly. 

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

  • 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 hit or strike, especially in passing. 

  • 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. 

punch

verb
  • To strike with one's fist. 

  • To employ a punch to create a hole in or stamp or emboss a mark on something. 

  • To thrust against; to poke. 

  • To enter (information) on a device or system. 

  • To herd. 

  • To mark a ticket. 

  • To make holes in something (rail ticket, leather belt, etc) 

  • To operate (a device or system) by depressing a button, key, bar, or pedal, or by similar means. 

  • In winemaking, to perform pigeage: to stamp down grape skins that float to the surface during fermentation. 

  • To hit (a ball or similar object) with less than full force. 

noun
  • A mechanism for punching holes in paper or other thin material. 

  • A hole or opening created with a punch. 

  • Impact. 

  • Any of various riodinid butterflies of the genus Dodona of Asia. 

  • An extension piece applied to the top of a pile; a dolly. 

  • A prop, as for the roof of a mine. 

  • Power, strength, energy. 

  • A device, generally slender and round, used for creating holes in thin material, for driving an object through a hole in a containing object, or to stamp or emboss a mark or design on a surface. 

  • A hit or strike with one's fist. 

  • A blow from something other than the fist. 

  • A beverage, generally containing a mixture of fruit juice and some other beverage, often alcoholic. 

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