clipping
/ˈklɪpɪŋ
/noun (usually clippings)
1A small piece trimmed from something: hedge clippings and grass cuttings...
- This is why it is such a shame so many of us don't bother, simply chucking out our grass cuttings and hedge clippings with the rest of the household rubbish.
- Will the recycling depots accept all garden rubbish irrespective of type, ie grass cuttings, hedge clippings?
- Use kitchen vegetable waste, plus ‘tougher’ garden residues such as leaves, grass clippings and hedge prunings.
1.1An article cut from a newspaper or magazine: I sent him a bundle of clippings that amply documented my charge press clippings...
- She had taped and pasted the various clippings, articles and newspaper photos only a few days ago.
- Steve opened the drawer under his desk and pulled out a pile of magazines and newspaper clippings.
- One is full of clippings from newspaper and magazines of Dad; one is full of clippings from newspapers and magazines of Mum.
Synonyms
cutting, extract, excerpt, snippet, fragment, piece;
article, passage, column, paragraph
Rhymes
- surface blow
- surface blow-off
- surface boundary layer
- surface brightness
- surface casing
- surface caterpillar
- surface chemistry
- surface chuck
- surface coated
- surface color
- surface colour
- surface condensation
- surface condenser
- surface contact
- surface-couched
- surface couching
- surface crossing
- surfaced
- surface damage
- surface density
- surface effect
- surface energy
- surface film
- surface find
- surface friction