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   Clip

   /klip/

   

   verb

   • 1. cut short or trim (hair, wool, nails, or vegetation) with shears or scissors: "clipping the hedge" Similar trimcutcut short/shortersnippruneshortencropshearshavepareloppollardmowneatenshapetidy upeven up
   • ▪ trim or remove the hair or wool of (an animal): "how to clip your horse"
   • ▪ cut off a thing or part of a thing with shears or scissors: "he clipped off a piece of wire"
   • ▪ cut (a section) from a newspaper or magazine: "a photograph clipped from a magazine" Similar removecut outsnip outdetachextracttear out
   • ▪ pare the edge of (a coin), especially illicitly: "they clipped the edges of gold coins and melted the clippings down"
   • ▪ process (an image) so as to remove the parts outside a certain area: "once the video image is captured, it can be panned, clipped, and zoomed"
   • ▪ truncate the amplitude of (a signal) above or below predetermined levels: "once the amplifier has boosted the signal it is clipped to provide a digital pulse"
   • 2. strike briskly or with a glancing blow: British "the steamroller clipped some parked cars" Similar hitstrikemake contact withtouchbrushgrazeglance offtaprun intobang intocrack into/againsthitstrikecuffsmackslapthumppunchknockrapbox someone's earsinformal:cloutwhackwallopbeltclobberbopbiffsockskelp
   • 3. swindle or rob (someone): informal North American "in all the years he ran the place, he was clipped only three times"
   • 4. move quickly in a specified direction: informal US "we clip down the track"

   noun

   • 1. an act of clipping or trimming something: "I gave him a full clip" Similar cuttrimcrophaircutshorteningshearshearingpruning
   • ▪ the quantity of wool clipped from a sheep or flock: "a local agent will arrange for the clip to be sold at auction"
   • 2. a short sequence taken from a movie or broadcast: "clips from earlier shows" Similar extractexcerptsnippetselectioncuttingfragmentscenemomenttrailer
   • 3. a quick or glancing blow: informal British "you need a clip on the jaw" Similar smackcuffslapthumppunchboxknockrapinformal:cloutwhackwallopbeltclobberingbopbiffsock
   • 4. a specified speed or rate of movement, especially when rapid: informal "we crossed the dance floor at a fast clip" Similar speedratepacevelocitytempomomentuminformal:lickfair old rate

   Word Origin Middle English: from Old Norse klippa, probably imitative.

   Derivatives

   • 1. clippable adjective

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   What does CLIP stand for?

   • CLIP (Contrastive Language-Image Pre-Training) is a neural network trained on a variety of (image, text) pairs. It can be instructed in natural language to predict the most relevant text snippet, given an image, without directly optimizing for the task, similarly to the zero-shot capabilities of GPT-2 and 3.

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   What does CLIP do?

   • CLIP (Contrastive Language-Image Pre-Training) is a neural network trained on a variety of (image, text) pairs. It can be instructed in natural language to predict the most relevant text snippet, given an image, without directly optimizing for the task, similarly to the zero-shot capabilities of GPT-2 and 3.

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   How does CLIP software work?

   • CLIP pre-trains an image encoder and a text encoder to predict which images were paired with which texts in our dataset. We then use this behavior to turn CLIP into a zero-shot classifier.

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   What is the CLIP program?

   • CLIP is a course of psychiatric treatment with a focus on stabilization and skill development/acquisition that aims to reintegrate children and youth back to their homes, families, communities, or long-term supportive environments, as soon as deemed clinically appropriate.

   Children's Long-term Inpatient Program (CLIP) - Washington

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   Learn the various meanings and uses of the word clip as a verb and a noun, with synonyms, examples, and etymology. Find out how to clip hair, wool, nails, or time, and what kinds of clips are devices or ornaments.

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   a small object usually made of metal or plastic, used for fastening things together or holding them in position: a paper / hair / tie clip. The wires were fastened together with a plastic clip. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Pins, clips, hooks & pegs. alligator clip. banana clip. barb. binder clip. bobby pin. bodkin. Bulldog Clip.

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   Clip definition: to cut, or cut off or out, as with shears. See examples of CLIP used in a sentence.

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   Learn the meaning of clip as a noun and a verb in English, with examples of usage and translations. Find out how to use clip to refer to a fastener, a film fragment, a hit, or a cut.

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   Use the noun clip to talk about a fastener that holds things together, like a paper clip or a hair clip. A clip keeps loose things attached to each other, but when you clip something, you cut small pieces off of it. Think of when you clip your dog's toenails or clip the dangling ends off the blanket you're knitting.

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    Learn the meaning, pronunciation and usage of the word clip in English. Find out the different types of clips, such as film clips, hair clips, paper clips and more.