Clipping

Verb
clipping



Noun

 * 1)  The action of the verb to clip.
 * 2)  A piece of something removed by clipping.
 * 3)  An article clipped from a newspaper.
 * 4)  A short form (of a word).
 * The word "ad" is a clipping of "advertisement".

Synonyms

 * offcut, snippet
 * cutting, newspaper clipping
 * See short form

Thesaurus
abbreviation, ana, analects, anthology, apocope, aposiopesis, bit, butt, chip, chunk, clip, clippings, collectanea, collection, collop, contraction, crasis, crumb, cut, cutting, cuttings, dollop, elision, ellipsis, end, excerpta, excerpts, extracts, florilegium, flowers, fragment, fragments, gleanings, gob, gobbet, hunk, lump, miscellanea, miscellany, modicum, moiety, morsel, paring, particle, piece, pruning, rasher, scoop, scrap, shard, shaving, shiver, shortening, shred, slice, sliver, smithereen, snack, snatch, snip, snippet, splinter, stitch, stump, syncope, syneresis, tatter, truncation