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Difference Between Peg and Clip

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Peg

A small cylindrical or tapered pin, as of wood, used to fasten things or plug a hole.

Clip

A flexible or spring-loaded device for holding an object or objects together or in place
He undid two clips and lifted the lid
A gilt clip fastened her hair

Peg

A similar pin forming a projection that may be used as a support or boundary marker.

Clip

A metal holder containing cartridges for an automatic firearm
He shot twice, but his clip was empty

Peg

(Music) One of the pins of a stringed instrument that are turned to tighten or slacken the strings so as to regulate their pitch.
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Clip

An act of clipping or trimming something
I gave him a full clip

Peg

A degree or notch, as in estimation
Our opinion of him went up a few pegs after he did the dishes.

Clip

A short sequence taken from a film or broadcast
Clips from earlier shows
A film clip

Peg

Chiefly British A drink of liquor.

Clip

A smart or glancing blow
I'd give him a clip round the ear
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Peg

(Baseball) A low and fast throw made to put a base runner out.

Clip

A specified speed or rate of movement, especially when rapid
We crossed the dance floor at an amazingly fast clip

Peg

(Informal) A leg, especially a wooden one.

Clip

Fasten or be fastened with a clip or clips
She clipped on a pair of diamond earrings
The panels simply clip on to the framework

Peg

To fasten or plug with a peg or pegs.

Clip

Cut short or trim (hair, vegetation, etc.) with shears or scissors
I was clipping the hedge

Peg

To designate or mark by means of a peg or pegs.

Clip

Strike smartly or with a glancing blow
The car clipped the kerb
He'll clip your ear

Peg

To fix (a price) at a certain level or within a certain range.

Clip

Swindle or rob
In all the years he ran the place, he was clipped only three times

Peg

(Informal) To classify; categorize
I pegged her as an opportunist. Why do you have me pegged as the rowdy one?.

Clip

Move quickly
We clip down the track

Peg

To hit, especially with a thrown object or fired projectile
She pegged him on the head with a snowball.

Clip

To cut, cut off, or cut out with or as if with shears
Clip coupons.
Clipped three seconds off the record.

Peg

To throw or fire (an object or projectile)
“How did you learn to peg a ball as straight as this?” (Zane Grey).

Clip

To make shorter by cutting; trim
Clip a hedge.

Peg

To work steadily; persist
Pegged away until our luck turned.

Clip

To cut off the edge of
Clip a coin.

Peg

Wide at the top and narrowing toward the bottom
Peg jeans.
A peg skirt.

Clip

To cut short; curtail.

Peg

A cylindrical wooden or metal object used to fasten or as a bearing between objects.

Clip

To shorten (a word or words) by leaving out letters or syllables.

Peg

A protrusion used to hang things on.
Hang your coat on the peg and come in.

Clip

To enunciate with clarity and precision
Clip one's words.

Peg

(figurative) A support; a reason; a pretext.
A peg to hang a claim upon

Clip

(Informal) To hit with a sharp blow
Clipped me under the eye.

Peg

(cribbage) A peg moved on a crib board to keep score.

Clip

(Football) To block (an opponent) illegally from the rear.

Peg

(finance) A fixed exchange rate, where a currency's value is matched to the value of another currency or measure such as gold.

Clip

(Sports) To hit or kick (the ball) in a certain direction.

Peg

(UK) A small quantity of a strong alcoholic beverage.

Clip

(Slang) To cheat, swindle, or rob.

Peg

A place formally allotted for fishing

Clip

To cut something.

Peg

A leg or foot.

Clip

(Informal) To move rapidly.

Peg

One of the pins of a musical instrument, on which the strings are strained.

Clip

To fasten with or as if with a clip; hold tightly.

Peg

A step; a degree.

Clip

(Archaic) To embrace or encompass.

Peg

Ellipsis of clothes peg

Clip

The act of clipping.

Peg

(journalism) A topic of interest, such as an ongoing event or an anniversary, around which various features can be developed.

Clip

The wool shorn at one shearing, as of sheep.

Peg

A stump.

Clip

A season's shearing.

Peg

(slang) The penetration of one's (male) partner in the anus using a dildo.
Get your strap-on out and give me a nice peg!

Clip

A short extract from a movie or television program.

Peg

A serving of brandy and soda.

Clip

(Informal) A quick sharp blow
A clip on the ear.

Peg

(India) A serving of any hard spirit, particularly whisky.

Clip

(Football) An illegal block from the rear.

Peg

A shilling.

Clip

(Informal) A pace or rate
Go at a fast clip.

Peg

(transitive) To fasten using a peg.
Let's peg the rug to the floor.

Clip

A single occasion; a time
Could write nine pages at a clip.

Peg

(transitive) To affix or pin.
I found a tack and pegged your picture to the bulletin board.
She lunged forward and pegged him to the wall.

Clip

Clips A pair of shears or clippers.

Peg

(transitive) To fix a value or price.
China's currency is no longer pegged to the American dollar.

Clip

Any of various devices for gripping or holding things together; a clasp or fastener.

Peg

(transitive) To narrow the cuff openings of a pair of pants so that the legs take on a peg shape.

Clip

A piece of jewelry that fastens with a clasp or clip, such as an earring or a brooch.

Peg

To throw.

Clip

A cartridge clip.

Peg

To indicate or ascribe an attribute to. (Assumed to originate from the use of pegs or pins as markers on a bulletin board or a list.)
He's been pegged as a suspect.
I pegged his weight at 165.

Clip

To grip tightly.

Peg

(cribbage) To move one's pegs to indicate points scored; to score with a peg.
She pegged twelve points.

Clip

To fasten with a clip.
Please clip the photos to the pages where they will go.

Peg

To reach or exceed the maximum value on (a scale or gauge).
We pegged the speedometer across the flats.

Clip

(archaic) To hug, embrace.

Peg

To engage in anal sex by penetrating (one's male partner) with a dildo.

Clip

(slang) To collect signatures, generally with the use of a clipboard.

Peg

(intransitive) To keep working hard at something; to peg away.

Clip

To cut, especially with scissors or shears as opposed to a knife etc.
She clipped my hair with her scissors.
Please clip that coupon out of the newspaper.

Peg

To drink alcohol frequently, especially brandy and soda; to tipple.

Clip

To curtail; to cut short.

Peg

A small, pointed piece of wood, used in fastening boards together, in attaching the soles of boots or shoes, etc.; as, a shoe peg.

Clip

To strike with the hand.
I’ll clip ye round the lugs!

Peg

A wooden pin, or nail, on which to hang things, as coats, etc. Hence, colloquially and figuratively: A support; a reason; a pretext; as, a peg to hang a claim upon.

Clip

To hit or strike, especially in passing.
The car skidded off the road and clipped a lamppost.

Peg

One of the pins of a musical instrument, on which the strings are strained.

Clip

(American football) 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.

Peg

One of the pins used for marking points on a cribbage board.

Clip

(signal processing) To cut off a signal level at a certain maximum value.

Peg

A step; a degree; esp. in the slang phrase "To take one down a peg."
To screw papal authority to the highest peg.
And took your grandees down a peg.

Clip

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

Peg

A drink of spirits, usually whisky or brandy diluted with soda water.
This over, the club will be visited for a "peg," Anglice drink.

Clip

To move (through or into) (a rendered object or barrier).
The camera keeps clipping that ceiling.
Clipping through walls is integral to the game's speedruns.
Oh, no, I clipped my avatar through the barrier!

Peg

A hard throw, especially one made to put out a baserunner; as, the peg to the plate went wild.

Clip

To cheat, swindle, or fleece.

Peg

To put pegs into; to fasten the parts of with pegs; as, to peg shoes; to confine with pegs; to restrict or limit closely.
I will rend an oakAnd peg thee in his knotty entrails.

Clip

To grab or take stealthily

Peg

To score with a peg, as points in the game; as, she pegged twelwe points.

Clip

Something which clips or grasps; a device for attaching one object to another.
Use this clip to attach the check to your tax form.

Peg

To identify; to recognize; as, she pegged him as a good carpenter; he was pegged as a blowhard as soon as he started speaking; he was pegged as a exceptional player even in high school.

Clip

An unspecified, but normally understood as rapid, speed or pace.
She reads at a pretty good clip.
He was walking at a fair clip and I was out of breath trying to keep up.

Peg

To throw (a ball); as, he pegged the runner out at second.

Clip

(obsolete) An embrace.

Peg

To work diligently, as one who pegs shoes; - usually with on, at, or away; as, to peg away at a task.

Clip

(military) 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.

Peg

A wooden pin pushed or driven into a surface

Clip

A removable magazine of a firearm.

Peg

Small markers inserted into a surface to mark scores or define locations etc.

Clip

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.

Peg

Informal terms of the leg;
Fever left him weak on his sticks

Clip

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

Peg

A prosthesis that replaces a missing leg

Clip

Something which has been clipped from a larger whole:

Peg

Regulator that can be turned to regulate the pitch of the strings of a stringed instrument

Clip

The product of a single shearing of sheep.

Peg

A holder attached to the gunwale of a boat that holds the oar in place and acts as a fulcrum for rowing

Clip

A season's crop of wool.

Peg

Succeed in obtaining a position;
He nailed down a spot at Harvard

Clip

A section of video taken from a film, broadcast, or other longer video
The morning news today played a clip of last night's debate.
The 100th episode of Seinfeld consisted of clips from previous episodes.

Peg

Pierce with a wooden pin or knock or thrust a wooden pin into into

Clip

A newspaper clipping.

Peg

Fasten or secure with a wooden pin;
Peg a tent

Clip

An act of clipping, such as a haircut.
I went into the salon to get a clip.

Peg

Stabilize (the price of a commodity or an exchange rate) by legislation or market operations;
The weak currency was pegged to the US Dollar

Clip

The condition of something, its state.
Deeky the clip of that aad wife ower thor!

Clip

(informal) A blow with the hand (often in the set phrase clip round the ear)
Give him a clip round the ear!

Clip

To embrace, hence; to encompass.
O . . . that Neptune's arms, who clippeth thee about,Would bear thee from the knowledge of thyself.

Clip

To cut off; as with shears or scissors; as, to clip the hair; to clip coin.
Sentenced to have his ears clipped.

Clip

To curtail; to cut short.
All my reports go with the modest truth;No more nor clipped, but so.
In London they clip their words after one manner about the court, another in the city, and a third in the suburbs.

Clip

To move swiftly; - usually with indefinite it.
Straight flies as chek, and clips it down the wind.

Clip

An embrace.

Clip

A cutting; a shearing.

Clip

The product of a single shearing of sheep; a season's crop of wool.

Clip

A clasp or holder for letters, papers, etc.

Clip

An embracing strap for holding parts together; the iron strap, with loop, at the ends of a whiffletree.

Clip

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

Clip

A blow or stroke with the hand; as, he hit him a clip.

Clip

A part, attachment, or appendage, for seizing, clasping, or holding, an object, as a cable, etc.

Clip

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

Clip

A rapid gait.

Clip

A metal frame or container holding cartridges; can be inserted into an automatic gun

Clip

An instance or single occasion for some event;
This time he succeeded
He called four times
He could do ten at a clip

Clip

Any of various small fasteners used to hold loose articles together

Clip

An article of jewelry that can be clipped onto a hat or dress

Clip

The act of clipping or snipping

Clip

A sharp slanting blow;
He gave me a clip on the ear

Clip

Sever or remove by pinching or snipping;
Nip off the flowers

Clip

Run at a moderately swift pace

Clip

Attach with a clip;
Clip the papers together

Clip

Cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of;
Dress the plants in the garden

Clip

Terminate or abbreviate before its intended or proper end or its full extent;
My speech was cut short
Personal freedom is curtailed in many countries

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