Peg vs. Clip — What's the Difference?

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

A flexible or spring-loaded device for holding an object or objects together or in place

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

A metal holder containing cartridges for an automatic firearm

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

An act of clipping or trimming something

A degree or notch, as in estimation

A short sequence taken from a film or broadcast

Chiefly British A drink of liquor.

A smart or glancing blow

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

A specified speed or rate of movement, especially when rapid

(Informal) A leg, especially a wooden one.

Fasten or be fastened with a clip or clips

To fasten or plug with a peg or pegs.

Cut short or trim (hair, vegetation, etc.) with shears or scissors

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

Strike smartly or with a glancing blow

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

Swindle or rob

(Informal) To classify; categorize

Move quickly

To hit, especially with a thrown object or fired projectile

To cut, cut off, or cut out with or as if with shears

To throw or fire (an object or projectile)

To make shorter by cutting; trim

To work steadily; persist

To cut off the edge of

Wide at the top and narrowing toward the bottom

To cut short; curtail.

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

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

A protrusion used to hang things on.

To enunciate with clarity and precision

(figurative) A support; a reason; a pretext.

(Informal) To hit with a sharp blow

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

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

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

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

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

(Slang) To cheat, swindle, or rob.

A place formally allotted for fishing

To cut something.

A leg or foot.

(Informal) To move rapidly.

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

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

A step; a degree.

(Archaic) To embrace or encompass.

Ellipsis of clothes peg

The act of clipping.

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

The wool shorn at one shearing, as of sheep.

A stump.

A season's shearing.

(slang) The penetration of one's (male) partner in the anus using a dildo.

A short extract from a movie or television program.

A serving of brandy and soda.

(Informal) A quick sharp blow

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

(Football) An illegal block from the rear.

A shilling.

(Informal) A pace or rate

(transitive) To fasten using a peg.

A single occasion; a time

(transitive) To affix or pin.

Clips A pair of shears or clippers.

(transitive) To fix a value or price.

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

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

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

To throw.

A cartridge clip.

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.)

To grip tightly.

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

To fasten with a clip.

To reach or exceed the maximum value on (a scale or gauge).

(archaic) To hug, embrace.

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

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

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

To cut, especially with scissors or shears as opposed to a knife etc.

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

To curtail; to cut short.

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

To strike with the hand.

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.

To hit or strike, especially in passing.

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

(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.

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

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

A step; a degree; esp. in the slang phrase "To take one down a peg."

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

A drink of spirits, usually whisky or brandy diluted with soda water.

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

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

To cheat, swindle, or fleece.

To put pegs into; to fasten the parts of with pegs; as, to peg shoes; to confine with pegs; to restrict or limit closely.

To grab or take stealthily

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

Something which clips or grasps; a device for attaching one object to another.

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.

An unspecified, but normally understood as rapid, speed or pace.

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

(obsolete) An embrace.

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

(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.

A wooden pin pushed or driven into a surface

A removable magazine of a firearm.

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

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.

Informal terms of the leg;

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

A prosthesis that replaces a missing leg

Something which has been clipped from a larger whole:

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

The product of a single shearing of sheep.

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

A season's crop of wool.

Succeed in obtaining a position;

A section of video taken from a film, broadcast, or other longer video

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

A newspaper clipping.

Fasten or secure with a wooden pin;

An act of clipping, such as a haircut.

Stabilize (the price of a commodity or an exchange rate) by legislation or market operations;

The condition of something, its state.

(informal) A blow with the hand (often in the set phrase clip round the ear)

To embrace, hence; to encompass.

To cut off; as with shears or scissors; as, to clip the hair; to clip coin.

To curtail; to cut short.

To move swiftly; - usually with indefinite it.

An embrace.

A cutting; a shearing.

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

A clasp or holder for letters, papers, etc.

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

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.

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

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

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

A rapid gait.

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

An instance or single occasion for some event;

Any of various small fasteners used to hold loose articles together

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

The act of clipping or snipping

A sharp slanting blow;

Sever or remove by pinching or snipping;

Run at a moderately swift pace

Attach with a clip;

Cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of;

Terminate or abbreviate before its intended or proper end or its full extent;