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nipping
(encz) | nipping,štiplavý adj: Zdeněk Brož |
Nipping
(gcide) | Nip \Nip\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Nipped, less properly Nipt;
p. pr. & vb. n. Nipping.] [OE. nipen; cf. D. niipen to
pinch, also knippen to nip, clip, pinch, snap, knijpen to
pinch, LG. knipen, G. kneipen, kneifen, to pinch, cut off,
nip, Lith. knebti.]
1. To catch and inclose or compress tightly between two
surfaces, or points which are brought together or closed;
to pinch; to close in upon.
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May this hard earth cleave to the Nadir hell,
Down, down, and close again, and nip me flat,
If I be such a traitress. --Tennyson.
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2. To remove by pinching, biting, or cutting with two meeting
edges of anything; to clip.
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The small shoots . . . must be nipped off.
--Mortimer.
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3. Hence: To blast, as by frost; to check the growth or vigor
of; to destroy.
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4. To vex or pain, as by nipping; hence, to taunt.
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And sharp remorse his heart did prick and nip.
--Spenser.
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To nip in the bud, to cut off at the very commencement of
growth; to kill in the incipient stage.
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Nipping
(gcide) | Nipping \Nip"ping\, a.
Biting; pinching; painful; destructive; as, a nipping frost;
a nipping wind.
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nipping
(wn) | nipping
adj 1: capable of wounding; "a barbed compliment"; "a biting
aphorism"; "pungent satire" [syn: barbed, biting,
nipping, pungent, mordacious]
2: pleasantly cold and invigorating; "crisp clear nights and
frosty mornings"; "a nipping wind"; "a nippy fall day";
"snappy weather" [syn: crisp, frosty, nipping, nippy,
snappy] |
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snipping
(encz) | snipping,ústřižek Jaroslav Šedivý |
Nipping
(gcide) | Nip \Nip\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Nipped, less properly Nipt;
p. pr. & vb. n. Nipping.] [OE. nipen; cf. D. niipen to
pinch, also knippen to nip, clip, pinch, snap, knijpen to
pinch, LG. knipen, G. kneipen, kneifen, to pinch, cut off,
nip, Lith. knebti.]
1. To catch and inclose or compress tightly between two
surfaces, or points which are brought together or closed;
to pinch; to close in upon.
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May this hard earth cleave to the Nadir hell,
Down, down, and close again, and nip me flat,
If I be such a traitress. --Tennyson.
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2. To remove by pinching, biting, or cutting with two meeting
edges of anything; to clip.
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The small shoots . . . must be nipped off.
--Mortimer.
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3. Hence: To blast, as by frost; to check the growth or vigor
of; to destroy.
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4. To vex or pain, as by nipping; hence, to taunt.
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And sharp remorse his heart did prick and nip.
--Spenser.
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To nip in the bud, to cut off at the very commencement of
growth; to kill in the incipient stage.
[1913 Webster]Nipping \Nip"ping\, a.
Biting; pinching; painful; destructive; as, a nipping frost;
a nipping wind.
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Nippingly
(gcide) | Nippingly \Nip"ping*ly\, adv.
In a nipping manner.
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Snipping
(gcide) | Snip \Snip\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Snipped; p. pr. & vb. n.
Snipping.] [D. snippen; akin to G. schnippen.]
To cut off the nip or neb of, or to cut off at once with
shears or scissors; to clip off suddenly; to nip; hence, to
break off; to snatch away.
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Curbed and snipped in my younger years by fear of my
parents from those vicious excrescences to which that
age was subject. --Fuller.
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The captain seldom ordered anything out of the ship's
stores . . . but I snipped some of it for my own share.
--De Foe.
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snipping
(wn) | snipping
n 1: a small piece of anything (especially a piece that has been
snipped off) [syn: snip, snippet, snipping] |
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