Sample Sentences & Example Usage. Maria Grazia Chiuri: It's not the famous postcard that you normally have of Rome, there's something more intimate, and that's the portrait we like. We also think couture is more intimate because there's a relationship between the client and the atelier. It's one of a kind and the best limited edition you could have.
pip (third-person singular simple present pips, present participle pipping, simple past and past participle pipped) 1  To get the better of; to defeat by a narrow margin He led throughout the race but was pipped at the post. 2  To hit with a gunshot The hunter managed to pip three ducks from his blind.
In linguistics, clipping is the word formation process which consists in the reduction of a word to one of its parts (Marchand: 1969).Clipping is also known as truncation or shortening.. According to Marchand (1969), clippings are not coined as words belonging to the standard vocabulary of a language.ords with the middle part of the word left out are equally few. They may be further subdivided into two groups: (a) words with a final-clipped stem retaining the functional morpheme: maths (mathematics), specs (spectacles); (b) contractions due to a gradual process of elision under the influence of rhythm and context.