clipped
切り取られた
解説 Definition
clipped は clip（切り取る、切り詰める）の過去形・過去分詞で、形容詞として「切り取られた、短く切られた」という意味です。紙・髪・枝などが切られて短くなった状態を表すときに使われます。
Clipped describes something that has been cut off, cut out, or trimmed so that part of it is removed or shortened. It can modify items such as photographs, articles, hair, plants, or branches.
覚え方のコツ Memory Tip
clipped は clip＋-ed で、短母音の後の p を重ねて clipped と書きます。語末の /p/ は無声音なので -ed は /t/ と発音し、全体は /klɪpt/。a clipped photo、clipped branches のように、紙・髪・枝が切り取られ短くなった状態を思い浮かべます。
Begin with the verb clip, meaning to cut, trim, or remove a part. Its past participle and adjective form is clipped: the final p is doubled before -ed because clip ends in a stressed short vowel plus a consonant. Since /p/ is voiceless, the -ed ending is pronounced /t/, giving /klɪpt/, not an extra syllable. Picture a clipped photograph removed from a page, a clipped newspaper article, or clipped branches after gardening. The adjective focuses on the resulting shortened or cut state, while clipping can name either the action or the piece that was cut out.
例文
The clipped photo was placed inside the album.
切り取られた写真はアルバムの中に入れられました。
She kept the clipped article on her desk.
彼女は切り取った記事を机の上に置いていました。
The clipped branches were piled beside the garden path.
切り取られた枝が庭の小道のそばに積まれていました。
clipped の類義語・関連語
clipped の語源・成り立ち Etymology
clipped は clip「切る・刈る」の過去分詞形で、この clip は古ノルド語 klippa「切る」にさかのぼるとされます。もとは物理的に切り落とした状態を表し、そこから言い方や発音が短くきびきびした意味にも広がりました。関連語は clip, clipping。
Clipped is the past participle of clip, formed by adding -ed and doubling the final p. The cutting sense of clip is generally traced to Old Norse klippa, “to cut or shear.” Its earliest physical meanings involved cutting off or shortening material. From that concrete idea, clipped later developed figurative uses for speech, pronunciation, or style that sounds unusually brief and sharply controlled, although the present sense concerns objects that have actually been cut or trimmed.
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