Clip
Clip noun - An instance or single occasion for some event.
Usage example: he could do ten at a clip
Time
Time noun - An instance or single occasion for some event.
Usage example: he called four times
How words are described
| good | good clip | good time |
| full | full clip | full time |
| long | long clip | long time |
| exact | exact clip | exact time |
| Other adjectives: particular, specific, brief, short, current, original, single, small, actual, entire, wrong, slow, little, spare, quick, final, extra, next, last, different, previous. | ||
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
- The pre-finale clip show for Seinfeld featured a montage of various bizarre noises made by all four main characters (surprisingly, Kramer really doesn't get more time here than anyone else).
Source: Fully Automatic Clip Show - They once did one for themselves, playing a clip of every time Jon Stewart joked that some organization's initials were "NAMBLA."
Source: Fully Automatic Clip Show - In turn, that was remixed by Negativland sound collage master Don Joyce from a talk radio show clip discussing the Soviet Union (which apparently had — and Russia still has — eleven time zones).
Source: Voice Clip Song
Cite this Source
Time and Clip. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 16, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/clip/time
Clip & Time. N.p., 2016. Web. 16 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/clip/time>.
Time or Clip. 2016. Accessed August 16, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/clip/time.
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