Belt vs. Clip — What's the Difference?

A flexible band, as of leather or cloth, worn around the waist or over a shoulder to hold up clothing, secure tools or weapons, or serve as decoration.

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

Something resembling a belt, as a number of machine-gun rounds attached together in a strip.

A metal holder containing cartridges for an automatic firearm

An encircling route.

An act of clipping or trimming something

A seat belt or safety belt.

A short sequence taken from a film or broadcast

A continuous band or chain for transferring motion or power or conveying materials from one wheel or shaft to another.

A smart or glancing blow

A band of tough reinforcing material beneath the tread of a tire.

A specified speed or rate of movement, especially when rapid

A usually bandlike geographic region that is distinctive in a specific respect. Often used in combination

Fasten or be fastened with a clip or clips

A powerful blow; a wallop.

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

A drink of hard liquor.

Strike smartly or with a glancing blow

To equip, hold up, or attach with a belt

Swindle or rob

To encircle or mark in the manner of a belt

Move quickly

To beat with a belt or strap.

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

To strike forcefully; hit.

To make shorter by cutting; trim

To sing in a loud and forceful manner

To cut off the edge of

To swig (an alcoholic beverage).

To cut short; curtail.

A band worn around the waist to hold clothing to one's body (usually pants), hold weapons (such as a gun or sword), or serve as a decorative piece of clothing.

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

A band used as a restraint for safety purposes, such as a seat belt.

To enunciate with clarity and precision

A band that is used in a machine to help transfer motion or power.

(Informal) To hit with a sharp blow

Anything that resembles a belt, or that encircles or crosses like a belt; a strip or stripe.

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

A trophy in the shape of a belt, generally awarded for martial arts.

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

(astronomy) A collection of small bodies (such as asteroids) which orbit a star.

(Slang) To cheat, swindle, or rob.

(astronomy) One of certain girdles or zones on the surface of the planets Jupiter and Saturn, supposed to be of the nature of clouds.

To cut something.

A band of armor along the sides of a warship, protecting the ship's vital spaces.

(Informal) To move rapidly.

A powerful blow, often made with a fist or heavy object.

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

A quick drink of liquor.

(Archaic) To embrace or encompass.

A geographical region known for a particular product, feature or demographic (Corn Belt, Bible Belt, Black Belt, Green Belt).

The act of clipping.

(baseball) The part of the strike zone at the height of the batter's waist.

The wool shorn at one shearing, as of sheep.

(weapons) A device that holds and feeds cartridges into a belt-fed weapon.

A season's shearing.

(music) A vocal tone produced by singing with chest voice above the break (or passaggio), in a range typically sung in head voice.

A short extract from a movie or television program.

(transitive) To encircle.

(Informal) A quick sharp blow

(transitive) To fasten a belt on.

(Football) An illegal block from the rear.

(transitive) To invest (a person) with a belt as part of a formal ceremony such as knighthood.

(Informal) A pace or rate

(transitive) To hit with a belt.

A single occasion; a time

To scream or sing in a loud manner.

Clips A pair of shears or clippers.

(transitive) To drink quickly, often in gulps.

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

To hit someone or something.

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

To hit a pitched ball a long distance, usually for a home run.

A cartridge clip.

(intransitive) To move very fast.

To grip tightly.

That which engirdles a person or thing; a band or girdle; as, a lady's belt; a sword belt.

To fasten with a clip.

That which restrains or confines as a girdle.

(archaic) To hug, embrace.

Anything that resembles a belt, or that encircles or crosses like a belt; a strip or stripe; as, a belt of trees; a belt of sand.

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

One of certain girdles or zones on the surface of the planets Jupiter and Saturn, supposed to be of the nature of clouds.

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

A narrow passage or strait; as, the Great Belt and the Lesser Belt, leading to the Baltic Sea.

To curtail; to cut short.

A token or badge of knightly rank.

To strike with the hand.

A band of leather, or other flexible substance, passing around two wheels, and communicating motion from one to the other.

To hit or strike, especially in passing.

A band or stripe, as of color, round any organ; or any circular ridge or series of ridges.

(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.

To encircle with, or as with, a belt; to encompass; to surround.

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

To shear, as the buttocks and tails of sheep.

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

Endless loop of flexible material between two rotating shafts or pulleys

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

A band to tie or buckle around the body (usually at the waist)

To cheat, swindle, or fleece.

An elongated region where a specific condition is found;

To grab or take stealthily

A vigorous blow;

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

A path or strip (as cut by one course of mowing)

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

The act of hitting vigorously;

(obsolete) An embrace.

Sing loudly and forcefully

(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.

Deliver a blow to;

A removable magazine of a firearm.

Fasten with a belt;

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.

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

Something which has been clipped from a larger whole:

The product of a single shearing of sheep.

A season's crop of wool.

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

A newspaper clipping.

An act of clipping, such as a haircut.

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;