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  2. Wing clipping - Wikipedia

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    A wing-clipped Meyer's parrot perching on a drawer handle. While clipping is endorsed by some avian veterinarians, others oppose it. [7]By restricting flight, wing clipping may help prevent indoor birds from risking injury from ceiling fans or flying into large windows, but no evidence shows that clipped birds are safer than full-winged ones, only that clipped birds are subject to different ...

  3. Clipping (morphology) - Wikipedia

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    Clipping (morphology) In linguistics, clipping, also called truncation or shortening, [1] is word formation by removing some segments of an existing word to create a diminutive word or a clipped compound. Clipping differs from abbreviation, which is based on a shortening of the written, rather than the spoken, form of an existing word or phrase.

  4. Cut-up technique - Wikipedia

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    A text created from lines of a newspaper tourism article. The cut-up technique (or découpé in French) is an aleatory narrative technique in which a written text is cut up and rearranged to create a new text.

  5. Concrete poetry - Wikipedia

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    Concrete poetry is an arrangement of linguistic elements in which the typographical effect is more important in conveying meaning than verbal significance. [1] It is sometimes referred to as visual poetry, a term that has now developed a distinct meaning of its own. Concrete poetry relates more to the visual than to the verbal arts although ...

  6. Collage - Wikipedia

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    Collage. Collage (/ kəˈlɑːʒ /, from the French: coller, "to glue" or "to stick together"; [1]) is a technique of art creation, primarily used in the visual arts, but in music too, by which art results from an assemblage of different forms, thus creating a new whole. (Compare with pastiche, which is a "pasting" together.)

  7. Delta jet readying for takeoff rips its wing off after ... - AOL

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    Video taken after the incident by storm chaser Aaron Rigsby shows the wing was ripped clean off the plane. A Delta jet clipped a smaller plane at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport ...

  8. Clipped compound - Wikipedia

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    In linguistics, a clipped compound is a word produced from a compound word by reducing its parts while retaining the meaning of the original compound. [ 1] It is a special case of word formation called clipping . Clipped compounds are common in various slang and jargon vocabularies. [ 1] A clipped compound word is actually a type of blend word.

  9. Clipping (phonetics) - Wikipedia

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    For the distinction between [ ], / / and , see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters. In phonetics, clipping is the process of shortening the articulation of a phonetic segment, usually a vowel. A clipped vowel is pronounced more quickly than an unclipped vowel and is often also reduced .