clip art
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- noun
- /klɪp ɑrt/
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clip art
- Teachers often use clip art to make their presentations more visually appealing.
- photographs and clip art
- includes clip art
And it was, it was an Office program I had purchased which had clip art in the software.
- And it was, it was an Office program I had purchased which had clip art in the software.
Examples
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The report included colorful clip art to enhance the document's design.
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You can find various styles of clip art for your project in online libraries.
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And it was, it was an Office program I had purchased which had clip art in the software.
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There are many software collections of "clip art" that can be imported into other pictures.
Academic text (1993) -
For each word, multiple candidate pictures were obtained from a commercial clip art database.
Academic text (2013) -
For years, they did their own ads with clip-art books.
Blog text (19) -
Adjustments for contrast are not needed for non-photographic images such as type and clip art.
Academic text (1995) -
Teachers can raise questions and host discussions, find links to other helpful sites, access clip art and images to enhance lesson plans, gain tips for using technology in the classroom, and obtain information about federal grants and Internet safety for students.
Academic text (2009) -
There are several Internet sites, however, that offer free picture symbols and free clip art that can be used by teachers who don't have access to Boardmaker or other picture symbol software.
Academic text (2013) -
The artwork can then be used as clip art in Word, PowerPoint, or other programs, or the picture can be pasted into a drawing program for further drawing.
Academic text (2009)
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Morphology
The meaning 'ready-made digital images' is directly derivable from combining 'clip' (a small piece/excerpt) with 'art' (visual elements): together they naturally denote small pieces of art/images. This noun+noun compounding is transparent and common (and many languages either calque or borrow the term), so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will likely infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
Clip art comes from the old practice of cutting small pictures out of magazines to paste into projects; the word clip means 'to cut out' and art means a picture. When computers made many ready-made images you could quickly add, people called them clip art because they worked like digital cut-outs you could 'paste' into a document. That's why clip art now means ready-made digital images you add to documents.