clipping vs selection

clipping and selection both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
clipping	Yes	No	No	No
selection	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, selection is a hypernym of clipping; that is, selection is a word with a broader meaning than clipping:

Other hypernyms of clipping include excerpt, excerption, extract.

clipping (noun)	selection (noun)
the act of clipping or snipping	the act of choosing or selecting
cutting down to the desired size or shape	the person or thing chosen or selected
an excerpt cut from a newspaper or magazine	a passage selected from a larger work
	an assortment of things from which a choice can be made
	a natural process resulting in the evolution of organisms best adapted to the environment