I never said they were one and the same. I merely said by
definition it is a clip.
clip
n
1. Any of various devices for gripping or holding things together; a clasp or fastener.
I would never call an integral magazine, such as tubular magazine on many guns, a clip.
I had to edit this post because I totally misread something. Are you intentionally trying to start a dead horse-beating contest? ?
Indeed. However it's not so much that I'm endeavoring to flog an expired equine as I am attempt to just provide
@BROBS with some general flack. (I hope he's smiled at this whole thing as much as I have.)
Now for a little discourse on a few things I find interesting:
1. The term clip can be applied by definition in certain instances but many people object to this. Yet these same people will call the well on an M1 a magazine when, without the en bloc clip, it does not meet the definition of magazine. In other words, by technical definition, the clip is what makes it a magazine in this instance.
2. The whole uproar over calling a detachable boxed magazine a clip seems, to me, to have become noticeably more prominent after the advent of the internet, or more specifically wikipedia, to an almost fervent level.
3. The whole thing is really just a matter of rhetoric which is a subject I find simultaneously fascinating and frustrating.