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You can also do both at the same time: Draw and clip a path. For this, use the \draw command and add
the clip option. (This is not the whole picture: You can also use the \clip command and add the draw
option. Well, that is also not the whole picture: In reality, \draw is just a shorthand for \path[draw] and
\clip is a shorthand for \path[clip] and you could also say \path[draw,clip].) Here is an example:
\begin{tikzpicture}[scale=3]
\clip[draw] (0.5,0.5) circle (.6cm);
\draw[step=.5cm,gray,very thin] (-1.4,-1.4) grid (1.4,1.4);
\draw (-1.5,0) -- (1.5,0);
\draw (0,-1.5) -- (0,1.5);
\draw (0,0) circle [radius=1cm];
\draw (3mm,0mm) arc [start angle=0, end angle=30, radius=3mm];
\end{tikzpicture}
The operations sin and cos add a sine or cosine curve in the interval [0, π/2] such that the previous
current point is at the start of the curve and the curve ends at the given end point. Here are two examples:
\tikz \draw[x=1.57ex,y=1ex] (0,0) sin (1,1) cos (2,0) sin (3,-1) cos (4,0)
(0,1) cos (1,0) sin (2,-1) cos (3,0) sin (4,1);
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