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Clamp vs Clipper - What's the difference?

clamp | clipper |

As nouns the difference between clamp and clipper

is that clamp is a brace, band, or clasp for strengthening or holding things together while clipper is anything that clips.

As a verb clamp

is to fasten in place or together with (or as if with) a clamp.

clamp

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A brace, band, or clasp for strengthening or holding things together.
  • A mass of bricks heaped up to be burned; or of ore for roasting, or of coal coking.
  • A piece of wood (batten) across the grain of a board end to keep it flat, as in a breadboard.
  • A heavy footstep; a tramp.

    • Derived terms

    * clover clamp * nipple clamp

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (intransitive) To fasten in place or together with (or as if with) a clamp .
  • * 1897 , (Bram Stoker), (Dracula) Chapter 21
    • As we burst into the room, the Count turned his face, and the hellish look that I had heard described seemed to leap into it. His eyes flamed red with devilish passion. The great nostrils of the white aquiline nose opened wide and quivered at the edge, and the white sharp teeth, behind the full lips of the blood dripping mouth, clamped together like those of a wild beast.
  • To tread heavily or clumsily; to clump or clomp.
  • * Thackeray
    • The policeman with clamping feet.
  • To hold or grip tightly.
  • To modify a numeric value so it lies within a specific range.
  • (UK, obsolete, transitive) To cover (vegetables, etc.) with earth.

    • Derived terms

    * clamp down

    See also

    * clasp * vise, vice

    clipper

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia clipper) (en noun)
  • Anything that clips.
  • * 2010 , James Morrow, The Last Witchfinder
    • Surtouts billowing in an unseasonably fierce wind, the ursine Chelmsford magistrate and his equally bulky constable herded their bound prisoners – three murderers, three thieves, a coin clipper , two convicted witches – across the Common
  • (chiefly, in the plural) A tool used for clipping something, such as hair, coins, or fingernails.
  • Something that moves swiftly; especially:
  • # (nautical) Any of several forms of very fast sailing ships having a long, low hull and a sharply raked stem.
  • # (informal) An Alberta clipper.
  • (electronics) A circuit which prevents the amplitude of a wave from exceeding a set value.

    • Derived terms

    * (Dutch; nautical ) klipper, klipperaak (g) * Alberta clipper

    See also

    * Clipper chip

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