Clamper vs Clamped - What's the difference?
clamper | clamped |
One who, or that which, clamps.
An attachment with sharp metal prongs, attached to a boot or shoe to enable the wearer to walk securely upon ice.
* (Elisha Kane)
(electronics) A circuit that restricts the amplitude of a waveform.
(clamp)
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.
(intransitive) To fasten in place or together with (or as if with) a clamp .
* 1897 , (Bram Stoker), (Dracula) Chapter 21
To tread heavily or clumsily; to clump or clomp.
* Thackeray
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.
As a noun clamper
is one who, or that which, clamps.As a verb clamped is
past tense of clamp.clamper
English
Noun
(en noun)- If you park your car in a no-parking zone, watch out for clampers .
- Both divisions are provided with clampers , to steady them and their sledges on the irregular ice-surfaces
Synonyms
* (attachment to boot or shoe) crampon, creeperclamped
English
Verb
(head)clamp
English
Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* clover clamp * nipple clampVerb
(en verb)- 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.
- The policeman with clamping feet.
