Clipped vs Clipper - What's the difference?
clipped | clipper |
(clip)
Having an end cut off; trimmed or cut back.
(of speech) With each word pronounced separately and distinctly.
(informal) Circumcised.
* 1999 , Ben Edward Akerley, The X-Rated Bible: An Irreverent Survey of Sex in the Scriptures , Feral House (1999), ISBN 9780922915552,
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Anything that clips.
* 2010 , James Morrow, The Last Witchfinder
(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.
In informal terms the difference between clipped and clipper
is that clipped is circumcised while clipper is an Alberta clipper.As a verb clipped
is past tense of clip.As an adjective clipped
is having an end cut off; trimmed or cut back.As a noun clipper is
anything that clips.clipped
English
Alternative forms
* cliptVerb
(head)Adjective
(-)page 102:
- After all, Jehovah had instituted the rite of circumcision in which the clipped penis became consecrated to him,
Synonyms
*(circumcised) see also .clipper
English
Noun
(wikipedia clipper) (en noun)- 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
