Clipper vs Flipper - What's the difference?
clipper | flipper |
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 marine mammals such as whales, a wide flat limb, adapted for swimming
a flat, wide, paddle-like rubber covering for the foot, used in swimming
a flat lever in a pinball machine, used to keep the ball in play
(cricket) A type of ball bowled by a leg spin bowler, which spins backwards and skids off the pitch with a low bounce
(informal, US) television remote control, clicker
(dated, slang) The hand.
(dentistry) A kind of false tooth, usually temporary.
* 2005 , Washington appellate reports: Volume 128''
A kitchen spatula
As a noun clipper
is anything that clips.As a proper noun flipper is
a common name for animals which have flippers, such as dolphins and seals.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
Derived terms
* (Dutch; nautical ) klipper, klipperaak (g) * Alberta clipperSee also
* Clipper chipAnagrams
* ----flipper
English
(wikipedia flipper)Noun
(en noun)- Dr. Woo attempts to distinguish Blakeslee by pointing out that “one can fondle a breast without having anything to do with dentistry, but one cannot take molds, fabricate and insert flippers into another person's mouth without practicing dentistry."
