Clipper vs Gallon - What's the difference?
clipper | gallon |
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.
A unit of volume, equivalent to eight pints
(British, Canadian) exactly 4.54609 liters; an imperial gallon
(US) 231 cubic inches or approximately 3.785 liters for liquids (a "U.S. liquid gallon ")
(US) one-eighth of a U.S. bushel or approximately 4.405 liters for dry goods (a "U.S. dry gallon ").
(in the plural, informal) A large quantity (of any liquid).
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As nouns the difference between clipper and gallon
is that clipper is anything that clips while gallon is a unit of volume, equivalent to eight pints.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
* ----gallon
English
Noun
(en noun)- The pipe burst and gallons of water flooded into the kitchen.