Clipper vs Ivy - What's the difference?
clipper | ivy |
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.
Any of several woody, climbing or trailing evergreen plants of the genus Hedera .
Any similar plant of any genus.
As nouns the difference between clipper and ivy
is that clipper is anything that clips while ivy is any of several woody, climbing or trailing evergreen plants of the genus hedera .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