Paddle vs Flipper - What's the difference?
paddle | flipper |
A two-handed, single-bladed oar used to propel a canoe or a small boat.
A double-bladed oar used for kayaking.
Time spent on paddling.
A slat of a paddleboat's wheel.
A paddlewheel.
A blade of a waterwheel.
(video games, dated) A game controller with a round wheel used to control player movement along one axis of the video screen.
(British) A meandering walk or dabble through shallow water, especially at the seaside.
A kitchen utensil shaped like a paddle and used for mixing, beating etc.
A bat-shaped spanking implement
A ping-pong bat.
A flat limb of an aquatic animal, adapted for swimming.
In a sluice, a panel that controls the flow of water.
A group of inerts
A handheld defibrillation/cardioversion electrode
To propel something through water with a paddle, oar, hands, etc.
* L'Estrange
* (John Gay)
* 1884 : (Mark Twain), (The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn), Chapter IX
To row a boat with less than one's full capacity.
To spank with a paddle.
To pat or stroke amorously or gently.
* Shakespeare
To tread upon; to trample.
(British) To walk or dabble playfully in shallow water, especially at the seaside.
To toddle
(archaic) To toy or caress using hands or fingers
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 nouns the difference between paddle and flipper
is that paddle is a two-handed, single-bladed oar used to propel a canoe or a small boat while flipper is in marine mammals such as whales, a wide flat limb, adapted for swimming.As verbs the difference between paddle and flipper
is that paddle is to propel something through water with a paddle, oar, hands, etc while flipper is to lift one or both flipper out of the water and slap the surface of the water.As a proper noun Flipper is
a common name for animals which have flippers, such as dolphins and seals.paddle
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) padell (1407, "small spade"), from Medieval Latin padela, perhaps from (etyl) patella "pan, plate", the diminutive of patinaNoun
(en noun)- We had a nice paddle this morning.
- ''The paddle practically ousted the British cane as the spanker's attribute in the independent US
- ''A sea turtle's paddles make it swim almost as fast as land tortoises are slow
Derived terms
* paddler * paddleboat * paddle board * paddlewheel * paddle steamer * paddling * dog paddle * traffic paddleSee also
* oarVerb
- as the men were paddling for their lives
- while paddling ducks the standing lake desire
- Daytimes we paddled all over the island in the canoe
- to be paddling palms and pinching fingers.
Etymology 2
Recorded since 1530, probably cognate with Low German paddeln "to tramp about," frequent. of padjen "to tramp, to run in short steps," from pad (also in Dutch dialects)Verb
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."