Pincer vs Clipper - What's the difference?
pincer | clipper |
(Of an attack) See pincer attack
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.
As nouns the difference between pincer and clipper
is that pincer is any object that resembles one half of a pair of pincers while clipper is anything that clips.As an adjective pincer
is (Of an attack) See pincer attack.pincer
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Derived terms
* pincer attackAdjective
(-)Anagrams
* ----clipper
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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