Trimmer vs Clipper - What's the difference?
trimmer | clipper |
(trim)
One who trims, arranges, fits, or ornaments.
A device used to trim.
(nautical) a member of the crew who trims the sails.
Someone who fluctuates between opposing factions, political parties etc., according to current interest.
* 1848 , (Baron Macaulay), History of England , I.2:
* 2011 , Thomas Penn, Winter King , Penguin 2012, p. 9:
(architecture) A beam into which are framed the ends of headers in floor framing, as when a hole is to be left for stairs, or to avoid bringing joists near chimneys.
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 trimmer and clipper
is that trimmer is one who trims, arranges, fits, or ornaments while clipper is anything that clips.As an adjective trimmer
is (trim).trimmer
English
Adjective
(head)Noun
(en noun)- Thus Halifax was a Trimmer on principle.
- Lady Margaret Beaufort's third husband, Lord Stanley, an accomplished political trimmer , gave fair words but little commitment: the vast, well-armed Stanley retinues shadowed Henry's route southeast to the battlefield and waited, detached, to see how the chips fell.
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
