Clipper

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. One that cuts, shears, or clips.
  • n. An instrument or tool for cutting, clipping, or shearing. Often used in the plural: nail clippers.
  • n. Nautical A sharp-bowed sailing vessel of the mid-19th century, having tall masts and sharp lines and built for great speed.
  • n. One that moves very fast.
  • n. Electronics See limiter.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. Anything that clips.
  • n. A tool used for clipping something, such as hair, coins, or fingernails.
  • n. Something that moves swiftly; especially:
  • n. A circuit which prevents the amplitude of a wave from exceeding a set value.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. One who clips; specifically, one who clips off the edges of coins.
  • n. A machine for clipping hair, esp. the hair of horses.
  • n. A vessel with a sharp bow, built with a fast hull and tall sails, rigged for fast sailing, and used in trade where the cargo capacity was less important than the speed; -- called also clipper ship.
  • n. a circuit that limits the amplitude of a waveform.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. One who or that which clips; especially, one who reduces the size, value, or importance of anything by clipping it.
  • n. A cutting-tool of the nature of shears; specifically, a tool with rotating or reciprocating knives used for cutting hair, and especially for clipping horses. See clipping-shears.
  • n. A sailing vessel built with very sharp lines, more or less raking masts, and great spread of canvas, with a view to speed: a development of a model for the mercantile marine first built at Baltimore, U. S., and called the Baltimore clipper.
  • n. A person or an animal that runs swiftly, or looks as if capable of running swiftly; a very smart person; something first-rate.
  • n. An Australian bird of the genus Ephthianura: as, the wag-tail clipper, E. albïfrons.
  • n. The larva of species of Sialis, a genus of neuropterous insects, used for bait by anglers. Also called, in the United States, crawler, dobson, and hellgrammite.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. (electronics) a nonlinear electronic circuit whose output is limited in amplitude; used to limit the instantaneous amplitude of a waveform (to clip off the peaks of a waveform)
  • n. scissors for cutting hair or finger nails (often used in the plural)
  • n. shears for cutting grass or shrubbery (often used in the plural)
  • n. a fast sailing ship used in former times
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    electrical circuit    circuit    electric circuit    scissors    pair of scissors   
    Cross Reference
    Clipper chip   
    Variant
    clipper ship   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Dipper    Flipper    chipper    dipper    flipper   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    barque    whaling    three-masted    full-rigged    two-masted   
     
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