name
Meaning 1
A surname from German.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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Standard Lemma guide
clipper
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
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Pronunciation
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Australian, Received-Pronunciation: /ˈklɪp.ə/
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Australian, Received-Pronunciation: [ˈkhl̥ɪp.ə]
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Canadian, General-American, Standard: /ˈklɪp.ɚ/
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Canadian, General-American, Standard: [ˈkhl̥ɪp.ɚ] ~ [ˈkhl̥ɪp.ɹ̩]
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rhymes with -ɪpə(ɹ)
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CMU ARPABET: K L IH1 P ER0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
name
Meaning 2
An unincorporated community in Whatcom County, Washington, United States.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 3
Anything or anyone that clips.
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noun
Meaning 4
A tool used for clipping something, such as hair, coins, or fingernails.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: in-plural
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noun
Meaning 5
Something that moves swiftly; especially:
Any of several forms of very fast sailing ships having a long, low hull and a sharply raked stem.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: nautical, transport
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noun
Meaning 6
Something that moves swiftly; especially:
An Alberta clipper.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: informal
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noun
Meaning 7
An Asian butterfly of species Parthenos sylvia, family Nymphalidae.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: biology, entomology, natural-sciences
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noun
Meaning 8
A circuit which prevents the amplitude of a wave from exceeding a set value.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: business, electrical-engineering, electricity, electromagnetism, electronics, energy, engineering, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, physics
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noun
Meaning 9
A person who mutilates coins by fraudulently paring the edges.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: historical
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noun
Meaning 10
A confidence trickster; a conman.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: slang
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noun
Meaning 11
Anything showy or first-rate.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete, slang
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verb
Meaning 12
To cut or style (the hair) using clippers.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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noun
Meaning 13
scissors for cutting hair or finger nails (often used in the plural)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: scissors, pair of scissors
noun
Meaning 14
shears for cutting grass or shrubbery (often used in the plural)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: shears
noun
Meaning 15
a fast sailing ship used in former times
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: clipper ship
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Broader terms: sailing vessel, sailing ship
noun
Meaning 16
(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)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- a limiter introduces amplitude distortion
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: limiter
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: circuit, electrical circuit, electric circuit
History
Etymology
Americanized spelling of German Klipper.
From Middle English clipper, equivalent to clip (“cut, shorten”) + -er (suffix forming agent nouns). The type of sailing ship is probably also from clip, in the sense of “move or run rapidly”. Perhaps influenced by Middle Dutch klepper (“swift horse”), from kleppen (“to clap”), which is onomatopoeic.
Across languages
Translations
33 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Finnish: leikkuri — anything that clips
- Russian: куса́чки (kusáčki) — anything that clips
- Afrikaans: klipper — fast sailing ship
- Armenian: կլիպեր (kliper) — fast sailing ship
- Belarusian: кліпер (klipjer) — fast sailing ship
- Bulgarian: клипер (kliper) — fast sailing ship
- Catalan: clíper — fast sailing ship
- Chinese Mandarin: 飞剪式帆船 — fast sailing ship
- Czech: klipr — fast sailing ship
- Danish: klipper — fast sailing ship
- Dutch: klipper — fast sailing ship
- Esperanto: klipero — fast sailing ship
- Finnish: klipperi — fast sailing ship
- French: clipper — fast sailing ship
- German: Klipper — fast sailing ship
- Hebrew: קְלִיפֶּר (klipper) — fast sailing ship
- Hungarian: klipper — fast sailing ship
- Icelandic: klippari — fast sailing ship
- Ido: klipero — fast sailing ship
- Indonesian: kliper — fast sailing ship
- Japanese: クリッパー (kurippā) — fast sailing ship
- Korean: 클리퍼 (keullipeo) — fast sailing ship
- Macedonian: клипер (kliper) — fast sailing ship
- Norwegian Bokmål: klipper — fast sailing ship
- Norwegian Nynorsk: klipper — fast sailing ship
- Polish: kliper — fast sailing ship
- Portuguese: clíper — fast sailing ship
- Romanian: cliper — fast sailing ship
- Russian: кли́пер (klíper) — fast sailing ship
- Slovak: kliper — fast sailing ship
- Spanish: clíper — fast sailing ship
- Swedish: klipperskepp — fast sailing ship
- Ukrainian: кліпер (kliper) — fast sailing ship
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