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Answer for the clue "Writer's aid ", 9 letters:
clipboard
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Word definitions for clipboard in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
clipboard \clipboard\ n. a small writing board with a clip attached at the top for holding papers.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
The clipboard is a software facility used for short-term data storage and/or data transfer between documents or applications, via copy and paste operations. It is most commonly a part of a GUI environment and is usually implemented as an anonymous, temporary ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1904, from clip (n.1) + board (n.1). Portable board with a hinged clip at the top to hold papers.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a small writing board with a clip at the top for holding papers
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A flat piece of rigid material, such as card or plastic, with a clip at one end under which papers can be held. 2 (context computing English) A buffer in memory where the user can store data temporarily while transferring it from one place within an ...
Usage examples of clipboard.
There had been many accents, and the officer with the clipboard had yet another.
Fromm picked up the clipboard with the scanlite-station checkoff chart, and marked three tiny squares with his initials, almost without looking.
Buick from stem to stern, the young people dusting and brushing and snapping pictures, Bibi with a clipboard, walking around and sometimes pointing wordlessly at something with his ballpoint pen.
The man struck him as a bit of a fussbudget, with his clipboard in one hand and pencil shifted awkwardly back and forth between handshakes.
He hates to type and keeps his tallies via pencil and clipboard a la deLint.
The men came out of all the stacks with clipboards and pencils, sweat and curiosity, leers for Mallory, and puffs of cigarette smoke.
Pulling out her clipboard, she got ready to discuss the rebar with him.
We walk around the factory with clipboards checking things off as they arrive and are attached to the overall structure.
He brushed past the Director and the Lab Coat Man, past open cardboard boxes that contained their extra supplies, including clipboards, paper, and lab coats still wrapped in plastic.
Mikel Murga, clipboard in hand, observed a grim-faced sergeant questioning the young occupants of a stopped pickup truck.
The penguins ignored him, peering down at the clipboard held by the largest penguin.
He handed over a clipboard with questionnaires designed for the simplest of readers.
Finally Ratface came up with a clipboard reading aloud what he said were twenty-two infringements.
He made his way quickly to the sensor nacelle, after first stopping by his cabin to pick up a Berthing and Workspace Sanitary Inspection Module for his clipboard.
He was running the trolley backwards and forwards on its casters, when an older man in a green apron carrying a clipboard called from behind a marble-topped washstand, 'So, how's Clara getting on with the house?