Crossword clues for clipboard
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
clipboard \clipboard\ n. a small writing board with a clip attached at the top for holding papers.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
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 application to another or between applications.
WordNet
n. a small writing board with a clip at the top for holding papers
Wikipedia
A clipboard is a thin, rigid board with a clip at the top for holding paper in place. A clipboard is typically used to support paper with one hand while writing on it with the other, especially when other writing surfaces are not available. The earliest forms were patented in 1870-71 and referred to as board clips.1 Related to the clipboard is the Shannon Arch File, which was developed around 1877.2
Another use that was typical before the era of personal computers (which brought about word processing and computer graphics) was to hold pieces of text and art that had been clipped with scissors from one sheet of paper to be pasted with paste onto another sheet. This use provided the analogy and terminology for computer clipboards.
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 data buffer, sometimes called the paste buffer, that can be accessed from most or all programs within the environment via defined programming interfaces. A typical application accesses clipboard functionality by mapping user input (keybindings, menu selections, etc.) to these interfaces.
Clipboard managers are applications that enable the user to manipulate the clipboard.
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?