Crossword clues for clipper
clipper
- Three-masted ship
- The Cutty Sark, for one
- See 52-Across
- (electronics) a circuit whose output is limited which serves to limits the amplitude of a waveform or clip off the peaks
- Scissors for cutting hair or finger nails
- A fast sailing ship used in former times
- Shears for cutting grass or shrubbery
- Yankee follower
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Clipper \Clip"per\ (kl[i^]p"p[~e]r), n.
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One who clips; specifically, one who clips off the edges of coins.
The value is pared off from it into the clipper's pocket.
--Locke. A machine for clipping hair, esp. the hair of horses.
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(Naut.) 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. -- Clip"per-built`, a.
Note: The name was first borne by ``Baltimore clippers'' famous as privateers in the early wars of the United States.
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(Electronics) a circuit that limits the amplitude of a waveform. Syn: limiter. Yankee Clipper,
a clipper ship built in the United States. See clipper[3].
Joe DiMaggio; -- a nickname for the player who was a prominent member of the New York Yankees baseball team in the 1940's.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., "sheepshearer;" early 15c., "a barber;" c.1300 as a surname; agent noun from Middle English clippen "shorten" (see clip (v.1)). The type of fast sailing ship so called from 1823 (in Cooper's "The Pilot"), probably from clip (v.1) in sense of "to move or run rapidly," hence early 19c. sense "person or animal who looks capable of fast running." Perhaps originally simply "fast ship," regardless of type:\n\nWell, you know, the Go-along-Gee was one o' your flash Irish cruisers -- the first o' your fir-built frigates -- and a clipper she was! Give her a foot o' the sheet, and she'd go like a witch
--but somehow o'nother, she'd bag on a bowline to leeward.
["Naval Sketch-Book," by "An officer of rank," London, 1826]
\nThe early association of the ships was with Baltimore, Maryland. Perhaps influenced by Middle Dutch klepper "swift horse," echoic (Clipper appears as the name of an English race horse in 1831). In late 18c., the word principally meant "one who cuts off the edges of coins" for the precious metal.Wiktionary
n. 1 Anything that clips. 2 (context chiefly in the plural English) A tool used for clipping something, such as hair, coins, or fingernails. 3 Something that moves swiftly; especially: 4 # (context nautical English) Any of several forms of very fast sailing ships having a long, low hull and a sharply raked stem. 5 # (context informal English) An Alberta clipper. 6 (context electronics English) A circuit which prevents the amplitude of a wave from exceeding a set value.
WordNet
n. (electronics) an 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); "a limiter introduces amplitude distortion" [syn: limiter]
a fast sailing ship used in former times [syn: clipper ship]
shears for cutting grass or shrubbery [syn: clippers]
scissors for cutting hair or finger nails [syn: clippers]
Wikipedia
Clipper is a xBase compiler, which is a computer programming language, that is used to create software programs that originally operated primarily under DOS. Although it is a powerful general-purpose programming language, it was primarily used to create database/business programs.
A clipper is a 19th-century fast sailing ship with three masts and a square rig.
Clipper may also refer to:
Clipper is a nickname for:
- Clipper Flynn (1849–1881), American professional baseball player
- Felipe Montemayor (born 1928), Mexican player in Major League Baseball
- John "Clipper" Smith (1904–1973), American football player, coach and college athletics administrator; member of the College Football Hall of Fame
- Maurice J. "Clipper" Smith (1898–1984), American football player and coach of football, basketball and baseball
A clipper was a very fast sailing ship of the middle third of the 19th century. They were fast, yacht-like vessels, with three masts and a square rig. They were generally narrow for their length, could carry limited bulk freight, small by later 19th century standards, and had a large total sail area. Clipper ships were mostly constructed in British and American shipyards, though France, Brazil, the Netherlands and other nations also produced some. Clippers sailed all over the world, primarily on the trade routes between the United Kingdom and its colonies in the east, in trans- Atlantic trade, and the New York-to-San Francisco route round Cape Horn during the California Gold Rush. Dutch clippers were built beginning in the 1850s for the tea trade and passenger service to Java.
The boom years of the clipper ship era began in 1843 as a result of a growing demand for a more rapid delivery of tea from China. It continued under the stimulating influence of the discovery of gold in California and Australia in 1848 and 1851, and ended with the opening of the Suez Canal in 1869.
A clipping circuit consists of linear elements like resistors and non-linear elements like junction diodes or transistors, but it does not contain energy-storage elements like capacitors. Clipping circuits are used to select for purposes of transmission, that part of a signal wave form which lies above or below a certain reference voltage level.
Thus a clipper circuit can remove certain portions of an arbitrary waveform near the positive or negative peaks. Clipping may be achieved either at one level or two levels. Usually under the section of clipping, there is a change brought about in the wave shape of the signal.
Clipping circuits are also called slicers, amplitude selectors or limiters.
Clipper is the brand name of a type of refillable butane lighter, designed by Enric Sardà and owned by Flamagas S.A. since 1959.
The lighters are mostly produced in Barcelona ( Spain), while others are manufactured in Chennai ( India) and Shanghai ( China). Clipper has a wide range of lighters, gas refills and other accessories. The first Clipper lighter was made in 1972, and now the worldwide level of production is around 450 million units a year.
The Clipper brand is a division of Flamagas S.A., which also distributes stationery and electronics for such brands as Casio and Daewoo. Flamagas S.A. is headed by Puig, and both companies are subsidiaries of the Exea Corporation.
Clipper was the name of an early steam car built in Grand Rapids, Michigan in 1902.
The Clipper Steam car evolved from the Michigan Steam that was built before in Grand Rapids. It was nearly identical to the design developed by Cartercar Byron C. Carter'. The Clipper was developed by Elmer Pratt. His plan was to take over the old Clipper bicycle plant in Grand Rapids and to combine the good reputation of these vehicles with the steam car.
Pratt renamed the Michigan Automobile Company the Clipper Automobile Company. Funded with a stock capital of $400,000, it failed.
Usage examples of "clipper".
He threw the fingernail clippers across the room and charged at Bollinger with such fury that he surprised even Stenner.
Curiously, there was little to indicate that he spent most of his working days on or under the sea, except for a primitive painting of a clipper ship and a few other sailing vessels, a photo of his catboat under full sail and a glass-encased model of his racing hydroplane.
The design was the one called Chesapeake Bay bugeye, which meant that she had a flat bottom, a centerboard, a rakish clipper bow, and the masts slanted back at a dashing angle.
The rads sourly disparaged the Grange Head Clipper, which featured mostly commodities prices, along with bickering among candidates in upcoming elections, to be held in a month, on Farsun Day.
The laws against coiners and clippers are only severe with regard to these particular coins, as the Government has special reasons for not wishing them to be depreciated.
Her dark scalp was gristled with the sandpapery nubbins the clippers had left behind.
Meanwhile, at every session of the Old Bailey the most terrible example of coiners and clippers was made.
Between the starships, tall junks and clippers tacked in or out of the harbor and both branches of the river, and among them feluccas darted, their sails like the fins of a shoal of sharks.
She had two masts and all the sails and rigging of an ordinary clipper, which would enable her to take advantage of every favorable wind, though her chief reliance was on her mechanical power.
Alongside them were clippers of all sizes, steamers of all nationalities, and the steamboats, with several decks rising one above the other, which ply on the Sacramento and its tributaries.
While college students marched against the war, Calliope protested against hair clippers.
The very house of Israel herself, the very Mint-house, Tower Hill, and Lombard Street of Israel herself, was full of false coiners and clippers of the promises.
The extraordinary anatomies, the dreaming spires of heads, the scales, the skirts, the claws, the clippers.
Meanwhile evidence of the scheme from Gornt's papers, and notice that the Victoria would not be supporting the deal any longer, had to be rushed by clipper to Washington to the right hands which would make interception probable--without the Bank's backing there was no sugar to barter for cotton or for armaments.
Through a grove of mangroves they reached the bank of the creek on which the barracoons had been built and in the centre of the stream, her bare masts and yards silhouetted against the starry sky, lay the lovely clipper.