CLIPPER Synonyms

• cut with or as if with scissors

• an edge tool having two crossed pivoting blades

• a wrestling hold in which you wrap your legs around the opponents body or head and put your feet together and squeeze

• a gymnastic exercise performed on the pommel horse when the gymnast moves his legs as the blades of scissors move

• (physics) a deformation of an object in which parallel planes remain parallel but are shifted in a direction parallel to themselves

• a large edge tool that cuts sheet metal by passing a blade through it

• cut with shears

• shear the wool from

• cut or cut through with shears

• become deformed by forces tending to produce a shearing strain

• large scissors with strong blades

• a worker who thins out and trims trees and shrubs

• a machine that trims timber

• capacitor having variable capacitance; used for making fine adjustments

• joist that receives the end of a header in floor or roof framing in order to leave an opening for a staircase or chimney etc.

• Anything that clips.

• (chiefly in the plural) A tool used for clipping something, such as hair, coins, or fingernails.

• Something that moves swiftly; especially:

• The Asian butterfly Parthenos sylvia, family Nymphalidae.

• A circuit which prevents the amplitude of a wave from exceeding a set value.

• A person who mutilates coins by fraudulently paring the edges.

• Confidence trickster; conman.

• A tool for clipping something.

• (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)

• a fast sailing ship used in former times