clipper
剪板机,剪刀,剪子,剪报
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Definitions
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- : a person or thing that clips or cuts.
- : Often clippers. a cutting tool, especially shears: hedge clippers.
- : Usually clippers. a mechanical or electric tool for cutting hair, fingernails, or the like: He told the barber, “No clippers on the sides, please.”
- : Nautical.Also called clipper ship. a sailing ship built and rigged for speed, especially a type of three-masted ship with a fast hull form and a lofty rig, built in the U.S. from c1845, and in Great Britain from a later date, until c1870, and used in trades in which speed was more important than cargo capacity.
- : Electronics. a device that gives output only for an input above or below a certain critical value.
- : a person or thing that moves along swiftly.
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Examples
I was forced to shave with commonly used clippers for months.
I had been cut, unintentionally of course, with the clipper a few days ago.
We have to remain unshaven all week until Saturday or Sunday comes when we can shave with electric clippers, which several comrades have bought at the commissary for $38.
The pop star walked into a salon and asked the stylist to shave her head and when the stylist refused, Spears took the clippers and did it herself.
As a bonus, it has an extra-strong, long strap that you can secure around high chairs, as well as a back clipper for even more steadiness and advanced comfort.
I had an awful episode when I boiled two pounds of fresh broccoli in a plastic bag with the nail clipper for heat.
It turns out that a nail clipper, divided into two halves and hooked up directly into a power socket will boil water.
Los Angeles Clipper Chris Paul has a pair of $325 Barena Venezias.
He helped draft the Computer Security Act of 1987 and organized the campaign against the "Clipper" chip in 1994.
Then you graduated to clipper and finally to researcher—or fact-checker.
The vessel in which he found himself was not by any means what we should style clipper-built—quite the reverse.
The Rossie was a clipper, and he could run away from an enemy too strong to fight, though running away was not much to his taste.