clipperとは 意味・読み方・使い方

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名詞

clipper (複数形 clippers)

1. Anything that clips.
2. (chiefly in the plural) A tool used for clipping something, such as hair, coins, or fingernails.
3. Something that moves swiftly; especially:
   1. (nautical) Any of several forms of very fast sailing ships having a long, low hull and a sharply raked stem.
   2. (informal) An Alberta clipper.
4. (entomology) The Asian butterfly Parthenos sylvia, family Nymphalidae.
5. (electronics) A circuit which prevents the amplitude of a wave from exceeding a set value.
6. (historical) A person who mutilates coins by fraudulently paring the edges.
   • 1599, William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act IV, scene i]:

     Indeed, the French may lay twenty French crowns to one, they will beat us; for they bear them on their shoulders: but it is no English treason to cut French crowns, and to-morrow the king himself will be a clipper.

   • 1781, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The School for Scandal, London: J. Bew, Act II, p. 21,^[1]

     Many a wretch who has been drawn upon a hurdle, has done less mischief than those barterers of forged lies, coiners of scandal, and clippers of reputation.

   • 2010, James Morrow, The Last Witchfinder

     Surtouts billowing in an unseasonably fierce wind, the ursine Chelmsford magistrate and his equally bulky constable herded their bound prisoners – three murderers, three thieves, a coin clipper, two convicted witches – across the Common […]

7. (slang) A confidence trickster; a conman.
   • 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 16, in Vanity Fair, London: Bradbury and Evans  […], published 1848, OCLC 3174108:

     "You have head enough for both of us, Beck," said he. "You're sure to get us out of the scrape. I never saw your equal, and I've met with some clippers in my time too."

派生語

派生した語

• Dutch: (航海) klipper, klipperaak m or f

参考

• Clipper chip

動詞

clipper (三人称単数 現在形 clippers, 現在分詞 clippering, 過去形および過去分詞形 clippered)

1. (transitive) To cut or style (the hair) using clippers.
   • 2020 November 16, Dave Finlay, “Killer sliced open inmate's face while serving life for murdering dad and cutting up body”, in Glasgow Live‎^[2]:

     Rocks was having his hair clippered by another prisoner when Collins calmly walked past and sliced open the side of his face without breaking his stride.

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アナグラム

• cripple