different between clamp vs buckle

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /klæmp/
• Rhymes: -æmp

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch clamp, klampe (“a clamp, hook”), from Proto-Germanic *klamp? (“clamp, clasp, cramp”). Cognate with Middle Low German klampe (“hook, clasp”), German Klampfe, Klampe (“clamp, cleat”), Norwegian klamp (“clamp”), Alemannic German Chlempi.

Noun

clamp (plural clamps)

1. A brace, band, or clasp for strengthening or holding things together.
2. (medicine) An instrument used to temporarily shut off blood vessels, etc.
3. (Britain) A parking enforcement device used to immobilise a car until it can be towed or a fine is paid; a wheel clamp.
4. A mass of bricks heaped up to be burned; or of ore for roasting, or of coal coking.
5. A pile of agricultural produce such as root vegetables or silage stored under a layer of earth or an airtight sheet.
6. A piece of wood (batten) across the grain of a board end to keep it flat, as in a breadboard.
7. (electronics) An electronic circuit that fixes either the positive or the negative peak excursions of a signal to a defined value by shifting its DC value.

Derived terms

• clover clamp
• nipple clamp
• sliding clamp

Translations

References

Storage clamp on Wikipedia.Wikipedia Clamper (electronics) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Verb

clamp (third-person singular simple present clamps, present participle clamping, simple past and past participle clamped)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To fasten in place or together with (or as if with) a clamp.
   • 1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula Chapter 21

     As we burst into the room, the Count turned his face, and the hellish look that I had heard described seemed to leap into it. His eyes flamed red with devilish passion. The great nostrils of the white aquiline nose opened wide and quivered at the edge, and the white sharp teeth, behind the full lips of the blood dripping mouth, clamped together like those of a wild beast.

2. (transitive) To hold or grip tightly.
3. (transitive) To modify (a numeric value) so it lies within a specific range.
   • 2016, Jason Zink, Matt Pettineo, Jack Hoxley, Practical Rendering and Computation with Direct3D 11 (page 253)

     After the depth range is clamped, the depth value is read from the depth stencil buffer, and the two values are compared with a selectable depth-comparison function […]

4. (Britain, obsolete, transitive) To cover (vegetables, etc.) with earth.

Derived terms

• clamp down
• unclamp

Translations

See also

• clasp
• vise, vice

Etymology 2

Imitative.

Noun

clamp (plural clamps)

1. (dated) A heavy footstep; a tramp.

Verb

clamp (third-person singular simple present clamps, present participle clamping, simple past and past participle clamped)

1. (intransitive, dated) To tread heavily or clumsily; to clump or clomp.

   • the policeman with clamping feet

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?b?k(?)l/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?b?k(?)l/
• Homophone: buccal (one pronunciation)
• Rhymes: -?k?l

Etymology 1

From a frequentative form of buck (“to bend, buckle”), of Dutch Low Saxon or German Low German origin, related to Dutch bukken (“to stoop, bend, yield, submit”), German bücken (“to stoop, bend”), Swedish bocka (“to buck, bow”), equivalent to buck +? -le. Compare Middle Dutch buchelen (“to strive, tug under a load”), dialectal German aufbückeln (“to raise or arch the back”).

Verb

buckle (third-person singular simple present buckles, present participle buckling, simple past and past participle buckled)

1. (intransitive) To distort or collapse under physical pressure; especially, of a slender structure in compression.
   • 2012 October 31, David M. Halbfinger, "[1]," New York Times (retrieved 31 October 2012):

     Perhaps as startling as the sheer toll was the devastation to some of the state’s well-known locales. Boardwalks along the beach in Seaside Heights, Belmar and other towns on the Jersey Shore were blown away. Amusement parks, arcades and restaurants all but vanished. Bridges to barrier islands buckled, preventing residents from even inspecting the damage to their property.

2. (transitive) To make bend; to cause to become distorted.
3. (intransitive, figuratively) To give in; to react suddenly or adversely to stress or pressure (of a person).

   It is amazing that he has never buckled after so many years of doing such urgent work.

4. (intransitive) To yield; to give way; to cease opposing.
   • 1664, Samuel Pepys, diary entry December 15

     The Dutch, as high as they seem, do begin to buckle.

5. (obsolete, intransitive) To enter upon some labour or contest; to join in close fight; to contend.
   • 1549, Hugh Latimer, The Second Sermon preached before King Edward

     The bishop was as able and ready to buckle with the Lord Protector as he was with him.
6. To buckle down; to apply oneself.
   • 1700, Isaac Barrow, Of Industry in our particular Calling, as Scholars

     To make our sturdy humour buckle thereto.

   • December 6, 1838, James David Forbes, letter to J. T. Harrison, Esq.

     Before buckling to my winter's work.

   • Cartwright buckled himself to the employment.

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English bokel (“spiked metal ring for holding a belt, etc”), from Old French boucle, bocle (“"boss (of a shield)" then "shield," later "buckle, metal ring”), from Latin buccula (“cheek strap of a helmet”), diminutive of bucca (“cheek”).

Noun

buckle (plural buckles)

1. (countable) A clasp used for fastening two things together, such as the ends of a belt, or for retaining the end of a strap.
2. (Canada, heraldry) The brisure of an eighth daughter.
3. (roofing) An upward, elongated displacement of a roof membrane frequently occurring over insulation or deck joints. A buckle may be an indication of movement with the roof assembly.
4. A distortion, bulge, bend, or kink, as in a saw blade or a plate of sheet metal.

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5. A curl of hair, especially a kind of crisp curl formerly worn; also, the state of being curled.

   • ear-locks in tight buckles on each side of a long lanthorn face

   • lets his wig lie in buckle for a whole half year

6. A contorted expression, as of the face.
   • 1763, Charles Churchill, The Ghost

     'Gainst nature arm'd by gravity, / His features too in buckle see.

Translations

Verb

buckle (third-person singular simple present buckles, present participle buckling, simple past and past participle buckled)

1. (transitive) To fasten using a buckle.
2. (Scotland) To unite in marriage.

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Translations

See also

• buckle down
• buckle to
• buckle up
• turnbuckle
• sun kink (buckle in railway track)

Anagrams

• Lubeck, Lübeck