different between steamboat vs clipper

English

Etymology

steam +? boat

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?stim?bo?t/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /?sti?m?b??t/

Noun

steamboat (countable and uncountable, plural steamboats)

1. A boat or vessel propelled by steam power.

   Synonyms: steamer, steamship

   • 1870, Mark Twain, Life on the Mississippi, Chapter 3.

     By and by the steamboat intruded. Then for fifteen or twenty years, these men continued to run their keelboats down-stream, and the steamers did all of the upstream business, the keelboatmen selling their boats in New Orleans, and returning home as deck passengers in the steamers.

2. (uncountable, Singapore, Malaysia) Hot pot (Chinese dish).

Derived terms

• Steamboat Springs

Descendants

• ? Dutch: stoomboot (calque)

Translations

Verb

steamboat (third-person singular simple present steamboats, present participle steamboating, simple past and past participle steamboated)

1. To travel by steamboat.

Further reading

• steamboat on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• boat mates, boatmates

English

Etymology

From Middle Dutch klepper and Middle English clippen, from Old English clyppan, from Proto-Germanic *klupjan?.

Pronunciation

Noun

clipper (plural 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.
   • c. 1598, William Shakespeare, Henry V, Act IV, Scene 1,^[1]

     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,^[2]

     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) Confidence trickster; conman.
   • 1848, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair, Chapter 16:

     "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."

Derived terms

• Alberta clipper

Descendants

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

Translations

See also

• Clipper chip

References

Anagrams

• cripple

French

Etymology

From English clipper

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kli.pœ?/

Noun

clipper m (plural clippers)

1. (nautical) heavy sailing ship
2. (aviation) transatlantic airplane

References

• Nouveau Petit Larousse illustré. Dictionnaire encyclopédique. Paris, Librairie Larousse, 1952, 146th edition

Further reading

• “clipper” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).