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clipboard

noun

Etymology

From clip + board.

  1. derived from *bʰers-✻ — “tip, top”
  2. inherited from *burdą✻ — “board, plank; edge; table”
  3. inherited from *bord✻
  4. inherited from bord
  5. inherited from boord
  6. compounded as clipboard — “clip + board”

Definitions

  1. A flat piece of rigid material, such as card or plastic, with a clip at one end under…

    A flat piece of rigid material, such as card or plastic, with a clip at one end under which papers can be held.

  2. A buffer in memory where the user can store data temporarily while transferring it from…

    A buffer in memory where the user can store data temporarily while transferring it from one place within an application to another or between applications.

  3. To attach to a clipboard.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for clipboard. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA