Etymology
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clip + board
clipboard (plural clipboards)
- A flat piece of rigid material, such as card or plastic, with a clip at one end under which papers can be held.
- (computing) 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.
Alternative forms
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Translations
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in computing: buffer for temporary storage
- Arabic: حَافِظَة f (ḥāfiẓa)
- Azerbaijani: mübadilə buferi
- Catalan: porta-retalls m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 剪貼板/剪贴板 (zh) (jiǎntiēbǎn), 剪貼簿/剪贴簿 (zh) (jiǎntiēbù)
- Czech: schránka (cs) f
- Dutch: klembord (nl) n
- Esperanto: poŝo, tondujo, tondobufro
- Finnish: leikepöytä
- French: presse-papiers (fr) m
- Galician: portarretallos m
- Georgian: გაცვლის ბუფერი (gacvlis buperi)
- German: Zwischenablage f
- Greek: πρόχειρο (el) (prócheiro)
- Hungarian: vágólap (hu)
- Icelandic: klemmuspjald n
- Indonesian: papan klip, papan tempel, papan kerani
- Irish: gearrthaisce f
- Italian: appunti (it) m
- Japanese: クリップボード (ja) (kurippubōdo)
- Malay: papan klip, papan keratan, ڤاڤن کرتن (papan keratan), ڤاڤن کليڤ (papan klip)
- Maori: papatopenga
- Polish: schowek (pl) m
- Portuguese: área de transferência f
- Russian: бу́фер обме́на (ru) m (búfer obména), карма́н (ru) m (karmán)
- Serbo-Croatian: međuspremnik m, međumemorija (sh) f, ostava (sh) f
- Spanish: portapapeles m
- Swedish: urklipp (sv) n
- Thai: คลิปบอร์ด (th)
- Turkish: ara bellek (tr), ara hafıza
- Ukrainian: бу́фер о́бміну m (búfer óbminu)
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clipboard (third-person singular simple present clipboards, present participle clipboarding, simple past and past participle clipboarded)
- (transitive) To attach to a clipboard.