clipboard
clipboard noun: a flat piece of rigid material, such as card or plastic, with a clip at one end under which papers can be held.
Noun
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.
- 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.
Verb
clipboard (third-person singular simple present clipboards, present participle clipboarding, simple past and past participle clipboarded)
- To attach to a clipboard.
clipboard meaning in Tamil, Bengali, Gujarati and Arabic
clipboard in Tamil
- பிடிப்புப்பலகை, நகல் நினைவி, கவ்வுபலகை
clipboard in Bengali
- ক্লিপবোর্ড, ফলক
clipboard in Gujarati
- clipboard
- પાટિયું pāṭiyũ
clipboard in Arabic
- in computing: buffer for temporary storage
- حَافِظَة ḥāfiẓa
More languagesFewer languages
- clipboard in Malay
- papan klip, papan keratan
- clipboard in Indonesian
- papan kerani, papan klip, papan tempel
- clipboard in Persian
- کلیپ بورد kelip bord
- clipboard in Thai
- คลิปบอร์ด
- clipboard in Vietnamese
- bảng tạm
Forms of clipboard
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | clipboards |
| alternative form | clip board |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | clipboards |
| present participle | clipboarding |
| past participle | clipboarded |
| past | clipboarded |
Origin of clipboard
From clip + board.
Questions about clipboard
- What does clipboard mean?
- Clipboard means a flat piece of rigid material, such as card or plastic, with a clip at one end under which papers can be held.
- What is clipboard in Tamil?
- Clipboard in Tamil is பிடிப்புப்பலகை, நகல் நினைவி, கவ்வுபலகை. See Clipboard meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is clipboard?
- Clipboard can be a noun or a verb.
- What is the plural of clipboard?
- The plural of clipboard is clipboards.
Words near clipboard in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: clipboard (page history and authors); clipboard (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); clipboard (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); પાટિયું (Gujarati) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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