What's the difference between clamper and clapper?
Clamper
Definition:
(n.) An instrument of iron, with sharp prongs, attached to a boot or shoe to enable the wearer to walk securely upon ice; a creeper.
Example Sentences:
(1) Bellfield, a former nightclub doorman and wheel clamper, already has convictions for the murder of Amelie Delagrange, 22, a French student, and gap-year student Marsha McDonnell, 19, and the attempted murder of Kate Sheedy, 18, head girl at a convent school.
(2) As the review stated, the car park complies with regulations, and its owner, ER Evans, has asked us to make clear that he has never clamped a vehicle for being a minute late or an inch out of a designated parking bay ( The Yorkshire Clamper , 5 September, page 38).
(3) The good news is that the same act has outlawed the scourge of wheel clamping without legal authorisation; the bad is that this could make cowboy clampers more aggressive in their pursuit of revenue from parking tickets, and there are no rules capping the amount they can charge.
(4) ; the miracle diet pill; cowboy clampers; dirty NHS hospital shame; plus: Cheryl – "I'll quit X-Factor to have a baby".
(5) A bill to change the law around parents of children involved in antisocial behaviour, reducing the need for some stop-and-search forms; introducing age ratings for video games; retrospective powers to take DNA samples in "cold" violent and serious crime cases from before 2004; licensing for wheel clampers.
Clapper
Definition:
(n.) A person who claps.
(n.) That which strikes or claps, as the tongue of a bell, or the piece of wood that strikes a mill hopper, etc. See Illust. of Bell.
(n.) A rabbit burrow.
Example Sentences:
(1) At the end of the hearing Trump pointed to the testimony of James Clapper, the former director of national intelligence, claiming that Clapper had “reiterated what everybody, including the fake media already knows – there is ‘no evidence’ of collusion with Russia and Trump”.
(2) What did us in here, what worked against us was this shocking revelation,” Clapper said .
(3) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Pinterest close 6.29pm GMT Clapper is back before the House intelligence community, answering questions from chairman Mike Rogers.
(4) Updated at 8.30pm GMT 8.18pm GMT Clapper says NSA has spent thousands of man-hours cleaning up after the Snowden revelations , which he calls "a major distraction."
(5) At a hearing of the Senate intelligence committee In March this year , Democratic senator Ron Wyden asked James Clapper, the director of national intelligence: "Does the NSA collect any type of data at all on millions or hundreds of millions of Americans?"
(6) Robert Litt, the general counsel to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, has written to the New York Times to deny the allegation that James Clapper, the director of national intelligence, lied to Congress about the collection of bulk phone records by the National Security Agency (NSA).
(7) Clapper has since admitted that was the "least untruthful" answer he could have given.
(8) Director of national intelligence James Clapper said the Guardian and Washington Post had failed to adequately convey how much constitutional oversight the programme received.
(9) "In this important report, the PCLOB confirms that Section 702 has shown its value in preventing acts of terrorism at home and abroad, and pursuing other foreign intelligence goals," Director of National Intelligence James Clapper said in a Wednesday statement, adding that he would take the board's privacy concerns "very seriously."
(10) Anyone who is in the intelligence community would understand what Clapper said as there being no wiretap targeting of Trump or his campaign,” Todd Hinnen, a former acting assistant attorney general for national security at the justice department, said.
(11) 5.44pm GMT "We welcome this opportunity to make the case to the public," Clapper says.
(12) Clapper’s defenders have said that Wyden placed the director in an untenable position by publicly querying him about a secret program, making his options either to lie or to decline to answer publicly, which they say would amount to public confirmation of a secret intelligence activity.
(13) Clapper added: "Iran's willingness to sponsor future attacks in the United States or against our interests abroad probably will be shaped by Tehran's evaluation of the costs it bears for the plot against the ambassador as well as Iranian leaders' perceptions of US threats against the regime."
(14) The White House has consistently defended Clapper against calls for his job.
(15) Clapper: "The conduct of intelligence is premised on the notion that we can do it secretly."
(16) James Clapper , the director of national intelligence, is said to talk nearly every day with the head of US Central Command’s intelligence wing, Army Major General Steven Grove – “which is highly, highly unusual”, according to a former intelligence official.
(17) Clapper's spokesman, Shawn Turner, did not respond to a request for comment on Clapper's continued service as director of national intelligence.
(18) And after months of private entreaties to clarify a public comment made by NSA director Keith Alexander in 2012, Wyden asked James Clapper, the director of national intelligence, if the NSA was collecting data on millions of Americans.
(19) Leahy, joined by ranking Republican Chuck Grassley of Iowa, criticised director of national intelligence James Clapper for making untruthful statements to Congress in March about the bulk phone records collection on Americans, and NSA director Keith Alexander for overstating the usefulness of that collection for stopping terrorist attacks.
(20) Clapper in particular has claimed to make it a priority.