What's the difference between clipper and wave?

Clipper


Definition:

  • (n.) One who clips; specifically, one who clips off the edges of coin.
  • (n.) A machine for clipping hair, esp. the hair of horses.
  • (n.) A vessel with a sharp bow, built and rigged for fast sailing.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The marquee event on Thursday, considering recent off the court events, was the sixth game between the Los Angeles Clippers.
  • (2) Sterling has faced previous accusations of racism related to the Clippers and his property empire.
  • (3) The Clippers rallied at the end of the period, outscoring the Thunder 8-0 to take a 90-86 lead.
  • (4) Early on in the speech, Ballmer quickly dismissed speculation that he planned to move the team to Seattle and made it clear that the team would be keeping the Clippers name .
  • (5) The Thunder, who seemed in perfect position to take a commanding 3-1 series lead until the game's final minutes instead find themselves tied 2-2 with an incredibly talented Clippers team that has luck, momentum and even public sentiment on its side.
  • (6) Frankie Muniz Frankie Muniz (@frankiemuniz) I am buying the Los Angeles Clippers .
  • (7) Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling lied about the tape recording of his racist rant in a bungled attempt to neutralise the controversy, according to the National Basketball Association.
  • (8) The funniest hairstyle I’ve ever had The time I tried to give myself a touch-up with clippers and shaved out a whole tuft of hair.
  • (9) He has about as much of a chance of becoming the new Clippers owner as Tim Donaghy does of officiating in the NBA Finals.
  • (10) Durant’s Thunder team-mate Russell Westbrook and Blake Griffin of the Los Angeles Clippers also withdrew because of health concerns.
  • (11) Griffin fouled out with 2:27 left, but the Clippers got within four points in the final minute before Westbrook and Durant hit free throws to close it out.
  • (12) Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban, who had earlier expressed reservations about forcing Sterling to sell the Clippers , said he supported Silver's actions "100%" and posted a photo of the NBA's constitution on Instagram with the caption: "It exists for a reason."
  • (13) Messages seeking comment from the Clippers were not immediately returned.
  • (14) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Craig Hodges Age: 53 Former NBA teams: Clippers, Bucks, Suns, Bulls Chicago’s former three-point specialist is the only member of the roster to sue the NBA .
  • (15) A random cross-section of hip-hop icons Dr Dre, Diddy and Rick Ross have all expressed interest in the Clippers, it seems that Jay Z's brief run as a (very) partial owner the Brooklyn Nets has started a trend.
  • (16) It was a rough break for the Golden State Warriors, particularly head coach Mark Jackson whose job probably won't survive the first round exit, as it looked like they were given new life in this series as the Clippers, reacting to the racist rants of their own Donald Sterling, played Game 4 under protest, which unsurprisingly lead to a blowout Warriors win.
  • (17) It’s just a question of how soon and with how much mess.” The Clippers, for years a struggling team, have been enjoying a strong season.
  • (18) Earvin “Magic” Johnson, the former NBA star who was the subject of some of Sterling’s remarks, said on Twitter: “Commissioner Silver showed great leadership in banning LA Clippers owner Donald Sterling for life.” The real estate mogul’s punishment was announced almost four days after he was heard on a recording released by TMZ telling his mistress, V Stiviano, to stop bringing black guests to Clippers games.
  • (19) Facebook Twitter Pinterest This is the exact moment that Blake Griffin and the Los Angeles Clippers essentially ended the Los Angeles Lakers season Joakim Noah doesn’t do “rebuilding” Despite losing Derrick Rose and Luol Deng, the Chicago Bulls have kept on fighting and kept on winning.
  • (20) Two sponsors have suspended ties with the Los Angeles Clippers, amid mounting pressure on the team and basketball authorities to banish owner Donald Sterling from the sport over alleged racist comments .

Wave


Definition:

  • (v. t.) See Waive.
  • (v. i.) To play loosely; to move like a wave, one way and the other; to float; to flutter; to undulate.
  • (v. i.) To be moved to and fro as a signal.
  • (v. i.) To fluctuate; to waver; to be in an unsettled state; to vacillate.
  • (v. t.) To move one way and the other; to brandish.
  • (v. t.) To raise into inequalities of surface; to give an undulating form a surface to.
  • (v. t.) To move like a wave, or by floating; to waft.
  • (v. t.) To call attention to, or give a direction or command to, by a waving motion, as of the hand; to signify by waving; to beckon; to signal; to indicate.
  • (v. i.) An advancing ridge or swell on the surface of a liquid, as of the sea, resulting from the oscillatory motion of the particles composing it when disturbed by any force their position of rest; an undulation.
  • (v. i.) A vibration propagated from particle to particle through a body or elastic medium, as in the transmission of sound; an assemblage of vibrating molecules in all phases of a vibration, with no phase repeated; a wave of vibration; an undulation. See Undulation.
  • (v. i.) Water; a body of water.
  • (v. i.) Unevenness; inequality of surface.
  • (v. i.) A waving or undulating motion; a signal made with the hand, a flag, etc.
  • (v. i.) The undulating line or streak of luster on cloth watered, or calendered, or on damask steel.
  • (v. i.) Fig.: A swelling or excitement of thought, feeling, or energy; a tide; as, waves of enthusiasm.
  • (n.) Woe.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Arterial compliance of great vessels can be studied through the Doppler evaluation of pulsed wave velocity along the arterial tree.
  • (2) This suggested that the chemical effects produced by shock waves were either absent or attenuated in the cells, or were inherently less toxic than those of ionizing irradiation.
  • (3) During the performance of propulsive waves of the oesophagus the implanted vagus nerve caused clonic to tetanic contractions of the sternohyoid muscle, thus proving the oesophagomotor genesis of the reinnervating nerve fibres.
  • (4) In patients with coronary artery disease, electrocardiographic signs of left atrial enlargement (LAE-negative P wave deflection greater than or equal to 1 mm2 in lead V1) are associated with increased left ventricular end diastolic pressure (LVEDP).
  • (5) The water is embossed with small waves and it has a chill glassiness which throws light back up at the sky.
  • (6) The examination of the standard waves' amplitude and latency of the brain stem auditory evoked response (BAEP) was performed in 20 guinea pigs (males and females, weighing 250 to 300 g).
  • (7) The amplitudes of the a-wave and the 01 decreased in dose-dependent manners, but their changes were less striking than those of the 01 latency.
  • (8) Enzymatic activity per gram of urinary creatinine was consistently but not significantly higher before extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy than in control subjects.
  • (9) It is the route the authorities are now adopting, after the wave of taxpayer bailouts in2008-09.
  • (10) Paired tolbutamide and glucose infusions using a square wave technique demonstrated that although early phase insulin secretion is dimished in the fetus, this is not due to an absolute deficiency of stored insulin.
  • (11) It was shown that gradual recovery of spike wave patterns occurred from initial water swallowing to successive dry swalllowing.
  • (12) Total abolition of the CR ensued when the wave of CSD reached the motor (frontal) cortex and again was independent of the CS modality.
  • (13) One thousand singleton low-risk pregnancies were cross-sectionally studied at 36-40 weeks gestation with continuous-wave Doppler ultrasonography in order to assess its usefulness as an antepartum monitoring technique for the identification of fetuses at risk of developing an adverse outcome.
  • (14) Yet in 4 patients in whom no aortic late systolic pressure wave was apparent (group II), nitroprusside did not alter the difference between aortic and radial systolic pressures.
  • (15) Alternatively, try the Hawaii Fish O nights, every Friday from 26 July until the end of August, featuring a one-hour paddleboard lesson, followed by a fish-and-chip supper looking out over the waves you've just battled (£16.75).
  • (16) F-wave latency was consistently increased in the affected hands of the patients, compared with results from the unaffected and control hands.
  • (17) The b-wave in the ERG was lacking and the EOG was flat.
  • (18) In only six patients (14%) the ventricular tachycardia was initiated by an ectopic ventricular complex interrupting the T wave.
  • (19) Analysis of official registers reveals the 38 companies in the first wave of the initiative – more than two-thirds of which are based overseas – have collectively had 698 face-to-face meetings with ministers under the current government, prompting accusations of an over-cosy relationship between corporations and ministers.
  • (20) The following results were obtained: 1) In normal subjects, the changes in ABR waveforms according to the changes of the rise-time, interstimulus interval and frequency of the stimulus were mainly attributed to component wave C. 2) In patients with central disorders, component wave C were initially affected.

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