clipboard

English

a clipboard (flat piece of rigid material)

Etymology

clip +‎ board

Noun

clipboard (plural clipboards)

1. A flat piece of rigid material, such as card or plastic, with a clip at one end under which papers can be held.
2. (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.

Translations

physical object

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 剪貼板 (cmn), 剪贴板 (cmn) (jiǎntiēbǎn)

• Czech: please add this translation if you can
• Dutch: klembord (nl) n
• Esperanto: poŝo, tondujo
• Finnish: leikepöytä
• French: planchette à pince (fr) m
• German: Klemmbrett (de) n
• Hungarian: csíptetős írómappa (hu)

• Icelandic: skrifbretti (is) n
• Irish: fáisc-chlár (ga) m
• Italian: portablocco (it)
• Japanese: クリップボード (ja) (kurippubōdo)
• Portuguese: prancheta (pt) f
• Russian: карман (ru) (karman) m
• Spanish: sujetapapeles (es) m
• Swedish: please add this translation if you can
• Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can
• Welsh: clipfwrdd (cy) m

in computing: buffer for temporary storage

• Arabic: الحافظة (ar) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 剪貼板 (cmn), 剪贴板 (cmn) (jiǎntiēbǎn), 剪貼簿 (cmn), 剪贴簿 (cmn) (jiǎntiēbù)

• Czech: schránka (cs) f
• Dutch: klembord (nl) n
• Esperanto: poŝo, tondujo
• Finnish: leikepöytä
• French: presse-papiers (fr) m
• German: Zwischenablage f

• Hungarian: vágólap (hu)
• Icelandic: klemmuspjald (is) n
• Irish: gearrthaisce (ga) f
• Italian: appunti (it) m
• Japanese: クリップボード (ja) (kurippubōdo)
• Polish: schowek (pl) m
• Portuguese: área de transferência (pt) f
• Russian: буфер обмена (ru) (búfer obména) m, карман (ru) (karman) m
• Spanish: portapapeles m
• Turkish: pano (tr)