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／剪贴板 (zh) (jiǎntiē bǎn), 剪贴板 (zh) (jiǎntiēbǎn)

• Czech: podložka (cs) se (cs) sponou
• Dutch: klembord (nl) n
• Esperanto: poŝo, tondujo
• Finnish: leikepöytä
• French: planchette à pince (fr) m
• German: Klemmbrett (de) n
• Hungarian: felírótábla
• Icelandic: skrifbretti n
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• Irish: fáisc-chlár m
• Italian: portablocco
• Japanese: クリップボード (kurippubōdo)
• Maori: paparawhi
• Portuguese: prancheta f
• Russian: планше́т с зажи́мом m (planšét s zažímom), клипборд (ru) m (klipbord), карма́н (ru) m (karmán)
• Spanish: sujetapapeles m
• Swedish: skrivplatta
• Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can
• Welsh: clipfwrdd m

in computing: buffer for temporary storage

• Arabic: الحافظَة f
• Catalan: porta-retalls m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 剪貼板／剪贴板 (zh) (jiǎntiē bǎn), 剪贴板 (zh) (jiǎntiēbǎn), 剪貼簿／剪贴簿 (zh), 剪贴簿 (zh) (jiǎntiēbù)

• Czech: schránka (cs) f
• Dutch: klembord (nl) n
• Esperanto: poŝo, tondujo
• Finnish: leikepöytä
• French: presse-papiers (fr) m
• Galician: portarretallos m
• Georgian: გაცვლის ბუფერი (gacvlis buperi)
• German: Zwischenablage f
• Greek: πρόχειρο (el) (prócheiro)
• Hungarian: vágólap
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• Icelandic: klemmuspjald n
• Indonesian: papan klip, papan tempel
• Irish: gearrthaisce f
• Italian: appunti (it) m
• Japanese: クリップボード (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
• Turkish: ara bellek (tr), ara hafıza