Translation for '
paper clip' from English to Russian
NOUN | a paper clip | paper clips | |
SYNO | gem clip | paper clip | paperclip |
NOUN article.ind sg | pl
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Usage Examples English
- During some office horseplay at the Lantz studio, a thumbtack or paper clip flew into Avery's left eye and caused him to lose sight in that eye.
- Surrealism describes as "involuntary sculpture" those made by absent-mindedly manipulating something, such as rolling and unrolling a movie ticket, bending a paper clip, and so forth.
- A paper clip (or paperclip) is a tool used to hold sheets of paper together, usually made of steel wire bent to a looped shape (though some are covered in plastic).
- Examples of perfected usability include the chopstick, the corkscrew and the paper clip.
- This was a major upgrade that introduced the paper clip office assistant and featured standard VBA used instead of internal Excel Basic.
- Johan Vaaler (March 15, 1866 – March 14, 1910) was a Norwegian inventor and patent clerk. He has often erroneously been identified as the inventor of the common paper clip.
- Smaller staples are used with a stapler to attach pieces of paper together; such staples are a more permanent and durable fastener for paper documents than the paper clip.
- The first mass outbreak of civil disobedience occurred in the autumn of 1940, when students of Oslo University began to wear paper clips on their lapels to demonstrate their resistance to the German occupiers and their Norwegian collaborators.
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