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Definition: Paperclip |
PaperclipNoun1. A wire or plastic clip for holding sheets of paper together. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Originally called Operation Overcast, Operation Paperclip was the codename for the operation to extract Rocket Weapon (e.g. V-1, V-2), Chemical Weapon (e.g. Zyklon-B) and medical scientists from Germany after the collapse of the Nazi government during World War II.Scientists were deployed at White Sands Proving Ground, New Mexico and Fort Bliss, Texas to work on guided missile and ballistic missile technology, and led to the foundation of NASA and the US ICBM program.
Over 700 members of the Nazi scientific community were brought to the US as a direct result of Operation Paperclip, many of whom were still ardent Nazi supporters.
Although President Harry S Truman gave explicit orders not to allow any scientists who were thought to have strong Nazi leanings to enter the US under Operation Paperclip, many dossiers were re-written to "clean-up" the histories of many of the scientists involved, to avoid their knowledge falling into the hands of another power.
Much of the information surrounding Operation Paperclip is still classified.
Key figures:
Key Locations:
- Wernher Von Braun
- Bernhard Tessmann
- Arthur Rudolph
- Kurt Blome
- Major General Walter Schreiber
- Reinhardt Gehlen
- Allen Dulles (Op architect)
See also:
- Nordhausen
- Peenemunde
- White Sands Proving Ground
- war crimes
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Operation Paperclip."
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A paperclip is a device which holds several sheets of paper together by means of pressure: it leaves the paper intact and can be easily removed.It is usually a thin rod bent into a looped shape that takes advantage of the flexibility and strength of the materials of its construction (usually some sort of metal, but sometimes plastic) to compress and therefore hold together two or more pieces of paper.
The invention of the paperclip is shared. A machine for making paperclips from wire was patented in 1899 by the Gem company, and they are still sometimes called "Gem clips".
A Norwegian, Johan Vaaler, patented what is still the commonest shape in 1901. The paperclip became a Norwegian national symbol in World War II as people wore them in their lapels when the Nazi occupiers forbade buttons showing the exiled King Haakon VII of Norway. A giant paperclip was erected in Oslo in honour of Vaaler.
Despite hundreds of variations, the original design is still the most popular. Its qualities of easy use, gripping without tearing, and storing without tangling have been difficult to improve on.
Recent innovations include multi-colored plastic-coated paperclips and spring-fastened binder clips.
A paperclip is also a useful accessory in computing: the metal wire can be unfolded with a little force. Several devices call for a very thin rod to push a recessed button which the user might only rarely need. This is seen on most CD-ROM drives as an "emergency eject" should the power fail; also on early disk drives (including the early Macintosh). Some Palm PDAs advise the use of a paperclip to reset the device.
Microsoft infamously introduced a cartoon character shaped like a paperclip in their Office 97 software suite, nicknamed "Clippy". It was intended to deliver useful information to users as an active help procedure, but it was largely perceived as an irritation by users, and became the subject of many parodies. In newer versions of the software, it is switched off by default. Clippy had been preceded by "Bob", whose name is still attached to the Clippy software.
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Synonym: PaperclipSynonym: gem clip (n). (additional references) |
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| "Paperclip 2" by Patrick Nijhuis Commentary: "Paperclips." |
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| "Paperclip" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Paperclip" is used about 10 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 10 | 111,207 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
paperclip | 38 |
operation paperclip | 17 |
paperclip project | 8 |
communication paperclip | 4 |
inventor paperclip | 4 |
lock paperclip pick | 4 |
lock paperclip picking | 3 |
attach file paperclip | 3 |
art paperclip | 2 |
angel paperclip | 2 |
invented paperclip | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "paperclip"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 紙夾 . (various references) | |
French | pince. (various references) | |
German | Büroklammer (paper clip, paper-clip). (various references) | |
Hungarian | iratkapocs (paper clip), gemkapocs (clip, clips, paper clip). (various references) | |
Indonesian | pengapit (clamp, flanker). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | aperclippay.(various references) | |
Russian | скрепка (clinch, clip, paper clip, staple). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-i-l-p-p-p-r" | |
-2 letters: applier, caliper, clapper, clipper, crappie, cripple, epicarp, pappier, replica. | |
-3 letters: capper, carpel, eclair, epical, lacier, lapper, lipper, palier, parcel, placer, plaice, plicae, rappel, ripple. | |
-4 letters: appel, apple, areic, ariel, caper, carle, carpi, ceria, clear, crape, cripe, erica, ileac, lacer, pacer, paler, palpi, paper, pappi, parle, pearl, pepla, peril, pical, pilar, pilea, pipal, piper. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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