Gripper is an English word. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Gripper meaning
- A person who or thing which grips something.
- A cover on a handle that makes it easier to grip.
- A rubber or other material attached to a curling shoe to improve traction on the ice.
Using Gripper
- The main meaning on this page is: A person who or thing which grips something. | A cover on a handle that makes it easier to grip. | A rubber or other material attached to a curling shoe to improve traction on the ice.
- In the example corpus, gripper often appears in combinations such as: the gripper, gripper and, gripper is.
Context around Gripper
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23.4 words
- Position in the sentence: 5 start, 4 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 11 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Gripper
- In this selection, "gripper" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 23.4 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, new, tom, robotic, hands, downward and feed stand out and add context to how "gripper" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include cable car gripper and a and eased the gripper downward hoping. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "gripper" sits close to words such as aami, aat and abada, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with gripper
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
The gripper is connected to a compressed air supply network. (10 words)
One of the most common type of end effector is a gripper assembly. (13 words)
He eased the gripper downward, hoping to pull the tar away from the intake. (14 words)
The thrower's gripper shoe (with the non-slippery sole) is positioned against one of the hacks; for a right-handed curler the right foot is placed against the left hack and vice versa for a left-hander. (38 words)
This line had both a continuous loop haulage cable that the cars gripped using a cable car gripper, and a balance cable permanently attached to both cars over an undriven pulley at the top of the line. (37 words)
It then grabs the bag using its new gripper hands, skips up some steps, jumps onto a platform, and then throws the bag up to the next level to the waiting worker. (32 words)
Example sentences (11)
It then grabs the bag using its new gripper hands, skips up some steps, jumps onto a platform, and then throws the bag up to the next level to the waiting worker.
He eased the gripper downward, hoping to pull the tar away from the intake.
The film, written and directed by Tony Burke, is produced by Craig along with Tom Gripper and Dan Bailey of Broadside Films.
The gripper is connected to a compressed air supply network.
The robotic gripper has a high-strength fabric embedded in the fingers that bend easily but resist stretching cause by larger loads.
A scaled-down version of this gripper feed system was to become the basis for the 813 desktop copier.
At about half the size and weight, this still sizable machine printed onto hand-fed, cut-sheet paper which was pulled through the process by one of two gripper bars.
One of the most common type of end effector is a gripper assembly.
The gripper is worn by the thrower on the hack foot during delivery and is designed to grip the ice.
The thrower's gripper shoe (with the non-slippery sole) is positioned against one of the hacks; for a right-handed curler the right foot is placed against the left hack and vice versa for a left-hander.
This line had both a continuous loop haulage cable that the cars gripped using a cable car gripper, and a balance cable permanently attached to both cars over an undriven pulley at the top of the line.
Common combinations with gripper
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the gripper 3×
- gripper and 2×
- gripper is 2×