clipboard vs container

clipboard

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

  • 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. 

container

noun
  • An item in which objects, materials or data can be stored or transported. 

  • A bundle consisting of operating system, application code and dependencies to be run sandboxed inside a virtualized environment; (by extension) the environment itself. 

  • An abstract data type whose instances are collections of other objects. 

  • A very large, typically metal, box used for transporting goods. 

  • Someone who contains; something that contains. 

  • Any user interface component that can hold further (child) components. 

  • Someone who holds people in their seats or in a (reasonably) calm state. 

  • A file format that can hold various types of data. 

How often have the words clipboard and container occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )