controller vs flipper

controller

noun
  • A hardware device designed to allow the user to play video games. 

  • An iron block, usually bolted to a ship's deck, for controlling the running out of a chain cable. The links of the cable tend to drop into hollows in the block, and thus hold fast until disengaged. 

  • The chief accounting officer which audits, and manages the financial affairs of a company or government; a comptroller. 

  • One who controls something. 

  • The person who supervises and handles communication with an agent in the field. 

  • Any electric or mechanical device for controlling a circuit or system. 

  • In software applications using the model-view-controller design pattern, the part or parts of the application that treat input and output, forming an interface between models and views. 

  • A mechanism that controls or regulates the operation of a machine, especially a peripheral device in a computer. 

  • The subject of a control verb. See Control (linguistics) 

flipper

noun
  • Television remote control, clicker. 

  • A type of ball bowled by a leg spin bowler, which spins backwards and skids off the pitch with a low bounce. 

  • A flat lever in a pinball machine, triggered by the player to strike the ball and keep it in play. 

  • A kind of false tooth, usually temporary. 

  • A small flat used to support a larger one. 

  • Someone who flips, in the sense of buying a house or other asset and selling it quickly for profit. 

  • Someone who flips in any other sense, for example throwing a coin. 

  • In marine mammals such as whales, a wide flat limb, adapted for swimming. 

  • A flat, wide, paddle-like rubber covering for the foot, used in swimming. 

  • A kitchen spatula. 

verb
  • To lift one or both flippers out of the water and slap the surface of the water. 

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