Spatula vs. Flipper: What's the Difference?

A small implement having a straight handle and a broad, flexible blade that is used to mix or spread semiliquid substances

One that flips

A small implement having an angled handle and a broad, flat blade that is used in cooking or serving food

A wide flat limb, as of a seal, whale, or other aquatic mammal, adapted for swimming.

Chiefly British A tongue depressor.

See fin1.

A kitchen utensil consisting of a flat surface attached to a long handle, used for turning, lifting, or stirring food.

A flat lever in a pinball machine, used to hit the ball so it stays in play.

(North America) A kitchen utensil consisting of a flexible surface attached to a long handle, used for scraping the sides of bowls.

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

(dated) A palette knife.

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

(chemistry) A thin hand tool, often made of nickel, for handling chemicals or other materials, when weighing, etc.

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

A croupier's tool for turning up cards in a casino.

(theatre) A small flat used to support a larger one.

(entomology) A sclerotized, T-shaped plate in the prothorax of larvae of flies belonging to family Cecidomyiidae, the gall midges.

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

(transitive) To lift with or as if with a spatula.

Television remote control, clicker.

(transitive) To strike with a spatula.

The hand.

An implement shaped like a knife, flat, thin, and somewhat flexible, used for spreading paints, fine plasters, drugs in compounding prescriptions, etc. Cf. Palette knife, under Palette.

(dentistry) A kind of false tooth, usually temporary.

A turner with a narrow flexible blade

A kitchen spatula.

A hand tool with a thin flexible blade used to mix or spread soft substances

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.

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

A broad flat limb used for swimming, as those of seals, sea turtles, whales, etc.

The hand.

A shoe for swimming; the paddle-like front is an aid in swimming (especially underwater)

The flat broad limb of aquatic animals specialized for swimming