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Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 342

I hope you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 342. Here are my solutions to them.

1: Reproduce flour and water to transfer contents using C and V.

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Copy and paste

Reproduce (to copy) flour and water (a paste) to transfer contents (what they do) using C and V (the Command key shortcuts for them).

2: Dreary event with a delivery to transfer contents by hand.

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Drag and drop

Dreary event (a drag) with a delivery (a drop) to transfer contents (what they do) by hand (using mouse, trackpad, or similar).

3: Holds a few sheets or the contents of 1.

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clipboard

Holds a few sheets (what a physical clipboard does) or the contents of 1 (the clipboard, alias pasteboard, holds the contents being transferred during copy and paste).

The common factor

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They provide means to transfer document contents in the Mac’s human interface.

I look forward to your putting alternative cases.