wipe
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
computing
construction
engineering
manufacturing
mathematics
media
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
plumbing
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English wipen, from Old English wīpian (“to wipe, rub, cleanse”), from Proto-West Germanic *wīpōn (“to wipe”), from Proto-Indo-European *weyp- (“to twist, wind around”). Cognate with German wippen (“to bob”), Swedish veva (“to turn, wind, crank”), Gothic 𐍅𐌴𐌹𐍀𐌰𐌽 (weipan, “to wreathe, crown”), Old English swīfan (“to revolve, sweep, wend, intervene”), Sanskrit वेपते (vépate, “to tremble”). More at swivel, swift.
Inflected forms:
form: wipes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: wiping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: wiped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: wiped
pos: verb
tags: past
form: wipes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To move an object over, maintaining contact, with the intention of removing some substance from the surface. (Compare rub.)
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Melissa wiped her glasses with her shirt.
I wiped the sweat from my brow with the back of my hand.
Tom started to wipe his eyes.
So they passed through the Palace Gates and were led into a big room with a green carpet and lovely green furniture set with emeralds. The soldier made them all wipe their feet upon a green mat before entering this room, and when they were seated he said politely[…]
gloss: To smear (a substance) with this kind of motion.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: You've wiped grease all over your shirt.
gloss: To remove by rubbing; to rub off; to obliterate; usually followed by away, off, or out.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Some natural tears they dropped, but wiped them soon.
So the plot is that he wipes half the population?
gloss: To clean (the anus, buttocks and/or genitals) after defecation or urination.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: I had nothing to wipe my bum with.
Even if you wipe very carefully, you still have to wash your hands afterward.
gloss: To erase.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I accidentally wiped my hard drive.
gloss: To make (a joint, as between pieces of lead pipe), by surrounding the junction with a mass of solder, applied in a plastic condition by means of a rag with which the solder is shaped by rubbing.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To remove an expression from one's face.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
examples: You should wipe that smirk off your face before the boss comes in.
Please wipe that look out of your eyes, it's bribing me to doubt myself.
gloss: To deperm (a ship).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To perform a transition in which one scene or slide is replaced with another over time along a horizontal axis, as if one scene or slide is a layer being slid off the other.
pos: verb
examples: Steve-O tells the camera, “Don’t worry; the next skit’s gonna be amazing”; he then pretends to grab the side of the screen, which “wipes” to the next shot.
gloss: To hit or strike.
pos: verb
tags: UK
obsolete
slang
gloss: To cheat; to defraud; to trick; usually followed by out.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
examples: The English, which they thinke lye still in wayte to wipe them out of theyr landes.
If they by coveyne [covin] or gile be wiped beside their goods.
gloss: The act of wiping something.
pos: noun
examples: multiple wipes of a computer's hard disk
gloss: A soft piece of cloth or cloth-like material used for wiping.
pos: noun
examples: When on a plane or train, don't take anything into the bathroom except baby, a changing pad, a diaper, a travel packet of wipes, and a bottle of hand sanitizer. Always use a wipe on the area before you put your baby down.
gloss: A handkerchief.
pos: noun
tags: UK
obsolete
slang
examples: "Now, my kiveys, shy up your castors, tie your bird's-eye wipes to the stakes, and go to work."
All fighting coves you too must know, / Ben Caunt as well as Bendigo, / And to each mill be sure to go, / […] And you must sport a blue billy, / Or a yellow wipe […]
gloss: A kind of film transition where one shot replaces another by travelling from one side of the frame to another or with a special shape.
pos: noun
gloss: A sarcastic remark; a reproof, a jibe.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: I could not help giving Metcalfe a wipe for his lamentations, observing I should have thought he had enough to attend to at home.
gloss: A blow or swipe; the act of striking somebody or something.
pos: noun
tags: UK
obsolete
slang
examples: He rode close up to a French officer, and so much in advance of his men that the Frenchman thought he was going to surrender, and dropped his sword, when Penrice gave him a wipe over his head.
Derived words: asswipe
baby wipe
barn door wipe
clock wipe
data wipe
flip wipe
handi-wipe
pie-wipe
sanitizing wipe
sky the wipe
wet wipe
wipe away
wipe-breech
wipe down
wipe-down
wipe off
wipe oneself
wipeout
wipe out
wipe-out
wiper
wipe somebody's eye
wipe someone's eye
wipe someone's nose
wipe the floor
wipe the floor with someone
wipe the slate clean
wipe the smile off someone's face
wipe up
wipe warmer
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