wipeverb詞源 1/waɪp/

• 1

  To move an object over, maintaining contact, with the intention of removing some substance from the surface. (Compare rub.)

  • Melissa wiped her glasses with her shirt.
  • I wiped the sweat from my brow with the back of my hand.
• 2

  To smear (a substance) with this kind of motion.

  • You've wiped grease all over your shirt.
• 3

  To remove by rubbing; to rub off; to obliterate; usually followed by away, off, or out.

  • Some natural tears they dropped, but wiped them soon.
  • So the plot is that he wipes half the population?
• 4

  To clean (the anus, buttocks and/or genitals) after defecation or urination.

  • I had nothing to wipe my bum with.
  • Even if you wipe very carefully, you still have to wash your hands afterward.
• 5

  computingengineeringmathematicsTo erase.

  • I accidentally wiped my hard drive.
• 6

  businessconstructionmanufacturingTo 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.

• 7

  To remove an expression from one's face.

  • 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.
• 8

  To deperm (a ship).

wipenoun詞源 1/waɪp/

• 1

  The act of wiping something.

  • multiple wipes of a computer's hard disk
• 2

  A soft piece of cloth or cloth-like material used for wiping.

  • 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.
• 3

  obsoleteslangA handkerchief.

  • "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 […]
• 4

  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.

• 5

  obsoleteA sarcastic remark; a reproof, a jibe.

  • I could not help giving Metcalfe a wipe for his lamentations, observing I should have thought he had enough to attend to at home.
• 6

  obsoleteslangA blow or swipe; the act of striking somebody or something.

  • 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.

wipenoun詞源 2/waɪp/

• 1

  A lapwing, especially a northern lapwing (Vanellus vanellus).

wipeverb詞源 3/waɪp/

• 1

  video-gamesTo have all members of a party die in a single campaign, event, or battle; to be wiped out.

  • If you try to fight that boss underprepared, you're definitely gonna wipe.

wipenoun詞源 3/waɪp/

• 1

  video-gamesAn instance of all members of a party dying in a single campaign, event, or battle; a wipeout.