Definition of "wipe"

wipe¹

/waɪp/

verb
third-person singular simple present wipes, present participle wiping, simple past and past participle wiped
1. (transitive) To move an object over, maintaining contact, with the intention of removing some substance from the surface. (Compare rub.)
  Quotations
  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 […]
  1900 May 17, L[yman] Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chicago, Ill., New York, N.Y.: Geo[rge] M. Hill Co.
2. (transitive) To remove by rubbing; to rub off; to obliterate; usually followed by away, off, or out.
  Quotations
  Some natural tears they dropped, but wiped them soon.
  1667, John Milton, “Book X”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […]; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873,
  So the plot is that he wipes half the population?
  2019 April 25, Amby Vaingankar, Ambycomics‎ (comic)
3. (transitive) To smear (a substance) with this kind of motion.
4. (obsolete) To cheat; to defraud; to trick; usually followed by out.
  Quotations
  The English, which they thinke lye still in wayte to wipe them out of theyr landes.
  1596 (date written; published 1633), Edmund Spenser, A Vewe of the Present State of Irelande […], Dublin: […] Societie of Stationers, […]; republished as A View of the State of Ireland […] (Ancient Irish Histories), Dublin: […] Society of Stationers, […] Hibernia Press, […] [b]y John Morrison, 1809,
  If they by coveyne [covin] or gile be wiped beside their goods.
  1551, Thomas More, “(please specify the Internet Archive page)”, in Raphe Robynson [i.e., Ralph Robinson], transl., A Fruteful, and Pleasaunt Worke of the Best State of a Publyque Weale, and of the Newe Yle Called Utopia: […], London: […] [Steven Mierdman for] Abraham Vele, […]
5. (transitive, intransitive) To clean (the buttocks) after defecation.
6. (transitive, computing) To erase.
7. (transitive, plumbing) 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.
8. (figurative) To remove an expression from one's face.
  Quotations
  Please wipe that look out of your eyes, it's bribing me to doubt myself.
  2008, Adele, First Love
9. (transitive) To deperm (a ship).
10. (video editing) 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.
  Quotations
  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.
  2018, Nicole Seymour, Bad Environmentalism, page 85
noun
plural wipes
1. The act of wiping something.
2. A soft piece of cloth or cloth-like material used for wiping.
  Quotations
  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.
  2009, Mary Ann Zoellner, Alicia Ybarbo, Today's Moms: Essentials for Surviving Baby's First Year, page 58
3. (UK, slang, obsolete) A handkerchief.
  Quotations
  "Now, my kiveys, shy up your castors, tie your bird's-eye wipes to the stakes, and go to work."
  1883, London Society, volume 43, page 101
  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 […]
  1859, Ducange Anglicus, The Vulgar Tongue, page 54
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. (obsolete) A sarcastic remark; a reproof, a jibe.
  Quotations
  I could not help giving Metcalfe a wipe for his lamentations, observing I should have thought he had enough to attend to at home.
  1808–10, William Hickey, Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, Folio Society 1995, p. 273
6. (UK, slang, obsolete) A blow or swipe; the act of striking somebody or something.
  Quotations
  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.
  1894, William Tomkinson, James Tomkinson, The Diary of a Cavalry Officer in the Peninsular and Waterloo Campaigns 1809-1815, page 48

wipe²

/waɪp/

noun
plural wipes
1. A lapwing, especially a northern lapwing (Vanellus vanellus).

wipe³

/waɪp/

verb
third-person singular simple present wipes, present participle wiping, simple past and past participle wiped
1. (intransitive, roleplaying games, video games) To have all members of a party die in a single campaign, event, or battle; to be wiped out.
noun
plural wipes
1. (roleplaying games, video games) An instance of all members of a party dying in a single campaign, event, or battle; a wipeout.

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