wipe

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An instance of all members of a party dying in a single campaign, event, or battle; a wipeout.
  2. A lapwing, especially a northern lapwing (Vanellus vanellus).
  3. The act of wiping something.
    — multiple wipes of a computer's hard disk
  4. 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.
  5. A handkerchief. UK,obsolete,slang
    — "Now, my kiveys, shy up your castors, tie your bird's-eye wipes to the stakes, and go to work."
  6. 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.
  7. A sarcastic remark; a reproof, a jibe. obsolete
    — I could not help giving Metcalfe a wipe for his lamentations, observing I should have thought he had enough to attend to at home.
  8. A blow or swipe; the act of striking somebody or something. UK,obsolete,slang
    — 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.
动词 v.
  1. To move an object over, maintaining contact, with the intention of removing some substance from the surface. (Compare rub.) transitive
    — Melissa wiped her glasses with her shirt.
  2. To have all members of a party die in a single campaign, event, or battle; to be wiped out. intransitive
    — If you try to fight that boss underprepared, you're definitely gonna wipe.
  3. To smear (a substance) with this kind of motion. transitive
    — You've wiped grease all over your shirt.
  4. To remove by rubbing; to rub off; to obliterate; usually followed by away, off, or out. transitive
    — Some natural tears they dropped, but wiped them soon.
  5. To clean (the anus, buttocks and/or genitals) after defecation or urination. ambitransitive
    — I had nothing to wipe my bum with.
  6. To erase. transitive
    — I accidentally wiped my hard drive.
  7. 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. transitive
  8. To remove an expression from one's face. figuratively
    — You should wipe that smirk off your face before the boss comes in.
  9. To deperm (a ship). transitive
  10. 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.
    — 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.
  11. To hit or strike. UK,obsolete,slang
  12. To cheat; to defraud; to trick; usually followed by out. obsolete
    — The English, which they thinke lye still in wayte to wipe them out of theyr landes.

词形变化

wipes present,singular,third-person wiping participle,present wiped participle,past wiped past wipes plural wipes plural wipes present,singular,third-person wiping participle,present wiped participle,past wiped past wipes plural

词汇关系

衍生词
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

词源

词源 1
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.
词源 2
Compare Swedish vipa, Danish vibe (“lapwing”).
词源 3
From wipe out (verb) and wipeout (noun) by shortening.
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