wipe

Significat (Anglès)

Verb

1. (transitive) To move an object over, maintaining contact, with the intention of removing some substance from the surface. (Compare rub.)
2. (transitive) To remove by rubbing; to rub off; to obliterate; usually followed by away, off, or out.
3. (transitive) To smear (a substance) with this kind of motion.
4. (obsolete) To cheat; to defraud; to trick; usually followed by out.
5. (ambitransitive) To clean (the anus and buttocks) after defecation.
6. (transitive) To erase.
7. (transitive) 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. (figuratively) To remove an expression from one's face.
9. (transitive) To deperm (a ship).
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.
11. (UK, obsolete, slang) To hit or strike.

Noun

1. The act of wiping something.
2. A soft piece of cloth or cloth-like material used for wiping.
3. (UK, obsolete, slang) A handkerchief.
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.
6. (UK, obsolete, slang) A blow or swipe; the act of striking somebody or something.

Noun

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

Noun

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

Conceptes

eixugar

fregar

netejar

treure

assecar

neteja

esborrar

torcar

Sinònims

rub

clean

wipe off

erase

scrub

dry

brush

delete

mop

rub off

polish

🇵🇱

swab

dust

sweep

rub out

scour

smear

rub away

wash

🧽

wipe out

clear

cleanse

remove

towel

whisk

spread

strike

plaster

burnish

brush off

scrape

pass over

lick

wipe forehead

make a note

measure

dry up

overspread

pass

percussion

dry out

purify

rake

raze

record

liquid knockout

drag

do over

destroy

scavenge

Traduccions

essuyer

wischen

wissen

limpiar

vegen

enjugar

esfregar

afvegen

abwischen

enxugar

effacer

asciugare

strofinare

nettoyer

frotter

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/waɪp/

Etimologia (Anglès)

Heretat de anglès mitjà: wipen

Heretat de anglès antic: wīpian

Cognat amb alemany: wippen

Cognat amb suec: veva

Cognat amb gòtic: 𐍅𐌴𐌹𐍀𐌰𐌽

Cognat amb anglès antic: swīfan

Cognat amb sànscrit: वेपते

Cognat amb suec: vipa

Cognat amb danès: vibe

In summary

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.