Wipe means to clean a surface by rubbing something on it, but it's used in other contexts:
- Wiping, a process in which old television and radio recordings were overwritten, erased, or destroyed
- Wipe (transition), a gradual transition in film editing
- Wipe curtain, a kind of theater curtain
- In plumbing, a wiped joint is one created when two pipes are joined by solder as it re-solidifies after melting
- Total Party Kill, in roleplaying games, when an entire group is killed by hostile units
- Data erasure, purging a computer file to counter data remanence
- Bathroom hygiene. See Anal cleansing and toilet paper
Famous quotes containing the word wipe:
“Those who in quarrels interpose,
Must often wipe a bloody nose.”
—John Gay (1685–1732)
“Modernity exists in the form of a desire to wipe out whatever came earlier, in the hope of reaching at least a point that could be called a true present, a point of origin that marks a new departure.”
—Paul De Man (1919–1983)
“We should have learnt by now that laws and court decisions can only point the way. They can establish criteria of right and wrong. And they can provide a basis for rooting out the evils of bigotry and racism. But they cannot wipe away centuries of oppression and injustice—however much we might desire it.”
—Hubert H. Humphrey (1911–1978)