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Definition: WIPED |
WIPEDImperative & past participle1. Of Wipe |
Date "WIPED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Wiping or junking is an economic move by TV companies in which old videotapes and kinescopes were wiped (deleted) and reused or were destroyed. This practice is now much rarer, as TV companies have come to understand the economic value of keeping archive material.Many old BBC television programmes and plays were wiped after it was felt that they had "exhausted their commercial potential" - this was before the VCR was common and issues with the musicians union and the actors union Equity made repeats impossible after a set number of times - the unions reportedly feared that constant repeats could put their members out of work - remembering that there were only three channels in Great Britain at the time. The BBC junkings took place mainly between 1972 and 1978, now the BBC is desperately trying to get copies of the lost films; hence, scholars argue that the move is often short-sighted as their value was not realised. It was argued that one barrier to recovering these programmes is that the often the now existing copies were either illegally made or preserved. For example, in some cases a copy was made for foreign broadcast with the agreement that the copy would be destroyed or returned after broadcast, and the copy remains only because that agreement was broken. The BBC has however announced an amnesty for anyone holding such prints.
The BBC was not alone in this practice - many ITV companies also wiped videotapes and destroyed kinescopes, leaving gaps in their archive holdings.
BBC radio programmes were also wiped, some of them as late as the mid-1980s. In the case of radio, the existence of domestic reel-to-reel audio tape recording meant that many programmes that were taped by listeners have survived and been returned to the BBC in at least passable condition.
See also:
Full Details of the BBC's treasure Hunt: [1]
- Doctor Who
- The Likely Lads (1 found)
- Dad's Army (2 found)
- Related article: film preservation
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Wiping (magnetic tape)."
Crosswords: WIPED |
| English words defined with "WIPED": annihilate ♦ base, base of operations ♦ carry off ♦ decimate ♦ eliminate, eradicate, exterminable, extinguish, extirpable ♦ mouth ♦ sweep away ♦ wipe out. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "WIPED": BED LASTER ♦ Control Program for Microcomputers ♦ ELIZABETH ♦ lasting-machine operator, bed, LAW ♦ Panace'a ♦ Repenter Curls ♦ toe and heel laster. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "WIPED": VERONICA. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | I'll tell you, I am wiped! (Seinfeld; writing credit: Andreas Lenze; Bea Schmidt) Homer, you're a bad man and your seed should be wiped from the earthno offense, children (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) The Blacks were sold into slavery and the Indians almost wiped out. (The Tomorrow People; writing credit: Brian Finch) I would've wiped the floor with you. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer) The vertigo and the constant hunger to be exposed, to be seen through, perhaps even wiped out. Every inflection and every gesture a lie, every smile a grimace (Persona; writing credit: Ingmar Bergman) | |
Lyrics | Being wiped out by detergents (Pollution; performing artist: Tom Lehrer) | |
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![]() | Typhoon damage from a Category 5 typhoon about a week after the storm. Totally wiped out a coconut and breadfruit plantation. Inhabitants dug pit on highest part of island and put coconut logs over pit for shelter. Some fatalities occurred. Credit: Small World. | ![]() | ARS researchers at Kearneysville, West Virginia, have released peacy varieties that reliably produce sunny, juicy peaches in northerly climes. And thanks to years of pest control studies, the fire blight and pear psylla problems that long ago wiped out the U.S. East Coast pear industry have yielded to a variety of new controls. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer.. |
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| "Bloody Tissue" by Anthony Tai Commentary: "Picture taken when i wiped some blood off my finger. ." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. |
| Author | Quotation |
Cowper | The tear that is wiped with a little address may be followed, perhaps, by a smile. |
Sir Walter Scott | Credit is like a looking-glass, which when once sullied by a breath, may be wiped clear again; but if once cracked can never be repaired. |
William James | Every smallest stroke of virtue or of vice leaves its never so little scar. ... Nothing we ever do is in strict scientific literalness wiped out. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Sylvie and Bruno | Carroll, Lewis | The Professor got out a large red silk handkerchief, and wiped his eyes |
A Christmas Carol | Dickens, Charles | Scrooge shivered, and wiped the perspiration from his brow |
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy | Douglas Adams | Every Bogart movie has been wiped, he said to himself, and that gave him a nasty knock |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Fauchelevent wiped his forehead |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | He took off his cap and looked at it with some admiration, then wiped his forehead with it and put it on rakishly and pulled at the visor |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | P. malariae has been wiped out from temperate climates, but it persists in Africa. (references) | |
After use, the diaper changing area should be wiped down with a disinfectant such as household bleach, Lysol* or bactericidal wipes. (references) | ||
Patients with cancer have described it as a total lack of energy and have used words such as worn out, drained, and wiped out to describe their fatigue. (references) | ||
Business | In conclusion, the Obras Sociales are trying to optimize their services and facilities as they are facing stronger competition and the threat of being totally wiped out of the market. (references) | |
Economic History | Honduras | Bananas, formerly the country's second-largest export until being virtually wiped out by 1998's Hurricane Mitch, recovered in 2000 to 57% of pre-Mitch levels. (references) |
Latvia | The Latvian banking system successfully recovered from the 1995 banking crisis that wiped out a substantial portion of Latvia's GDP. The system was shaken again in the fall of 1998, when the Russian government defaulted on its debt payments. (references) | |
Trinidad and Tobago | Columbus landed in Trinidad in 1498, and the island was settled by the Spanish a century later The original inhabitants--Arawak and Carib Indians--were largely wiped out by the Spanish colonizers, and the survivors were gradually assimilated. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "WIPED" is generally used as a lexical verb (past tense) -- approximately 66.60% of the time. "WIPED" is used about 1,071 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 66.6% | 713 | 9,416 |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 32.93% | 353 | 15,179 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.28% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 0.19% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 1,071 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "WIPED". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Beth-marcaboth | N/A | Biblical | House of bitterness wiped out |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references.
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Expressions using "WIPED": annihilated exterminated wiped outpredicate ♦ be wiped ♦ be wiped out ♦ ruined wiped outpredicate impoverished ♦ wiped joint ♦ wiped out. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "WIPED": wiped-clean, wiped-up. | |
Ending with "WIPED": mind-wiped, much-wiped. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
wiped out | 12 |
evaporators film wiped | 6 |
evaporator film wiped | 3 |
babe like pussy wiped | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "WIPED"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Bulgarian | кьор-кютук пиян (wiped out), пиян-залян (pissed, soaked, sozzled, wiped out). (various references) | |
Chinese | 抹 (Wipe, Wiping). (various references) | |
Danish | stenet (stoned, stony, to crash, wasted, wiped out, wrecked), nedslidt leje (wiped bearing), gnidelodning (wiped joint), eroderet leje (wiped bearing), basket (wasted, wiped out, wrecked). (various references) | |
Dutch | wrijfsoldeerverbinding (wiped joint), uitgesleten lager (wiped bearing), smeerverbinding (wiped joint). (various references) | |
Finnish | hitsausjuotettu liitos (wiped joint). (various references) | |
French | essuyai, essuyés, essuyâmes, essuyèrent, essuya. (various references) | |
German | gewischt (mopped, whisked), abgewischt. (various references) | |
Greek | κόμβος συγκόλλησης (wiped joint), κατά μήκος συγκόλληση σε σωλήνα (wiped joint), με ζεμάτισε το πρόστιμο (wiped me out), φθαρμένο έδρανο (wiped bearing), διαβρωμένο έδρανο (wiped bearing). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מנוגב (cleaned). (various references) | |
Indonesian | tandas (absolutely wiped out, denotation, firm), punah (destroyed, entirely disappeared, gone, wiped out). (various references) | |
Italian | tossicomane pesante (wasted, wiped out, wrecked), saldatura a metallo fuso (wiped joint), giunto modellato (wiped joint). (various references) | |
Korean | 닦는 (Polished, scoured). (various references) | |
Manx | rubbit (chafed, rubbed). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ipedway.(various references) | |
Portuguese | ligação a líquido (wiped joint), junta com ressalto (wiped joint), janado (hard-core addict, junkie, smacker, smackhead, wasted, wiped out, wrecked). (various references) | |
Romanian | şters (colorless, colourless, dim, dingy, dull, Gray, grey, low-pitched, pale, sad, wan, washy, wiping). (various references) | |
Russian | стирать стертый (erased). (various references) | |
Spanish | unión con manguito redondeado (wiped joint), soldadura líquida (wiped joint), cojinete desgastado (wiped bearing). (various references) | |
Swedish | smetlödd skarv (wiped joint), lager med frätskador (wiped bearing). (various references) | |
Turkish | silinmek (be wiped, dry oneself, evanesce, rub off, rub out). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Proverbs Chapter 6, Verse 33 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | OdunaV te kai atimiaV upoferei to de oneidoV autou ouk exaleifqhsetai eiV ton aiwna |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Turpitudinem et ignominiam congregat sibi et obprobrium illius non delebitur |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Filthe and shenshepe he gedereth to hymself; and the repref of hym shal not ben don awei. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | A wound and dishonour shall he get; and his reproach shall not be wiped away. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | A wound and dishonor shall he get; and his reproach shall not be wiped away. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | Wounds will be his and loss of honour, and his shame may not be washed away. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Proverbs Chapter 6, Verse 33 |
| Bulgarian | Биене и позор ще намери, И срамът му няма да се изличи, |
| Cebuano | Ang mga samad ug pagkawalay dungog mao ang iyang mamakuha; Ug ang iyang pagkawalay-ulaw dili na gayud mapapas |
| Croatian | Bruke i sramote dopada i rug mu se nikad ne briše. |
| Danish | han opnår Hug og Skændsel, og aldrig udslettes hans Skam. |
| Dutch | Plage en schande zal hij vinden, en zijn smaad zal niet uitgewist worden. |
| Finnish | Hän saa vaivan ja häpeän, eikä hänen häväistystään pyyhitä pois. |
| French | Il n`aura que plaie et ignominie, Et son opprobre ne s`effacera point. |
| German | Dazu trifft ihn Plage und Schande, und seine Schande wird nicht ausgetilgt. |
| Haitian Creole | L'ap pran baton. Y'ap pase l' anba kont betiz, l'ap toujou wont pou sa l' fè a. |
| Hungarian | Vereséget és gyalázatot nyer, és az õ gyalázatja el nem töröltetik. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Ia akan disiksa dan dicemooh. Namanya akan menjadi cemar untuk selama-lamanya. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Celaka dan kehinaan akan pendapatannya, dan kecelaannyapun tiada akan dihapuskan. |
| Italian | Incontrerà percosse e disonore, la sua vergogna non sarà cancellata, |
| Maori | He kaiakiko, he whakama te wahi mona; e kore ano tona ingoa kino e horoia atu. |
| Norwegian | Hugg og skam får han, og hans vanære slettes aldri ut. |
| Rumanian | Nu va avea deckt ranq wi ruwine, wi ocara nu i se va wterge. |
| Russian | РПВПЙ Й РПЪПТ ОБКДЕФ ПО, Й ВЕУЮЕУФЙЕ ЕЗП ОЕ ЙЪЗМБДЙФУС, |
| Spanish | Heridas e ignominia encontrará, y su afrenta no será borrada; |
| Swedish | Plåga och skam är vad han vinner, och hans smälek utplånas icke. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words ending with "WIPED": sideswiped, swiped. (additional references) | |
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"WIPED" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: iped, ipid, viped, weeped, whipid, wiced, wided, wied, wifed, wimed, wipad, wipee, wipen, wipend, wipet, Wipo, wipped, wippet, wited, wixed, wized, wyted. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "WIPED" (pronounced wī"pt) |
| 4 | w ī" p t | swiped. |
| 3 | -ī" p t | hyped, griped, piped, sniped, striped, typed. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-i-p-w" | |
-1 letter: pied, wide, wipe. | |
-2 letters: dew, die, dip, ped, pew, pie, wed. | |
-3 letters: de, ed, id, pe, pi, we. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-i-p-w" | |
+1 letter: swiped, wisped. | |
+2 letters: pigweed, pinweed, whipped, wimpled. | |
+3 letters: downpipe, impawned, pigweeds, pillowed, pinewood, pinweeds, windpipe, woodpile. | |
+4 letters: downpipes, impowered, inwrapped, pinewoods, powdering, previewed, sideswipe, spiderweb, superwide, wampished, whimpered, whipsawed, whispered, windpipes, windswept, woodpiles, worshiped. | |
+5 letters: pandowdies, periwigged, pinwheeled, planetwide, powderlike, sideswiped, sideswipes, spiderwebs, spiderwort, wardenship, widespread, windowpane, wingspread, wiretapped, worshipped. | |
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