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WIPED

Definition: WIPED

WIPED

Imperative & past participle

1. Of Wipe

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "WIPED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

 

Specialty Definition: Wiping (magnetic tape)

(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]

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)."

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Crosswords: WIPED

English words defined with "WIPED": annihilatebase, base of operationscarry offdecimateeliminate, eradicate, exterminable, extinguish, extirpablemouthsweep awaywipe out. (references)
Specialty definitions using "WIPED": BED LASTERControl Program for MicrocomputersELIZABETHlasting-machine operator, bed, LAWPanace'aRepenter Curlstoe and heel laster. (references)
Etymologies containing "WIPED": VERONICA. (references)

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Modern Usage: WIPED

DomainUsage

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)

Movie/TV Titles

Dad's Army: Missing Presumed Wiped (2001)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: WIPED

DomainTitle

Books

  

Music

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: WIPED

Photos:
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Photo Album: WIPED

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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..

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Digital Photo Gallery: WIPED
 

"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.

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Familiar Quotations: WIPED

AuthorQuotation

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.

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Use in Literature: WIPED

TitleAuthorQuote

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.

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Non-Fiction Usage: WIPED

SubjectTopicQuote

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.

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Usage Frequency: WIPED

"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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Lexical Verb (past tense)66.6%7139,416
Lexical Verb (past participle)32.93%35315,179
Noun (proper)0.28%3202,518
Adjective (general or positive)0.19%2245,945
                    Total100.00%1,071N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Derived & Related Names: WIPED

The following table summarizes names derived from the word "WIPED".
 
NameGenderLanguageMeaning
Beth-marcabothN/ABiblical

House of bitterness wiped out

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

 

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Expressions: WIPED

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.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: WIPED

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
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.

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Modern Translation: WIPED

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 

  

(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.

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Bible Trace: WIPED

LanguageDateSourceProverbs Chapter 6, Verse 33
Greek (transliterated)250 BCSeptuagintOdunaV te kai atimiaV upoferei to de oneidoV autou ouk exaleifqhsetai eiV ton aiwna
Latin405VulgateTurpitudinem et ignominiam congregat sibi et obprobrium illius non delebitur
Middle English1395WyclifFilthe and shenshepe he gedereth to hymself; and the repref of hym shal not ben don awei.
Jacobean English1611King JamesA wound and dishonour shall he get; and his reproach shall not be wiped away.
Victorian English1833WebsterA wound and dishonor shall he get; and his reproach shall not be wiped away.
Basic English1964OgdenWounds 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.

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Matched Bible Translations: WIPED

LanguageProverbs Chapter 6, Verse 33
BulgarianБиене и позор ще намери, И срамът му няма да се изличи,
CebuanoAng mga samad ug pagkawalay dungog mao ang iyang mamakuha; Ug ang iyang pagkawalay-ulaw dili na gayud mapapas
CroatianBruke i sramote dopada i rug mu se nikad ne briše.
Danishhan opnår Hug og Skændsel, og aldrig udslettes hans Skam.
DutchPlage en schande zal hij vinden, en zijn smaad zal niet uitgewist worden.
FinnishHän saa vaivan ja häpeän, eikä hänen häväistystään pyyhitä pois.
FrenchIl n`aura que plaie et ignominie, Et son opprobre ne s`effacera point.
GermanDazu trifft ihn Plage und Schande, und seine Schande wird nicht ausgetilgt.
Haitian CreoleL'ap pran baton. Y'ap pase l' anba kont betiz, l'ap toujou wont pou sa l' fè a.
HungarianVereséget és gyalázatot nyer, és az õ gyalázatja el nem töröltetik.
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hariIa akan disiksa dan dicemooh. Namanya akan menjadi cemar untuk selama-lamanya.
Indonesian-Terjemahan LamaCelaka dan kehinaan akan pendapatannya, dan kecelaannyapun tiada akan dihapuskan.
ItalianIncontrerà percosse e disonore, la sua vergogna non sarà cancellata,
MaoriHe kaiakiko, he whakama te wahi mona; e kore ano tona ingoa kino e horoia atu.
NorwegianHugg og skam får han, og hans vanære slettes aldri ut.
RumanianNu va avea deckt ranq wi ruwine, wi ocara nu i se va wterge.
RussianРПВПЙ Й РПЪПТ ОБКДЕФ ПО, Й ВЕУЮЕУФЙЕ ЕЗП ОЕ ЙЪЗМБДЙФУС,
SpanishHeridas e ignominia encontrará, y su afrenta no será borrada;
SwedishPlåga och skam är vad han vinner, och hans smälek utplånas icke.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Derivations & Misspellings: WIPED

Derivations

Words ending with "WIPED": sideswiped, swiped. (additional references)


Misspellings

"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).

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Rhyming with "WIPED"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "WIPED" (pronounced wī"pt)
4w ī" p tswiped.
3-ī" p thyped, griped, piped, sniped, striped, typed.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: WIPED

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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Images: Slideshow
6. Images: Photo Album
7. Images: Digital Art
8. Quotations: Familiar
9. Quotations: Fiction
10. Quotations: Non-fiction
11. Usage Frequency
12. Names: Derived from
13. Expressions
14. Expressions: Internet
15. Translations: Modern
16. Bible Trace
17. Derivations
18. Rhymes
19. Anagrams
20. Bibliography


  

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