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Definition: WIPING |
WIPINGPersonal pronoun & verb & noun1. Of Wipe |
Date "WIPING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (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: WIPING |
| English words defined with "WIPING": Absterge, Abstersion ♦ doormat, Dossil ♦ Extersion ♦ gulp ♦ handkerchief, hankey, hankie, hanky ♦ pass over, Penwiper ♦ quaff ♦ rub ♦ Sudarium, swig ♦ towel ♦ welcome mat, wipe, wipe away, wipe off. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "WIPING": battery loader, BATTERY STACKER, BED LASTER ♦ die-stamping-press operator, Dirty Half-Hundred, doctor blade, doctor knife ♦ ENGRAVING-PRESS OPERATOR ♦ health-physics technician ♦ JET WIPER ♦ lasting-machine operator, bed ♦ machine-adjuster helper, MAINTENANCE-MECHANIC HELPER, METER-REPAIRER HELPER, MIXER II ♦ personnel monitor ♦ RADIATION MONITOR, repair helper, RESTORER, CERAMIC, RIM-TURNING FINISHER ♦ shell-reprint operator, SHOTGUN-SHELL-REPRINTING-UNIT OPERATOR, SIDE LASTER, CEMENT, squillagee, SUPERVISOR VI, SUPERVISOR, MATRIX ♦ TOBACCO-CLOTH RECLAIMER, toe and heel laster, transfer-iron operator, TRANSFER-MACHINE OPERATOR ♦ WASTE CHOPPER, Wipe sample. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Wiping out the human race (Twelve Monkeys; writing credit: David Webb Peoples) And here you are wiping out a race of people (Rambo III; writing credit: Sylvester Stallone) If you don't get your hand off my leg, you're going to be wiping your ass with a hook next time you take a dump (Maximum Overdrive; writing credit: Stephen King) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Theater & Movies | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | PFC. Wiley Howington of Asheville, N.C., cleans the M1 he used in wiping out a Jap antiaircraft gun crew in a dugout at Munda. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Wiping off windshield in service station, Cairo, Illinois. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Negro preacher wiping face at revival meeting, La Forge, Missouri. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Mr. Merton Hoover, postmaster, sixty-three years old, who loses his position through the wiping out of the town of Sterlingville, New York, in the Pine Camp expansion area. He is moving to West Carthage, New York. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Play | Caption |
 | Windshield wipers wiping. |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | The man of Marengo was wiping out Agincourt |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | Wiping the griddle, slapping down the hamburger |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | Then she set me on a table, where I showed her my hanger all bloody, and wiping it on the lappet of my coat, returned it to the scabbard |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | A crease just above the tip of the nose from constant upward nose wiping (allergic salute). (references) | |
Infants and toddlers can be given mouth care by wrapping a soft cloth around your finger and gently wiping the teeth and gums with a solution of mouth rinse. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "WIPING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 99.32% of the time. "WIPING" is used about 438 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 (-ing form) | 99.32% | 435 | 13,223 |
| Noun (singular) | 0.46% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 0.23% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 438 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "WIPING". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Maath | N/A | Biblical | Wiping away |
| Tamah | N/A | Biblical | Blotting or wiping out |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references.
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Expressions using "WIPING": wiping off ♦ wiping out. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "WIPING": wiping-out, wiping-rod. | |
| 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 | Expression | Frequency per Day |
ass i it its like love silk wiping | 50 | manufacture roll wiping | 3 |
wiping | 32 | roll wiping | 3 |
drive hard wiping | 17 | hospital product wiping | 3 |
wiping rag | 16 | industry product wiping | 3 |
wiping cloths | 8 | manufacture product wiping | 3 |
ass wiping | 6 | office product wiping | 3 |
clean drive hard wiping | 5 | product restaurant wiping | 3 |
wiping cloth | 5 | product sale wiping | 3 |
disk wiping | 5 | window wiping | 3 |
file wiping | 4 | wiping hard disk | 2 |
butt wiping | 4 | floor wall wiping | 2 |
product wiping | 4 | wall wiping | 2 |
face wiping | 3 | girl wiping | 2 |
system wiping | 3 | abc cloth wiping | 2 |
floor wiping | 2 | ||
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "WIPING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | fshirje (defacement, deletion, effacement, erasure, obliteration, rub, sweeping). (various references) | |
Arabic | مسح (clean, extinguish, mop, mop up, mopping, polish, rub, scanning, scrub, sponge, survey, swab, sweep, wipe), تنشيف. (various references) | |
Chinese | 抹 (Wipe, Wiped). (various references) | |
Danish | selvrensende (self-cleaning), afstrygning. (various references) | |
Dutch | zelfreinigend (self-cleaning), afvegen (delete, wipe, wipe off), afstropen (flay, harry, ravage, skin, strip). (various references) | |
Finnish | itsepuhdistuva (self-cleaning). (various references) | |
French | essuyage. (various references) | |
German | wischend (mopping, whisking), abwischend. (various references) | |
Greek | σφούγγισμα, αυτοκαθαριζόμενος (self-cleaning). (various references) | |
Hebrew | ק וח (cleaning), 'יב" (drying), 'וב (drying). (various references) | |
Hungarian | törlés (cancellation, dash, deletion, dismemberment, erasure, obliteration, wipe). (various references) | |
Indonesian | gonyokan (cleaning, scourge). (various references) | |
Italian | egualizzazione, autopulente (self-cleaning). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 払拭 (sweeping away, wiping out). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | そうめつ (annihilation, wiping out), ふくさ (small cloth for wiping tea utensils, small silk wrapper), ふっしょく (sweeping away, wiping out). (various references) | |
Korean | 닦음 (Polishing, scouring, Wipe). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ipingway.(various references) | |
Portuguese | enxugar (delete, desiccate, dry, exsiccate, rinse, rub down, wipe, wipe off). (various references) | |
Romanian | ştersãturã (blot, erasure, scratch), şters (colorless, colourless, dim, dingy, dull, Gray, grey, low-pitched, pale, sad, wan, washy, wiped). (various references) | |
Russian | стирать стирание (erase, wipe). (various references) | |
Spanish | escurrido (skinny, slight, thin, thinly), enjugar (clean, delete, dry, mop and mow, wipe, wipe at, wipe off, wipe out), autolimpiador (self-cleaning). (various references) | |
Swedish | självrensande (self-cleaning). (various references) | |
Turkish | silme (cancel, cancellation, defacement, deletion, erasion, erasure, obliteration, rubbing, wipe). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | шомпол (rammer, ramrod, wiping-rod). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | 2 Kings Chapter 21, Verse 13 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Kai ektenw epi ierousalhm to metron samareiaV kai to staqmion oikou acaab kai apaleiyw thn ierousalhm kaqwV apaleifetai o alabastroV apaleifomenoV kai katastrefetai epi proswpon autou |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Et extendam super Hierusalem funiculum Samariae et pondus domus Ahab et delebo Hierusalem sicut deleri solent tabulae delens vertam et ducam crebrius stilum super faciem eius |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | And I schal stretchen out vpon Jerusalem the lytyl coord of Samarye, and the birthen of the hous of Achab, and I schal don aweye Jerusalem, as tablis ben wont to ben don aweye; doynge aweye I schal turnen, and bryngyn ofter the poyntel vpon his face. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And I will stretch over Jerusalem the line of Samaria, and the plummet of the house of Ahab: and I will wipe Jerusalem as a man wipeth a dish, wiping it, and turning it upside down. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And I will stretch over Jerusalem the line of Samaria, and the plummet of the house of Ahab: and I will wipe Jerusalem as a man wipeth a dish, wiping it, and turning it upside down. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | And over Jerusalem will be stretched the line of Samaria and the weight of Ahab; Jerusalem will be washed clean as a plate is washed, and turned over on its face. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | 2 Kings Chapter 21, Verse 13 |
| Cebuano | Ug pagahugton ko sa ibabaw sa Jerusalem ang pisi sa Samaria, ug ang tonton sa balay ni Achab; ug pagahinisan ko ang Jerusalem sama sa usa ka tawo nga magahinis sa usa ka pinggan, nga magahinis niini ug pagakulbon kini. |
| Croatian | Nategnut æu nad Jeruzalemom isto uže kao nad Samarijom, isto mjerilo kao nad kuæom Ahabovom; zbrisat æu Jeruzalem kao što se briše zdjela pa se tad izvrne. |
| Danish | Jeg vil trække samme Målesnor over Jerusalem som over Samaria og bruge samme Lod som ved Akabs Hus; jeg vil afviske Jerusalem, som man afvisker et Fad og vender det om; |
| Dutch | En Ik zal over Jeruzalem het meetsnoer van Samaria trekken, mitsgaders het paslood van het huis van Achab; en Ik zal Jeruzalem uitwissen, gelijk als men een schotel uitwist; men wist dien uit, en men keert hem om op zijn holligheid. |
| Finnish | Ja minä mittaan Jerusalemin samalla mittanuoralla kuin Samarian ja punnitsen sen samalla vaa`alla kuin Ahabin suvun. Ja minä huuhdon Jerusalemin, niinkuin vati huuhdotaan: se huuhdotaan ja käännetään kumollensa. |
| French | J`étendrai sur Jérusalem le cordeau de Samarie et le niveau de la maison d`Achab; et je nettoierai Jérusalem comme un plat qu`on nettoie, et qu`on renverse sens dessus dessous après l`avoir nettoyé. |
| German | und will über Jerusalem die Meßschnur Samarias ziehen und das Richtblei des Hauses Ahab; und will Jerusalem ausschütten, wie man Schüsseln ausschüttet, und will sie umstürzen; |
| Haitian Creole | M'ap peni lavil Jerizalèm menm jan mwen te peni lavil Samari ak fanmi wa Akaz la. Mwen pral netwaye lavil Jerizalèm tankou yo netwaye yon asyèt lèfini yo vire l' bouch anba. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Yerusalem akan Kuhukum seperti Aku menghukum Samaria dan Ahab raja Israel serta keturunannya. Yerusalem akan Kusapu bersih seperti piring yang telah dicuci dan dibalikkan. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Dan Aku akan mengenakan kepada Yeruzalem tali pengukur Samaria dan benang arang orang isi istana Akhab dan Aku akan menyapu Yeruzalem seperti orang menyapu pinggan, yaitu setelah sudah disapu cemarnya, dibalik belah pula akan dia. |
| Maori | Ka whakamarokia e ahau te aho o Hamaria ki runga ki Hiruharama, me te parameti o te whare o Ahapa; a ka horoia e ahau a Hiruharama, ka peratia me ta te tangata horoi i te rihi; horoia ana e ia, hurihia ana ko tua. |
| Norwegian | Jeg vil utstrekke samme målesnor over Jerusalem som over Samaria og bruke samme vektlodd som mot Akabs hus, og jeg vil tørke bort Jerusalem, likesom en tørker av et fat og når det er avtørket, snur op ned på det. |
| Portuguese | Estenderei sobre Jerusalém o cordel de Samária e o prumo da casa de Acabe; e limparei Jerusalém como quem limpa a escudela, limpando-a e virando-a sobre a sua face. |
| Rumanian | Voi kntinde asupra Ierusalimului frknghia ca asupra Samariei wi cumpqna ca asupra casei lui Ahab: wi voi curqyi Ierusalimul, ca o farfurie, care se curqyewte, wi se rqstoarnq cu faya kn jos, dupq ce a fost curqyitq. |
| Spanish | Extenderé sobre Jerusalén el cordel de Samaria y la plomada de la casa de Acab, y limpiaré a Jerusalén como cuando se limpia un plato; se limpia y luego se lo pone boca abajo. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words ending with "WIPING": sideswiping, swiping. (additional references) | |
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"WIPING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: wepting, wigin, wipping, wiwing, wopping. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "WIPING" (pronounced wī"ping) |
| 5 | w ī" p i ng | swiping. |
| 4 | -ī" p i ng | griping, hyping, piping, sniping, typing. |
| 3 | -p i ng | antidumping, aping, backslapping, beeping, bleeping, bookkeeping, bumping, burping, camping, capping, carping, Chipping, chirping, chomping, chopping, clamping, clapping, clipping, clumping, coping, copping, cramping, creeping, crimping, cropping, damping, developing, dipping, draping, dripping, drooping, dropping, dumping, eavesdropping, enveloping, equipping, escaping, flapping, flipping, flopping, galloping, gaping, gasping, gossiping, grasping, gripping, groping, grouping, gulping, handicapping, harping, heaping, helping, hoping, hopping, housekeeping, jumping, keeping, kidnaping, kidnapping, lamping, landscaping, lapping, leaping, limping, lopping, lumping, mapping, moping, mopping, napping, nipping, outstripping, overlapping, overstepping, peacekeeping, peeping, pimping, popping, prepping, propping, pulping, pumping, ramping, raping, rapping, reaping, recapping, recouping, regrouping, reshaping, revamping, ripping, romping, roping, safekeeping, sapping, scalping, scooping, scoping, scraping, scrapping, scrimping, seeping, shaping, shipping, shopping, sidestepping, sipping, skimping, skipping, slapping, sleeping, slipping, sloping, slumping, snapping, snooping, sopping, stamping, stepping, stereotyping, stomping, stooping, stopping, strapping, stripping, stumping, swamping, swapping, sweeping, swooping, tamping, taping, tapping, thumping, tipping, topping, tramping, trapping, tripping, trooping, unwrapping, upping, usurping, videotaping, walloping, Wapping, warping, weeping, whipping, whooping, whopping, Wiretapping, worshipping, wrapping, zapping, zipping. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "g-i-i-n-p-w" | |
-1 letter: piing. | |
-2 letters: ping, wing. | |
-3 letters: gin, gip, nip, pig, pin, wig, win. | |
-4 letters: in, pi. | |
| Words containing the letters "g-i-i-n-p-w" | |
+1 letter: swiping, wingtip, wisping. | |
+2 letters: whipping, wimpling, wingtips. | |
+3 letters: impawning, pillowing, whippings. | |
+4 letters: impowering, inwrapping, pigeonwing, previewing, prewriting, upswinging, wampishing, whimpering, whipsawing, whispering, worshiping. | |
+5 letters: pigeonwings, pinwheeling, playwriting, prewritings, sideswiping, typewriting, whisperings, wiretapping, worshipping. | |
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