Scour vs Wipe - What's the difference?
scour | wipe |
To clean, polish, or wash something by scrubbing it vigorously.
To remove by rubbing or cleansing; to sweep along or off.
* Shakespeare
To search an area thoroughly.
(ambitransitive) To move swiftly over; to brush along.
* Alexander Pope
* Dryden
(veterinary medicine) Of livestock, to suffer from diarrhea.
(veterinary medicine) To purge.
(obsolete) To cleanse.
* Francis Bacon
The removal of sediment caused by swiftly moving water.
To move an object over, maintaining contact, with the intention of removing some substance from the surface. (cf. rub)
* 1900 , , (The Wonderful Wizard of Oz)
To remove by rubbing; to rub off; to obliterate; usually followed by away'', ''off'', or ''out .
* (rfdate) Milton
(obsolete) To cheat; to defraud; to trick; usually followed by out .
* (rfdate) Robynson (More's Utopia)
(computing) To erase.
(plumbing) 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.
The act of wiping something.
A soft piece of cloth or cloth-like material used for wiping.
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.
In obsolete|lang=en terms the difference between scour and wipe
is that scour is (obsolete) to cleanse while wipe is (obsolete) to cheat; to defraud; to trick; usually followed by out .As verbs the difference between scour and wipe
is that scour is to clean, polish, or wash something by scrubbing it vigorously while wipe is to move an object over, maintaining contact, with the intention of removing some substance from the surface (cf rub).As nouns the difference between scour and wipe
is that scour is the removal of sediment caused by swiftly moving water while wipe is the act of wiping something or wipe can be the lapwing.scour
English
Alternative forms
* scower (obsolete)Verb
(en verb)- He scoured the burner pans to remove the burnt spills.
- He scoured the burnt food from the pan.
- [I will] stain my favors in a bloody mask, / Which, washed away, shall scour my shame with it.
- They scoured the scene of the crime for clues.
- when swift Camilla scours the plain
- So four fierce coursers, starting to the race, / Scour through the plain, and lengthen every pace.
- If a lamb is scouring , do not delay treatment.
- to scour a horse
- Warm water is softer than cold, for it scoureth better.
Derived terms
* scourerNoun
(-)- Bridge scour may scoop out scour holes and compromise the integrity of the bridge.
wipe
English
(wikipedia wipe)Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) . More at (l), (l).Verb
(wip)- Melissa wiped her glasses with her shirt.
- I wiped the sweat from my brow with the back of my hand.
- Tom started to wipe his eyes.
- So they passed through the Palace Gates and were led into a big room with a green carpet and lovely green furniture set with emeralds. The soldier made them all wipe their feet upon a green mat before entering this room, and when they were seated he said politely
- Some natural tears they dropped, but wiped them soon.
- (Spenser)
- If they by coveyne [covin] or gile be wiped beside their goods.
- I accidentally wiped my hard drive.
Noun
(en noun)- multiple wipes of a computer's hard disk