Scraper vs Wiper - What's the difference?
scraper | wiper |
An instrument with which anything is scraped.
An instrument by which the soles of shoes are cleaned from mud and the like, by drawing them across it.
An instrument drawn by oxen or horses, similar to a plow, that is used for scraping up earth in making or repairing roads, digging cellars, building canals, etc.
An instrument having two or three sharp sides or edges for cleaning the planks, masts, or decks of a ship.
In the printing press, a board or blade, the edge of which is made to rub over the tympan sheet, thus producing an impression.
One who scrapes horns.
One who plays awkwardly on a violin.
One who acquires avariciously and saves penuriously.
someone who wipes
* Robert Browning, The Pied Piper of Hamelin
something, such as a towel, that is used for wiping
something, such as a windscreen wiper, that is designed for wiping
a movable electric contact in some device
(nautical) A junior role in the engine room of a ship, someone who wipes down machinery and generally keeps it clean.
As nouns the difference between scraper and wiper
is that scraper is an instrument with which anything is scraped while wiper is someone who wipes.scraper
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(en noun)Anagrams
* *wiper
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(en noun)- So, Willy, let you and me be wipers / Of scores out with all men — especially pipers!