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Squeegee vs Wiper - What's the difference?

squeegee | wiper |

As nouns the difference between squeegee and wiper

is that squeegee is a tool consisting of a rubber blade at right angles to a handle, used for spreading, pushing or wiping liquid material on, across or off a surface, especially when cleaning glass, eg the windscreen of a vehicle or a shop window, to remove soapy water while wiper is someone who wipes.

As a verb squeegee

is to clean with a squeegee.

squeegee

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A tool consisting of a rubber blade at right angles to a handle, used for spreading, pushing or wiping liquid material on, across or off a surface, especially when cleaning glass, eg the windscreen of a vehicle or a shop window, to remove soapy water.
  • (slang) A person who cleans the windscreen of a vehicle stopped in traffic then demands payment from the driver.
  • (printing) A tool used in silk-screen printing for forcing the ink through the stencil and thus printing the desired image.

    • See also

    * (wikipedia)

    Verb

  • To clean with a squeegee.

    • See also

    * squeegee merchant * squeegee mop

    wiper

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • someone who wipes
  • * Robert Browning, The Pied Piper of Hamelin
    • So, Willy, let you and me be wipers / Of scores out with all men — especially pipers!
  • 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.