Purge vs Wipe - What's the difference?
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An act of .
(medicine) An evacuation of the bowels or a vomiting.
A cleansing of pipes.
A forcible removal of people, for example, from political activity.
That which purges; especially, a medicine that evacuates the intestines; a cathartic.
to clean thoroughly; to cleanse; to rid of impurities
(religion) to free from sin, guilt, or the burden or responsibility of misdeeds
To remove by cleansing; to wash away.
* Bible, Psalms lxxix. 9
* Addison
(medicine) to void (the bowels); to vomit.
(medicine) To operate on (somebody) as a cathartic, or in a similar manner.
(legal) to clear of a charge, suspicion, or imputation
To clarify; to clear the dregs from (liquor).
To become pure, as by clarification.
To have or produce frequent evacuations from the intestines, as by means of a cathartic.
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 transitive terms the difference between purge and wipe
is that purge is to clarify; to clear the dregs from (liquor) while wipe is to remove by rubbing; to rub off; to obliterate; usually followed by away, off, or out.purge
English
(wikipedia purge)Noun
(en noun)- Stalin liked to ensure that his purges were not reversible.
- (Arbuthnot)
Verb
(purg)- Purge away our sins, for thy name's sake.
- We'll join our cares to purge away / Our country's crimes.
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