Wipe vs Table - What's the difference?
wipe | table |
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.
Furniture with a top surface to accommodate a variety of uses.
# An item of furniture with a flat top surface raised above the ground, usually on one or more legs.
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, title= # A flat tray which can be used as a table.
# (poker, metonym) The lineup of players at a given table.
# A group of people at a table, for example for a meal or game.
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, passage=The humor of my proposition appealed more strongly to Miss Trevor than I had looked for, and from that time forward she became her old self again;
# A service of Holy Communion.
A two-dimensional presentation of data.
# A matrix or grid of data arranged in rows and columns.
#* 1997 , Chris Horrocks, Introducing Foucault , page 69 (Totem Books, Icon Books; ISBN 1840460865)
# A collection of arithmetic calculations arranged in a table, such as multiplications in a multiplication table.
# (computing) A lookup table, most often a set of vectors.
# (sports) A visual representation of a classification of teams or individuals based on their success over a predetermined period.
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, title= (musical instruments) The top of a stringed instrument, particularly a member of the violin family: the side of the instrument against which the strings vibrate.
(backgammon) One half of a backgammon board, which is divided into the inner and outer table.
To put on a table.
(British, Canada) To propose for discussion (from to put on the table ).
(US) To hold back to a later time; to postpone.
To tabulate; to put into a table.
To delineate, as on a table; to represent, as in a picture.
* Francis Bacon
To supply with food; to feed.
(carpentry) To insert, as one piece of timber into another, by alternate scores or projections from the middle, to prevent slipping; to scarf.
To enter upon the docket.
(nautical) To make board hems in the skirts and bottoms of (sails) in order to strengthen them in the part attached to the bolt-rope.
As verbs the difference between wipe and table
is that wipe is to move an object over, maintaining contact, with the intention of removing some substance from the surface (cf rub) while table is .As a noun wipe
is the act of wiping something or wipe can be the lapwing.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
Derived terms
* asswipe * baby wipe * wet wipe * wipe away * wipe off * wipe out * wipeout * wipe somebody's eye * wipe the floor * wipe the slate clean * wiperEtymology 2
Compare (etyl) (m), (etyl) .table
English
(wikipedia table)Noun
(en noun)Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=He had one hand on the bounce bottle—and he'd never let go of that since he got back to the table —but he had a handkerchief in the other and was swabbing his deadlights with it.}}
The China Governess, passage=A very neat old woman, still in her good outdoor coat and best beehive hat, was sitting at a polished mahogany table on whose surface there were several scored scratches so deep that a triangular piece of the veneer had come cleanly away, […].}}
- I’m using mathesis — a universal science of measurement and order …
And there is also taxinomia a principle of classification and ordered tabulation.
Knowledge replaced universal resemblance with finite differences. History was arrested and turned into tables …
Western reason had entered the age of judgement.
Aston Villa 1-0 Newcastle, passage=On this evidence they will certainly face tougher tests, as a depleted Newcastle side seemed to bask in the relative security of being ninth in the table .}}
Synonyms
* (computing) grid, vectorHypernyms
* (furniture) furniture * (computing) arrayHyponyms
* (computing) hashtableDerived terms
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* (furniture) chairVerb
(tabl)- (Carlyle)
- The legislature tabled the amendment, so they will start discussing it now.
- The legislature tabled the amendment, so they will not be discussing it until later.
- The motion was tabled, ensuring that it would not be taken up until a later date.
- to table fines
- tabled and pictured in the chambers of meditation
- (Milton)
- to table charges against someone
