wiper
pronunciation
How to pronounce wiper in British English:
UK [ˈwaɪpə(r)]
How to pronounce wiper in American English:
US [ˈwaɪpɚ]
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- Noun:
- a worker who wipes
- contact consisting of a conducting arm that rotates over a series of fixed contacts and comes to rest on an outlet
- a mechanical device that cleans the windshield
Word Origin
- wiper (n.)
- 1550s as a person, 1580s as a cloth, agent noun wipe (v.). From 1929 as short for windshield wiper.
Example
- 1. He thought why can 't a wiper work more like an eyelid ?
- 2. Having received the go-ahead from ford kearns began testing his intermittent wiper .
- 3. Kearns brought tann out to the car and showed him the intermittent wiper .
- 4. This sounded reasonable to kearns so he explained to the ford engineers exactly how his intermittent wiper worked .
- 5. He will go on suing until automobile companies around the world are stopped from manufacturing his wiper and he can make it himself .