What's the difference between wipe and wise?

Wipe


Definition:

  • (n.) The lapwing.
  • (v. t.) To rub with something soft for cleaning; to clean or dry by rubbing; as, to wipe the hands or face with a towel.
  • (v. t.) To remove by rubbing; to rub off; to obliterate; -- usually followed by away, off or out. Also used figuratively.
  • (v. t.) To cheat; to defraud; to trick; -- usually followed by out.
  • (n.) Act of rubbing, esp. in order to clean.
  • (n.) A blow; a stroke; a hit; a swipe.
  • (n.) A gibe; a jeer; a severe sarcasm.
  • (n.) A handkerchief.
  • (n.) Stain; brand.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) More than £26bn was wiped off the value of Britain's top companieson Tuesday, according to FTSE Group.
  • (2) It’s a good principle: don’t complain to people on whom you’re relying – unless there’s no way they can wipe your steak on their bum or drop a bogey in your soup.
  • (3) He argues that whenever you have periods of crazy expansion of virtual credit, like today, you either have to have a safety valve of forgiveness, like in Mesopotamia where you wiped the tablets clean every seven years, or you have an outbreak of social violence so intense you rip society apart.
  • (4) Shelby Quast, of Equality Now, said the gathering could be a “tipping point” and act as a catalyst for change, so that girls in the US could finally be protected: “It’s the first time that members of the government are coming around the table to meet with civil society, survivors and members of the diaspora – this is the first step towards putting together a comprehensive action plan to tackling FGM.” Campaigners are calling for the government to look at practical ways that FGM could be wiped out in the United States – such as engaging with paediatricians and other doctors, immigration officers and visa offices.
  • (5) A method was developed for the preparation of a standard source to satisfy the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission requirement for calibration of wipe-assay procedures used in nuclear medicine laboratories.
  • (6) Thugs are distributing leaflets threatening to "wipe us out" and children in schools are being taught that the Rohingya are different.
  • (7) Each transducer head was wiped clean with a single alcohol wipe, allowed to dry, and then cultured.
  • (8) 'To returning forests we could reintroduce animals that have been wiped out across much or all of this land.'
  • (9) Earlier this month, Israeli warplanes struck targets near the capital, Damascus, reportedly wiping out Iranian missiles destined for Hezbollah.
  • (10) So our house is open to visitors, and you are always welcome.” A few weeks after we left, the Gregório river oveflowed, wiping out five villages, destroying four years worth of handicrafts and carpentry and leaving hundreds of people homeless.
  • (11) Nearly £5bn was wiped off the company's stock market value on Thursday after the supermarket juggernaut hit the wall during the peak selling season.
  • (12) Nor should we forget why the Conservatives were so eager to seize that chance: they saw the opportunity to wipe out the achievements of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, who demonstrated, over many years of hard graft, that the country’s economic management was safe in Labour’s hands.
  • (13) The cell debris from the surfaces of the separated incisors was either gently wiped off with soft facial tissues or chemically removed by treating with NaOH, NaOCl or trypsin.
  • (14) Hundreds of people, including a former politician seeking re-election, a paedophile and a doctor, have applied to have details about them wiped from Google's search index since the ruling last Tuesday .
  • (15) Coupled with the global decline in oil prices and a costly pipeline deal with Sudan that allows its northern neighbour to charge South Sudan a fixed rate of $25 a barrel, the bulk of government revenues – and the country’s sole source of foreign exchange – has been virtually wiped out.
  • (16) These "misdirected wiping responses" have been explained in terms of two alternative hypotheses of nerve regeneration: nerve respecification or selective reinnervation.
  • (17) It's daunting, but St Louis have the bats and thus the best chance of any team in the NL to wipe out LA, who, despite losing Matt Kemp for the season, can hit a little bit as well.
  • (18) Billions of pounds have been wiped off the value of global carmakers amid growing concerns that emissions tests may have been rigged across the industry.
  • (19) But an "intensified euro area crisis" would wipe out growth in Europe, plunging the economy into a deep recession.
  • (20) Wipe tests were performed on designated areas for two 1-wk periods approximately 6 mo apart.

Wise


Definition:

  • (v.) Having knowledge; knowing; enlightened; of extensive information; erudite; learned.
  • (v.) Hence, especially, making due use of knowledge; discerning and judging soundly concerning what is true or false, proper or improper; choosing the best ends and the best means for accomplishing them; sagacious.
  • (v.) Versed in art or science; skillful; dexterous; specifically, skilled in divination.
  • (v.) Hence, prudent; calculating; shrewd; wary; subtle; crafty.
  • (v.) Dictated or guided by wisdom; containing or exhibiting wisdom; well adapted to produce good effects; judicious; discreet; as, a wise saying; a wise scheme or plan; wise conduct or management; a wise determination.
  • (v.) Way of being or acting; manner; mode; fashion.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A more current view of science, the Probabilistic paradigm, encourages more complex models, which can be articulated as the more flexible maxims used with insight by the wise clinician.
  • (2) I liked watching Morecambe & Wise, I liked the Queen's speech because it was on and everyone listened to it.
  • (3) Based on these data, we propose that 19-oxygenated androgen intermediates are biosynthesized sequentially in a step-wise fashion as the cytochrome P450 and NADPH-cytochrome P450 reductase form transient complexes, and that the amount of isolatable 19-oxygenated androgen is proportional to the amount of excess cytochrome P450 component.
  • (4) But Zambelis added: "Whatever rebel government emerges, China already has a place in the country business-wise.
  • (5) First, I recapped Die Hard 2 – the insane cross-eyed Gizmo of the Die Hard world – a few months ago, and now I'm secretly determined to do the whole series before the Guardian film editors wise up and yank this feature from my warm, live hands.
  • (6) At the hearing, committee chairman Senator Patrick Leahy, praised the secret service as "wise, very professional men and women", and called it shocking that so many of the agency's employees were involved in the scandal.
  • (7) The acid-mediated Z form binds ethidium more weakly than its B counterpart, and the ethidium induced Z to B conversion occurs in a step-wise (non-allosteric) fashion without the requirement of a threshold concentration.
  • (8) But some wise old heads sniff into their handkerchiefs because they have sat through too many costly "happy ever after" ceremonies that ended in acrimony.
  • (9) He has to grow up and wise up to the fact that people at West Brom have supported him right from the beginning of his career.
  • (10) In an attempt to show the public and cabinet colleagues that money being ring-fenced from Treasury cuts will be spent wisely, Mitchell said he wanted to know whether money spent at agencies such as the World Bank and the UN matched up to the government's anti-poverty objectives and delivered real benefits.
  • (11) The rate constants involved in the step-wise dissociation, process were obtained.
  • (12) The Republican presidential candidate then told Fox News that Amazon is “getting away with murder tax-wise” and has a “huge antitrust problem because he’s [Bezos] controlling so much”.
  • (13) Two new bifunctional reagents suited for the step-wise cross-linking of cysteine and lysine residues in proteins are described.
  • (14) The correction of hallux varus must be performed in a well planned, step-wise method.
  • (15) It's wise, however, not to concentrate on the exact path of Sandy.
  • (16) Concentrations of ceftriaxone and cefotaxime were measured by Andrews and Wise in blister fluids, in ascites and pleural fluid by us.
  • (17) Given a choice between placating the Freedom Caucus and placating Donald Trump, Ryan is wisely choosing self-preservation with the former.
  • (18) San Antonio wisely takes a timeout hoping to cool him down.
  • (19) Crozier has had time to play with since he arrived, but the question is whether he has used his first year wisely to build for the future.
  • (20) After different time intervals following a single or course-wise administration of the compound the level of total lipids was determined in the muscles and liver of the mice, and of the total lipids, beta-lipoproteins, phospholipids, cholesterol, fatty acids and 11-oxycorticosteroids levels in the blood serum of rabbits and of the bile acids content in the vesical bile of these animals.