Old English wipian "to wipe, cleanse," from Proto-Germanic *wipjan "to move back and forth" (source also of Danish vippe, Middle Dutch, Dutch vippen, Old High German wifan "to [..]

1640s, "act of wiping," from wipe (v.). From 1708 as "something used in wiping" (especially a handkerchief); 1971 as "disposable absorbent tissue."

rub with a circular motion; "wipe the blackboard"; "He passed his hands over the soft cloth" rub: the act of rubbing or wiping; "he gav [..]

to clean or dry something by rubbing

a transitional technique or optical effect/device in which one shot appears to be "pushed off" or "wiped off" the screen by another shot replacing it and moving acr [..]

An optical transition effect in which one image is replaced by another with a boundry edge that moves in a selected pattern across the frame. (Laboratory)

Erasing a file does not actually erase it. It just gets unlisted in the directory, and moved to the recycle bin. Even after the recycle bin is emptied, the file is still not actually destroyed. Eventu [..]

(n) the act of rubbing or wiping(v) rub with a circular motion

Erased data can frequently be retrieved through forensics on the magnetic material of a hard-disk drive or backup tape. So-called "magnetoresistive microscopes" have been developed that pa [..]

Documents and other data remain on the hard drive (or other storage such as a USB stick or tape) even after they have been deleted.

 In editing, a transition that wipes from one image to another.

And editing device, usually a line which travels across the screen, "pushing off" one image and revealing another. Zoom lens

see TRANSITIONS

A transitional device that occurs when one shot moves across the screen from left to right or from right to left and appears to wipe away the preceding shot; usually used to effect a change of scene w [..]

A wide variety of patterned transitions in which images seem to move (or push) other images off the screen.

A technique of editing in which the images from one shot are replaced by those of another almost ‘chased’ across the screen.

A means of clearing one image from the screen to make way for the next one by, literally, wiping it from the screen.

A line moves across the screen, literally wiping one shot and replacing it with another.

A transitional device in which one image slowly replaces another by pushing the other out of the way.

Wipes allow one scene to effectively erase the previous scene and replace it.

See teamwipe.

To "wipe" means for the entire group whether party or raid to all die. However, party or raid can only continue if there is a class that can resurrect oneself, thereby avoiding the time cons [..]

The situation where everyone in a party is killed by mobs, often in an instance.

In RPGs and MMORPGs, a wipe happens when an entire party is killed. It can also refer to what happens when the accounts of any entire party in an MMORPG is deleted.

When your entire squad dies at the same time. Often occurs when they all occupy a tank and Captain Britain here swings in with his C4 of death.

(v.) death of an entire party or alliance, usually within the context of quests, missions, or major battles. "We wiped on Bahamut today."

(transitive) To move an object over, maintaining contact, with the intention of removing some substance from the surface.Milton *: Some natural tears they dropped, but wiped them soon. (obsolete) [..]

A wipe is a type of film transition where one shot replaces another by travelling from one side of the frame to another or with a special shape. If the wipe proceeds from two opposite edges of the scr [..]

Wipe means to clean a surface by rubbing something on it, but it is used in other contexts: Wiping, a process in which old television and radio recordings were overwritten, erased, or destroyed Wipe [..]