Crossword clues for wiper
wiper
- Blade holder on a car
- Windshield attachment
- It has a blade
- Windshield apparatus
- Drop remover
- Windshield-clearing blade
- Windshield-cleaning auto part
- Windshield need
- Windshield device
- Windshield arm
- Windshield ___
- Windscreen cleaner
- Towel wielder
- Squeegee's purpose
- Parking-ticket holder
- Dish towel
- Blade on a car
- Auto debugger
- Squeegee, essentially
- Rain clearer
- Rain check?
- Kind of blade
- Kind of fluid
- A mechanical device that cleans the windshield
- Contact consisting of a conducting arm that rotates over a series of fixed contacts and comes to rest on an outlet
- Windshield accessory
- Dishwasher's partner
- Windshield adjunct
- Car attachment
- Rheostat part
- Moving contact wrecked power wire
- Cloth salesman, one wife upset
- Cleaner more prudent after change of heart
- Bladed cleaner?
- Windshield cleaner
- Windshield clearer
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Wiper \Wip"er\, n.
One who, or that which, wipes.
Something used for wiping, as a towel or rag.
(Mach.) A piece generally projecting from a rotating or swinging piece, as an axle or rock shaft, for the purpose of raising stampers, lifting rods, or the like, and leaving them to fall by their own weight; a kind of cam.
(Firearms) A rod, or an attachment for a rod, for holding a rag with which to wipe out the bore of the barrel.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1550s as a person, 1580s as a cloth, agent noun wipe (v.). From 1929 as short for windshield wiper.
Wiktionary
n. 1 someone who wipes 2 something, such as a towel, that is used for wipe 3 something, such as a windscreen wiper, that is designed for wiping 4 a movable electric contact in some device 5 (context nautical English) A junior role in the engine room of a ship, someone who wipes down machinery and generally keeps it clean.
WordNet
n. 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 [syn: wiper arm, contact arm]
a mechanical device that cleans the windshield [syn: windshield wiper, windscreen wiper, wiper blade]
Wikipedia
A wiper is the most junior rate in the engine room of a ship. The role of a wiper consists of cleaning the engine spaces and machinery, and assisting the engineers as directed. The position is an apprenticeship to become an oiler, and has been for centuries. In modern times, a wiper is required to work on a ship for a specific amount of time, gaining what is referred to as "sea time."
In the United States Merchant Marine, in order to be occupied as a wiper a person has to have a Merchant Mariner's Document and STCW certificate issued by the United States Coast Guard. Because of international conventions and agreements, all wipers who sail internationally are similarly documented by their respective countries.
Railroad workers who performed similar jobs were also known as wipers, or in the UK as "cleaners".
Wiper may also refer to:
- Wiper, a term for a hybrid striped bass
- Wiper, a term for the moving contact on a potentiometer
- Wiper (occupation)
- Windscreen wiper
- Wiper, another brand name for the Lawnbott
- Wiper (One Piece), a character from the manga and anime One Piece
- wiper (malware), apparently employed against Iran as part of the Shamoon cyberweapon in 2012; or, more generically, malware intended to "wipe" (erase) a computer's storage devices
Wiper is the section (debated, see below) of the Shamoon agent (generally regarded as either a cyberweapon or at least as malware) responsible for destroying data on the target's hard disk (or similar storage) on systems running Microsoft Windows. Wiper is significant on its own, as it appears to have been incorporated into more than one agent, is difficult to detect, and resulted in the indirect detection of the Flame agent. The name shamoon in fact comes from a substring detected in what appears to be one of Wiper's search tables.
Usage examples of "wiper".
Her voice trailed off and Arra scowled out at the road, her frown deepening slightly at each slap of the windshield wipers.
It had started to rain, an evil sleet running in curtains across the slippery autobahn, and the mesmeric effect of the windshield wipers almost sent him to sleep.
As an afterthought he hit the windshield wipers, pushing juiced insects into a half-circle of limbs and carapaces.
The windshield wipers, set on intermittent, groaned once as they swept away the mizzle that was descending all over Washington.
The wipers slooshed the rain across the windshield, blurring the gray of the city.
The windshield wipers could barely keep up with the steady, slooshing rain.
The wipers cleared the scene in alternate blinks, a world creating and recreating itself out of primeval deluge as wooden gates yawned for them and let them inside, onto a stone-paved road that curved beneath a broad, sheltering portico, where the rain only scarcely reached.
Bigend turns on the wipers, spatular things that swing from the top of the glass rather than the bottom.
The wipers clacked and the defroster huffed--normal Seattle sounds that Kerrie found familiar and comforting in a world that too often was alien and disturbing.
Big white flakes swooped onto the windshield of the Toyota Previa, to be swept aside by the long wipers.
It took him a few minutes to reacclimatize himself to the car, during which time he accidentally turned on the blinkers twice, the windshield wipers once, and flicked on the high beams trying to squirt wiper fluid onto the windshield.
She drove cautiously along Jamaica Riverway, tires swishing through deep slush, windshield wipers scraping at hoar-frosted glass.
We seemed to be the first vehicle to move out of the compound, in low gear to handle the wheel ruts and ice, with the windshield wipers slapping side to side to counter the snow.
Chemayev sat at the wheel of his Lada, the engine idling, wipers clearing a view of the bunkerlike entrance to Eternity.
So you stalk her, leave her nursery rhymes at work, a black rose in the evening on her windshield wiper.