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单词 wipeout
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wipeoutn.

Brit. /ˈwʌɪpaʊt/, U.S. /ˈwaɪpˌaʊt/
Etymology: < verbal phrase to wipe out: see wipe v. 6.
1. Radio. The condition in which a strong received signal renders impossible the reception of other signals (either wanted ones or interference). Chiefly attributive.
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society > communication > telecommunication > radio communications > [noun] > signal > obstruction or poor reception
blind spot1864
screening1902
fading1912
night effect1914
night error1921
wipeout1921
skip1925
radio fade-out1927
fade-out1937
1921 Wireless World 9 13/1 You get what is called a ‘wipe out’ effect.
1921 Wireless World 9 13/1 With radiotelephony the case is worse, as the wipe out is continuous if it occurs at all.
1929 Encycl. Brit. IV. 218/2 Within a ‘wipe-out’ area uninterrupted service can be guaranteed, unless the interference is produced by listeners themselves.
1940 Amateur Radio Handbk. (ed. 2) x. 160/1 There are three types of interference that may be caused in neighbouring receivers working on broadcast waves, by an amateur telegraphy transmitter. First, the ‘wipe-out’ effect, where the signal from the transmitter ‘blocks’ the receiver due to either the excessive field strength of the transmitter, or the inselectivity of the receiver, or both.
2. Surfing. A fall from one's surfboard as a result of a collision with another surfer or a wave. Cf. wipe v. 6i. slang.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > water sports except racing > surfing > [noun] > actions of surfer > fall
dump1935
wipeout1962
1962 Austral. Women's Weekly 24 Oct. (Suppl.) 3/4 Wipeout, a dramatic fall off a board when a rider is trying to catch a wave.
1963 Sunday Mail (Brisbane) 10 Nov. 23 He talk surfie talk..‘cowabunga, wipe-out, I'm get stoked..yay gremmies’.
1969 Observer 3 Aug. 33/1 The biggest danger always lies in a ‘wipe-out’, with a loose board which may hit the rider or other surfers.
1970 People (Austral.) 26 Aug. 20/1 One bad wipeout—at Sunset Beach, Hawaii—earned him broken ribs.
3. Destruction, annihilation; a killing; a crushing defeat; an overwhelming experience. slang (originally U.S.).
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the world > life > death > killing > [noun]
mortifyingc1384
perishingc1384
slayinga1400
interfectionc1450
dispatchment1529
killingc1540
dispatch1576
unliving1599
martyring1607
taking offa1616
enecation1657
exanimation1670
(to get) the chop or chopper1945
wipeout1968
hit1970
the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > [noun] > utter destruction or annihilation
anientizement1429
deletiona1513
extincting1513
annihilment1526
exterminion1528
nulling1538
annihilation1541
exterminationc1550
nullity1555
annihilating1577
massacre1595
extinguishment1599
extinct1606
expunction1615
extinction1615
discreationa1628
nullificationa1631
nullifying1640
decreation1647
defacedness1668
extinguishinga1676
erasurea1794
exterminating1796
blotting out1808
naughting1913
wipeout1968
the world > action or operation > failure or lack of success > defeat or overthrow > [noun] > heavy or crushing
overset1456
Pharsalia1693
smashing1821
rout1831
sauve-qui-peut1861
drubbing1884
smash1888
pounding1912
shellacking1931
fucking?1945
bloodbath1967
wipeout1968
skinning1972
the mind > mental capacity > expectation > feeling of wonder, astonishment > quality of inspiring wonder > [noun] > event
wonderc950
miraclec1390
marl1604
phenomenon1741
weird1814
sensation1860
masterpiece1933
wipeout1968
1968 Sun (Baltimore) 7 July 5/2 Charlie is 1810. We had a wipeout... Translation. Girl: Charlie is old news. We broke up.
1971 J. Henderson Copperhead vi. 71 Less than thirty-six hours to incapacitate 85 percent of the population. The remaining 15 percent would take a little more than a week. Strategically it would be a wipe-out.
1972 Jazz & Blues Sept. 8/1 When I heard Art it was a wipeout. He just wiped me out man.
1977 Daily Mirror 12 Apr. 27/7 A record 140,000 [motor-cycling] fans have watched the embarrassing wipe-out by 410 points to 379.
1979 L. Meyer False Front iii. 24 This is something like the wipeout of a personal fortune.
1984 ‘M. Hebden’ Pel & Pirates xviii. 143 Think it was a gang wipe-out, Patron?
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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