单词 | wipeout |
释义 | wipeoutn. 1. Radio. The condition in which a strong received signal renders impossible the reception of other signals (either wanted ones or interference). Chiefly attributive. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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.). ΘΚΠ 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). < n.1921 |
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