WIPER


Meaning of WIPER in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

windscreen wiper

windshield wiper

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

windscreen

Matters grew worse by the minute as Father pressed on, windscreen wipers working furiously.

Then on towards Amiens with the windscreen wipers going flip-flop as we drove past sodden barns and soaking cattle.

The windscreen wipers sounded asthmatic, fighting a losing battle against the insistent rain.

As soon as the sergeant turned off the windscreen wipers a curtain of mist was breathed across the glass.

Operate the windscreen wipers or something?

In a couple of seconds the aerial had gone and the windscreen wipers had also been wrenched off.

The windscreen wipers droned on and on.

The windscreen wipers trudge sluggishly and ineffectively through the water, bringing visibility down to a few feet.

■ NOUN

windshield

There was a parking ticket neatly tucked under the windshield wiper .

All along the windshield wipers they got wedged under with legs and wings in disarray.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

As soon as the sergeant turned off the windscreen wipers a curtain of mist was breathed across the glass.

Cars were edging forward with barely controlled impatience to the steady whiplash accompaniment of their windscreen wipers.

That is, there is an additional type of condition which obtains when the wipers start-not ten in all but eleven.

The wipers kept knocking slivers of the ice off the windscreen.

The column stalks are fine: indicators, lights and horn on the left, wipers on the right.

There was a parking ticket neatly tucked under the windshield wiper .

This point means that where a motor vehicle is required to be fitted with wipers it must also have washers.

We do not believe that whatever the situation had been, if the switch was flipped, the wipers would have started.

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