different between swipe vs swire

English

Etymology

From earlier swip (with a short vowel), from Middle English swippen, swipen (“to move violently”), from Old English swipian, sweopian, swippan (“to scourge, strike, beat, lash”), from Proto-Germanic *swip?n?, *swipjan? (“to move”), from Proto-Indo-European *sweyb- (“to bend, turn, swerve, sway, swing, sweep”). Cognate with German schwippen (“to whip”), Danish svippe (“to smack; crack a whip”), Icelandic svipa (“to whip; move swiftly”). Related to sweep, swoop.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /swa?p/
• Rhymes: -a?p

Verb

swipe (third-person singular simple present swipes, present participle swiping, simple past and past participle swiped)

1. (intransitive) To grab or bat quickly.

   The cat swiped at the shoelace.

2. (transitive) To strike with a strong blow in a sweeping motion.
3. (transitive) To scan or register by sliding (a swipecard etc.) through a reader.

   He swiped his card at the door.

4. (intransitive, computing) To interact with a touch screen by drawing one's finger rapidly across it.

   Swipe left to hide the toolbar.

5. (transitive, computing) To draw (one's finger) rapidly across a touch screen.
6. (transitive, informal) To steal or snatch.

   Hey! Who swiped my lunch?

   • 1968, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, 00:48:18:

     "Maybe I could swipe some Tintex from the five-and-dime."

Coordinate terms

• (to interact with a touch screen): scroll

Translations

Noun

swipe (countable and uncountable, plural swipes)

1. (countable) A quick grab, bat, or other motion with the hand or paw; a sweep.
2. (countable) A strong blow given with a sweeping motion, as with a bat or club.
3. (countable, computing) An act of interacting with a touch screen by drawing the finger rapidly across it.
4. (countable) An act of passing a swipecard through a card reader.
5. (countable, informal) A rough guess; an estimate or swag.

6. (countable, informal) An attack, insult or critical remark.
7. (uncountable) Poor, weak beer or other inferior alcoholic beverage; rotgut.

   Synonym: swipes

Anagrams

• pwise, wipes

English

Etymology

From Middle English swire, from Old English sw?ora, from Proto-Germanic *swerhô.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /swa??/

Noun

swire (plural swires)

1. (obsolete) The neck.
2. A hollow between two hills or peaks, especially with a road running through it; a vale.
   • 1824, James Hogg, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, Oxford 2010, p. 33:

     As he approached the swire at the head of the dell […] , he beheld, to his astonishment, a bright halo in the cloud of haze, that rose in a semi-circle over his head like a pale rainbow.

Anagrams

• Rewis, Wires, Wiser, weirs, wiers, wires, wiser, wries

Scots

Alternative forms

• swyre

Etymology

From Old English sw?ora (Northumbrian sw?ra), or the cognate Old Norse svíra, from Proto-Germanic *swerhô.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sw?i(?)r/

Noun

swire (plural swires)

1. (obsolete) neck
2. (geography) vale, swire, valley