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swype

swype is the obsolete form of swipe.

swype is the obsolete form of sweep.

Meaning of swipe

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) An act of interacting with a touch screen by drawing the finger rapidly across it.
    • Some New Yorkers are moving beyond the swipe to venture into flirtatious panel discussions and speed dating sessions.2020 April 18, Alyson Krueger, “Virtual Dating Is the New Normal. Will It Work?”, in The New Yorker
  4. (countable) An act of passing a swipecard through a card reader.
    • Owning a car in New York City is seen as a liability by many, especially when a quick Uber ride or the swipe of a MetroCard can easily get you where you need to go.2020 March 13, Ronnie Koenig, “Parking So Prime, the Car Is Optional”, in The New Yorker
  5. (countable, informal) A rough guess; an estimate or swag.
    • Take a swipe at the answer, even if you're not sure.
  6. (countable, informal) An attack, insult or critical remark.
    • The politician took a swipe at his opponents.

See all 15 meanings of swipe

Meaning of sweep

Verb

sweep (third-person singular simple present sweeps, present participle sweeping, simple past and past participle swept)

  1. (transitive) To clean (a surface) by means of a stroking motion of a broom or brush.
    • to sweep a floor, the street, or a chimney
  2. (intransitive) To move through a (horizontal) arc or similar long stroke.
    • The wind sweeps across the plain.
    Synonyms:
    swing
  3. (transitive) To search (a place) methodically.
  4. (figuratively, intransitive) To travel quickly.
    • Drifting thus, we made fast time down the bank through Cove Bay, and at 72 m.p.h. came sweeping round the curve past Girdleness light house, and so to the first sight of Aberdeen itself.1947 January and February, O. S. Nock, “"The Aberdonian" in Wartime”, in Railway Magazine, page 9
    Synonyms:
    They've swept to power with an overwhelming majority.
  5. To play a sweep shot.
  6. To brush the ice in front of a moving stone, causing it to travel farther and to curl less.

See all 42 meanings of sweep

Forms of swype

Noun
pluralswypes
Verb
third-person singular presentswypes
present participleswyping
past participleswyped
pastswyped

Questions about swype

What is swype the obsolete form of?
Swype is the obsolete form of swipe.

Words near swype in the dictionary

  1. swylbolle
  2. swylbolles
  3. Swynford
  4. Swynnerton
  5. Swynnertons
  6. swype
  7. swyped
  8. swypes
  9. swyping
  10. Swystun
  11. Swystuns

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: swype (page history and authors); swipe (page history and authors); sweep (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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