windshield wiper

See also: windshield-wiper

English

Alternative forms

• windshield-wiper

Pronunciation

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Noun

windshield wiper (plural windshield wipers)

1. (automobiles, US, Canada) a device used to clear rain and dirt from a windshield; normally a pivoting arm with a rubber blade.
   • 2012 December 26, John Branch, “Snow Fall: The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek”, in The New York Times‎^[1], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 14 November 2013:

     Using her hands like windshield wipers, she tried to flick snow away from her mouth. When she clawed at her chest and neck, the crumbs maddeningly slid back onto her face. She grew claustrophobic.

2. (bodybuilding) An exercise where the back is parallel to the ground (lying on it or hanging via the arms from a pull-up bar) and the legs are perpendicular to the floor so that the lower torso with the legs is rotated to target the Musculus obliquus externus abdominis, the Musculus quadratus lumborum and the Musculus rectus abdominis.

Synonyms

• windscreen wiper (UK)

Translations

device to clear a windshield

• Arabic: مِمْسَحَةُ الزُجَاجِ f (mimsaḥatu z-zujāji)
• Asturian: llimpiaparabrís m
• Basque: haizetako-garbigailu
• Bulgarian: чиста́чка (bg) f (čistáčka)
• Catalan: eixugaparabrises m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 水撥 / 水拨 (seoi² but⁶)

  Mandarin: 雨刷 (zh) (yǔshuā)

• Czech: stěrač (cs) m
• Danish: vinduesvisker (da) c
• Dutch: ruitenwisser (nl) m
• Esperanto: glacoviŝilo
• Faroese: viskari m, rútaturkari m
• Finnish: tuulilasinpyyhin (fi), tuulilasinpyyhkijä
• French: essuie-glace (fr) m
• Galician: limpaparabrisas m
• German: Scheibenwischer (de) m
• Greek: υαλοκαθαριστήρας (el) m (yalokatharistíras)
• Hindi: please add this translation if you can
• Hungarian: ablaktörlő (hu)
• Icelandic: rúðuþurrka f
• Indonesian: please add this translation if you can
• Italian: tergicristallo (it) m
• Japanese: ワイパー (ja) (waipā)
• Korean: 와이퍼 (waipeo)
• Macedonian: бришач m (brišač)
• Malay: pengelap cermin depan
• Navajo: tsésǫʼ yitʼoodí
• Norman: êssuie-ôsaine m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: vindusvisker m

  Nynorsk: vindaugsviskar (nn) m

• Persian: برف‌پاک‌کن (fa) (barf-pâk-kon)
• Piedmontese: tergicristal m
• Polish: wycieraczka (pl) f
• Portuguese: limpa-para-brisas m
• Romanian: ștergător de parbriz n
• Russian: стеклоочисти́тель (ru) m (stekloočistítelʹ), дво́рник (ru) m (dvórnik)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: брѝса̄ч m

  Roman: brìsāč (sh) m

• Spanish: limpiaparabrisas (es) m, crico (es) m (El Salvador), tricos m pl (Nicaragua), waiper m (Puerto Rico), wishiwaiper f (Paraguay)
• Swedish: vindrutetorkare (sv) c
• Thai: ที่ปัดน้ำฝน (tîi-bpàt-náam-fǒn)
• Turkish: silecek (tr)
• Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can
• Volapük: tavienvitüraklinian

exercise of lower torso rotation

• Danish: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: tuulilasinpyyhkijä
• Swedish: vindrutetorkare (sv) c
• Turkish: please add this translation if you can