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Do you have some paper towels that I can wipe the floor with?; I'll just get a sponge and wipe the crumbs off the table.; Don't wipe your grubby hands on my clean towel!; Please wipe your feet before you come into the house.

I'd better give the floor a quick wipe before someone slips on it.

The virus wipes the memory of any computer that downloads the file.

grubby old clothes; He was wearing some old shorts and a grubby T-shirt.

Soccer players often wear shin pads to protect their legs.; In the 1980s, shoulder pads were very fashionable in women's clothes.; She wiped her eye make-up off with a cotton wool pad.

Another: a flat piece of soft material used to protect a surface, to prevent injury to a person, or to give a fuller shape to clothing; A carpet and pad on the floor help insulate against the cold.

I have a pad and pencil for taking notes.; I always keep a pad of paper by the phone.

The hotel has its own helicopter pad.; Missiles have been launched from their pads deep in enemy territory.

a bachelor pad

These boots are padded with shock-resistant foam.

She pads around the house in bare feet.; She padded silently into his bedroom.

Poor investments wiped out most of his earnings.; Whole villages were wiped out in the fighting.; One bad harvest could wipe out all of a grower's profits for the previous two years.

Investors saw their recent gains wiped out by a sudden collapse in the share price.

I was just wiping up the soup that you spilled in the kitchen.; Do you have something I could wipe up this mess with?

Every night we wipe the tables down before we shut the restaurant.

She slipped on the ice.; The razor slipped while he was shaving and he cut himself.; Her hat had slipped over one eye.; He could feel the rope slipping out of his grasp.

Just slip out of the room while nobody's looking.; He slipped a piece of paper into my hand with his address on it.; If you slip the waiter some money/slip some money to the waiter he'll give you the best table.

Productivity in the factory has slipped noticeably in the last year.; The schedule has started to slip (= things are happening later than planned).; We’ve slipped even further behind schedule.

Another: an occasion when something becomes worse; A slip in the value of the U.S. dollar helped push prices higher.

The ship slipped its moorings.; The dog slipped its leash and ran off.; The ball slipped through my fingers.

We rented a mooring.

We moored the boat to a large tree root.

The dollar slipped against the Japanese yen.; He sold his shares, just before sales began to slip.

Another: a reduction in the level or amount of something; The retail group reported a 5% slip in sales.; recent slips in the value of the stock market

a slip of paper; If you want to order a book fill out the green slip.; You get a slip from the cash machine when you take out money.; credit/debit/withdrawal slip

She's made one or two slips - mainly spelling errors - but it's basically well written.

One slip meant a long tumble to the rocks below.

If you could wait two minutes, I'm just going to slip into a nicer dress.; You don't need to go into the fitting room - just slip the jacket on over your sweater.

"I hear Italy beat France in the semifinals last night." "Beat them? They wiped the floor with them!"

Tell him you saw Helena at the cinema with another guy - that should wipe the smile off his face!

The size of the deductions in the first monthly pay slip came as a shock to her.

Management started issuing pink slips yesterday.; The sales department has been told to pink-slip 20% of its staff.; A year after he got his pink slip, he was still looking for work.

You shouldn't let a job/man like that slip through your fingers!

Time was slipping away and she had to make a decision soon.; Another: If someone's power or the possibility of someone winning or achieving something slips away, it disappears; Political power was really in their hands and they let it slip away.

His chance at the medal slipped away as his Olympic teammate took the gold.

Make sure you are given a receipt for everything you buy.; More retailers are switching to email receipts instead of paper.; If you've got your receipt you can usually exchange the goods.; Apple stopped printing receipts, opting to email them instead.

Goods will be delivered on receipt of payment (= after the money is received).; You have been in receipt of unemployment benefit for two months.

The theatre's receipts for the winter were badly down.; The economy experienced lower than expected export receipts.

Most shops will allow you to make an exchange or offer you a credit note instead of a refund.; Incorrect invoices may need to be adjusted by means of a credit note issued by the supplier.

The seller often requires the buyer to sign a delivery note to the effect that the goods have been delivered in compliance with the contract, and in good condition

Also: a message on a computer telling you that an email has reached the person it was sent to; The delivery receipt option allows you to keep track of when a message is delivered.

Consider using priority mail with delivery confirmation if you want to confirm that your parcel was delivered.

a service offered in the UK in which someone sending a letter or package receives an official piece of paper proving they have sent it, and the person who they are sending the letter or package to signs a paper to prove they have received it

send sth (by) recorded delivery Please send the policy documents back by recorded delivery.

He sent in his application by email and two weeks later got a read receipt.

Rosie suddenly grasped my hand.; I grasped the gun with both hands and took aim.; He shook my hand with a very firm grasp.; I grasped his arm to keep from falling.

The government has acknowledged that homelessness is a problem but it has failed to grasp the scale of the problem.; He has a good grasp of the issues.

We must grasp every opportunity to strengthen economic ties with other countries.; The presidency at last looked within her grasp (= it looked possible that she might become president).

The gold medal slipped from his grasp (= he was unable to get it) in the last moments of the race.; A full partnership at last seemed to be within her grasp.

We scrapped our plans for a trip to France.; The bank has scrapped its plans for a property division.

Over 60% of all Georgians want to keep the present flag and only 29% want to scrap it.;

scrap iron/metal; We sold our old car for scrap.; He was charged with stealing copper tubing, which he then sold as scrap metal.; The building materials were sent for scrap.

Do you have a scrap of paper I could write on?; There's not a scrap of (= no) evidence to suggest that he committed the crime.; She picked up scraps of information about her husband’s whereabouts, but nothing definite.

We give all our scraps to our dog.

The car would have cost so much to repair that I decided to scrap it.

Also: If an idea or person is on the scrap heap, people are no longer interested in them; Some people believe that Communism has been relegated/consigned to the scrap heap of history.; Many top class players end up on the scrap heap after a short career.

Trupin is thought to be in the Caribbean, although his exact whereabouts are/is a mystery.; Moreno’s whereabouts are unknown, but some people think he is in Panama.

Whereabouts in Madrid do you live?; Whereabouts is your office, then?; Whereabouts is your office?

If the salvage value turns out higher than the depreciated value of the machinery, you will have to pay tax on the difference.

Store damaged furniture may have a salvage value.

I'm usually at home from five o'clock onwards.

We sailed onwards in a westerly direction.

Her publishing career started as an editorial assistant on a women's magazine and it was onwards and upwards from there.

He pointed upwards...; House prices have started moving upwards again.; Buyers still outnumber sellers and are pushing prices upwards.; The UK's export figures are expected to be revised upwards next month.

With an upward trend in inflation, you expect prices to rise.; Move the lever in an upward direction.

If you are continuing on an onward flight, your bags will be transferred automatically.; The geese continued onward, heading south.

You reduce the volume by sliding this lever downwards.; The sales figures seem to be slipping steadily downwards, which is rather worrying.

a downward trend; The country's economy is on a downward spiral.

In our office the women outnumber the men three to one.; Girls outnumbered boys by a margin of 2 to 1.

The Senate approved the use of military force by a margin of 52 votes to 47.; The election was won by the very narrow margin of only 185 votes. She won the presidency by a wide margin.

He spent the 1980s on the margins of British politics.; We need to reach out to those on the margins of society.

There is not much margin for creativity in a job like this.; They allow an additional safety margin of five minutes between planes taking off.; There is no margin for error – it’s got to work the first time.

The company averages profit margins of 70%.; Many small companies operate on very narrow profit margins.

the difference between the total cost of making and selling something and the price it is sold for, or between the total amount of money a company receives from sales and the total cost of producing all its products and services.

Gross profit for the quarter amounted to $11.2m.

Gross profit margin can be calculated by dividing gross profit by total revenue.

We're bringing out new high-margin products and moving out of less profitable ones.

Paper manufacture is, generally speaking, a low-margin business.; The company has shifted away from low-margin products.

a Christmas tree decorated with tinsel

She went home for a family get-together over the weekend.