What does WILE mean?
Definitions for WILE
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Princeton's WordNet
trickery, chicanery, chicane, guile, wile, shenanigannoun
the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them)
Wiktionary
wilenoun
A trick or stratagem practiced for ensnaring or deception; a sly, insidious artifice
He was seduced by her wiles.
Wilenoun
transferred from the surname.
wileverb
To entice or lure
wileverb
Archaic form of while
Here's a pleasant way to wile away the hours.
Etymology: From Middle English wile, wyle, from Old Northern French wile ("guile") and Old English wīl ("wile, trick") and wiġle ("divination"), from Proto-Germanic *wīlą ("craft, deceit") (from Proto-Indo-European *wey- ("to turn, bend")) and Proto-Germanic *wigulą, *wihulą ("prophecy") (from Proto-Indo-European *weyk- ("to consecrate, hallow, make holy")). Cognate with Icelandic vél, væl ("artifice, craft, device, fraud, trick"), Dutch wijle.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Wilenoun
A deceit; a fraud; a trick; a stratagem; a practice artful, sly, and insidious.
Etymology: wile , Saxon; wiel, Islandick.
Their leader by his wiles had much obtain’d,
And done much mischief on the English state. Daniel.My sentence is for open war; of wiles
More unexpert, I boast not; them let those
Contrive who need. John Milton.Life essay’d the surest wile,
Gilding itself with Laura’s smile. Wentworth Dillon.So Sforza, curs’d with a too fertile brain,
Lost by his wiles the pow’r his wit did gain. Dryd.The heart of man is so full of wiles, artifices, and deceit, that there is no guessing at what he is from his speeches. Joseph Addison, Guardian.
Wisdom’s above suspecting wiles,
The queen of learning gravely smiles. Jonathan Swift.
ChatGPT
wile
Wile is a strategy, trick, or deceitful method used to manipulate or persuade someone to do something, often without them realizing. It can also refer to cunning or skill in deception.
Webster Dictionary
Wilenoun
a trick or stratagem practiced for insnaring or deception; a sly, insidious; artifice; a beguilement; an allurement
Wileverb
to practice artifice upon; to deceive; to beguile; to allure
Wileverb
to draw or turn away, as by diversion; to while or while away; to cause to pass pleasantly
Etymology: [OE. wile, AS. wl; cf. Icel. vl, vl. Cf. Guile.]
Wikidata
WILE
WILE is a radio station broadcasting a Sports radio format. Licensed to Cambridge, Ohio, USA. The station is currently owned by Avc Communications and features programing from ESPN Radio and Fox News Radio. Programming is simulcast on an FM translator broadcasting at 107.9 FM.
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Wile
wīl, n. a trick: a sly artifice.—v.t. to beguile, inveigle: coax, cajole: to make to pass easily or pleasantly (confused with while).—adj. Wile′ful, full of wiles. [A.S. wíl, wíle; Ice. vél, væl, a trick. Doublet guile.]
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Surnames Frequency by Census Records
WILE
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Wile is ranked #17080 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
The Wile surname appeared 1,662 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 1 would have the surname Wile.
94.8% or 1,577 total occurrences were White.
2.3% or 39 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
1.2% or 21 total occurrences were of two or more races.
1.2% or 20 total occurrences were Black.
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of WILE in Chaldean Numerology is: 6
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of WILE in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4
Examples of WILE in a Sentence
Former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers:
Wile E. Coyote moment.
No one — not the bullpen of the New York Mets, not the French army, not Wile E. Coyote, not even Al Gore — is better at squandering a commanding lead than the Queen of Coasting, Hillary Rodham Clinton. And nobody is better at handing her adversaries talking points to undermine trust, on emails, on the Clinton Foundation, on her own refusal to do something as simple as talking to the reporters who cover her every day.
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