What does WILE mean?

Definitions for WILE
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Princeton's WordNet

  1. trickery, chicanery, chicane, guile, wile, shenanigannoun

    the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them)

Wiktionary

  1. wilenoun

    A trick or stratagem practiced for ensnaring or deception; a sly, insidious artifice

    He was seduced by her wiles.

  2. Wilenoun

    transferred from the surname.

  3. wileverb

    To entice or lure

  4. wileverb

    Archaic form of while

    Here's a pleasant way to wile away the hours.

  5. 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

  1. 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

  1. 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

  1. Wilenoun

    a trick or stratagem practiced for insnaring or deception; a sly, insidious; artifice; a beguilement; an allurement

  2. Wileverb

    to practice artifice upon; to deceive; to beguile; to allure

  3. Wileverb

    to draw or turn away, as by diversion; to while or while away; to cause to pass pleasantly

  4. Etymology: [OE. wile, AS. wl; cf. Icel. vl, vl. Cf. Guile.]

Wikidata

  1. 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

  1. 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

  1. 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.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of WILE in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of WILE in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of WILE in a Sentence

  1. Former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers:

    Wile E. Coyote moment.

  2. Glenn Thrush:

    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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