wise

comparative wiser · comparative more wise · superlative wisest · superlative most wise · alternative obsolete wize

1. Showing good judgement or the benefit of experience.

   Storing extra food for the winter was a wise decision.

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   They were considered the wise old men of the administration.

   Synonyms: hot · Antonyms: improvident

2. colloquialironicsarcasticDisrespectful.

   Don't get wise with me!

3. colloquialAware, informed (to something).

   Be careful: the boss is wise to your plan to call out sick.

present singular third person wises · participle present wising · participle past wised · past wised · alternative obsolete wize

1. To become wise.
2. ergativeslangUsually with "up", to inform or learn.

   Mo wised him up about his situation.

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   After Mo had a word with him, he wised up.

plural wises

1. archaicWay, manner, or method.

   In such wise that all the beasts, great and small, came to the court save Reynard the Fox.

   1481, William Caxton, The History of Reynard the Fox^(https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Historye_of_Reynard_the_Foxe/capitulo_.primo._(2))

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   Now the birth of Iesus Christ was on this wise: When as his mother Mary was espoused to Ioseph (before they came together) shee was found with childe of the holy Ghost.

   1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Matthew 1:18

   […] the prize Dead Greece vouchsafes to living eyes, — Her Art for ever in fresh wise From hour to hour rejoicing me.

   1850, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, The Burden of Nineveh, lines 2–5

   A riven hood was pulled across his eyes; The token of him being upon this wise Made for a sign of Lust.

   1866, Algernon Swinburne, A Ballad of Life, lines 28–30

   And within a few minutes the rest of us were on our way too, judiciously instructed by Parkapple and the Brighton official, and disposed of in two taxi-cabs, the drivers of which were ordered to convey us to Rottingdean in such wise that each set his load of humanity at different parts of the village and at the same time that the bus was due to arrive at the hotel.

   1926, J. S. Fletcher, Sea Fog, page 308

   Meantime a serious question came up for discussion.[…]The discussion arose somewhat in this wise. The President of the Society was Mr. Hills, proprietor of the Thames Iron Works. He was a puritan. […]

   1927, M[ohandas] K[aramchand] Gandhi, chapter XVIII, in Mahadev Desai, transl., The Story of My Experiments with Truth: Translated from the Original in Gujarati, volume I, Ahmedabad, Gujarat: Navajivan Press, →OCLC

present singular third person wises · participle present wising · participle past wised · past wised

1. dialectalTo instruct.
2. dialectalTo advise; induce.
3. dialectalTo show the way, guide.
4. dialectalTo direct the course of, pilot.
5. dialectalTo cause to turn.

1. A surname.
2. A township in Isabella County, Michigan, United States.
3. An unincorporated community in Warren County, North Carolina, United States.
4. A town, the county seat of Wise County, Virginia, United States.

plural WISEs

1. abbreviationacronymaeronauticsAcronym of wing-in-surface effect.

   Synonyms: wing-in-surface-effect, wing in surface-effect, wing-in-surface effect, wing in surface effect

1. USabbreviationacronymaerospaceAcronym of Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (“a NASA infrared-wavelength astronomical space telescope that performed an all-sky astronomical survey with images in 3-22 μm wavelength bands”).