wise

IPA: wˈaɪz

(archaic) Way, manner, or method.
A surname.
A township in Isabella County, Michigan, United States.
An unincorporated community in Warren County, North Carolina, United States.
A town, the county seat of Wise County, Virginia, United States.
(aviation, nautical) Acronym of wing-in-surface effect.
(space science, US) Acronym 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)

Examples of "wise" in Sentences

_He that walketh with the wise shall be wise_ (Prov.xiii. 20) is as true to-day as when first uttered.
Were all men simply wise and just, all predicating of certain men that they were _more_, or _most, wise_ or _just_, would be at once absurd and without utility.
John Willet, who appeared to consider himself particularly and chiefly referred to under the term wise men, looked that way likewise, and with great solidity of feature.
The divergence of such a syllogism from the _Dictum_ may, however, be easily shown to be superficial by writing, instead of _No wise man fears death_, the simple, converse, _No man who fears death is wise_.
Most often, I picture an old, bald Buddhist monk sitting erect on a bamboo mat in an ancient temple somewhere in Tibet, his eyes closed, his expression wise and serene, like he holds the secret to inner peace.
I suppose it has often happened that a fool has spoken wisely, and wise men have often done foolishly, as St. Paul says, If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise (1 Cor. iii.