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noun
- One who sweeps.
- One who sweeps floors or chimneys.
- an employee who sweeps (floors or streets etc.)
- A carpet sweeper.
- (soccer) A defender who is the last line of defence before the goalkeeper.
- A detector for mines.
- Any of the small, tropical marine perciform fishes of the family Pempheridae, typically with deeply keeled, compressed bodies and large eyes.
- (cricket) A fielding position along the boundary; a fielder in this position.
- (hiking) The last person in the line of hikers that is responsible for ensuring no one gets separated from the group.
- (video games) A character designed or capable of knocking out multiple enemies in succession, usually due to a combination of high offense and high speed.
- A tree that has fallen over a river with branches extending into the water.
- (regional, including Cebu) A group of students tasked at cleaning the homeroom after class dismissal.
- (US, regional, including Ohio, Indiana and Western Pennsylvania) A vacuum cleaner.
- (cricket) A batsman who plays sweep shots.
- (curling) A person who sweeps the ice ahead of the rock in play.
- (motor racing, slang) A large-radius, or high/medium speed corner in a racing circuit, named as such because of the ability of someone to trace the corner profile via "sweeping" motion of the arm.
- little-known nocturnal fish of warm shallow seas with an oblong compressed body
- a cleaning implement with revolving brushes that pick up dirt as the implement is pushed over a carpet
verb
- sweep with a broom or as if with a broom
- (transitive, intransitive) To sweep with a broom.
- finish with a broom
- (nautical) Alternative form of bream (“to clean a ship's bottom”).
- (roofing) To improve the embedding of a membrane by using a broom or squeegee to smooth it out and ensure contact with the adhesive under the membrane.
- (figurative) To get rid of someone, like firing an employee or breaking up with a girlfriend, to sweep another out of one's life.
noun
- common Old World heath represented by many varieties; low evergreen grown widely in the Northern Hemisphere
- a cleaning implement for sweeping; bundle of straws or twigs attached to a long handle
- any of various shrubs of the genera Cytisus or Genista or Spartium having long slender branches and racemes of yellow flowers
- Of plants not closely related to those of tribe Genisteae.
- (slang, rare) A firearm; especially, a shotgun.
- (countable, curling) An implement with which players sweep the ice to make a stone travel further and curl less; a sweeper.
- (countable) A domestic utensil with fibers bound together at the end of a long handle, used for sweeping.
- Any of several yellow-flowered shrubs of the family Fabaceae, with long, stiff, thin branches and small or few leaves used for the domestic utensil.
- Especially, of the tribe Genisteae, including genera Cytisus, Genista, and Spartium.
intj
verb
- sweep with a broom or as if with a broom
- clean by sweeping
- make a big sweeping gesture or movement
- move with sweeping, effortless, gliding motions
- to cover or extend over an area or time period
- cover the entire range of
- win an overwhelming victory in or on
- sweep across or over
- force into some kind of situation, condition, or course of action
- To carry with a long, swinging, or dragging motion; hence, to carry in a stately or proud fashion.
- (curling) To brush the ice in front of a moving stone, causing it to travel farther and to curl less.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To travel quickly.
- (cricket) To play a sweep shot.
- (sports, transitive) To defeat (a team) in a series without drawing or losing any of the games in that series.
- To brush against or over; to rub lightly along.
- To strike with a long stroke.
- (sports, transitive) To win (a series) without drawing or losing any of the games in that series.
- (rowing) To row with one oar to either the port or starboard side.
- To pass over, or traverse, with the eye or with an instrument of observation.
- (transitive, ergative) To move something in a long sweeping motion, as a broom.
- (nautical) To draw or drag something over.
- (Western Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana) To vacuum a carpet or rug.
- (military) To clear (a body of water or part thereof) of mines.
- (transitive) To remove something abruptly and thoroughly.
- (intransitive) To move through a (horizontal) arc or similar long stroke.
- (transitive) To clean (a surface) by means of a stroking motion of a broom or brush.
- (transitive) To search (a place) methodically.
noun
- A single action of sweeping.
- A chimney sweep.
- someone who cleans soot from chimneys
- winning all or all but one of the tricks in bridge
- a wide scope
- a movement in an arc
- (American football) an attempt to advance the ball by running around the end of the line
- a long oar used in an open boat
- (martial arts) A throw or takedown that primarily uses the legs to attack an opponent's legs.
- A large oar used in small vessels, partly to propel them and partly to steer them.
- The compass of any turning body or of any motion.
- (rowing, attributive) A rowing style in which each rower rows with oar on either the port or starboard side.
- (possibly US, regional) The act of police removing a homeless encampment from a public space.
- A long pole, or piece of timber, moved on a horizontal fulcrum fixed to a tall post and used to raise and lower a bucket in a well for drawing water.
- Direction or departure of a curve, a road, an arch, etc. away from a rectilinear line.
- (card games) In the game casino, the act of capturing all face-up cards from the table.
- (aviation) The degree to which an aircraft's wings are angled backwards (or, occasionally, forwards) from their attachments to the fuselage.
- A flow of water parallel to shore caused by wave action at an ocean beach or at a point or headland.
- (cricket) A batsman's shot, played from a kneeling position with a swinging horizontal bat.
- The person who steers a dragon boat.
- (US, television) singular of sweeps (“viewership ratings”)
- An expanse or a swath, a strip of land.
- Any of several sea chubs in the family Kyphosidae (subfamily Scorpidinae).
- Violent and general destruction.
- (in the plural) The sweepings of workshops where precious metals are worked, containing filings, etc.
- A lottery, usually on the results of a sporting event, where players win if their randomly chosen team wins.
- A person who stands at the stern of a surf boat, steering with a steering oar and commanding the crew.
- Any of the blades of a windmill.
- (metalworking) A movable template for making moulds, in loam moulding.
- A methodical search, typically for bugs (electronic listening devices).
verb
- (ambitransitive) To clean by sweeping.
- (transitive, usually passive) to overwhelm, to cause to become overly involved in.
- (transitive) To transport to shore by waves.
- take up the cause, ideology, practice, method, of someone and use it as one's own
- force into some kind of situation, condition, or course of action
noun
- A person or appliance that cleans floors or similar by scrubbing.
- a worker who uses a scrub brush to clean a surface (usually a floor or deck)
- A device that removes impurities from gases.
- (UK, Ireland, slang) A dirty or unhygienic person.
- (Commonwealth) An animal (especially cattle) that has broken away from the herd and established itself in the bush.
- (graphical user interface, audio, video) A horizontal bar allowing the user to set the playback position.
- (Australia) Someone who lives in the bush; a wild person, someone only partly assimilated into society.
- (historical) A machine for washing leather after the tanpit.
- A soft and flexible handheld polymer-fiber implement for scrubbing tasks.
- (UK, Ireland, slang) A prostitute or a slovenly woman.
- a purifier that removes impurities from a gas
- a brush with short stiff bristles for heavy cleaning
verb
- sweep majestically
- move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment
- to declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true
- (intransitive) To travel or move about in an aimless, idle, or pretentiously casual way.
- (US, dialectal or colloquial) To declare (chiefly in first-person present constructions).
noun
- stately heavy-bodied aquatic bird with very long neck and usually white plumage as adult
- (figuratively) One whose grace etc. suggests a swan.
- (heraldry) This bird used as a heraldic charge, sometimes with a crown around its neck (e. g. the arms of Buckinghamshire).
- Any of various species of large, long-necked waterfowl, of genus Cygnus (bird family: Anatidae), most of which have white plumage.
noun
- Someone who dusts.
- (oil and gas) A dry drillhole, one that does not produce oil or gas.
- (papermaking) A revolving wire-cloth cylinder which removes the dust from rags, etc.
- (education) A block of felt strips, shaped ergonomically, used to remove chalk from a chalkboard.
- (baseball) A high pitch toward the batter.
- (military, informal) A vehicle-mounted, multi-barrelled anti-aircraft gun.
- A loose-fitting long coat.
- (milling) A blowing machine for separating the flour from the bran.
- A duststorm.
- An object, such as a cloth or a purpose-made soft and puffy pad or mitt, used for dusting surfaces etc.
- (Philippines) A type of loose dress worn at home as well as within the vicinity of one's home.
- a piece of cloth used for dusting
- a loose coverall (coat or frock) reaching down to the ankles
- a windstorm that lifts up clouds of dust or sand
- a pitch thrown deliberately close to the batter
noun
- someone whose occupation is cleaning
- A person whose occupation is to clean things, especially rooms, floors, and windows.
- the operator of dry-cleaning establishment
- a preparation used in cleaning something
- (informal, idiomatic) A fixer; a person who disposes of bodies and evidence.
- A substance used for cleaning; especially, one retailed for that purpose and meant for use on things other than one's own body.
- A device that cleans, such as the vacuum cleaner.
- (in the plural) A professional laundry or dry cleaner (business).
adj
noun
adj
- ignoring distinctions
- taking in or moving over (or as if over) a wide area; often used in combination
- Completely overwhelming.
- Moving in a continuous motion, rather than by intermittent jumps. (For example, the second hand on a clock face may move either in the sweeping manner or in the ticking manner.)
- Wide, broad, affecting or touching upon many things.
verb
noun
- One who scrubs.
- (countable, sports, slang) One not on the first team of players; a substitute.
- An instance of scrubbing.
- (countable, US, stock breeding) One of the common livestock of a region of no particular breed or not of pure breed, especially when inferior in size, etc.; particularly a male animal poorly suited for breeding.
- (uncountable) A thicket or jungle, often specified by the name of the prevailing plant.
- A cancellation.
- An exfoliant for the body.
- (countable, slang, derogatory) One who is incompetent or unable to complete easy tasks.
- (countable, online gaming, slang, derogatory) A player who whines when outmatched by other players, sometimes by blaming the game mechanics or even accusing the other players of cheating.
- A worn-out brush.
- That which scrubs.
- (countable, derogatory) One who labors hard and lives meanly; a mean fellow.
- (uncountable) Vegetation judged to be of inferior quality or of little use to humans, though sometimes thick and impenetrable, growing in poor soil or in sand; also, brush.
- (by extension, in the plural) Any medical uniform consisting of a short-sleeved shirt and pants (trousers).
- (medicine, in the plural) Clothing worn while performing surgery.
- dense vegetation consisting of stunted trees or bushes
- the act of cleaning a surface by rubbing it with a brush and soap and water
adj
verb
- (transitive) To call off a scheduled event; to cancel.
- (media) To move a recording tape back and forth with a scrubbing motion to produce a scratching sound, or to do so by a similar use of a control on an editing system.
- (databases, transitive) To eliminate or to correct data from a set of records to bring it inline with other similar datasets
- (intransitive) To rub anything hard, especially with a wet brush; to scour
- (transitive) To rub hard; to wash with rubbing; usually, to rub with a wet brush, or with something coarse or rough, for the purpose of cleaning or brightening
- (media) To maneuver the play position on a media editing system by using a scroll bar or touch-based interface.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To be diligent and penurious
- clean with hard rubbing
- postpone indefinitely or annul something that was scheduled
- wash thoroughly
noun
verb
noun
- Detritus that is swept up with a broom or similar implement.
- The state when a sweepboat is moving faster than the current of the water.
- The circuit of an oscilloscope used to track the time dimension.
- (UK, dialect) The crop of hay obtained from a meadow.
- The movement of matter by a current.
- The matter that has been moved by a current.
- The process by which gases passing beneath the electrodes of an electrostatic precipitator pick up dust from the hoppers, removing it from the precipitator exit.
- The act of sweeping or flowing.
noun
- Someone who wipes.
- (computing) A program or process that erases data.
- Something, such as a windscreen wiper, that is designed for wiping.
- (nautical) A junior role in the engine room of a ship, someone who wipes down machinery and generally keeps it clean.
- A movable electric contact in some devices.
- A hybrid fish variety artificially bred from eggs of striped bass (Morone saxatilis) fertilized with white bass (Morone chrysops) sperm, or the opposite combination.
- Something, such as a towel, that is used for wiping.
- a mechanical device that cleans the windshield
- contact consisting of a conducting arm that rotates over a series of fixed contacts and comes to rest on an outlet
- a worker who wipes
noun
- One who sweeps.
- One who sweeps floors or chimneys.
- an employee who sweeps (floors or streets etc.)
- A carpet sweeper.
- (soccer) A defender who is the last line of defence before the goalkeeper.
- A detector for mines.
- Any of the small, tropical marine perciform fishes of the family Pempheridae, typically with deeply keeled, compressed bodies and large eyes.
- (cricket) A fielding position along the boundary; a fielder in this position.
- (hiking) The last person in the line of hikers that is responsible for ensuring no one gets separated from the group.
- (video games) A character designed or capable of knocking out multiple enemies in succession, usually due to a combination of high offense and high speed.
- A tree that has fallen over a river with branches extending into the water.
- (regional, including Cebu) A group of students tasked at cleaning the homeroom after class dismissal.
- (US, regional, including Ohio, Indiana and Western Pennsylvania) A vacuum cleaner.
- (cricket) A batsman who plays sweep shots.
- (curling) A person who sweeps the ice ahead of the rock in play.
- (motor racing, slang) A large-radius, or high/medium speed corner in a racing circuit, named as such because of the ability of someone to trace the corner profile via "sweeping" motion of the arm.
- little-known nocturnal fish of warm shallow seas with an oblong compressed body
- a cleaning implement with revolving brushes that pick up dirt as the implement is pushed over a carpet
verb
- sweep with a broom or as if with a broom
- clean by sweeping
- make a big sweeping gesture or movement
- move with sweeping, effortless, gliding motions
- to cover or extend over an area or time period
- cover the entire range of
- win an overwhelming victory in or on
- sweep across or over
- force into some kind of situation, condition, or course of action
- To carry with a long, swinging, or dragging motion; hence, to carry in a stately or proud fashion.
- (curling) To brush the ice in front of a moving stone, causing it to travel farther and to curl less.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To travel quickly.
- (cricket) To play a sweep shot.
- (sports, transitive) To defeat (a team) in a series without drawing or losing any of the games in that series.
- To brush against or over; to rub lightly along.
- To strike with a long stroke.
- (sports, transitive) To win (a series) without drawing or losing any of the games in that series.
- (rowing) To row with one oar to either the port or starboard side.
- To pass over, or traverse, with the eye or with an instrument of observation.
- (transitive, ergative) To move something in a long sweeping motion, as a broom.
- (nautical) To draw or drag something over.
- (Western Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana) To vacuum a carpet or rug.
- (military) To clear (a body of water or part thereof) of mines.
- (transitive) To remove something abruptly and thoroughly.
- (intransitive) To move through a (horizontal) arc or similar long stroke.
- (transitive) To clean (a surface) by means of a stroking motion of a broom or brush.
- (transitive) To search (a place) methodically.
noun
- A single action of sweeping.
- A chimney sweep.
- someone who cleans soot from chimneys
- winning all or all but one of the tricks in bridge
- a wide scope
- a movement in an arc
- (American football) an attempt to advance the ball by running around the end of the line
- a long oar used in an open boat
- (martial arts) A throw or takedown that primarily uses the legs to attack an opponent's legs.
- A large oar used in small vessels, partly to propel them and partly to steer them.
- The compass of any turning body or of any motion.
- (rowing, attributive) A rowing style in which each rower rows with oar on either the port or starboard side.
- (possibly US, regional) The act of police removing a homeless encampment from a public space.
- A long pole, or piece of timber, moved on a horizontal fulcrum fixed to a tall post and used to raise and lower a bucket in a well for drawing water.
- Direction or departure of a curve, a road, an arch, etc. away from a rectilinear line.
- (card games) In the game casino, the act of capturing all face-up cards from the table.
- (aviation) The degree to which an aircraft's wings are angled backwards (or, occasionally, forwards) from their attachments to the fuselage.
- A flow of water parallel to shore caused by wave action at an ocean beach or at a point or headland.
- (cricket) A batsman's shot, played from a kneeling position with a swinging horizontal bat.
- The person who steers a dragon boat.
- (US, television) singular of sweeps (“viewership ratings”)
- An expanse or a swath, a strip of land.
- Any of several sea chubs in the family Kyphosidae (subfamily Scorpidinae).
- Violent and general destruction.
- (in the plural) The sweepings of workshops where precious metals are worked, containing filings, etc.
- A lottery, usually on the results of a sporting event, where players win if their randomly chosen team wins.
- A person who stands at the stern of a surf boat, steering with a steering oar and commanding the crew.
- Any of the blades of a windmill.
- (metalworking) A movable template for making moulds, in loam moulding.
- A methodical search, typically for bugs (electronic listening devices).
noun
- A person or appliance that cleans floors or similar by scrubbing.
- a worker who uses a scrub brush to clean a surface (usually a floor or deck)
- A device that removes impurities from gases.
- (UK, Ireland, slang) A dirty or unhygienic person.
- (Commonwealth) An animal (especially cattle) that has broken away from the herd and established itself in the bush.
- (graphical user interface, audio, video) A horizontal bar allowing the user to set the playback position.
- (Australia) Someone who lives in the bush; a wild person, someone only partly assimilated into society.
- (historical) A machine for washing leather after the tanpit.
- A soft and flexible handheld polymer-fiber implement for scrubbing tasks.
- (UK, Ireland, slang) A prostitute or a slovenly woman.
- a purifier that removes impurities from a gas
- a brush with short stiff bristles for heavy cleaning
noun
- Someone who dusts.
- (oil and gas) A dry drillhole, one that does not produce oil or gas.
- (papermaking) A revolving wire-cloth cylinder which removes the dust from rags, etc.
- (education) A block of felt strips, shaped ergonomically, used to remove chalk from a chalkboard.
- (baseball) A high pitch toward the batter.
- (military, informal) A vehicle-mounted, multi-barrelled anti-aircraft gun.
- A loose-fitting long coat.
- (milling) A blowing machine for separating the flour from the bran.
- A duststorm.
- An object, such as a cloth or a purpose-made soft and puffy pad or mitt, used for dusting surfaces etc.
- (Philippines) A type of loose dress worn at home as well as within the vicinity of one's home.
- a piece of cloth used for dusting
- a loose coverall (coat or frock) reaching down to the ankles
- a windstorm that lifts up clouds of dust or sand
- a pitch thrown deliberately close to the batter
noun
- someone whose occupation is cleaning
- A person whose occupation is to clean things, especially rooms, floors, and windows.
- the operator of dry-cleaning establishment
- a preparation used in cleaning something
- (informal, idiomatic) A fixer; a person who disposes of bodies and evidence.
- A substance used for cleaning; especially, one retailed for that purpose and meant for use on things other than one's own body.
- A device that cleans, such as the vacuum cleaner.
- (in the plural) A professional laundry or dry cleaner (business).
adj
noun
adj
- ignoring distinctions
- taking in or moving over (or as if over) a wide area; often used in combination
- Completely overwhelming.
- Moving in a continuous motion, rather than by intermittent jumps. (For example, the second hand on a clock face may move either in the sweeping manner or in the ticking manner.)
- Wide, broad, affecting or touching upon many things.
verb
noun
- One who scrubs.
- (countable, sports, slang) One not on the first team of players; a substitute.
- An instance of scrubbing.
- (countable, US, stock breeding) One of the common livestock of a region of no particular breed or not of pure breed, especially when inferior in size, etc.; particularly a male animal poorly suited for breeding.
- (uncountable) A thicket or jungle, often specified by the name of the prevailing plant.
- A cancellation.
- An exfoliant for the body.
- (countable, slang, derogatory) One who is incompetent or unable to complete easy tasks.
- (countable, online gaming, slang, derogatory) A player who whines when outmatched by other players, sometimes by blaming the game mechanics or even accusing the other players of cheating.
- A worn-out brush.
- That which scrubs.
- (countable, derogatory) One who labors hard and lives meanly; a mean fellow.
- (uncountable) Vegetation judged to be of inferior quality or of little use to humans, though sometimes thick and impenetrable, growing in poor soil or in sand; also, brush.
- (by extension, in the plural) Any medical uniform consisting of a short-sleeved shirt and pants (trousers).
- (medicine, in the plural) Clothing worn while performing surgery.
- dense vegetation consisting of stunted trees or bushes
- the act of cleaning a surface by rubbing it with a brush and soap and water
adj
verb
- (transitive) To call off a scheduled event; to cancel.
- (media) To move a recording tape back and forth with a scrubbing motion to produce a scratching sound, or to do so by a similar use of a control on an editing system.
- (databases, transitive) To eliminate or to correct data from a set of records to bring it inline with other similar datasets
- (intransitive) To rub anything hard, especially with a wet brush; to scour
- (transitive) To rub hard; to wash with rubbing; usually, to rub with a wet brush, or with something coarse or rough, for the purpose of cleaning or brightening
- (media) To maneuver the play position on a media editing system by using a scroll bar or touch-based interface.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To be diligent and penurious
- clean with hard rubbing
- postpone indefinitely or annul something that was scheduled
- wash thoroughly
noun
verb
noun
- Detritus that is swept up with a broom or similar implement.
- The state when a sweepboat is moving faster than the current of the water.
- The circuit of an oscilloscope used to track the time dimension.
- (UK, dialect) The crop of hay obtained from a meadow.
- The movement of matter by a current.
- The matter that has been moved by a current.
- The process by which gases passing beneath the electrodes of an electrostatic precipitator pick up dust from the hoppers, removing it from the precipitator exit.
- The act of sweeping or flowing.
noun
- Someone who wipes.
- (computing) A program or process that erases data.
- Something, such as a windscreen wiper, that is designed for wiping.
- (nautical) A junior role in the engine room of a ship, someone who wipes down machinery and generally keeps it clean.
- A movable electric contact in some devices.
- A hybrid fish variety artificially bred from eggs of striped bass (Morone saxatilis) fertilized with white bass (Morone chrysops) sperm, or the opposite combination.
- Something, such as a towel, that is used for wiping.
- a mechanical device that cleans the windshield
- contact consisting of a conducting arm that rotates over a series of fixed contacts and comes to rest on an outlet
- a worker who wipes
verb
- sweep with a broom or as if with a broom
- (transitive, intransitive) To sweep with a broom.
- finish with a broom
- (nautical) Alternative form of bream (“to clean a ship's bottom”).
- (roofing) To improve the embedding of a membrane by using a broom or squeegee to smooth it out and ensure contact with the adhesive under the membrane.
- (figurative) To get rid of someone, like firing an employee or breaking up with a girlfriend, to sweep another out of one's life.
noun
- common Old World heath represented by many varieties; low evergreen grown widely in the Northern Hemisphere
- a cleaning implement for sweeping; bundle of straws or twigs attached to a long handle
- any of various shrubs of the genera Cytisus or Genista or Spartium having long slender branches and racemes of yellow flowers
- Of plants not closely related to those of tribe Genisteae.
- (slang, rare) A firearm; especially, a shotgun.
- (countable, curling) An implement with which players sweep the ice to make a stone travel further and curl less; a sweeper.
- (countable) A domestic utensil with fibers bound together at the end of a long handle, used for sweeping.
- Any of several yellow-flowered shrubs of the family Fabaceae, with long, stiff, thin branches and small or few leaves used for the domestic utensil.
- Especially, of the tribe Genisteae, including genera Cytisus, Genista, and Spartium.
intj
verb
- sweep with a broom or as if with a broom
- clean by sweeping
- make a big sweeping gesture or movement
- move with sweeping, effortless, gliding motions
- to cover or extend over an area or time period
- cover the entire range of
- win an overwhelming victory in or on
- sweep across or over
- force into some kind of situation, condition, or course of action
- To carry with a long, swinging, or dragging motion; hence, to carry in a stately or proud fashion.
- (curling) To brush the ice in front of a moving stone, causing it to travel farther and to curl less.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To travel quickly.
- (cricket) To play a sweep shot.
- (sports, transitive) To defeat (a team) in a series without drawing or losing any of the games in that series.
- To brush against or over; to rub lightly along.
- To strike with a long stroke.
- (sports, transitive) To win (a series) without drawing or losing any of the games in that series.
- (rowing) To row with one oar to either the port or starboard side.
- To pass over, or traverse, with the eye or with an instrument of observation.
- (transitive, ergative) To move something in a long sweeping motion, as a broom.
- (nautical) To draw or drag something over.
- (Western Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana) To vacuum a carpet or rug.
- (military) To clear (a body of water or part thereof) of mines.
- (transitive) To remove something abruptly and thoroughly.
- (intransitive) To move through a (horizontal) arc or similar long stroke.
- (transitive) To clean (a surface) by means of a stroking motion of a broom or brush.
- (transitive) To search (a place) methodically.
noun
- A single action of sweeping.
- A chimney sweep.
- someone who cleans soot from chimneys
- winning all or all but one of the tricks in bridge
- a wide scope
- a movement in an arc
- (American football) an attempt to advance the ball by running around the end of the line
- a long oar used in an open boat
- (martial arts) A throw or takedown that primarily uses the legs to attack an opponent's legs.
- A large oar used in small vessels, partly to propel them and partly to steer them.
- The compass of any turning body or of any motion.
- (rowing, attributive) A rowing style in which each rower rows with oar on either the port or starboard side.
- (possibly US, regional) The act of police removing a homeless encampment from a public space.
- A long pole, or piece of timber, moved on a horizontal fulcrum fixed to a tall post and used to raise and lower a bucket in a well for drawing water.
- Direction or departure of a curve, a road, an arch, etc. away from a rectilinear line.
- (card games) In the game casino, the act of capturing all face-up cards from the table.
- (aviation) The degree to which an aircraft's wings are angled backwards (or, occasionally, forwards) from their attachments to the fuselage.
- A flow of water parallel to shore caused by wave action at an ocean beach or at a point or headland.
- (cricket) A batsman's shot, played from a kneeling position with a swinging horizontal bat.
- The person who steers a dragon boat.
- (US, television) singular of sweeps (“viewership ratings”)
- An expanse or a swath, a strip of land.
- Any of several sea chubs in the family Kyphosidae (subfamily Scorpidinae).
- Violent and general destruction.
- (in the plural) The sweepings of workshops where precious metals are worked, containing filings, etc.
- A lottery, usually on the results of a sporting event, where players win if their randomly chosen team wins.
- A person who stands at the stern of a surf boat, steering with a steering oar and commanding the crew.
- Any of the blades of a windmill.
- (metalworking) A movable template for making moulds, in loam moulding.
- A methodical search, typically for bugs (electronic listening devices).
verb
- (ambitransitive) To clean by sweeping.
- (transitive, usually passive) to overwhelm, to cause to become overly involved in.
- (transitive) To transport to shore by waves.
- take up the cause, ideology, practice, method, of someone and use it as one's own
- force into some kind of situation, condition, or course of action
verb
- sweep majestically
- move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment
- to declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true
- (intransitive) To travel or move about in an aimless, idle, or pretentiously casual way.
- (US, dialectal or colloquial) To declare (chiefly in first-person present constructions).
noun
- stately heavy-bodied aquatic bird with very long neck and usually white plumage as adult
- (figuratively) One whose grace etc. suggests a swan.
- (heraldry) This bird used as a heraldic charge, sometimes with a crown around its neck (e. g. the arms of Buckinghamshire).
- Any of various species of large, long-necked waterfowl, of genus Cygnus (bird family: Anatidae), most of which have white plumage.