English words for 'Carrying or using a broom.'
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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
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
- a cleaning implement for sweeping; bundle of straws or twigs attached to a long handle
- (countable) A domestic utensil with fibers bound together at the end of a long handle, used for sweeping.
- common Old World heath represented by many varieties; low evergreen grown widely in the Northern Hemisphere
- 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.
- 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
- (transitive, ergative) To move something in a long sweeping motion, as a broom.
- (transitive) To clean (a surface) by means of a stroking motion of a broom or brush.
- 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
- clean by sweeping
- 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.
- (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 search (a place) methodically.
noun
- 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.
- A chimney sweep.
- (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 single action of sweeping.
- 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
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
- One who sweeps.
- an employee who sweeps (floors or streets etc.)
- A carpet sweeper.
- One who sweeps floors or chimneys.
- (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
noun
- (colloquial, dialect) A long-handled, round-headed broom for sweeping ceilings, etc.
- (Caribbean) The melon cactus.
- A kind of cooking-pan, having a tin core in the centre.
- A knot, or any of various similar kinds of knot, resulting in a ball of rope.
- (California) Any of several species of Echinocactus.
- an ornamental knot that resembles a small turban
noun
- A whisk, or small broom.
- An immeasurable, indefinable essence of life; soul.
- A small, thin line of cloud, smoke, or steam.
- A will o' the wisp, or ignis fatuus.
- A small bundle, as of straw or other like substance; a twisted handful of something; any slender, flexible structure or group.
- (uncountable) A disease affecting the feet of cattle.
- a small tuft or lock
- a flock of snipe
- a small bundle of straw or hay
- a small person
verb
verb
- (nautical) To scrub with a hog, or scrubbing broom.
- (transitive, informal) To greedily take more than one's share, to take precedence at the expense of another or others.
- (machining) To take a rough cut, quickly removing material; to hog out.
- (transitive) To clip the mane of a horse, making it short and bristly.
- (Herefordshire) (of a hedge) to trim up closely
- (transitive) To process (bark, etc.) into hog fuel.
- (transitive, nautical) To cause the keel of a ship to arch upwards (the opposite of sag).
- take greedily; take more than one's share
noun
- Any animal belonging to the Suidae family of mammals, especially the pig, the warthog, and the boar.
- (UK) A young sheep that has not been shorn.
- (informal) A quahog (clam).
- A device for mixing and stirring the pulp from which paper is made.
- (specifically) An adult swine (contrasted with a pig, a young swine).
- (vulgar) A penis.
- (slang) A large motorcycle, particularly a Harley-Davidson.
- (nautical) The effect of the middle of the hull of a ship rising while the ends droop.
- (informal) A greedy person or thing; one who refuses to share; a gluttonous one.
- (nautical) A rough, flat scrubbing broom for scrubbing a ship's bottom under water.
- a sheep up to the age of one year; one yet to be sheared
- a person regarded as greedy and pig-like
- domestic swine
noun
- a small short-handled broom used to brush clothes
- A small handheld broom with a small (or no) handle.
- a mixer incorporating a coil of wires; used for whipping eggs or cream
- A bunch of twigs or hair etc, used as a brush.
- A quick, light sweeping motion.
- A kind of cape, forming part of a woman's dress.
- A plane used by coopers for evening chines.
- A kitchen utensil, now usually made from stiff wire loops fixed to a handle (and formerly of twigs), used for whipping (or a mechanical device with the same function).
verb
- brush or wipe off lightly
- whip with or as if with a wire whisk
- move somewhere quickly
- move quickly and nimbly
- (transitive) In cooking, to whip e.g. eggs or cream.
- (transitive) To move whiskers.
- (transitive) To move something with quick light sweeping motions.
- (intransitive) To move lightly and nimbly.
- (transitive) To move something rapidly and with no warning.
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
- (countable) The act of cleaning by dusting.
- (cryptocurrencies) Tiny amounts of cryptocurrency left over after a transaction due to rounding error.
- (figurative) Something worthless.
- (uncountable, astronomy) Submicron particles in outer space, largely silicates and carbon compounds, that contribute greatly to extinction at visible wavelengths.
- (countable, figurative) A tumult, disturbance, commotion, uproar.
- (countable, mathematics) A totally disconnected set of points with a fractal structure.
- (British, colloquial) Rubbish, garbage, refuse.
- The earthly remains of bodies once alive; the remains of the human body.
- (figurative) A low or mean condition.
- (countable) A cloud of dust.
- (countable, colloquial) A fight or row.
- The earth as the resting place of the dead.
- (figurative) The substance of the human body or mortal frame.
- (uncountable) Fine, dry particles of matter found in the air and covering the surface of objects, typically consisting of soil lifted up by the wind, pollen, hair, etc.
- (uncountable) Any substance reduced to fine particles; powder.
- (poetic) Earth, ground, soil, sediment.
- (countable) The act of sprinkling dust, or a sprinkle of dust itself.
- (uncountable, occupational health) Disintegration of a solid, like silica.
- free microscopic particles of solid material
- fine powdery material such as dry earth or pollen that can be blown about in the air
- the remains of something that has been destroyed or broken up
verb
- (transitive) To spray or cover (something) with fine powder or liquid, to sprinkle.
- (transitive) To remove dust from.
- (transitive, chiefly US slang) To kill.
- (transitive, now colloquial or dialectal) To strike, beat, thrash.
- (transitive, chiefly US slang) To defeat badly, to thrash.
- (intransitive, chiefly US slang) To leave quickly; to rush off.
- (intransitive) To remove dust; to clean by removing dust.
- (transitive, baseball) To deliberately pitch a ball close to (a batter); to brush back.
- (intransitive or reflexive) Of a bird, to cover itself in sand or dry, dusty earth.
- (transitive) To sprinkle (a substance) in the form of dust.
- (cryptocurrencies) To attempt to identify the owner of (a cryptocurrency wallet) by sending tiny amounts of cryptocurrency.
- remove the dust from
- rub the dust over a surface so as to blur the outlines of a shape
- distribute loosely
- cover with a light dusting of a substance
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
- A person or appliance that cleans floors or similar by scrubbing.
- 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
- a worker who uses a scrub brush to clean a surface (usually a floor or deck)
noun
- someone whose occupation is cleaning
- the operator of dry-cleaning establishment
- a preparation used in cleaning something
- A person whose occupation is to clean things, especially rooms, floors, and windows.
- (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
- (UK, colloquial) The act of thoroughly cleaning something.
- (technical, historical) The contouring of the wooden seat of a chair.
- The act of something that bottoms; the point at which something bottoms (in various senses).
- (dyeing) A substance used to prepare a material for dyeing.
- Residue left at the bottom of something.
- Material used to line the bottom of something.
- A foundation (literal and figurative senses).
verb
noun
verb
noun
verb
- To clean up (liquid) with a mop, rag, sponge, or other cleaning device.
- to wash or wipe with or as if with a mop
- To finish something off; to apply a finishing touch
- (informal) To fix problems; to correct or repair.
- To consume or get rid of an excess of something.
- (baseball) To pitch the final innings especially of a game that is no longer close.
- To win a competition decisively.
- To get rid of (enemies) within a certain area.
- (transitive) To absorb the leftovers of a dish with bread etc., in order to eat them.
- To clean up an area destroyed by a natural disaster or by violent activity.
- defeat thoroughly
- finish a task completely
noun
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
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
- One who sweeps.
- an employee who sweeps (floors or streets etc.)
- A carpet sweeper.
- One who sweeps floors or chimneys.
- (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
noun
- (colloquial, dialect) A long-handled, round-headed broom for sweeping ceilings, etc.
- (Caribbean) The melon cactus.
- A kind of cooking-pan, having a tin core in the centre.
- A knot, or any of various similar kinds of knot, resulting in a ball of rope.
- (California) Any of several species of Echinocactus.
- an ornamental knot that resembles a small turban
noun
- A whisk, or small broom.
- An immeasurable, indefinable essence of life; soul.
- A small, thin line of cloud, smoke, or steam.
- A will o' the wisp, or ignis fatuus.
- A small bundle, as of straw or other like substance; a twisted handful of something; any slender, flexible structure or group.
- (uncountable) A disease affecting the feet of cattle.
- a small tuft or lock
- a flock of snipe
- a small bundle of straw or hay
- a small person
verb
noun
- a small short-handled broom used to brush clothes
- A small handheld broom with a small (or no) handle.
- a mixer incorporating a coil of wires; used for whipping eggs or cream
- A bunch of twigs or hair etc, used as a brush.
- A quick, light sweeping motion.
- A kind of cape, forming part of a woman's dress.
- A plane used by coopers for evening chines.
- A kitchen utensil, now usually made from stiff wire loops fixed to a handle (and formerly of twigs), used for whipping (or a mechanical device with the same function).
verb
- brush or wipe off lightly
- whip with or as if with a wire whisk
- move somewhere quickly
- move quickly and nimbly
- (transitive) In cooking, to whip e.g. eggs or cream.
- (transitive) To move whiskers.
- (transitive) To move something with quick light sweeping motions.
- (intransitive) To move lightly and nimbly.
- (transitive) To move something rapidly and with no warning.
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
- a cleaning implement for sweeping; bundle of straws or twigs attached to a long handle
- (countable) A domestic utensil with fibers bound together at the end of a long handle, used for sweeping.
- common Old World heath represented by many varieties; low evergreen grown widely in the Northern Hemisphere
- 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.
- 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
noun
- (countable) The act of cleaning by dusting.
- (cryptocurrencies) Tiny amounts of cryptocurrency left over after a transaction due to rounding error.
- (figurative) Something worthless.
- (uncountable, astronomy) Submicron particles in outer space, largely silicates and carbon compounds, that contribute greatly to extinction at visible wavelengths.
- (countable, figurative) A tumult, disturbance, commotion, uproar.
- (countable, mathematics) A totally disconnected set of points with a fractal structure.
- (British, colloquial) Rubbish, garbage, refuse.
- The earthly remains of bodies once alive; the remains of the human body.
- (figurative) A low or mean condition.
- (countable) A cloud of dust.
- (countable, colloquial) A fight or row.
- The earth as the resting place of the dead.
- (figurative) The substance of the human body or mortal frame.
- (uncountable) Fine, dry particles of matter found in the air and covering the surface of objects, typically consisting of soil lifted up by the wind, pollen, hair, etc.
- (uncountable) Any substance reduced to fine particles; powder.
- (poetic) Earth, ground, soil, sediment.
- (countable) The act of sprinkling dust, or a sprinkle of dust itself.
- (uncountable, occupational health) Disintegration of a solid, like silica.
- free microscopic particles of solid material
- fine powdery material such as dry earth or pollen that can be blown about in the air
- the remains of something that has been destroyed or broken up
verb
- (transitive) To spray or cover (something) with fine powder or liquid, to sprinkle.
- (transitive) To remove dust from.
- (transitive, chiefly US slang) To kill.
- (transitive, now colloquial or dialectal) To strike, beat, thrash.
- (transitive, chiefly US slang) To defeat badly, to thrash.
- (intransitive, chiefly US slang) To leave quickly; to rush off.
- (intransitive) To remove dust; to clean by removing dust.
- (transitive, baseball) To deliberately pitch a ball close to (a batter); to brush back.
- (intransitive or reflexive) Of a bird, to cover itself in sand or dry, dusty earth.
- (transitive) To sprinkle (a substance) in the form of dust.
- (cryptocurrencies) To attempt to identify the owner of (a cryptocurrency wallet) by sending tiny amounts of cryptocurrency.
- remove the dust from
- rub the dust over a surface so as to blur the outlines of a shape
- distribute loosely
- cover with a light dusting of a substance
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
- A person or appliance that cleans floors or similar by scrubbing.
- 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
- a worker who uses a scrub brush to clean a surface (usually a floor or deck)
noun
- someone whose occupation is cleaning
- the operator of dry-cleaning establishment
- a preparation used in cleaning something
- A person whose occupation is to clean things, especially rooms, floors, and windows.
- (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
- (UK, colloquial) The act of thoroughly cleaning something.
- (technical, historical) The contouring of the wooden seat of a chair.
- The act of something that bottoms; the point at which something bottoms (in various senses).
- (dyeing) A substance used to prepare a material for dyeing.
- Residue left at the bottom of something.
- Material used to line the bottom of something.
- A foundation (literal and figurative senses).
verb
noun
verb
noun
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
- a cleaning implement for sweeping; bundle of straws or twigs attached to a long handle
- (countable) A domestic utensil with fibers bound together at the end of a long handle, used for sweeping.
- common Old World heath represented by many varieties; low evergreen grown widely in the Northern Hemisphere
- 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.
- 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
- (transitive, ergative) To move something in a long sweeping motion, as a broom.
- (transitive) To clean (a surface) by means of a stroking motion of a broom or brush.
- 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
- clean by sweeping
- 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.
- (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 search (a place) methodically.
noun
- 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.
- A chimney sweep.
- (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 single action of sweeping.
- 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
- (nautical) To scrub with a hog, or scrubbing broom.
- (transitive, informal) To greedily take more than one's share, to take precedence at the expense of another or others.
- (machining) To take a rough cut, quickly removing material; to hog out.
- (transitive) To clip the mane of a horse, making it short and bristly.
- (Herefordshire) (of a hedge) to trim up closely
- (transitive) To process (bark, etc.) into hog fuel.
- (transitive, nautical) To cause the keel of a ship to arch upwards (the opposite of sag).
- take greedily; take more than one's share
noun
- Any animal belonging to the Suidae family of mammals, especially the pig, the warthog, and the boar.
- (UK) A young sheep that has not been shorn.
- (informal) A quahog (clam).
- A device for mixing and stirring the pulp from which paper is made.
- (specifically) An adult swine (contrasted with a pig, a young swine).
- (vulgar) A penis.
- (slang) A large motorcycle, particularly a Harley-Davidson.
- (nautical) The effect of the middle of the hull of a ship rising while the ends droop.
- (informal) A greedy person or thing; one who refuses to share; a gluttonous one.
- (nautical) A rough, flat scrubbing broom for scrubbing a ship's bottom under water.
- a sheep up to the age of one year; one yet to be sheared
- a person regarded as greedy and pig-like
- domestic swine
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
- To clean up (liquid) with a mop, rag, sponge, or other cleaning device.
- to wash or wipe with or as if with a mop
- To finish something off; to apply a finishing touch
- (informal) To fix problems; to correct or repair.
- To consume or get rid of an excess of something.
- (baseball) To pitch the final innings especially of a game that is no longer close.
- To win a competition decisively.
- To get rid of (enemies) within a certain area.
- (transitive) To absorb the leftovers of a dish with bread etc., in order to eat them.
- To clean up an area destroyed by a natural disaster or by violent activity.
- defeat thoroughly
- finish a task completely