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verb
- make a big sweeping gesture or movement
- sweep with a broom or as if with a broom
- clean by sweeping
- sweep across or over
- move with sweeping, effortless, gliding motions
- force into some kind of situation, condition, or course of action
- to cover or extend over an area or time period
- win an overwhelming victory in or on
- cover the entire range of
noun
verb
- make a big sweeping gesture or movement
- move in a curve or arc, usually with the intent of hitting
- move or walk in a swinging or swaying manner
- change direction with a swinging motion; turn
- influence decisively
- hang loosely
- hit or aim at with a sweeping arm movement
- alternate dramatically between high and low values
- live in a lively, modern, and relaxed style
- have a certain musical rhythm
- be a social swinger; socialize a lot
- play with a subtle and intuitively felt sense of rhythm
- engage freely in promiscuous sex, often with the husband or wife of one's friends
noun
- a state of steady vigorous action that is characteristic of an activity
- mechanical device used as a plaything to support someone swinging back and forth
- a sweeping blow or stroke
- changing location by moving back and forth
- a style of jazz played by big bands popular in the 1930s; flowing rhythms but less complex than later styles of jazz
- a jaunty rhythm in music
- the act of swinging a golf club at a golf ball and (usually) hitting it
- in baseball; a batter's attempt to hit a pitched ball
- a square dance figure; a pair of dancers join hands and dance around a point between them
verb
- To make bold, sweeping movements with.
- To thrive or grow well.
- To make bold and sweeping, fanciful, or wanton movements, by way of ornament, parade, bravado, etc.; to play with fantastic and irregular motion.
- To be in a period of greatest influence.
- To prosper or fare well.
- To adorn with beautiful figures or rhetoric; to ornament with anything showy; to embellish.
- To use florid language; to indulge in rhetorical figures and lofty expressions.
- To execute an irregular or fanciful strain of music, by way of ornament or prelude.
- To make ornamental strokes with the pen; to write graceful, decorative figures.
- To develop; to make thrive; to expand.
noun
verb
- To sweep with a broom.
- to get rid of someone, like firing an employee or breaking up with a girlfriend, to sweep another out of one's life
- 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.
noun
- A domestic utensil with fibers bound together at the end of a long handle, used for sweeping.
- 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, in the tribe Genisteae, including genera Cytisus, Genista, and Spartium, with long, thin branches and small or few leaves.
- A shotgun, because it is more or less long, held similarly to a besom and “cleans” what is in front.
verb
- To touch with a sweeping motion, or lightly in passing.
- To remove with a sweeping motion.
- To clean with a brush.
- To untangle or arrange with a brush.
- To apply with a brush.
- To clean one's teeth by brushing them.
noun
- An instrument, resembling a brush, used to produce a soft sound from drums or cymbals.
- An on-screen tool for "painting" a particular colour or texture.
- A set of defined design and parameters that produce drawn strokes of a certain texture and quality.
- A tuft of hair on the mandibles.
- Evergreen boughs, especially balsam, locally cut and baled for export, usually for use in making wreaths.
- In 3D video games, a convex polyhedron, especially one that defines structure of the play area.
- The floorperson of a poker room, usually in a casino.
- A short and sometimes occasional encounter or experience.
- A piece of conductive material, usually carbon, serving to maintain electrical contact between the stationary and rotating parts of a machine.
- An implement consisting of multiple more or less flexible bristles or other filaments attached to a handle, used for any of various purposes including cleaning, painting, and arranging hair.
- The act of brushing something.
- Wild vegetation, generally larger than grass but smaller than trees. See shrubland.
- The furry tail of an animal, especially of a fox.
- A brush-like electrical discharge of sparks.
adj
verb
noun
- A circular prison, especially a small local lockup or station house.
- A prehistoric dwelling typical of northwest Europe in the Iron Age and Bronze Age.
- A circular building in which locomotives are housed.
- The uppermost room or cabin of any note upon the stern of a ship.
- A privy near the bow of a vessel, especially as reserved for officers.
- A punch or kick delivered with an exaggerated sweeping movement.
- In the game of pinochle, a meld consisting of a queen and king in each of the four suits.
noun
- The act of cleaning by dusting.
- Submicron particles in outer space, largely silicates and carbon compounds, that contribute greatly to extinction at visible wavelengths.
- The earthy remains of bodies once alive; the remains of the human body.
- A disturbance or uproar.
- A low or mean condition.
- Something worthless.
- 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.
- The earth, as the resting place of the dead.
- A totally disconnected set of points with a fractal structure.
verb
noun
- grasping and shaking a person's hand (as to acknowledge an introduction or to agree on a contract)
- building material used as siding or roofing
- frothy drink of milk and flavoring and sometimes fruit or ice cream
- a note that alternates rapidly with another note a semitone above it
- a reflex motion caused by cold or fear or excitement
- causing to move repeatedly from side to side
verb
- move or cause to move back and forth
- move with or as if with a tremor
- shake or vibrate rapidly and intensively
- move back and forth or sideways
- undermine or cause to waver
- stir the feelings, emotions, or peace of
- get rid of
- bring to a specified condition by or as if by shaking
- shake (a body part) to communicate a greeting, feeling, or cognitive state
noun
- a sharp hand gesture (resembling a blow)
- tall coarse perennial American herb having small white flowers followed by blackish-red berries on long drooping racemes; young fleshy stems are edible; berries and root are poisonous
- someone who takes more time than necessary; someone who lags behind
- a bag made of paper or plastic for holding customer's purchases
- (boxing) a blow with the fist
verb
verb
- To gesture indicating a desired movement.
- To introduce a motion in parliamentary procedure.
- To make a proposal; to offer plans.
noun
- A change from one place to another.
- A movement of the bowels; the product of such movement.
- A state of progression from one place to another.
- from κίνησις (kinesis); any change. Traditionally of four types: generation and corruption, alteration, augmentation and diminution, and change of place.
- A formal request, oral or written, made to a judge or court of law to obtain an official court ruling or order for a legal action to be taken by, or on behalf of, the movant.
- A change of position with respect to time.
- A parliamentary action to propose something. A similar procedure in any official or business meeting.
- A piece of moving mechanism, such as on a steam locomotive.
- Movement of the mind, desires, or passions; mental act, or impulse to any action; internal activity.
- Change of pitch in successive sounds, whether in the same part or in groups of parts. (Conjunct motion is that by single degrees of the scale. Contrary motion is when parts move in opposite directions. Disjunct motion is motion by skips. Oblique motion is when one part is stationary while another moves. Similar or direct motion is when parts move in the same direction.)
noun
- One who sweeps.
- A vacuum cleaner.
- A batsman who plays sweep shots.
- A carpet sweeper.
- A character designed or capable of knocking out multiple enemies in succession, usually due to a combination of high offense and high speed.
- A group of students tasked at cleaning the homeroom after class dismissal.
- One who sweeps floors or chimneys.
- A tree that has fallen over a river with branches extending into the water.
- A defender who is the last line of defence before the goalkeeper.
- A fielding position along the boundary; a fielder in this position.
- A detector (for mines).
- A person who sweeps the ice ahead of the rock in play.
- The last person in the line of hikers that is responsible for ensuring no one gets separated from the group.
- Any of the small, tropical marine perciform fishes of the family Pempheridae, typically with deeply keeled, compressed bodies and large eyes.
- 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.
verb
noun
- A traditional theatrical entertainment, originally based on the commedia dell'arte, but later aimed mostly at children and involving physical comedy, topical jokes, call and response, and fairy-tale plots.
- The drama in ancient Greece and Rome featuring such performers; or (later) any of various kinds of performance modelled on such work.
- Gesturing without speaking; dumb-show, mime.
verb
noun
- The upward motion of a swimmer's arm.
- A hairstyle where most of the hair is fastened into place at the top of the head.
- An upward sweep or curve.
- The unidentified sound detected on the American NOAA's equatorial autonomous hydrophone arrays, consisting of a long train of narrow-band upsweeping sounds of several seconds in duration.
noun
- A small handheld broom with a small (or no) handle.
- 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 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).
- A plane used by coopers for evening chines.
verb
noun
- A short, quick movement, especially a brush, sweep, or flip.
- A motion picture, movie, film; (in plural, usually preceded by "the") movie theater, cinema.
- A flitch.
- A unit of time, equal to 1/705,600,000 of a second
- The act of pressing a place on a touch screen device.
- A cut that lands with the point, often involving a whip of the foible of the blade to strike at a concealed target.
- A powerful underarm volley shot.
verb
noun
- The act of sweeping or flowing.
- The circuit of an oscilloscope used to track the time dimension.
- 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 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 movement of matter by a current.
- The matter that has been moved by a current.
- The crop of hay obtained from a meadow.
verb
- To act upon with a rake, or as if with a rake.
- Followed by up: to bring up or uncover (something), as embarrassing information, past misdeeds, etc.
- To move swiftly; to proceed rapidly.
- Of a bird of prey: to fly after a quarry; also, to fly away from the falconer, to go wide of the quarry being pursued.
- To move (a beam of light, a glance with the eyes, etc.) across (something) with a long side-to-side motion; specifically (often military) to use a weapon to fire at (something) with a side-to-side motion; to spray with gunfire.
- To search through (thoroughly).
- To cover (something) by or as if by raking things over it.
- To incline (something) from a perpendicular direction.
- To provide (the bow or stern of a watercraft) with a rake (“a slant that causes it to extend beyond the keel”).
- Of a watercraft: to have a rake at its bow or stern.
- To fire upon an enemy vessel from a position in line with its bow or stern, causing one's fire to travel through the length of the enemy vessel for maximum damage.
- Often followed by in: to gather (things which are apart) together, especially quickly.
- To claw at; to scrape, to scratch; followed by away: to erase, to obliterate.
- Often followed by an adverb or preposition such as away, off, out, etc.: to drag or pull in a certain direction.
noun
- A series, a succession; specifically (rail transport) a set of coupled rail vehicles, normally coaches or wagons.
- The sloped edge of a roof at or adjacent to the first or last rafter.
- In full, angle of rake or rake angle: the angle between the edge or face of a tool (especially a cutting tool) and a plane (usually one perpendicular to the object that the tool is being applied to).
- A lot, plenty.
- A fissure or mineral vein of ore traversing the strata vertically, or nearly so.
- A tool with a straight edge at the end used by a croupier to move chips or money across a gaming table.
- A divergence from the horizontal or perpendicular; a slant, a slope.
- A slant that causes the bow or stern of a watercraft to extend beyond the keel; also, the upper part of the bow or stern that extends beyond the keel.
- A garden tool with a row of pointed teeth fixed to a long handle, used for collecting debris, grass, etc., for flattening the ground, or for loosening soil; also, a similar wheel-mounted tool drawn by a horse or a tractor.
- A similarly shaped tool used for other purposes.
- A person (usually a man) who is stylish but habituated to hedonistic and immoral conduct.
- A share of profits, takings, etc., especially if obtained illegally; specifically (gambling) the scaled commission fee taken by a cardroom operating a poker game.
- The direction of slip during the movement of a fault, measured within the fault plane.
- The act of raking.
- In cellular automata: a puffer that emits a stream of spaceships rather than a trail of debris.
- A course, a path, especially a narrow and steep path or route up a hillside.
- Rate of progress; pace, speed.
- A slant of some other part of a watercraft (such as a funnel or mast) away from the perpendicular, usually towards the stern.
noun
noun
noun
- One who, or that which, whisks, or moves with a quick, sweeping motion.
- A small tendril that forms on metal.
- The (very small) distance between two things.
- One of the long, projecting hairs growing at the sides of the mouth of a cat, or other animal.
- That part of the beard which grows upon the sides of the face, usually of the male, or upon the chin, or upon both.
- A graphic element that shows the maxima and minima in a box plot.
- A hair of the beard.
- Spreaders from the bows to spread the bowsprit shrouds.
adj
verb
- To rotate with a sweeping motion.
- Of a rotating part of a machine, to (become disengaged and) rotate freely.
noun
- A pitch where the pitcher swings his arm in a circular motion before throwing the ball.
- A child's toy consisting of vanes mounted on a stick that rotate when blown by a person or by the wind.
- Any of various muscle exercises in which a large deal of the body makes a great circle, typically one where a kettlebell is raised overhead and the torso is rotated to the other side with the hand reaching its foot (hitting the core, glutes, hamstrings, trapezius, rhomboids, deltoids and rotator cuffs) but sometimes even a windshield wiper.
- Any of various large papilionid butterflies of the genus Byasa, the wings of which resemble the vanes of a windmill.
- An imaginary enemy, but presented as real.
- A guitar move where the strumming hand mimics a turning windmill.
- A machine which translates linear motion of wind to rotational motion by means of adjustable vanes called sails.
- The structure containing such machinery.
- The false shower.
- A breakdancing move in which the dancer rolls his/her torso continuously in a circular path on the floor, across the upper chest, shoulders and back, while twirling the legs in a V shape in the air.
- A dunk where the dunker swings his arm in a circular motion before throwing the ball through the hoop.
adj
verb
- To move one's hand or an object (such as a broom or brush) along (a surface) in one direction, touching it lightly; to caress.
- Chiefly followed by out: to suffer loss of brain function when the blood supply to the brain is suddenly interrupted; to have a stroke (noun sense 4).
- Followed by out or through: to draw a line or lines through (text) to indicate that it is deleted; to cancel, to strike or strike out.
- To strike (the water) with one's arms and legs when swimming.
- To swim by making co-ordinated movements with the arms and legs.
- To give assurance to (someone) through encouragement.
- To give a finely fluted surface to (stone) by carving it with a tool.
- To milk (a cow or other animal); especially, to squeeze the teat of (a cow, etc.) to extract the last bit of milk from the udder; to strap (dialectal), to strip.
- Of a rower or a crew: to row at (a rate of a certain number of strokes (“movements of the oar through water”) per minute).
- To draw the horizontal line across the upright part (of the letter t).
- To bring (something) to a certain condition by stroking (sense 1).
- To influence (someone) by convincing or flattering them.
- To act as the stroke (“rower who is nearest the stern of the boat, the movement of whose oar sets the rowing rhythm for the other rowers”) of (a boat or its crew).
- To mark (something) with lines or stripes; to stripe.
- To hit or kick (the ball) with a flowing or smooth motion; also, to score (a goal, a point, etc.) by doing so.
- Of a bell or clock: to chime or sound to indicate (the hour, the time, etc.).
noun
- One of a series of beats or movements against a resisting medium, by means of which movement through or upon it is accomplished.
- In Unicode: the formal name of the individual horizontal strikethroughs (as in "A̶").
- A flattering or friendly act, comment, etc., done or made to a person to influence them.
- The action of hitting the ball with the bat; a shot.
- A masterful or effective action.
- The oblique, slash, or virgule ("/").
- The movement of an oar or paddle through water, either the pull which actually propels the boat, or a single entire cycle of movement including the pull; also, the manner in which such movements are made; a rowing style.
- A beat or throb, as of the heart or pulse.
- An act of striking with a weapon; a blow.
- A single act of striking at the ball with a club; also, at matchplay, a shot deducted from a player's score at a hole as a result of a handicapping system.
- An act causing hurt or death, especially when seen as divine punishment.
- A point awarded to a player in case of interference or obstruction by the opponent.
- A gesture of assurance given as encouragement; specifically (psychoanalysis) in transactional analysis: a (generally positive) reaction expressed to a person which fulfils their desires or needs.
- A line making up a written character; specifically, a Chinese, Japanese, or Korean character.
- A damaging occurrence, especially if sudden; a blow, a calamity.
- A specific combination of movements of the arms and legs which, when repeated, causes the swimmer to advance through the water; also, the manner in which such movements are made; a swimming style.
- A movement of a brush in painting, of a chisel in carving, of a pen, pencil, or such implement in drawing or writing, etc., in one direction; hence, a line or mark made on a surface by such an implement.
- The hitting of a ball with a racket; also, the movement of the racket and arm that produces that impact.
- An act of hitting; a blow, a hit.
- An act, or the sound, of the clapper or hammer of a clock hitting a bell or other striking mechanism; hence, the time when such a strike occurs.
- An act of moving one's hand or an object along a surface in one direction, touching it lightly; a caress.
- A thrust of the penis during sexual intercourse.
- A single movement or thrust of a part (such as a piston) of a machine that moves back and forth; also, the length of this movement.
- A single movement with a tool; also, an impact of a tool on an object.
- The loss of brain function arising when the blood supply to the brain is suddenly interrupted.
- An amount of work; specifically, a large amount of business or work.
- A distinctive expression in a written composition; a touch.
- A powerful or sudden effort by which something is done or produced; also, something accomplished by such an effort; an achievement, a feat.
- The rower who is nearest the stern of the boat, the movement of whose oar sets the rowing rhythm for the other rowers; also, the position in the boat occupied by this rower.
- An individual discharge of lightning, particularly if causing damage.
verb
- To shake (a person's hand) vigorously.
- To pass (messages) into a program so that it can obey them.
- To express milk from (a breast) by means of a breast pump.
- To pass gas; to fart quietly.
- Of music: to be loud, to have strong bass and rhythms; (by extension) to be full of energy.
- To inject silicone into the body in order to try to achieve a fuller or curvier look.
- To enlarge the body by means of weightlifting or steroid use.
- To use a pump; to move (water or other liquid) by means of a pump.
- To fill with air by means of a pump; to inflate.
- To kick, throw, or hit the ball far and high.
- To move rhythmically, as the motion of a pump.
- To copulate.
- To gain information from (a person) by persistent questioning.
noun
- A device for moving or compressing a liquid or gas.
- A type of women's shoe which leaves the instep uncovered and has a relatively high heel, especially a stiletto (with a very high and thin heel)
- A dancing shoe.
- A device for dispensing liquid or gas to be sold, particularly fuel.
- A swelling of the muscles caused by increased blood flow following high intensity weightlifting.
- A ride on a bicycle given to a passenger, usually on the handlebars or fender.
- An instance of the action of a pump; one stroke of a pump; any action similar to pumping
- The heart.
- A low-top shoe with a rubber sole and a canvas upper; a low-top canvas sneaker.
- A type of shoe without a heel.
noun
- A day on which there is top-to-bottom all-hands cleaning.
- A great time or a great deal to do, at somebody else's expense.
- A great time or a great deal to do; a period of bustling activity.
- A day of class taken away from school for a field trip.
- A school day for athletic events; a sports day.
- A day for manoeuvres and tactical exercises in "the field".
adv
verb
- To touch up (makeup); to give (a body part, especially the face) a quick wash.
- To top up (a drink).
- To remove or cover unpleasant qualities such as staleness, bad odour or taste (in air, breath, water, etc.).
- To make less salty; to separate, as water, from saline ingredients.
- To make cool.
- To be refreshed.
- To touch up the paint on (something).
- To become not salty, to lose its salinity.
- To become cool.
- To refresh; to revive; to renew.
- To make green (vegetation that has become dry).
- To top up (primer) in a firearm.
- To give redness to (the face or cheeks of a person with light skin).
- To begin or resume giving milk, especially after calving; to cause to resume giving milk.
- To relieve, as a rope, by change of place where friction wears it; or to renew, as the material used to prevent chafing.
- To become stronger.
verb
- To clean carefully (particularly of road vehicles) (always pronounced. /ˈdiːteɪl/)
- To explain in detail.
- To assign to a particular task.
noun
- An individual feature, fact, or other item, considered separately from the whole of which it is a part.
- A part considered trivial enough to ignore.
- A person's name, address and other personal information.
- A narrative which relates minute points; an account which dwells on particulars.
- A selected portion of a painting.
- A part small enough to escape casual notice.
- The small parts that can escape casual notice.
- A temporary unit or assignment.
- A profusion of details.
verb
- To seize; to catch up; to take with a sweep.
- To fall on at once and seize; to catch while on the wing.
- To fly or glide downwards suddenly; to plunge (in the air) or nosedive.
- To pass with pomp; to sweep.
- To move swiftly, as if with a sweeping movement, especially to attack something.
- To search the ground for discarded cigarette butts that can be made into new cigarettes.
noun
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