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Sweeping; The Sweep; Sweep (disambiguation); Swept
Sweep
·noun The almond furnace.
II. Sweep ·vi To strike with a long stroke.
III. Sweep ·noun The act of Sweeping.
IV. Sweep ·vi To brush against or over; to rub lightly along.
V. Sweep ·noun The compass or range of a stroke; as, a long sweep.
VI. Sweep ·noun A movable templet for making molds, in loam molding.
VII. Sweep ·noun One who sweeps; a sweeper; specifically, a chimney sweeper.
VIII. Sweep ·noun Violent and general destruction; as, the sweep of an epidemic disease.
IX. Sweep ·noun Direction and extent of any motion not rectlinear; as, the sweep of a compass.
X. Sweep ·vi To draw or drag something over; as, to sweep the bottom of a river with a net.
XI. Sweep ·noun A large oar used in small vessels, partly to propel them and partly to steer them.
XII. Sweep ·noun The sweeping of workshops where precious metals are worked, containing filings, ·etc.
XIII. Sweep ·noun Direction or departure of a curve, a road, an arch, or the like, away from a rectlinear line.
XIV. Sweep ·noun The compass of any turning body or of any motion; as, the sweep of a door; the sweep of the eye.
XV. Sweep ·vi To carry with a long, swinging, or dragging motion; hence, to carry in a stately or proud fashion.
XVI. Sweep ·noun The compass of anything flowing or brushing; as, the flood carried away everything within its sweep.
XVII. Sweep ·vi To pass over anything comprehensively; to range through with rapidity; as, his eye sweeps through space.
XVIII. Sweep ·vi To clean rooms, yards, ·etc., or to clear away dust, dirt, litter, ·etc., with a broom, brush, or the like.
XIX. Sweep ·noun The mold of a ship when she begins to curve in at the rungheads; any part of a ship shaped in a segment of a circle.
XX. Sweep ·vi To pass over, or traverse, with the eye or with an instrument of observation; as, to sweep the heavens with a telescope.
XXI. Sweep ·noun 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.
XXII. Sweep ·noun In the game of casino, a pairing or combining of all the cards on the board, and so removing them all; in whist, the winning of all the tricks (thirteen) in a hand; a slam.
XXIII. Sweep ·vi To pass a broom across (a surface) so as to remove loose dirt, dust, ·etc.; to brush, or rub over, with a broom for the purpose of cleaning; as, to sweep a floor, the street, or a chimney. Used also figuratively.
XXIV. Sweep ·vi To brush swiftly over the surface of anything; to pass with switness and force, as if brushing the surface of anything; to move in a stately manner; as, the wind sweeps across the plain; a woman sweeps through a drawing-room.
XXV. Sweep ·vi To drive or carry along or off with a broom or a brush, or as if with a broom; to remove by, or as if by, brushing; as, to sweep dirt from a floor; the wind sweeps the snow from the hills; a freshet sweeps away a dam, timber, or rubbish; a pestilence sweeps off multitudes.
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I. v. a.
1.
Clean (with a broom), brush.
2.
Graze, touch (in passing), brush, rub over.
3.
Traverse, pass over.
4.
Carry off, sweep off, sweep away.
5.
Carry with pomp, flourish.
II. n.
1.
Range, compass, scope, reach.
2.
Swipe, swape, well-sweep.
3.
Destruction, havoc, ravage, devastation.
4.
Sweeper, chimney-sweep.
5.
Curve, curvature, flexure, bend.
Примеры произношения для sweep
1. and sweep back across.
Madagascarâs Mouse & Lemurs _ Anne Yoder _ Talks at Google
2. Shapes sweep the flows.
#! Computer Generated Poetry _ Nick Montfort _ Talks at Google
3. maneuver called sweep picking.
Magic and Loss - The Internet as Art _ Virginia Heffernan _ Talks at Google
4. -You can't sweep that...
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The Dark Knight (2008)
5. to Sweep the Secrets Under."
The World of The Novel Within The World _ Doreen Finn _ Talks at Google
Примеры употребления для sweep
1. Ill easily sweep up these no–hopers. (Angela) Sweep?
2. Opponents chanted "sweep, sweep" at their Sacramento victory party.
3. Then sweep, sweep onto the dustpan and whoosh – into the trash it went.
4. "I also feel quite strongly that whereas being an insider may not be the ideal from everyone‘s point of view because many feel that the UN needs a new broom to come in and sweep clean, but the UN is the kind of organization where an old broom can sweep cleaner because it will know where to sweep and how to sweep."
5. Crime sweep A large–scale crime sweep in northern Greece on Tuesday and Wednesday uncovered 3,227 violations and led to 255 arrests, police in Thessaloniki said.