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A single action of sweeping.

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Give the front steps a quick sweep to get rid of those fallen leaves.

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The person who steers a dragon boat.

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A person who stands at the stern of a surf boat, steering with a steering oar and commanding the crew.

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A chimney sweep.

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A methodical search, typically for bugs (electronic listening devices).

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A batsman's shot, played from a kneeling position with a swinging horizontal bat.

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Bradman attempted a sweep, but in fact top edged the ball to the wicket keeper

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A lottery, usually on the results of a sporting event, where players win if their randomly chosen team wins.

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Jim will win fifty dollars in the office sweep if Japan wins the World Cup.

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A flow of water parallel to shore caused by wave action at an ocean beach or at a point or headland.

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A throw or takedown that primarily uses the legs to attack an opponent's legs.

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Violent and general destruction.

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the sweep of an epidemic disease

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A movable templet for making moulds, in loam moulding.

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In the game casino, the act of capturing all face-up cards from the table.

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The compass of any turning body or of any motion.

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the sweep of a door; the sweep of the eye

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Direction or departure of a curve, a road, an arch, etc. away from a rectilinear line.

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A large oar used in small vessels, partly to propel them and partly to steer them.

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A rowing style in which each rower rows with oar on either the port or starboard side.

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I am primarily a sweep rower.

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(refining) The almond furnace.

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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.

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Any of the blades of a windmill.

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(in the plural) The sweepings of workshops where precious metals are worked, containing filings, etc.

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Any of several sea chub in the kyphosid subfamily Scorpidinae.

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An expanse or a swath, a strip of land.

verb

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To clean (a surface) by means of a stroking motion of a broom or brush.

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to sweep a floor, the street, or a chimney

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To move through a (horizontal) arc or similar long stroke.

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The offended countess swept out of the ballroom.

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To search (a place) methodically.

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To travel quickly.

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To play a sweep shot.

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To brush the ice in front of a moving stone, causing it to travel farther and to curl less.

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To move something in a long sweeping motion, as a broom.

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To win (a series) without drawing or losing any of the games in that series.

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To defeat (a team) in a series without drawing or losing any of the games in that series.

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To remove something abruptly and thoroughly.

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She swept the peelings off the table onto the floor.

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To brush against or over; to rub lightly along.

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Their long descending train, / With rubies edg'd and sapphires, swept the plain.

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To carry with a long, swinging, or dragging motion; hence, to carry in a stately or proud fashion.

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To strike with a long stroke.

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To row with one oar to either the port or starboard side.

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To draw or drag something over.

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to sweep the bottom of a river with a net

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To pass over, or traverse, with the eye or with an instrument of observation.

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to sweep the heavens with a telescope

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(including) to vacuum a carpet or rug

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