Word Finder - sweep

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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.

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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

I dust and sweep but a stern lady looks after the madam whose care is beyond my responsibilities.

The Ganges here forms a fine sweep of about 4 m.

She can gently sweep it over any shinny areas.

A sweep through the barn failed to reveal any imminent births.

People used to sweep the streets at night until a machine replaced them.

The atmosphere is also purified by the fierce te7nporales, or "northers," which occasionally sweep down over the Gulf and across this open region.

The most effective tool against the weeds is a broad sharp " sweep," as it is called, which takes everything it meets, while going shallower than most ploughs.

The south-east winds which sweep over Table Mountain frequently cause the phenomenon known as "The Table-cloth."

Of this system - except so far as the confusion of the laws is -concerned - the reform of 1864 made a clean sweep. The new system established - based partly on English, partly on French models - was built up on certain broad 1864.

Though the state papers of Venice have suffered from fire and the series begins comparatively late, yet their fullness and the world-wide sweep of Venetian interests render this collection an inexhaustible storehouse of data for students.

Early in January 1813 the senate promised that 350,000 conscripts should be enrolled; but 150,000 of them were under twenty years of age, and mobile columns had to be used to sweep in the recruits, especially in Brittany, the Netherlands and the newly annexed lands of North Germany.

The John and Paul are conceived and executed really in the great style, with a commanding nobility and force alike in the character of the heads, the attitudes, and the sweep of draperies; they represent the highest achievement of early German art in painting.

Their sides are seamed with torrents which tear down the solid rock and sweep its detritus into the glens and sea lochs.

Indeed, so rapid is the infilling by the torrents which sweep down detritus from the surrounding heights that even the existing lakes are visibly diminishing.

The Pastaza, however, is subject to irresistible floods caused by the sudden rising of the mountain torrents on its upper course, especially the Toro, which sweep down with such fury that navigation on the river is practically impossible.

The warm winds which sweep up the Mississippi Valley from the Gulf of Mexico are responsible for the extremes of heat, and the Arctic winds of the north, which find no mountain range to break their strength, cause the extremes of cold.

Up or down this plain, at opposite seasons, sweep the monsoon winds, in a direction at right angles to that of their nominal course; and thus vapour which has been brought by winds from the Bay of Bengal is discharged as snow and rain on the peaks and hillsides of the Western Himalayas.

The picturesque ruins of Bothwell Castle occupy a conspicuous position on the side of the river, which here takes the bold sweep famed in Scottish song as.

The horns of the old bucks are of great length and beauty, and characterized by their bold scimitar-like backward sweep and sharp front edge, interrupted at irregular intervals by knots or bosses.

The cliff scenery is grand, and there is a fine sandy beach along the northward sweep of the coast in Watergate Bay.

Luxemburg himself with the right wing of cavalry and some infantry and artillery made a wide sweep round the enemy's left by way of Ligny and Les Trois Burettes, concealed by the high-standing corn.

Upon every subject that came within the sweep of his system, except mathematics and physics, his thoughts have been productive of thought.

Nor could even the violent religious revolution of Akhenaton (Amenophis iv.), of which we shall later have occasion to speak, sweep away for ever beliefs that had persisted for so many generations.

It was therefore an opportune time to try to sweep the Turks and the British into the sea.

They sweep in a broad band of roughly parallel ranges to the south-west, preserving their general direction till they abut on the Great Registan desert to the west of Kandahar, where they terminate in a series of detached and broken anticlinals whose sides are swept by a sea of encroaching sand.

In_ like manner de Maistre proposed to sweep away the ecclesiastical checks and balances, and vest the whole of the Church's authority in the pope.

A clean sweep was made of the legislation of the preceding period; the five articles of Perth, the service book and book of canons and the court of high commission were all condemned.

It rises in Vyatka, takes a wide sweep towards the north and east, and then flows south and south-west to join the Volga after a course of no less than 1150 m.

The slight inward sweep of the coast forms the Canterbury Bight, and the shore-line northward from Timaru is called the Ninety-mile Beach.

The climate of northern and central Chile is profoundly affected by the high mountain barrier on the eastern frontier and by the broad treeless pampas of Argentina, which raise the easterly moisture-laden winds from the Atlantic to so high an elevation that they sweep across Chile without leaving a drop of rain.

It lies on a small and picturesque inlet of the Atlantic named Moore Bay, with a beautiful sweep of sandy beach.

Brief and furious rain-storms sometimes sweep the northern plateau, but these are not frequent and occur during a short season only.

If the vessel is deep, these currents will be balanced by counter currents below them, but if the depth of the water is only two or three millimetres, the surface-current will sweep away the whole of the water, leaving a dry spot where the alcohol was dropped in.

He witnessed the chequered career of Stilicho as actual, though not titular, emperor of the West; he saw the hosts of Radagaisus rolled back from Italy, only to sweep over Gaul and Spain; the defeats and triumphs of Alaric; the three sieges and final sack of Rome, followed by the marvellous recovery of the city; Heraclian's vast armament dissipated; and the fall of seven pretenders to the Western diadem.

The entrance is contracted by Tiran and other islands, so that the passage is rendered somewhat difficult; and its navigation is dangerous on account of the numerous coral reefs, and the sudden squalls which sweep down from the adjacent mountains, many of which rise perpendicularly to a height of 2000 ft.

In this instance a very slight movement at the root of the pinion, or that end of the lever directed towards the body, 1 is followed by an immense sweep of the extremity of the wing, where its elevating and propelling power is greatest - this arrangement ensuring that the large quantity of air necessary for support and propulsion shall be compressed under the most favourable conditions.

There the resistance of a series of igneous dykes gives prominence to the Pembroke peninsula, in which the fine fjord-like harbour of Milford Haven lies far out towards the Atlantic. The coast north of Pembroke and Merioneth has been worked into the grand sweep of Cardigan Bay, its surface carved into gently rounded hills, green with rich grass, which sweep downward into wide rounded valleys.

South of the Pennines, the Red rocks extend eastward in a great sweep through the south of Derbyshire, Warwick, the west of Leicestershire, and the east of Nottingham, their margin being approximately marked by the Avon, flowing south-west, and the Soar and Trent, flowing north-east.

In July grass fires are of common occurrence, and frequently sweep over a great expanse of country.

This chain divides off the high-level sources of the Oxus on the west from the streams which sweep downwards into the Turkestan depression of Kashgar on the east.

During this time he could hear "the trailing garments of the night sweep through her marble halls," and see "the stars come out to listen to the music of the seas."

On the north side they sweep gradually down towards the shore, but on the south they terminate in bold and lofty precipices.

The higher masses of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta cover a very limited area, leaving the trade winds a comparatively unbroken sweep across the northern plains until checked by the Western Cordillera, the Panama ranges and the Sierra de Baudo, where a heavy precipitation follows.

In the Amazon region there is no great change during the year, and on the northern plains the so-called dry season is one of light rains except where mountain ranges break the sweep of the north-east trades.

Victoria Nyanza is remarkable for the severe and sudden storms which sweep across it, rendering navigation dangerous.

The spiral horns are low at the crown, with a clear space between the roots, and sweep in a wide curve, sloping slightly backwards, and clear of the cheek.

The Belgian capitalist class was seeking to cripple the workers organizations; the workers were moving to sweep capitalism away.

These vary from a brushcutter, hedgetrimmer, pruner, edger, strimmer, soil cultivator and power sweep.

Massage into the palm of dry hands or sweep over feet, push back cuticles, rinse under water for instant spa luxury.

It invokes a vision of a grand sweep of time, a quest for meaning in the course of history.