Swatch

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A piece, pattern, or sample, generally of cloth or a similar material.

   “He held a swatch of the wallpaper up to see if the colors would match the room.”

2. isim A selection of such samples bound together.
3. isim A clump or portion of something.

   “I found myself truly moved by a stage event for the first time in years. I found myself humming tunes that one might not rightfully call tunes. Days later, I still remember these musical phrasings in little swatches of sound.”

4. isim A demonstration, an example, a proof.

   “Pray Sir, pay off the Old Debt, before I truſt you more New. This is a Swatch of Your Faith, and how much You are a Man of Your Word.”

5. isim A tag or other small object attached to another item as a means of identifying its owner; a tally; specifically the counterfoil of a tally.

   “A SWACHE, A Tally. N[orth] C[ountry]”

6. fiil To create a swatch, especially a sample of knitted fabric.

   “Swatching is important in knitting to obtain the correct gauge.”

7. isim A channel or passage of water between sandbanks, or between a sandbank and a seashore.

   “It muſt be obſerved, that the paſſages, called Cockerlees, are no other than ſwatches through the Long-Sand.”

8. özel isim A brand of relatively inexpensive Swiss analog watches.