sweep

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

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

   “to sweep a floor, the street, or a chimney”

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

   “The wind sweeps across the plain.”

3. fiil To search (a place) methodically.
4. fiil To travel quickly.

   “Drifting thus, we made fast time down the bank through Cove Bay, and at 72 m.p.h. came sweeping round the curve past Girdleness light house, and so to the first sight of Aberdeen itself.”

5. fiil To play a sweep shot.
6. fiil To brush the ice in front of a moving stone, causing it to travel farther and to curl less.
7. fiil To move something in a long sweeping motion, as a broom.
8. fiil To win (a series) without drawing or losing any of the games in that series.
9. fiil To defeat (a team) in a series without drawing or losing any of the games in that series.
10. fiil To clear (a body of water or part thereof) of mines.

    “The channel was swept twice before the battlefleet proceeded through it.”

11. fiil To remove something abruptly and thoroughly.

    “She swept the peelings off the table onto the floor.”

12. fiil To brush against or over; to rub lightly along.

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

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

    “And like a peacock sweep along his tail.”

14. fiil To strike with a long stroke.

    “Deſcend ye nine! deſcend and ſing; / The breathing inſtruments inſpire, / VVake into voice each ſilent ſtring, / And ſvveep the ſounding lyre!”

15. fiil To row with one oar to either the port or starboard side.
16. fiil To draw or drag something over.

    “to sweep the bottom of a river with a net”

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

    “to sweep the heavens with a telescope”

18. fiil To vacuum a carpet or rug.
19. isim A single action of sweeping.

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

20. isim The person who steers a dragon boat.
21. isim A person who stands at the stern of a surf boat, steering with a steering oar and commanding the crew.
22. isim A chimney sweep.

    “He was, perhaps, the English railwayman's conception of the French mécanicien - short and broad, black as a sweep even before we left Calais (but no blacker than I was on arrival at Paris) and wearing goggles and his uniform cap back to front.”

23. isim A methodical search, typically for bugs (electronic listening devices).
24. isim A batsman's shot, played from a kneeling position with a swinging horizontal bat.

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

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

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

26. isim A flow of water parallel to shore caused by wave action at an ocean beach or at a point or headland.
27. isim The degree to which an aircraft's wings are angled backwards (or, occasionally, forwards) from their attachments to the fuselage.

    “The MiG-17's inner wing has 45 degrees of sweep.”

28. isim A throw or takedown that primarily uses the legs to attack an opponent's legs.
29. isim Violent and general destruction.

    “the sweep of an epidemic disease”

30. isim A movable template for making moulds, in loam moulding.