swab 的 2 个定义
- a large mop used on shipboard for cleaning decks, living quarters, etc.
- a bit of sponge, cloth, cotton, or the like, sometimes fixed to a stick, for cleansing the mouth of a sick person or for applying medicaments, drying areas, etc.
- the material collected with a swab as a specimen for microscopic study.
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swabbed, swab·bing.
- to clean with or as if with a swab: to swab the decks.
- to take up or apply, as moisture, with or as if with a swab: to swab soapy water from the decks.
- to pass over a surface: to swab a mop over the decks.
swab 近义词
clean
更多swab例句
- A woman standing in line for a coronavirus test asks one of the officials if the test—a nose and throat swab—hurts.
- The throat swab is less invasive, requiring only a quick brush of the back of the tongue.
- The Food and Drug Administration has issued emergency authorizations for more than 150 diagnostic Covid-19 tests, including those that rely on saliva and others that require a swab of deep in the nasal cavity, the front of the nose or the throat.
- The physician’s orders documented in the facility’s medical record also do not mention the nasal swab test.
- The claims also included codes for a nasal swab coronavirus test.
- Objects included “speaker wire, an AAA battery, open safety pins, a plastic cup, straws, a marble, and a cotton-tipped swab.”
- She submitted to a DNA swab after some discussions between the authorities and her lawyer.
- This consists of a tarred rope, or a flexible whip-stalk, three-fourths of an inch in diameter, with a swab or bulbous end.
- I say, you young cub down there,” shouted the skipper to him from the hatchway, “come up and swab this deck.
- A Lascar is standing by grinning, with a bucket of water and a deck-swab; they want to begin holystoning down the decks.
- Then I jumps off my white mule, takes the swab by the heels, an' chucks him over the warehouse into a cactus bush.
- Gordon is gone from us, and his name will pass, like that of the “swab” Tyler, into the quietude of the history-books.