sweep
扫荡,扫除,清扫,打扫
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Definitions
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swept, sweep·ing.
- : to move or remove with or as if with a broom, brush, or the like.
- : to clear or clean of dirt, litter, or the like, by means of a broom or brush.
- : to drive or carry by some steady force, as of a wind or wave: The wind swept the snow into drifts.
- : to pass or draw over a surface with a continuous stroke or movement: The painter swept a brush over his canvas.
- : to make by clearing a space with or as if with a broom.
- : to clear of something on or in it: to sweep a sea of enemy ships.
- : to pass over with a steady, driving movement or unimpeded course, as winds, floods, etc.: sandstorms sweeping the plains.
- : to search thoroughly: Soldiers swept the town, looking for deserters.
- : to pass the gaze, eyes, etc., over: His eyes swept the countryside.
- : to direct over a region, surface, or the like: He swept his eyes over the countryside.
- : to examine electronically, as to search for a hidden listening device.
- : to win a complete or overwhelming victory in: Johnson swept the presidential election of 1964.
- : to win: The Yankees swept the three-game series.
- : Music. to pass the fingers or bow over, as in playing.to bring forth thus.
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swept, sweep·ing.
- : to sweep a floor, room, etc., with or as if with a broom: The new broom sweeps well.
- : to move steadily and strongly or swiftly.
- : to move or pass in a swift but stately manner: Proudly, she swept from the room.
- : to move, pass, or extend in a continuous course, especially a wide curve or circuit: His glance swept around the room.
- : to conduct an underwater search by towing a drag under the surface of the water.
- : Aeronautics. to project from the fuselage at an angle rearward or forward of a line perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the aircraft.
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- : the act of sweeping, especially a moving, removing, clearing, etc., by or as if by the use of a broom: to give the house a good sweep.
- : the steady, driving motion or swift onward course of something moving with force or without interruption: the sweep of the wind and the waves.
- : an examination by electronic detection devices of a room or building to determine the presence of hidden listening devices.
- : a swinging or curving movement or stroke, as of the arm, a weapon, an oar, etc.
- : reach, range, or compass, as of something sweeping about: the sweep of a road about a marsh.
- : a continuous extent or stretch: a broad sweep of sand.
- : a curving, especially widely or gently curving, line, form, part, or mass.
- : matter removed or gathered by sweeping.
- : Also called well sweep . a leverlike device for raising or lowering a bucket in a well.
- : a large oar used in small vessels, sometimes to assist the rudder or to propel the craft.
- : an overwhelming victory in a contest.
- : a winning of all the games, rounds, hands, prizes, etc., in a contest by one contestant.
- : Football. end run.
- : one of the sails of a windmill.
- : Agriculture. any of the detachable triangular blades on a cultivator.
- : Chiefly British. a person employed to clean by sweeping, especially a chimney sweeper.
- : Cards. Whist.the winning of all the tricks in a hand.Compare slam. Casino.a pairing or combining, and hence taking, of all the cards on the board.
- : Physics. an irreversible process tending towards thermal equilibrium.
Phrases
- sweep off someone's feet
- sweep under the rug
- make a clean sweep
- new broom sweeps clean
- (sweep) off someone's feet
Synonyms & Antonyms
Examples
Unless it’s a clean sweep by the Democrats, none of this will happen.
The chytrid pandemic was selecting frogs based on their microbes—a selective sweep in which amphibians harboring one microbial community survived above all others.
This gravel handlebar keeps the controls in the same neutral position as a standard road handlebar and creates sweep below the controls for a wider, more confident hand position when riding in the drops.
There’s also no evidence that a single sweep of the virus through the population would lead to herd immunity, says Sten Vermund, dean of the Yale School of Public Health.
Although several players have gotten close, and several others seem like they’ve played for every single team in a league, there are surprisingly few who have made a clean sweep of a given division.
Decorative yes, but a daily handbag that will sweep through the closets of women worldwide?
In the long sweep of LGBT equality, it could have stood as a seminal moment.
The “24-hour news cycle” just makes them harder to sweep under the rug and ignore.
It was a street-sweep, and violence had broken out, and the government was cracking down.
The remains were shipped to Fiji just as the war was about to sweep the region.
To talk German was beyond the sweep of my dizziest ambition, but an Italian runner or porter instantly presented himself.
He walked up the sweep of sandy drive to the hotel and went through the big glass doors.
Thenceforth, it ebbed, though it raged madly for a while in the effort to sweep away the obstruction.
And then if the ghost of a chimney-sweep were to appear—and why not the spirit of a sweep as well as anybody else?
It is otherwise with the people who dwell upon the land over which these atmospheric convulsions sweep.