Sweep

Verb

 * 1)  To clean (a surface) by means of a stroking motion of a broom or brush.
 * 2)  To move through an (horizontal) arc or similar long stroke.
 * 3) * 2005, Lesley Brown (translator), Sophist by Plato, 236d:
 * [H]as the course of the argument so accustomed you to agreeing that you were swept by it into a ready assent?
 * 1)  To search (a place) methodically.
 * 2)  To travel quickly.
 * 3)  To play a sweep shot.
 * 4)  To brush the ice in front of a moving stone, causing it to travel farther and to curl less.
 * 5)  To move something in a particular motion, as a broom
 * 1)  To move something in a particular motion, as a broom

Derived terms

 * sweeper
 * sweep across


 * sweep someone off their feet
 * sweep up


 * sweepy

Noun

 * 1) The person who steers a dragon boat.
 * 2) A person who stands at the stern of a surf boat, steering with a steering oar and commanding the crew.
 * 3) A chimney sweep.
 * 4) A search (typically for bugs [electronic listening devices]).
 * 5)  A batsman's shot, played from a kneeling position with a swinging horizontal bat.
 * 6) 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.
 * 1) A flow of water parallel to shore caused by wave action at an ocean beach or at a point or headland.
 * 2) A single action of sweeping.

Derived terms

 * chimney sweep


 * clean sweep


 * sweepstake

Adjectives for Sweep
outward; wavering; everlasting; soft; long; heaving; exulting; comprehensive; windy; majestic; gentle; irresistible; pitiless; magnificent; wild; enormous; dramatic; dread; liberal; joyous; shining; semi-circular.

Verbs for Sweep
condense—; deflect—; determine—; direct —; enlarge—; extend—; limit—; magnify —; realign—; restrict—; shift—; switch—; ——declines; —deviates; —diverges; —embraces; —expands; —ranges; —swerves; —zigzags.

Adverbs for Sweep
capriciously; irresistibly; bitterly; majestically; resistlessly; frightfully; terrifically; silently; mutely; hoarsely; gracefully; surreptitiously; vigorously; tumultuously; relentlessly; heartlessly; confusedly; magnificently ; dramatically.

Thesaurus
Derby, Kentucky Derby, Preakness Stakes, S-curve, aberrancy, aberration, advance, airscape, ambit, arc, arch, ball the jack, barrel, be effortless, be painless, bend, bend back, bending, bias, bingo, boom, bow, bowing, bowl, bowl along, branching off, breeze, breeze along, broom, brush, brush by, brush off, bunt, butt, carry, cascade, cataract, chase, chimney sweep, circle, circuitousness, cityscape, class lottery, clean, cleanser, clear, clear sight, clearance, clip, cloudscape, coast, coasting, color vision, compass, cone vision, conflexure, corner, course, cover, crook, crossing sweeper, curl, curvature, curve, cut along, dash, day vision, daylight vision, declination, decurve, deflect, deflection, deluge, demolish, departure, depredate, despoil, destroy, detour, deviance, deviancy, deviation, deviousness, diapason, digression, discernment, discursion, divagation, divarication, divergence, diversion, do, dogleg, dome, double, draft lottery, drawing, drift, drifting, drive, embow, encompass, engulf, environ, errantry, excursion, excursus, exorbitation, extend, extension, extent, eye, eye-mindedness, eyesight, farsight, farsightedness, field of view, field of vision, flat race, flection, fleece, fleet, flex, flexure, flit, flood, flounce, flow, flowing, flue cleaner, fly, fly low, foot, forage, foray, forward, freeboot, gamut, geanticline, geosyncline, give no trouble, glance, glide, gliding, glissade, go, go easily, go fast, go like clockwork, go out, go over, grab bag, graze, gut, hairpin, hairpin turn, handicap, handicap race, harness race, highball, hold, home on, hook, horizon, horse race, hump, hunch, hurdle race, ice-skate, identify, impel, incurvate, incurve, indirection, inflect, inflection, interest lottery, inundate, keen sight, ken, keno, kiss, landscape, lie, lookout, loop, loot, lottery, lotto, make knots, map, maraud, march, meander, measure, move, night vision, nip, number lottery, numbers pool, oar, obliquity, orbit, outlook, outstrip the wind, overbrim, overflow, overpass, overrun, overwhelm, oxbow, paddle, panorama, parade, pass, pass over, pass through, patrol, pedal, perambulate, perception, peregrinate, pererrate, pererration, peripheral field, peripheral vision, perspective, perspicacity, perspicuity, photopia, pick up, pillage, pinpoint, plate race, plunder, ply, pole, pour it on, pour out, pour over, power of sight, present no difficulties, prey on, propel, prospect, purge, purse race, purview, push, quarter-horse race, quick sight, radius, raffle, raid, rambling, range, range over, ransack, ravage, raven, ravish, reach, reach out, receive, reconnoiter, recurve, reflect, reflection, reflex, register, reive, remove, retroflex, rifle, rip, riverscape, rod vision, roll, roller-skate, round, row, run, run over, run smoothly, sack, sag, sail, sailing, scale, scan, scape, scavenger, scene, scenery, scenic view, scope, scorch, scotopia, scour, scour the country, scout, scrape, scull, seascape, seeing, sense of sight, sheer, shift, shifting, shifting course, shifting path, shove, shunt, sideslip, sight, sightedness, sizzle, skate, skateboard, skating, skew, ski, skid, skiing, skim, skyscape, slant, sled, sledding, sleigh, slide, sliding, slip, slipping, slither, slithering, slop, slosh, span, spectrum, speed, spill, spill out, spill over, spoil, spoliate, spot, spread, stake, stake race, steeplechase, steering oar, storm along, straddle, straying, street sweeper, stretch, stretch out, stroke, submerge, surround, swag, swamp, sweep along, sweep away, sweep out, sweep up, sweeper, sweeping, sweepstake, sweepstakes, swerve, swerving, swing, swinging, swoop, tack, take in, tear, tear along, thrust, thrust out, thunder along, tidy up, toboggan, tobogganing, tombola, tontine, touch lightly, touch upon, townscape, track, transit, travel over, travel through, traverse, treadle, trigger, troll, trotting race, trundle, tune in, turn, turning, twilight vision, twist, unobstructed vision, vacuum, vacuum-clean, variation, vault, veer, view, vision, vista, visual acuity, visual field, visual sense, voyage, wandering, warp, waterscape, whelm, whisk, whitewing, whiz, wind, wing, wipe out, work well, yaw, zigzag, zing, zip, zoom

Etymology
From swapan:; see also swoop.

Verb

 * Arabic: مسح
 * Bosnian: mesti, pomesti
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, , ,
 * Croatian: mesti, pomesti
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * German: ,
 * Irish:
 * Italian:, , ramazzare


 * Japanese:, 掃く
 * Persian: رُفتن
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: (to clean with a broom),  (to clean with a brush)
 * Russian:,  , подмести
 * Scottish Gaelic: sguab
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic: мести, помести
 * Roman: mesti, pomesti
 * Spanish:
 * Telugu: ఊడ్చు (ooDchu)
 * Volapük: svipön


 * Irish:


 * Japanese: 掃引する (sōin-suru)


 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:


 * Italian: setacciare
 * Russian: прочёсывать, прочесать


 * Finnish:


 * Japanese: 掃く (haku)


 * Finnish:


 * : vegen
 * : balai
 * : balayar
 * : menyapu
 * : süpür

Anagrams

 * weeps