All sweep synonyms
sweep
S s verb sweep
- enfilade β A volley of gunfire directed along a line from end to end.
- foraying β a quick raid, usually for the purpose of taking plunder: Vikings made a foray on the port.
- oared β furnished with oars.
- whelm β to submerge; engulf.
- elutriate β Separate (lighter and heavier particles in a mixture) by suspension in an upward flow of liquid or gas.
- captaining β a person who is at the head of or in authority over others; chief; leader.
- flit β to move lightly and swiftly; fly, dart, or skim along: bees flitting from flower to flower.
- lean on β to incline or bend from a vertical position: She leaned out the window.
- brush β A brush is an object which has a large number of bristles or hairs fixed to it. You use brushes for painting, for cleaning things, and for tidying your hair.
- absterge β to wipe clean or cleanse
- clean up β If you clean up a mess or clean up a place where there is a mess, you make things tidy and free of dirt again.
- follow one's nose β the part of the face or facial region in humans and certain animals that contains the nostrils and the organs of smell and functions as the usual passageway for air in respiration: in humans it is a prominence in the center of the face formed of bone and cartilage, serving also to modify or modulate the voice.
noun sweep
- field of view β field (def 13).
- mitt β Baseball. a rounded glove with one internal section for the four fingers and another for the thumb and having the side next to the palm of the hand protected by a thick padding, used by catchers. a somewhat similar glove but with less padding and having sections for the thumb and one or two fingers, used by first basemen. Compare baseball glove.
- field of vision β the entire view encompassed by the eye when it is trained in any particular direction.
- independency β independence (def 1).
- mitts β Baseball. a rounded glove with one internal section for the four fingers and another for the thumb and having the side next to the palm of the hand protected by a thick padding, used by catchers. a somewhat similar glove but with less padding and having sections for the thumb and one or two fingers, used by first basemen. Compare baseball glove.
- continents β one of the main landmasses of the globe, usually reckoned as seven in number (Europe, Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Australia, and Antarctica).
- helices β a native or inhabitant of Corinth.
- breadth β The breadth of something is the distance between its two sides.
- arrest β If the police arrest you, they take charge of you and take you to a police station, because they believe you may have committed a crime.
- ebb β the flowing back of the tide as the water returns to the sea (opposed to flood, flow).
- distance β the extent or amount of space between two things, points, lines, etc.
- hyperbola β the set of points in a plane whose distances to two fixed points in the plane have a constant difference; a curve consisting of two distinct and similar branches, formed by the intersection of a plane with a right circular cone when the plane makes a greater angle with the base than does the generator of the cone. Equation: x 2 /a 2 β y 2 /b 2 = Β±1.
- furbelow β a ruffle or flounce, as on a woman's skirt or petticoat.
- gaff β harsh treatment or criticism: All the gaff he took never made him bitter.
- latitude β Geography. the angular distance north or south from the equator of a point on the earth's surface, measured on the meridian of the point. a place or region as marked by this distance.
- freedom β the state of being free or at liberty rather than in confinement or under physical restraint: He won his freedom after a retrial.
- field β Cyrus West, 1819β92, U.S. financier: projector of the first Atlantic cable.
- half-moon β the ship in which Henry Hudson made his voyage to explore America in 1609.
- gaming β an amusement or pastime: children's games.
- bird's eye view β You say that you have a bird's eye view of a place when you are looking down at it from a great height, so that you can see a long way but everything looks very small.
- farness β The state of being far off, or the degree to which something is far; distance, span; remoteness.
- mobilisation β The act of mobilising.