English Dictionary

sweep

/swiːp/

noun

A single action of sweeping. / The person who steers a dragon boat. / A person who stands at the stern of a surf boat, steering with a steering oar and commanding the crew. / A chimney sweep.

I gave the floor a thorough sweep before mopping.

意味（1）

A single action of sweeping.

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

意味（2）

The person who steers a dragon boat.

意味（3）

A person who stands at the stern of a surf boat, steering with a steering oar and commanding the crew.

意味（4）

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.

意味（5）

A methodical search, typically for bugs (electronic listening devices).

意味（6）

(cricket) 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

意味（7）

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.

意味（8）

A flow of water parallel to shore caused by wave action at an ocean beach or at a point or headland.

意味（9）

(aviation) 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.

意味（10）

(martial arts) A throw or takedown that primarily uses the legs to attack an opponent's legs.

意味（11）

Violent and general destruction.

the sweep of an epidemic disease

意味（12）

(metalworking) A movable template for making moulds, in loam moulding.

意味（13）

(card games) In the game casino, the act of capturing all face-up cards from the table.

意味（14）

The compass of any turning body or of any motion.

the sweep of a door; the sweep of the eye

意味（15）

Direction or departure of a curve, a road, an arch, etc. away from a rectilinear line.

the road which makes a small sweep

意味（16）

A large oar used in small vessels, partly to propel them and partly to steer them.

意味（17）

(rowing) A rowing style in which each rower rows with oar on either the port or starboard side.

I am primarily a sweep rower.

意味（18）

(refining, obsolete) The almond furnace.

意味（19）

A long pole, or piece of timber, moved on a horizontal fulcrum fixed to a tall post and used to raise and lower a bucket in a well for drawing water.

意味（20）

Any of the blades of a windmill.

意味（21）

(in the plural) The sweepings of workshops where precious metals are worked, containing filings, etc.

意味（22）

Any of several sea chubs in the family Kyphosidae (subfamily Scorpidinae).

Octopus clambered about from hole to hole and startled sweep blurred away as we passed.

意味（23）

An expanse or a swath, a strip of land.

The Himalaya guards the southern rim of the plateau in one continuous sweep of 2250 km, each end marked by a massive mountain, Nanga Parbat on the Indus in the west and Namjagbarwa at the great bend of the Yarlung Tsangpo in the east.