sweep
- IPA[swiːp]
英式
- clean (an area) by brushing away dirt or litter；move or remove (dirt or litter) by brushing it away
- an act of sweeping something with a brush；short for chimney sweep
noun: sweep, plural noun: sweeps
verb: sweep, 3rd person present: sweeps, gerund or present participle: sweeping, past tense: swept, past participle: swept
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- v.動詞
- 1. clean (an area) by brushing away dirt or litter:
I've swept the floor
Greg swept out the kitchen
- 2. move or remove (dirt or litter) by brushing it away:
she swept the tea leaves into a dustpan
- 3. move or push (someone or something) with great force:
I was swept along by the crowd
the party was swept from power
- 4. brush (hair) back from one's face or upwards:
long hair swept up into a high chignon
- 5. hit (the ball) on the leg side by bringing the bat across the body from a half-kneeling position; hit a ball delivered by (a bowler) with such a stroke.
- 6. move swiftly and smoothly:
a large black car swept past the open windows
his cool grey eyes swept over her
- 7. cause to move swiftly and smoothly:
he swept his hand round the room
- 8. (of a person) move in a confident and stately manner:
she swept magnificently from the hall
- 9. affect (an area or place) swiftly and widely:
the rebellion had swept through all four of the country's provinces
violence swept the country
- 10. (of a geographical or natural feature) extend continuously in a particular direction, especially in a curve:
green forests swept down the hillsides
- 11. win all the games in (a series); take each of the winning or main places in (a contest or event):
we knew we had to sweep these three home games
- 12. search (an area) for something:
the detective swept the room for hair and fingerprints
- 13. examine (a place or object) for electronic listening devices:
the line is swept every fifteen minutes
- 14. cover (an entire area) with a gun:
they were trying to get the Lewis gun up behind some trees from where they would sweep the trench
- n.名詞
- 1. an act of sweeping something with a brush:
I was giving the floor a quick sweep
- 2. short for chimney sweep
- 3. a long, swift curving movement:
a grandiose sweep of his hand
- 4. the movement of a beam across the screen of a cathode ray tube.
- 5. an attacking stroke in which the bat is brought across the body from a half-kneeling position to hit the ball to leg.
- 6. a procedure for inducing labour in a pregnant woman, in which a medical practitioner moves a finger around within the opening of the cervix to detach the amniotic membranes:
I went in for a sweep at 41 weeks
she asked if I wanted a membrane sweep to get labour going
- 7. a comprehensive search or survey of a place or area:
the police finished their sweep through the woods
- 8. a survey of the ratings of television stations, carried out at regular intervals to determine advertising rates.
- 9. a long, typically curved stretch of road, river, or land:
we could see a wide sweep of country perhaps a hundred miles across
- 10. a curved part of a drive in front of a building:
one fork of the drive continued on to the gravel sweep
- 11. the range or scope of something:
the whole sweep of the history of the USSR
- 12. a sweepstake.
- 13. an instance of winning every event, award, or place in a contest:
a World Series sweep
- 14. a long, heavy oar used to row a barge or other vessel:
a big, heavy sweep oar
- 15. a sail of a windmill.
- 16. a long pole mounted as a lever for raising buckets from a well.
past and past participle of sweep
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n. a person whose job is cleaning out the soot from chimneys.
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n. a person whose job is cleaning out the soot from chimneys.
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the removal of all unwanted people or things in order to start afresh
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win every event or prize in a contest
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win every event or prize in a contest
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n. a second hand on a clock or watch, moving on the same dial as the other hands.
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- v.clean (an area) by brushing away dirt or litter:
- I've swept the floor
Greg swept out the kitchen
- n.an act of sweeping something with a brush:
- I was giving the floor a quick sweep
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