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sweep
English
Etymology
From Middle English swepen, and perhaps from Old English sw?op, the past tense form of Old English sw?pan, from Proto-West Germanic *swaipan, from Proto-Germanic *swaipan?. Cognate with Early Modern West Frisian swiepe (“whip, cleanse, sweep”), from Old Frisian sw?pa, suepa (“sweep”). See also swoop.
Pronunciation
- enPR: sw?p, IPA(key): /swi?p/
- Rhymes: -i?p
Verb
sweep (third-person singular simple present sweeps, present participle sweeping, simple past and past participle swept)
- (transitive) To clean (a surface) by means of a stroking motion of a broom or brush.
- I will sweep it with the besom of destruction.
- (intransitive) To move through a (horizontal) arc or similar long stroke.
- 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?
- 2005, Lesley Brown (translator), Sophist by Plato, 236d:
- (transitive) To search (a place) methodically.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To travel quickly.
- (cricket) To play a sweep shot.
- (curling) To brush the ice in front of a moving stone, causing it to travel farther and to curl less.
- (transitive, ergative) To move something in a long sweeping motion, as a broom.
- (sports, transitive) To win (a series) without drawing or losing any of the games in that series.
- (sports, transitive) To defeat (a team) in a series without drawing or losing any of the games in that series.
- (transitive) To remove something abruptly and thoroughly.
- To brush against or over; to rub lightly along.
- Their long descending train, / With rubies edg'd and sapphires, swept the plain.
- Mind you, clothes were clothes in those days. […] Frills, ruffles, flounces, lace, complicated seams and gores: not only did they sweep the ground and have to be held up in one hand elegantly as you walked along, but they had little capes or coats or feather boas.
- To carry with a long, swinging, or dragging motion; hence, to carry in a stately or proud fashion.
- To strike with a long stroke.
- (rowing) To row with one oar to either the port or starboard side.
- (nautical) To draw or drag something over.
- To pass over, or traverse, with the eye or with an instrument of observation.
- (US, regional, including Ohio and Indiana) to vacuum a carpet or rug
Derived terms
Translations
Noun
sweep (plural sweeps)
- 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.
- A methodical search, typically for bugs (electronic listening devices).
- (cricket) A batsman's shot, played from a kneeling position with a swinging horizontal bat.
- A lottery, usually on the results of a sporting event, where players win if their randomly chosen team wins.
- A flow of water parallel to shore caused by wave action at an ocean beach or at a point or headland.
- (martial arts) A throw or takedown that primarily uses the legs to attack an opponent's legs.
- Violent and general destruction.
- (metalworking) A movable templet for making moulds, in loam moulding.
- (card games) In the game casino, the act of capturing all face-up cards from the table.
- The compass of any turning body or of any motion.
- Direction or departure of a curve, a road, an arch, etc. away from a rectilinear line.
- A large oar used in small vessels, partly to propel them and partly to steer them.
- (rowing) A rowing style in which each rower rows with oar on either the port or starboard side.
- (refining, obsolete) The almond furnace.
- 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.
- Any of the blades of a windmill.
- (in the plural) The sweepings of workshops where precious metals are worked, containing filings, etc.
- Any of several sea chubs in the family Kyphosidae (subfamily Scorpidinae).
- 1993, Tim Winton, Land's Edge, Picador 2014, p. 28:
- Octopus clambered about from hole to hole and startled sweep blurred away as we passed.
- 1993, Tim Winton, Land's Edge, Picador 2014, p. 28:
- An expanse or a swath, a strip of land.
Derived terms
Translations
References
- sweep in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- “sweep”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
Anagrams
- weeps
Afrikaans
Etymology
From Dutch zweep, from Middle Dutch swepe.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sv???p/
Noun
sweep (plural swepe, diminutive swepie)
- A whip.
Portuguese
Etymology
Borrowed from English sweep.
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /?swip/
Noun
sweep m (plural sweeps)
- (electric guitar) sweep (arpeggio played with a single movement of the picking hand)
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whisk
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /(h)w?sk/
- Rhymes: -?sk
Etymology 1
Middle English [Term?], from Old Norse visk, from Proto-Germanic *wiskaz, *wisk? (“bundle of hay, wisp”), from Proto-Indo-European *weys-. Doublet of verge.
Cognate with Danish visk, Dutch wis, German Wisch, Latin virga (“rod, switch”), viscus (“entrails”), Lithuanian vizgéti (“to tremble”), Czech vechet (“wisp of straw”), Sanskrit ????? (ve?ka, “noose”). Compare also Old English wiscian (“to plait”), granwisc (“awn”).
Noun
whisk (plural whisks)
- A quick, light sweeping motion.
- With a quick whisk, she swept the cat from the pantry with her broom.
- A kitchen utensil, now usually made from stiff wire loops fixed to a handle (and formerly of twigs), used for whipping (or a mechanical device with the same function).
- He used a whisk to whip up a light and airy souffle.
- A bunch of twigs or hair etc, used as a brush.
- Peter dipped the whisk in lather and applied it to his face, so he could start shaving.
- A small handheld broom with a small (or no) handle.
- I used a whisk to sweep the counter, then a push-broom for the floor.
- A plane used by coopers for evening chines.
- A kind of cape, forming part of a woman's dress.
- My wife in her new lace whiske.
- (archaic) An impertinent fellow.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Halliwell to this entry?)
Hyponyms
- eggwhisk
Translations
Verb
whisk (third-person singular simple present whisks, present participle whisking, simple past and past participle whisked)
- (transitive) To move something with quick light sweeping motions.
- He that walks in gray, whisking his riding Page.
- (transitive) In cooking, to whip e.g. eggs or cream.
- (transitive) To move something rapidly and with no warning.
- July 3, 1769, Horace Walpole, letter to the Earl of Strafford
- I beg she would not impale worms, nor whisk carp out of one element into another.
- July 3, 1769, Horace Walpole, letter to the Earl of Strafford
- (intransitive) To move lightly and nimbly.
Translations
References
Etymology 2
So called from the rapid action of sweeping the cards off the table after a trick has been won.
Noun
whisk (uncountable)
- (obsolete) The card game whist.
- 1621, John Taylor, Taylor's Motto
- Trump, noddy, whisk, hole […]
- 1621, John Taylor, Taylor's Motto
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