Sweep
To pass a broom across (a surface) so as to remove loose dirt, dust, etc.; to brush, or rub over, with a broom for the purpose of cleaning; as, to sweep a floor, the street, or a chimney. Used also figuratively.
To drive or carry along or off with a broom or a brush, or as if with a broom; to remove by, or as if by, brushing; as, to sweep dirt from a floor; the wind sweeps the snow from the hills; a freshet sweeps away a dam, timber, or rubbish; a pestilence sweeps off multitudes.
To brush against or over; to rub lightly along.
To carry with a long, swinging, or dragging motion; hence, to carry in a stately or proud fashion.
To strike with a long stroke.
To draw or drag something over; as, to sweep the bottom of a river with a net.
To pass over, or traverse, with the eye or with an instrument of observation; as, to sweep the heavens with a telescope.
To clean rooms, yards, etc., or to clear away dust, dirt, litter, etc., with a broom, brush, or the like.
To brush swiftly over the surface of anything; to pass with switness and force, as if brushing the surface of anything; to move in a stately manner; as, the wind sweeps across the plain; a woman sweeps through a drawing-room.
To pass over anything comprehensively; to range through with rapidity; as, his eye sweeps through space.
The act of sweeping.
The compass or range of a stroke; as, a long sweep.
The compass of any turning body or of any motion; as, the sweep of a door; the sweep of the eye.
The compass of anything flowing or brushing; as, the flood carried away everything within its sweep.
Violent and general destruction; as, the sweep of an epidemic disease.
Direction and extent of any motion not rectlinear; as, the sweep of a compass.
Direction or departure of a curve, a road, an arch, or the like, away from a rectlinear line.
One who sweeps; a sweeper; specifically, a chimney sweeper.
A movable templet for making molds, in loam molding.
The mold of a ship when she begins to curve in at the rungheads; any part of a ship shaped in a segment of a circle.
A large oar used in small vessels, partly to propel them and partly to steer them.
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.
In the game of casino, a pairing or combining of all the cards on the board, and so removing them all; in whist, the winning of all the tricks (thirteen) in a hand; a slam.
The sweeping of workshops where precious metals are worked, containing filings, etc.
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Sweep Quotations
Today is life-the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today. Get interested in something. Shake yourself awake. Develop a hobby. Let the winds of enthusiasm sweep through you. Live today with gusto.
Dale Carnegie
Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Roll on, deep and dark blue ocean, roll. Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain. Man marks the earth with ruin, but his control stops with the shore.
Lord Byron
The repose of sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest. The repose of the night does not belong to us. It is not the possession of our being. Sleep opens within us an inn for phantoms. In the morning we must sweep out the shadows.
Gaston Bachelard
The unthankful heart... discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings!
Henry Ward Beecher
Nature, with equal mind, Sees all her sons at play, Sees man control the wind, The wind sweep man away.
Matthew Arnold
The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older, and societies better.
Christian Nestell Bovee
The organization and constant onward sweep of this movement exemplifies the resentment of the many toward the selfishness, greed and the neglect of the few.
John L. Lewis
In both the presence of evil and the eventual triumph over evil the sweep is cosmic. It embraces the entire universe, what to man is both seen and unseen. The victory is to be accomplished through Christ.
Kenneth Scott Latourette
The essence of the stage is concentration and penetration. Of the screen action, movement, sweep.
Elia Kazan
You can't sweep other people off their feet, if you can't be swept off your own.
Clarence Day
The CIA could not face up to the American people and admit that its former employees had conspired to assassinate the President; so from the moment Kennedy's heart stopped beating, the Agency attempted to sweep the whole conspiracy under the rug.
Jim Garrison
Throughout history, it took centuries for the habits of one culture to materially affect another. Now, that which becomes popular in one country can sweep through others within months.
Dee Hock
I suspect there have been a number of conspiracies that never were described or leaked out. But I suspect none of the magnitude and sweep of Watergate.
Bob Woodward
But if I can be convinced and then through the work that we do together, the orchestra can really be convinced of the big sweep of that communication that the piece suggests, then the audience will get it and it will be a good experience for all of us.
Michael Tilson Thomas
I certainly have been guilty of trying to sweep things under the carpet.
Kenneth Branagh
Marching thus at night, a battalion is doubly impressive. The silent monster is full of restrained power; resolute in its onward sweep, impervious to danger, it looks a menacing engine of destruction, steady to its goal, and certain of its mission.
Patrick MacGill
Problems emerge and some people try to sweep them under the rug.
Bill Condon
This circulating medium has a natural tendency to lessen by degrees the value and the use of money, and finally to render it powerless; and consequently to sweep away all the crushing masses of fraud, iniquity, cruelty, corruption and imposition that are built upon it.
Josiah Warren
I enjoy 'Supermarket Sweep' because of its adlib demands in following the fast action.
Randy West
I want the audience to be so involved in the sweep of the music.
John Eaton
Man, if I made one million dollars I would come in at six in the morning, sweep the stands, wash the uniforms, clean out the office, manage the team and play the games.
Duke Snider
Can ye fathom the ocean, dark and deep, where the mighty waves and the grandeur sweep?
Fanny Crosby
There is humor in the specter of the worst disaster in our nation's history. All I have to do is sweep away the debris of shock to find it.
Will Durst
What do we want our kids to do? Sweep up around Japanese computers?
Walter F. Mondale
Generalizations, like brooms, ought not to stand in a corner forever; they ought to sweep as a matter of course.
John Lukacs
There was no wind in all that sweep of sky.
Frank Yerby
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Sweep Translations
sweep in Danish is feje
sweep in Dutch is oprijlaan, oprit
sweep in French is balayez, balayons, balayent, balayer, basculer
sweep in German is fegen, ausfegen
sweep in Italian is scopare, spazzare, ribaltabile
sweep in Portuguese is varredura
sweep in Spanish is escobar, barrer
sweep in Swedish is sopa, sotare, drag, svepa
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