Usually means: Clean area using broom motion.
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General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. sweep: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. sweep: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. sweep: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. sweep: Collins English Dictionary
  5. sweep: Vocabulary.com
  6. Sweep, sweep: Wordnik
  7. sweep: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. sweep: Wiktionary
  9. sweep: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. sweep: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. sweep: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. sweep: Dictionary.com
  13. sweep (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. sweep: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Sweep (American football), Sweep (book series), Sweep (football play), Sweep (horse), Sweep (martial arts), Sweep (puppet), Sweep (rowing), Sweep (software), Sweep: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Sweep: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. sweep: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. sweep: Rhymezone
  19. sweep: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. sweep: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. SWEEP: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  22. Sweep: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  23. sweep: Free Dictionary
  24. sweep: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. sweep: Dictionary/thesaurus
  26. sweep: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
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  2. Sweep: Bloomberg Financial Glossary
  3. sweep: Legal dictionary
  4. sweep: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sweep: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. SWEEP, SWEEP, SWEEP: Terminology and Descriptions of Geneaological Words
  2. SWEEP: Acronym Finder
  3. sweep: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. sweep, sweep: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. sweep: The Folk File

Sports (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sweep: Card Games
  2. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  3. Sweep: Sports Definitions

Tech (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Locksmith Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms (No longer online)
  4. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  5. Chemical Fact Sheet (No longer online)
  6. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)
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  8. Electrical Engineering Glossary (No longer online)

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verb:  (transitive) To clean (a surface) by means of a stroking motion of a broom or brush.
verb:  (intransitive) To move through a (horizontal) arc or similar long stroke.
verb:  (transitive) To search (a place) methodically.
verb:  (intransitive, figuratively) To travel quickly.
verb:  (cricket) To play a sweep shot.
verb:  (curling) To brush the ice in front of a moving stone, causing it to travel farther and to curl less.
verb:  (transitive, ergative) To move something in a long sweeping motion, as a broom.
verb:  (sports, transitive) To win (a series) without drawing or losing any of the games in that series.
verb:  (sports, transitive) To defeat (a team) in a series without drawing or losing any of the games in that series.
verb:  (military) To clear (a body of water or part thereof) of mines.
verb:  (transitive) To remove something abruptly and thoroughly.
verb:  To brush against or over; to rub lightly along.
verb:  To carry with a long, swinging, or dragging motion; hence, to carry in a stately or proud fashion.
verb:  To strike with a long stroke.
verb:  (rowing) To row with one oar to either the port or starboard side.
verb:  (nautical) To draw or drag something over.
verb:  To pass over, or traverse, with the eye or with an instrument of observation.
verb:  (Western Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana) To vacuum a carpet or rug.
noun:  A single action of sweeping.
noun:  The person who steers a dragon boat.
noun:  A person who stands at the stern of a surf boat, steering with a steering oar and commanding the crew.
noun:  A chimney sweep.
noun:  A methodical search, typically for bugs (electronic listening devices).
noun:  (cricket) A batsman's shot, played from a kneeling position with a swinging horizontal bat.
noun:  A lottery, usually on the results of a sporting event, where players win if their randomly chosen team wins.
noun:  A flow of water parallel to shore caused by wave action at an ocean beach or at a point or headland.
noun:  (aviation) The degree to which an aircraft's wings are angled backwards (or, occasionally, forwards) from their attachments to the fuselage.
noun:  (martial arts) A throw or takedown that primarily uses the legs to attack an opponent's legs.
noun:  Violent and general destruction.
noun:  (metalworking) A movable template for making moulds, in loam moulding.
noun:  (card games) In the game casino, the act of capturing all face-up cards from the table.
noun:  The compass of any turning body or of any motion.
noun:  Direction or departure of a curve, a road, an arch, etc. away from a rectilinear line.
noun:  A large oar used in small vessels, partly to propel them and partly to steer them.
noun:  (rowing) A rowing style in which each rower rows with oar on either the port or starboard side.
noun:  (refining, obsolete) The almond furnace.
noun:  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.
noun:  Any of the blades of a windmill.
noun:  (in the plural) The sweepings of workshops where precious metals are worked, containing filings, etc.
noun:  Any of several sea chubs in the family Kyphosidae (subfamily Scorpidinae).
noun:  An expanse or a swath, a strip of land.

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