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Tekoälykääntäjä
Vaihtoehtoiset kirjoitusmuodot
- (vanhentunut) swype
Määritelmät
Verbit
- (transitive) To clean (a surface) by means of a stroking motion of a broom or brush.
- (intransitive) To move through an (horizontal) arc or similar long stroke.
- (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 particular 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.
- To carry with a long, swinging, or dragging motion; hence, to carry in a stately or proud fashion.
- To strike with a long stroke.
- (nautical) To draw or drag something over.
- To pass over, or traverse, with the eye or with an instrument of observation.
Substantiivit
- 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 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.
- A single action of sweeping.
- 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.
- (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.
- (in the plural) The sweepings of workshops where precious metals are worked, containing filings, etc.
Esimerkit
- to sweep a floor, the street, or a chimney
- I will sweep it with the besom of destruction.
- The wind sweeps across the plain.
- The offended countess swept out of the ballroom.
- [H]as the course of the argument so accustomed you to agreeing that you were swept by it into a ready assent?
- Everton took that disputed lead in a moment that caused anger to sweep around the Emirates.
- She swept the peelings off the table onto the floor.
- The wind sweeps the snow from the hills.
- The flooded river swept away the wooden dam.
- In his submission to the UN, [Christof] Heyns points to the experience of drones. Unmanned aerial vehicles were intended initially only for surveillance, and their use for offensive purposes was prohibited, yet once strategists realised their perceived advantages as a means of carrying out targeted killings, all objections were swept out of the way.
- John Dryden (1631-1700)
- Their long descending train, / With rubies edged and sapphires, swept the plain.
- And like a peacock sweep along his tail.
- 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 sweep the bottom of a river with a net
- Wake into voice each silent string, / And sweep the sounding lyre.
- to sweep the heavens with a telescope
- Bradman attempted a sweep, but in fact top edged the ball to the wicket keeper
- Jim will win fifty dollars in the office sweep if Japan wins the World Cup.
- the sweep of an epidemic disease
- the sweep of a door; the sweep of the eye
- the road which makes a small sweep
- The film swept the Oscars.
- Nevertheless, the win was so sweeping that Solidarity gained effective control of the government.
- I swept the floor
Taivutusmuodot
| Partisiipin perfekti | swept | Partisiipin perfekti | sweeped (vanhentunut) |
| Imperfekti | swept | Imperfekti | sweeped (vanhentunut) |
| Partisiipin preesens | sweeping | Monikko | sweeps |
| Yksikön kolmannen persoonan indikatiivin preesens | sweeps |