sweep
sweep
- n a wide scope
the sweep of the plains - n someone who cleans soot from chimneys
- n winning all or all but one of the tricks in bridge
- n a long oar used in an open boat
- n (American football) an attempt to advance the ball by running around the end of the line
- n a movement in an arc
a sweep of his arm - v sweep across or over
- v move with sweeping, effortless, gliding motions
- v sweep with a broom or as if with a broom
- v force into some kind of situation, condition, or course of action
- v to cover or extend over an area or time period
- v clean by sweeping
Please sweep the floor - v win an overwhelming victory in or on
- v cover the entire range of
- v make a big sweeping gesture or movement
- She raucously engages both the broad sweep of the big picture and the eloquence of the telling detail.
- It did not speak with the historic sweep of the California court, perhaps because the justices there know Iowa's court is less often seen as a harbinger of legal trends than .
- Oliver Clothesoff?") and speaking like a Cockney chimney sweep.