backwash

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But the ship's photo-backwash lights it up like a flash bulb!

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Quick take

the flow of air that is driven backwards by an aircraft propeller

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of backwash gathered in one view.

noun

the flow of air that is driven backwards by an aircraft propeller

noun

the consequences of an event (especially a catastrophic event); "the aftermath of war"; "in the wake of the accident no one knew how many had been injured"

noun

the wave that spreads behind a boat as it moves forward; "the motorboat's wake capsized the canoe"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for backwash.

noun

the flow of air that is driven backwards by an aircraft propeller

See also: slipstream, airstream, race, wash

noun

the consequences of an event (especially a catastrophic event); "the aftermath of war"; "in the wake of the accident no one knew how many had been injured"

noun

the wave that spreads behind a boat as it moves forward; "the motorboat's wake capsized the canoe"

Example sentences

But the ship's photo-backwash lights it up like a flash bulb!

Doesn't take more than an inch of water for them to fall and start rolling out with the backwash.

Really cool!Love the backwash on the waves, that's the kind of detail that creates realism -- much more than subpixel texture perfection.

Those that would "backwash" believe that the bottle will be fine - sure, you've maybe transferred a little bacteria in, but it probably won't cause any problems.

Air is sucked towards ground zero, producing the backwash, and the characteristic mushroom cloud of any very large explosion.

Or he's read _Steve Jobs_ biography and is trying to emulate him. The book is filled with examples of jobs being rude when his food wasn't prepared just so - for all his obsession about diet, I'm sure that he's eaten at least some literal backwash from his behavior.

Canadair is clearly excluded by effect of its backwash, which can provoke a collapse of the carpentry, already severely weakened.

Sure, every year you'll have people who knock down load-bearing walls, get pesticide backwash into the drinking water, or turn a simple de-icing operation into a raging inferno.

Anyways the crazy thing about a three sisters event is you get hit by the first two in rapid succession and they backwash and create a gully under the third wave which pretty much puts you bow down going into it.