Used in a Sentence

swatch

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for swatch.

Editorial note

I like how one of the pictures for the article is a color swatch for 'taupe'.

Examples16
Definitions4
Parts of speech2

Quick take

A piece, pattern, or sample, generally of cloth or a similar material.

Meaning at a glance

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

noun

A piece, pattern, or sample, generally of cloth or a similar material.

noun

A selection of such samples bound together.

verb

To create a swatch, especially a sample of knitted fabric.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for swatch.

noun

A piece, pattern, or sample, generally of cloth or a similar material.

noun

A selection of such samples bound together.

verb

To create a swatch, especially a sample of knitted fabric.

noun

A brand of relatively inexpensive Swiss analog watches.

Example sentences

1

I like how one of the pictures for the article is a color swatch for 'taupe'.

2

Just because We've decided to use the Pantone system to simply things doesn't mean a Pantone Swatch looks the same in all lights (Luminance).

3

He mentions putting a color swatch on the company intranet that changes daily as a form of authentication.

4

For example, she thinks she has to keep a partially used swatch of linoleum because it may be needed someday.

5

Second place goes to the swatch of material used to repair holes in fabric or plastic.

6

This Salon article is half ad for Swatch and clickbait for Apple fans.

7

Instead of a new concept for navigating your day you've got $350 worth of pixels doing mostly the same thing as your $40 swatch.

8

I look forward to the day when every $5 Swatch watch gives you your phone's alerts.

9

The reason Swatch time probably feels dumb is that the notion of changing the time format used by essentially the whole globe is itself dumb.

10

I had a Swatch Beep (a watch featuring a numeric pager) in the late 90s which used the crown to navigate messages.

11

Skin-toned emoji are generic emoji + skin tone swatch.

12

I think it might be the Swatch of the millennial--even baby boomer generation.

Quote examples

1

The instant failure of "Swatch internet time" showed that the current system is still working.

2

We can either teach a narrow swatch of people to "code" or we can search for other ways to impart the important bit: modeling.

3

Swatch tried "Internet Time", which was also decimal.

4

If you remember back to the early 2000s Swatch as a marketing gimmick proposed something called 'Swatch Internet Time' which was "designed" (and I use that word in the loosest possible sense) to solve this very problem.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use swatch in a sentence?

I like how one of the pictures for the article is a color swatch for 'taupe'.

What does swatch mean?

A piece, pattern, or sample, generally of cloth or a similar material.

What part of speech is swatch?

swatch is commonly used as noun, verb.