sweep

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Editorial note

" They could then just sweep it under the rug and wait for the public to forget.

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Quick take

a wide scope; "the sweep of the plains"

Meaning at a glance

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

noun

a wide scope; "the sweep of the plains"

noun

someone who cleans soot from chimneys

noun

winning all or all but one of the tricks in bridge

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for sweep.

noun

a wide scope; "the sweep of the plains"

noun

someone who cleans soot from chimneys

noun

winning all or all but one of the tricks in bridge

noun

a long oar used in an open boat

noun

(American football) an attempt to advance the ball by running around the end of the line

noun

a movement in an arc; "a sweep of his arm"

verb

sweep across or over; "Her long skirt brushed the floor"; "A gasp swept cross the audience"

verb

move with sweeping, effortless, gliding motions; "The diva swept into the room"; "Shreds of paper sailed through the air"; "The searchlights swept across the sky"

verb

sweep with a broom or as if with a broom; "Sweep the crumbs off the table"; "Sweep under the bed"

verb

force into some kind of situation, condition, or course of action; "They were swept up by the events"; "don't drag me into this business"

verb

to cover or extend over an area or time period; "Rivers traverse the valley floor", "The parking lot spans 3 acres"; "The novel spans three centuries"

verb

clean by sweeping; "Please sweep the floor"

verb

win an overwhelming victory in or on; "Her new show dog swept all championships"

verb

cover the entire range of

verb

make a big sweeping gesture or movement

Example sentences

" They could then just sweep it under the rug and wait for the public to forget.

"The information demanded by the DOJ is sweeping in scope.

The cabin crew would then sweep the cabin with a detector to find the offending person.

Doing such a thing will help them much more in the longer term than trying to simply sweep this story under the carpet.

Not to mention that "15 days paid holidays" would be illegal in EU. 20 is the legal minimum, even for lowly jobs like people who sweep floors.

One day, we won't be able to sweep the unpleasant truths of our society underneath the rug anymore.

Never mind that they've been through the houses of many innocent people, in a wide sweep to try to find evidence of a few criminals.

They'll sweep up anything from anyone who has any success in opposing or embarrassing them.

Forget garbage collection in the sense of any variant of mark-and-sweep.

I may be too young to remember correctly, but I think this whole "we need particle physicists to sweep our floors" mentality started with Google.

It's a bit like marrying the best-of-breed of malloc implementations with the best-of-breed of incremental mark & sweep collectors.

It's staggeringly obvious if you read the sweep of history as written by journal article titles in, say, Software Practice & Experience, between 1970 and 2010.

So large companies should occasionally do a mark and sweep collection to account for bugs in the standard reference counting implementation.

But the the corpse of the deleted object in turn holds references to script objects which it has not been marking previously because this C++ object didn't exist anymore when the sweep started.

Bemoaning the inability to have a conversation -now- is really just bemoaning the inability to sweep everything under the rug as people demand substantive change.

They can't be bothered to doubt their first instincts.- Most people think they are such a rock-solid judge of character.- If something doesn't add up, people may notice but then sweep it under the rug.- Personality disorders are probably too hard a concept for people to consider.

The Court held that, in doing so, Congress intended to bring cable-like services such as Aereo into the Act's sweep regardless of the particular technological ways in which it handled the copyrighted material as it re-transmitted it to its users.