Sweep
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Sweep may refer to:
[edit] Cleaning
- Chimney sweep
- Street sweeper
- Swept quartz, a cleaning of quartz crystal from alkali metal ions
[edit] Sports
- Sweep (football play)
- Sweep (baseball/basketball/hockey), winning a five game series 3 games to none, or winning a seven game series 4 games to none; typically fans bring brooms to ballparks or ball courts in the final game of a impending series "sweep" as a way to brandish and taunt the team that is down in the series.
- Sweep (martial arts)
- Sweep (rowing)
- A Sweep in cricket, a shot played in cricket
- A nickname for football player Shaun Wright-Phillips
- In tennis, winning all five lines (concrete donkey-style)
[edit] Farming
[edit] Detection
[edit] Other meanings
- Clean sweep (naval), referring to a completely successful mission carried out by a warship.
- Sweep (horse), a champion thoroughbred race horse
- Sweep (book series), a fictional series by Cate Tiernan
- Sweep (software), a digital audio editor
- Sweep (fish) a number of fish in the suborder Scorpidinae
- Sweep account, a kind of bank account
- Sweep line algorithm, a concept in computational geometry
- Sweep-picking, a guitar technique
- Swept wing, a layout of the wings on an airplane
- Sweeps period, a system of calculating viewership for television programming
- Sweep (puppet), a character on the Sooty television show
- SWEEPS, the Sagittarius Window Eclipsing Extrasolar Planet Search
- Sweepstakes, a sales promotion or lottery
- Sweeps - a term for the sails of a windmill. Usage confined to Kent, Sussex and Surrey.
- Sweep (Transformers), a character from Transformers franchise
- Sweep - a gradual bend or elbow in conduit, piping, or ductwork
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