Sweep
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Sweep may refer to:
Cleaning
- The action of using a brush to clean
- Chimney sweep, a worker who clears ash and soot from chimneys
- Street sweeper, a person's occupation, or a machine that cleans streets
- Swept quartz, a cleaning of quartz crystal from alkali metal ions
Sports
- Sweep (American football), a running play in American football
- Sweep (martial arts), the name used for two categories of martial arts techniques
- Sweep (rowing), also used historically
- A Sweep in cricket, a shot played in cricket
- A nickname for football player Shaun Wright-Phillips
- Sweep, winning a series or contest without any losses, including
- Winning 3-0 in Major League Baseball Division Series
- Winning 4-0 in the Major League Baseball World Series
- Winning 4-0 in the basketball NBA Finals
- Winning 4-0 in the ice hockey Stanley Cup Finals
Farming
Detection
- Bug sweeping, the common name for electronic countersurveillance
- Minesweeping by ships
Other meanings
- Sweep (horse) (1907–1936), 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 British children's television series The Sooty Show
- SWEEPS, the Sagittarius Window Eclipsing Extrasolar Planet Search
- Sweepstakes, a sales promotion or lottery
- Shadoof, also known as well sweep, fountain sweep or swape
- 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, ductwork
- Sweep, an ability word in Magic: The Gathering
- To win all or almost all awards possible at a ceremony, such as
- in the Oscars, to win the 'Big Five' film categories
See also
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