Sweep 1002991 218331433 2008-06-10T04:10:35Z Magicman710 5044143 {{wiktionary|sweep}} '''Sweep''' may refer to any of the following: ==Cleaning == * [[Chimney sweep]] * [[Street sweeper]] * To clean using a [[broom]] or [[brush]] ==Boating== * A kind of [[oar]] used for guiding bateaus and similar boats * In sport rowing, a [[Glossary of rowing terms#Sweep|boat]] that has only one oar per rower ==Sports== <!-- This section is linked from [[Michael Jordan]] --> * [[Sweep (football play)]] * [[Sweep (grappling)]] * [[Sweep (martial arts)]] * [[Batting (cricket)#Types of batting shots|Sweep]], a shot played in [[cricket]] * A nickname for football player [[Shaun Wright-Phillips]] * A team that wins an elimination series in the minimum possible number of games, or that wins all of its regular season games against a particular opponent, is said to have "swept" its opponent ==Farming== * [[Sweep (Agricultural)]] ==Detection== * [[bug sweeping]] * [[minesweeping]] * [[RADAR| sweeping a circle or sector with a RADAR beam]] * [[SONAR| sweeping a circle of sector with a SONAR Beam]] ==Other meanings== * [[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 * [[Nielsen Ratings#"Sweeps"|Sweeps]], 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|Sweep]], abbreviation of sweepstake, a sales promotion or lottery * A ''sweep'' is the sail of a [[windmill]], particularly in [[Kent]] and [[Sussex]]. {{disambig}} [[de:Fegen]] [[es:Basura (desambiguación)]] [[ja:スウィープ]] [[sv:Fegen]]