sweepage
English
noun
Definitions
- (UK) The crop of hay obtained from a meadow.
- The process by which gases passing beneath the electrodes of an electrostatic precipitator pick up dust from the hoppers, removing it from the precipitator exit.
- Detritus that is swept up with a broom or similar implement.
- The circuit of an oscilloscope used to track the time dimension.
- The act of sweeping or flowing.
- The movement of matter by a current.
- The matter that has been moved by a current.
- The state when a sweepboat is moving faster than the current of the water.
Etymology
Suffix from English sweep (rowing style in which each rower has only one oar and rows on one side).
Origin
English
sweep
Gloss
rowing style in which each rower has only one oar and rows on one side
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- asweep English
- bisweptual English
- downsweep English
- ensweep English
- footsweep English
- insweep English
- multisweep English
- outsweep English
- oversweep English
- portsweep English
- sweep English
- sweepable English
- sweepback English
- sweepboat English
- sweepboats English
- sweeper English
- sweepest English
- sweepeth English
- sweeplike English
- sweepstake English
- sweepwasher English
- sweepy English
- upsweep English
- sweep Portuguese
- swepen Middle English