Sweep Explained

Sweep or swept may refer to:

Cleaning

• Sweep, 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

Arts, entertainment, and media

• Sweep (book series), a fictional series by Cate Tiernan
• Sweep (puppet), a character on the British children's television series The Sooty Show
• Sweep, an ability keyword in Magic: The Gathering
• Sweep-picking, a guitar technique
• Sweeps period, a system of calculating viewership for television programming
• Swept (album), a 1991 album by the English singer Julia Fordham
• "Swept", a 1986 song by Spandau Ballet from the album Through the Barricades

Detection

• Bug sweeping, the common name for electronic counter surveillance
• Minesweeper (ship), a small naval ship designed to engage in minesweeping
• Minesweeping, the practice of removing explosive mines
• Radio-frequency sweep, the action of scanning a radio frequency band for detecting signals transmitted there
• SWEEPS, a 2006 astronomical survey project using the Hubble Space Telescope

Farming

• Sweep (agricultural), a row crop cultivator
• SWEEP (Soil and Water Environmental Enhancement program), a Canadian agricultural program 1986–1988

People with the name

• Shaun Wright-Phillips, a football player nicknamed Sweep

Sports

• Sweep (American football), a running play in American football
  • • Packers sweep, a running play popularized by Vince Lombardi and the Green Bay Packers
• Sweep (martial arts), the name used for two categories of martial arts techniques
• Sweep (rowing), a rowing technique
• Sweep shot, a shot played in cricket
• Whitewash (sport) or sweep, winning a series or contest without any losses
• Curling involves sweeping on ice

Other meanings

• Sweep (fish), a number of fish in the suborder Scorpidinae
• Sweep (horse) (1907–1936), champion Thoroughbred race horse
• Sweep (motorcycle), in group motorcycle riding, the last rider in line
• Sweep (software), a digital audio editor
• Sweep, a gradual bend or elbow, in conduit, ductwork, piping, or other tubing
• Well sweep, an irrigation tool
• Sweep account, a kind of bank account
• Sweep line algorithm, a concept in computational geometry
• Sweeps, a regional English term for windmill sails
• Sweepstakes, a sales promotion or lottery
• Swept wing, a layout of the wings on an airplane
• Selective sweep, a loss of genetic variation caused by selection for a beneficial mutation

See also

• Sweeps (disambiguation)
• Broom
• Clean sweep (disambiguation)
• Mop