Sweep
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Cleaning
- Chimney sweep
- Street sweeper
- Swept quartz, a cleaning of quartz crystal from alkali metal ions
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Sports
- Sweep (football play)
- Sweep (baseball/basketball/hockey), winning a multiple-game series without losing any of the games in the series (i.e. winning a best-of-seven series 4-0, winning all three games in a three-game series, etc.)
- 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)
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Farming
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Detection
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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 British children's television series The Sooty 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, ductwork
- Sweep (awards), when someone or something, such as a book, film, television program, etc, wins all (or nearly all) awards for which he, she, or it, is eligible within a given year
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