backwash
IPA: bˈækwɑʃ
noun
- (nautical) The backward flow of water from oars or propeller or breaking waves.
- The similar flow of air from an aircraft engine.
- The result or consequence of an event; an aftermath.
- The saliva, spit or food particles that have flowed back into a drink after someone has drunk from it.
- (economics) The situation where economic growth in one area harms other areas by attracting people and business away from those areas.
verb
- To operate a water filter in the reverse direction in order to clean it.
- (transitive) To affect with backwash.
- To clean the oil from wool after combing.
Examples of "backwash" in Sentences
- The last third is usually backwash.
- The edit was caught in the backwash.
- The water then runs back again as backwash.
- Backwash is the backwards flow of air or water.
- Backwash, in it's stub, is a water filtration term.
- Traces of it got into the water by Coleman's backwash.
- Ottlik says that this aspect of the position suggests the term backwash.
- Backwash is a retrospective compilation of music by the group Talulah Gosh.
- MA is simply living in backwash land and does not think outside the borders.
- Installed in this pipe is a valve that is opened during the backwash process.
- In this backwash squeeze, the 9 functions as the entry and the 10 as the threat.
- I can hardly wait for the backwash from the protesters. .they should be hopping mad.
- The receding water is referred to as a backwash, causing a rip current on the surface.
- This fine sand made it more difficult to taxi the plane, and the backwash from the propellers kicked up a serious dust storm.
- The light it allowed into the living room, filtered through the mass of hydrangeas out front, was also faintly blue, or perhaps that was backwash from the cobalt walls of the room.
- I didn't want to unnecessarily pick on this particular study, so I tried to hunt down the original source to see if they had done anything to protect against the "backwash" factor.
- Yes | No | Report from baconboy206 wrote 12 weeks 4 days ago since all that backwash is carrying all kinds of trout goodys in it matching the hatch wont help, your fly will just blend in, especially with the poor visibility created by the scum.