swash
IPA: swˈɑʃ
noun
- The water that washes up on shore after an incoming wave has broken.
- A narrow sound or channel of water lying within a sand bank, or between a sand bank and the shore, or a bar over which the sea washes.
- A wet splashing sound.
- A smooth stroke; a swish.
- A swishing noise.
- (typography) A long, protruding ornamental line or pen stroke found in some typefaces and styles of calligraphy.
- A streak or patch.
- (obsolete) Liquid filth; wash; hog mash.
- (obsolete) A blustering noise.
- (obsolete) swaggering behaviour.
- (obsolete) A swaggering fellow; a swasher.
- (architecture) An oval figure, whose mouldings are oblique to the axis of the work.
verb
- (transitive, intransitive) To swagger; to act with boldness or bluster (toward).
- (transitive, intransitive) To dash or flow noisily; to splash.
- (transitive, intransitive) To swirl through liquid; to swish.
- (intransitive) To wade forcefully through liquid.
- (transitive, intransitive) To swipe.
- (intransitive) To fall violently or noisily.
- To streak, to color in a swash.
adjective
- bold; dramatic.
- (typography) Having pronounced swashes.
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Examples of "swash" in Sentences
- I have no idea what a swash A is.
- Two swash plate means are provided.
- Decorated with ships and swash lettering.
- The swash plate can shift vertically and tilt.
- A swash buckling romance, the play was not well received.
- In reality the axis moves the same way as the swash plate.
- The feeble "swash" that answered the shake was not reassuring.
- A swash plate type compressor for air conditioning of vehicles.
- The hydraulic pump includes a swash plate tilted by a servomechanism.
- A swash is a typographical flourish on a glyph, like an exaggerated serif.
- The bow plunged down, just missing me and sending a swash of water clear over my head.
- In the light sweet crude swash of diesel, stoplights streaking straightaway, from neon.
- That removed a huge swash of what I'd normally use as the sound design palette for that place.
- Delvin fumbled at the terminal, and a swash of cold water splashed over us, flooding the ground.
- The water that rushes up the beach is called the swash while any water returning down to the sea is the backwash.
- It was a dreary enough day, no sun, with occasional splatters of rain and a persistent crash of seas over the weather rail and swash of water across the deck.
- The hunter listens, and when the moose lifts his head and the rills of water run from it, and he hears him "swash" the lily roots about to get off the mud, it is his time to start.
- A Swashplate Machine having a non rotatable swash plate mounted so that rotation of a shaft causes oscillation of the swash plate and one or more baffles mounted in slots in the swash plate dividing the swash plate into portions which oscillate to cause the volume of chambers to vary.
- A pathway of earth thirty feet in width could not endure the winds and waves of a navigable lake, or the wear and "swash" of a canal twelve feet deep on either side; and the fact that Cortéz navigated the ditches in the rainy season establishes the insignificant size of his famous brigantines.
- Macarthy – switching from truculence to triumphalism as fast as the cockiest small boy; buckling a fine swash for the children in the audience; offering adult eyes a suggestion of pathos, of knowing that he is trapped in a dream yet still bewitched by its promise of "fun" – certainly has something to crow about.