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Sweep may refer to any of the following:
[edit] Cleaning
- A very long oar used for guiding bateaus and similar boats. It is used in place of a rudder.
- In rowing, a sweep is a boat that has only one oar per rower as opposed to a scull in which each rower has one oar on each side of the boat.
- For tools and wood carving, see gouge.
[edit] Sports
- For the American football play that is run to the outside see sweep (football play)
- In sports, a team that wins an elimination series in the minimum possible number of games is said to have "swept" its opponent (as in winning four straight games in a best-of-seven playoff in baseball, basketball, or ice hockey).
- In baseball, a team that wins all of a regular season series of games against an opponent is said to have swept its opponent. Rarely, a team will win a "season sweep," wherein it does not lose a single game against a particular opponent all year. In an instance where the home team has already won the first two games of a three-game or the first three games of a four-game series, fans will sometimes bring brooms to the game and brandish them as a way of taunting the visiting team.
- In karate and other martial arts a sweep is a technique whereby a karate-ka knocks an opponent's leg(s) out from underneath them. See sweep (karate technique)
[edit] Miscellaneous
- A sweep, a grappling technique
- For the open source digital audio editor, see Sweep (software).
- In aviation, sweep or wing sweep is the angle between the wing and the imaginary line perpendicular to the fuselage. Aircraft wings are normally swept backwards for yaw stability and an increase in maximum flight speeds. See swept wing
- For the Sweep Line Algorithm, see Line segment intersection.
- In guitar playing, sweep means laying your fingers in some part of the fretboard usually in the form of an arpeggio, then picking the notes of the arpeggio you have fingered, using either upstrokes or downstrokes continuously for all strings being played, while articulating each note in the pattern (unlike when strumming. This is usually achieved by removing each finger right after its corresponding note is played, and using one or two of the fingers for more than one position per arpeggio. It is an advanced technique and one that usually requires several months, sometimes years, to master. (See sweep-picking)
- For the series of books by Cate Tiernan, see Sweep (book series).
- For the dog glove puppet, see Sweep (puppet)
- For the card game, see Sweep (card game)
- For the gambling term, see Sweep (betting)
- For the acting term, see The Monique Sweep
