Sweep

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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
Sweep (sports), or whitewash, 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