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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
swipe
    n 1: a sweeping stroke or blow
    v 1: strike with a swiping motion
    2: make off with belongings of others [syn: pilfer, cabbage,
       purloin, pinch, abstract, snarf, swipe, hook,
       sneak, filch, nobble, lift]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Swipe \Swipe\, n. [Cf. Sweep, Swiple.]
   1. A swape or sweep. See Sweep.
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   2. A strong blow given with a sweeping motion, as with a bat
      or club.
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            Swipes [in cricket] over the blower's head, and over
            either of the long fields.            --R. A.
                                                  Proctor.
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   3. pl. Poor, weak beer; small beer. [Slang, Eng.] [Written
      also swypes.] --Craig.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Swipe \Swipe\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Swiped; p. pr. & vb. n.
   Swiping.]
   1. To give a swipe to; to strike forcibly with a sweeping
      motion, as a ball.
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            Loose balls may be swiped almost ad libitum. --R. A.
                                                  Proctor.
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   2. To pluck; to snatch; to steal. [Slang, U.S.]
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4. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Sweep \Sweep\, n.
   1. The act of sweeping.
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   2. The compass or range of a stroke; as, a long sweep.
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   3. The compass of any turning body or of any motion; as, the
      sweep of a door; the sweep of the eye.
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   4. The compass of anything flowing or brushing; as, the flood
      carried away everything within its sweep.
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   5. Violent and general destruction; as, the sweep of an
      epidemic disease.
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   6. Direction and extent of any motion not rectlinear; as, the
      sweep of a compass.
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   7. Direction or departure of a curve, a road, an arch, or the
      like, away from a rectlinear line.
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            The road which makes a small sweep.   --Sir W.
                                                  Scott.
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   8. One who sweeps; a sweeper; specifically, a chimney
      sweeper.
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   9. (Founding) A movable templet for making molds, in loam
      molding.
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   10. (Naut.)
       (a) The mold of a ship when she begins to curve in at the
           rungheads; any part of a ship shaped in a segment of
           a circle.
       (b) A large oar used in small vessels, partly to propel
           them and partly to steer them.
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   11. (Refining) The almond furnace. [Obs.]
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   12. A long pole, or piece of timber, moved on a horizontal
       fulcrum fixed to a tall post and used to raise and lower
       a bucket in a well for drawing water. [Variously written
       swape, sweep, swepe, and swipe.]
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   13. (Card Playing) In the game of casino, a pairing or
       combining of all the cards on the board, and so removing
       them all; in whist, the winning of all the tricks
       (thirteen) in a hand; a slam.
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   14. pl. The sweeping of workshops where precious metals are
       worked, containing filings, etc.
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   Sweep net, a net for drawing over a large compass.

   Sweep of the tiller (Naut.), a circular frame on which the
      tiller traverses.
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Thesaurus Results for swipe:

1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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