Look up: Swab

1. swab
   [n] - implement consisting of a small piece of cotton that is used to apply medication or cleanse a wound or obtain a specimen of a secretion 2. [n] - cleaning implement consisting of absorbent material fastened to a handle 3. [v] - wash with a swab or a mop
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2. swab
   a hollow, rubber-faced cylinder mounted on a hollow mandrel with a pin joint on the upper end to connect to the swab line. A check valve that opens upward on the lower end provides a way to remove the fluid from the well when pressure is insufrficien5t to support flow. v: 1. to operate a swab on a wireline to bring well fluids to the surface when the w4ell does not flow naturally. Swabbing is a temporary operation to determine whether the well can be made to flow. If the well does not flow after being swabbed, a pump is installed a a permanent lifting device to bring the oil to the surface. 2. to pull formation fluids into a wellbore by raising the drill stem at a rate that reduces the hydrostatic pressure of the drilling mud below the bit.
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3. Swab
   A swab is a small piece of absorbent material, such as gauze or cotton, attached to the end of a stick or wire. Swabs are used to clean wounds, apply medicine, or to absorb samples of body fluids so that they can be tested.
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4. swab
   cotton or gauze on end of slender stick used for cleansing cavities,applying remedies,or for obtaining a piece of tissue or secretion for bacteriological examination~ Category: Medicine • a pad of absorbent material...sometimes attached to a stick or wire used for cleaning out or applyin...
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5. Swab
   Swab transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Swabbed ; present participle & verbal noun Swabbing .] [ See Swabber , noun ] To clean with a mop or swab;...
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6. Swab
   Swab noun [ Written also swob .] 1. A kind of mop for cleaning floors, the desks of vessels, etc., esp. one made of rope-yarns or threads. 2. A bit of sponge, cloth, or the like, fastened to a handle, for cleansing the mouth of a s...
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7. swab
   A wad of cotton, gauze, or other absorbent material attached to the end of a stick or clamp, used for applying or removing a substance from a surface. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...
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8. swab
   swob noun cleaning implement consisting of absorbent material fastened to a handle; for cleaning floors
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9. swab
   (swahb) a small pledget of cotton or gauze wrapped around the end of a slender wooden stick or wire for applying medications or obtaining specimens of secretions and other substances from body surfaces or orifices.
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10. Swab
    • (n.) To clean with a mop or swab; to wipe when very wet, as after washing; as, to swab the desk of a ship. • (n.) A bit of sponge, cloth, or the like, fastened to a handle, for cleansing the mouth of a sick person, applying medicaments to deep-seated parts, etc. • (n.) A sponge, or ...
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11. Swab
    Swab is slang for an uncouth or worthless fellow.
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12. Swab
    Swab is slang for an uncouth or worthless fellow.
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13. swab
    /swob/ The PDP-11 swap byte instruction mnemonic, as immortalised in the dd option 'conv=swab'. 1. To solve the NUXI problem by swapping bytes in a file. 2. The program in V7 Unix used to perform this action, or anything functionally equivalent to it. See also big-endian, little-endian, middle-endian, bytesexual. [Jargon File]
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14. swab
    Type: Term Pronunciation: swob Definitions: 1. A wad of cotton, gauze, or other absorbent material attached to the end of a stick or clamp, used for applying or removing a substance from a surface.
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15. Swab
    (programming) `swab` is a function in the date=March 2011--> It is not a standard C standard library|ISO C library function, but appears in the Single Unix Specification (SUS) and POSIX.1-2001. These require that <code>swab</code> be declared in unistd.h. On other platforms, it may be d...
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