Look up: swash

1. swash
   Intermittent landward flow of water across a beach where surf is breaking.
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2. Swash
   (1) Same as UPRUSH. (2) A body of dashing, splashing water. (3) A BAR over which the ocean washes.
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3. swash
   [n] - the movement or sound of water 2. [v] - make violent, noisy movements
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4. swash
   a decorative form of a letter,usually a capital,that may have a leading or trailing stroke,or flourish,that fits above or below the characters beside it Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)
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5. Swash
   Swash noun [ Confer Swash , intransitive verb , Squash , transitive verb ] (Architecture) An oval figure, whose moldings are oblique to the axis of the work. Moxon. Swash ...
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6. Swash
   Swash adjective [ Confer Swash , intransitive verb , Squash , transitive verb ] Soft, like fruit too ripe; swashy. [ Prov. Eng.] Pegge.
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7. Swash
   Swash intransitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Swashed ; present participle & verbal noun Swashing .] [ Probably of imitative origin; confer Swedish svasska to splash, and, fo...
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8. Swash
   Swash noun 1. Impulse of water flowing with violence; a dashing or splashing of water. 2. 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. 3. ...
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9. swash
   Soft, like fruit too ripe; swashy. ... Origin: Cf. Swash, Squash. ... Source: Websters Dictionary ... (01 Mar 1998) ...
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10. swash
    noun the movement or sound of water; `the swash of waves on the beach`
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11. Swash
    • (n.) Impulse of water flowing with violence; a dashing or splashing of water. • (n.) A swaggering fellow; a swasher. • (v. i.) To dash or flow noisily, as water; to splash; as, water swashing on a shallow place. • (n.) A blustering noise; a swaggering behavior. • (v. i.) T...
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12. Swash
    In architecture a swash is an oval figure, whose mouldings are oblique to the axis of the work.
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13. Swash
    A thin sheet of water that moves up the beach face after a wave of water breaks on the shore.
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14. Swash
    Swash is slang for worthless stuff, nonsense.
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15. Swash
    Swash is slang for worthless stuff, nonsense.
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16. Swash
    Swash is the movement of a thin layer of turbulent, foaming water up a beach following the breaking of a wave. As this water rushes along it carries sand and shell fragments with it, depositing them when it runs out of energy. Flat waves, which have a very strong swash, often move a lot of material ...
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17. Swash
    A flourish replacing a terminal or serif.
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18. Swash
    An elegant extension on a letter form, either a modification of an existing part or an added-on part.When swash characters are built-in as OpenType features, certain (older) operating systems and applications will not be able to access them.
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19. Swash
    `Swash`, in geography, is a turbulent layer of water that washes up on the beach after an incoming wave has broken. The swash action can move beach material up and down on the beach, which results in the cross-shore sediment exchange. The time-scale of swash motion varies from seconds to minutes dep...
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20. Swash
    (typography) A `swash` is a typographical flourish on a glyph, like an exaggerated serif. Capital swash characters, which extended to the left, were historically often used to begin sentences. There were also minuscule swash characters, which came either extending to the left, to begin words,...
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