1) Bluster 2) Bluster about 3) Boast 4) Bravado 5) Buckle opener 6) Buckle opening 7) Buckler leader 8) Cause to splash 9) Coastal geography 10) Dash a liquid upon or against 11) Fanciful serif 12) Kind of buckler 13) Laundry equipment 14) Letter flourish 15) Make violent, noisy movements 16) Moving ridge
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Swash, in geography, is known as a turbulent layer of water that washes up on the beach after an incoming wave has broken. The swash action can move beach materials up and down the beach, which results in the cross-shore sediment exchange. The time-scale of swash motion varies from seconds to minutes depending on the type of beach (see Figure 1 fo...
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[typography] A swash is a typographical flourish, such as an exaggerated serif, terminal, tail, entry stroke, etc. on a glyph. The use of swash characters dates back to at least the 16th century, as they can be seen in Ludovico Vicentino degli Arrighi La Operina, which is dated 1522. As with italic type in general, they were inspired by the...
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• (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.) To bluster; to make a great noise; to vapor or brag...
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Intermittent landward flow of water across a beach where surf is breaking.
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The landward rush of water from a breaking wave up the slope of the beach.
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Swash adjective [ Confer
Swash ,
intransitive verb ,
Squash ,
transitive verb ] Soft, like fruit too ripe; swashy. [ Prov. Eng.]
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Swash intransitive verb [
imperfect & past participle Swashed ;
present participle & verbal noun Swashing .] [ Probably of imitative origin; confer Swedish
svasska to splash, and, for sense 3, Swedish
svassa to bully, to rod...
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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 plate (Machinery) ,
a revolving c...
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The rush of water up onto a beach after a wave breaks.
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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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A thin sheet of water that moves up the beach face after a wave of water breaks on the shore.
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A flourish replacing a terminal or serif.
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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 on to a beach in this way. Some of the swash soaks...
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In architecture a swash is an oval figure, whose mouldings are oblique to the axis of the work.
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Swash is slang for worthless stuff, nonsense.
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The landward rush of water from a breaking wave up the slope of the beach.
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[n] - the movement or sound of water 2. [v] - make violent, noisy movements
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(1) Same as UPRUSH. (2) A body of dashing, splashing water. (3) A BAR over which the ocean washes.
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noun the movement or sound of water; `the swash of waves on the beach`
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