Swathe
noun
A wide strip or area of something.
He cut a swathe through the cornfield.
Often appears as...
- cut a swathe
- swathes of land
verb
To wrap tightly with pieces of fabric.
The injured man's head was swathed in bandages.
Often appears as...
- swathe in bandages
- swathe in cloth
noun
A series of something sweeping through a place.
A swathe of reforms was introduced.
Often appears as...
- swathe of reforms
- swathe of criticism
noun
A wide strip or area of something.
He cut a swathe through the cornfield.
Often appears as...
- cut a swathe
- swathes of land
verb
To wrap tightly with pieces of fabric.
The injured man's head was swathed in bandages.
Often appears as...
- swathe in bandages
- swathe in cloth
noun
A series of something sweeping through a place.
A swathe of reforms was introduced.
Often appears as...
- swathe of reforms
- swathe of criticism
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Visual Imagery
Swathe as a noun often evokes strong visual images of expanses.
A swathe of golden wheat stretched under the blue sky.
Pro Tip 2/3Physical Spaces
It's frequently used to describe large continuous areas, not smaller patches.
Developers built houses across vast swathes of green land.
Pro Tip 3/3Figurative Usage
Swathe can be used metaphorically to represent any broad, extensive range.
His ideas cut a swathe through traditional thinking.
Pro Tip 1/3Visual Imagery
Swathe as a noun often evokes strong visual images of expanses.
A swathe of golden wheat stretched under the blue sky.
Pro Tip 2/3Physical Spaces
It's frequently used to describe large continuous areas, not smaller patches.
Developers built houses across vast swathes of green land.
Pro Tip 3/3Figurative Usage
Swathe can be used metaphorically to represent any broad, extensive range.
His ideas cut a swathe through traditional thinking.
Pro Tip 1/3Visual Imagery
Swathe as a noun often evokes strong visual images of expanses.
A swathe of golden wheat stretched under the blue sky.
Pro Tip 2/3Physical Spaces
It's frequently used to describe large continuous areas, not smaller patches.
Developers built houses across vast swathes of green land.
Pro Tip 3/3Figurative Usage
Swathe can be used metaphorically to represent any broad, extensive range.
His ideas cut a swathe through traditional thinking.
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Bill Gross: Great ideas...
if you're comparing to grid-supplied electricity. But if you don't have grid-supplied electricity, then the question of payback is a different one entirely. It's just how many watts do you get per dollar, and how could you benefit from that to change your life in some way. This is the map of the whole Earth, and you can see a huge swathe in the middle where a large part of the population is,
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Seth Priebatsch:...
So that's what I want to talk about for game dynamics, because construction has just begun, and the more consciously we can think about this, the better we'll be able to use it for anything we want. So like I said, the way you go through and build on the game layer is not with glass and steel and cement. And the resources we use are not this two-dimensional swath of land
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What’s the difference...
though there may still be gaps in our understanding. Scientists also like when a new theory successfully predicts previously unobserved phenomena, like when Dmitri Mendeleev's theory about the periodic table predicted several undiscovered elements. The term scientific theory covers a broad swath.
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3 ways to create a space...
And it was epic, but, like, starter-kit epic. We moved on to a large swath of sky with a tear down the middle, and through the tear, you could see deep parts of the cosmos. Getting closer. We evolved to standing on top of an obelisk, standing on top of a mountainside, standing on top of boxes.
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How Are Eggs Made? PIPE...
oviduct first it swathes with albumen the egg white that contains the water needed by the growing chick that done and enclosed within the membrane it travels on into the uterus when it will be given its protective
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Just add water: The...
Soon, the locusts take on a striking pattern that warns predators of their newly poisonous nature. Smaller groups merge into bands of millions, which mow down virtually all plant life in a kilometer-wide swath.
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How We Can Keep Plastics...
with trash for every foot of coastline in the world across our ocean plastic trash flows into circulation dispersed almost everywhere but concentrating in huge swathes in the midst of global
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Chrystia Freeland: The...
But it's important to remember that before we learned how to share the fruits of the Industrial Revolution with the broad swathes of society, we had to go through two depressions,
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Can we create the...
Conventional farming methods cleared large swathes of land and planted them with a single crop, eradicating wildlife and emitting huge amounts of greenhouse gases in the process.
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What if cracks in...
Concrete is the most widely used construction material in the world. It can be found in swathes of city pavements,
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Bill Gross: Great ideas...
if you're comparing to grid-supplied electricity. But if you don't have grid-supplied electricity, then the question of payback is a different one entirely. It's just how many watts do you get per dollar, and how could you benefit from that to change your life in some way. This is the map of the whole Earth, and you can see a huge swathe in the middle where a large part of the population is,
Video examples
Seth Priebatsch:...
So that's what I want to talk about for game dynamics, because construction has just begun, and the more consciously we can think about this, the better we'll be able to use it for anything we want. So like I said, the way you go through and build on the game layer is not with glass and steel and cement. And the resources we use are not this two-dimensional swath of land
Video examples
What’s the difference...
though there may still be gaps in our understanding. Scientists also like when a new theory successfully predicts previously unobserved phenomena, like when Dmitri Mendeleev's theory about the periodic table predicted several undiscovered elements. The term scientific theory covers a broad swath.
Video examples
3 ways to create a space...
And it was epic, but, like, starter-kit epic. We moved on to a large swath of sky with a tear down the middle, and through the tear, you could see deep parts of the cosmos. Getting closer. We evolved to standing on top of an obelisk, standing on top of a mountainside, standing on top of boxes.
Video examples
How Are Eggs Made? PIPE...
oviduct first it swathes with albumen the egg white that contains the water needed by the growing chick that done and enclosed within the membrane it travels on into the uterus when it will be given its protective
Video examples
Just add water: The...
Soon, the locusts take on a striking pattern that warns predators of their newly poisonous nature. Smaller groups merge into bands of millions, which mow down virtually all plant life in a kilometer-wide swath.
Video examples
How We Can Keep Plastics...
with trash for every foot of coastline in the world across our ocean plastic trash flows into circulation dispersed almost everywhere but concentrating in huge swathes in the midst of global
Video examples
Chrystia Freeland: The...
But it's important to remember that before we learned how to share the fruits of the Industrial Revolution with the broad swathes of society, we had to go through two depressions,
Video examples
Can we create the...
Conventional farming methods cleared large swathes of land and planted them with a single crop, eradicating wildlife and emitting huge amounts of greenhouse gases in the process.
Video examples
What if cracks in...
Concrete is the most widely used construction material in the world. It can be found in swathes of city pavements,
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Tom Hanks
American Actor
There's a small percentage of people who can act. There's a small percentage who get to do this for a living. There's a swath of the population that are able to keep a story in their head and fight all the battles against self-consciousness and the surreal unnaturalness of acting in a movie. The technical aspects you can learn fairly quickly.
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Rachel Morrison
American Director
Your movie becomes much more narrow-minded when you have like-minded department heads. Whereas if you can surround yourself with people who have been a mother before, been a grandmother before, you get a much broader and wide-reaching swath of human emotions.
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Sloane Crosley
American Writer
I definitely rediscovered reading for pleasure by devoting such a large swath of my time to sitting on airplanes. I am now painfully adept at removing my shoes so as to have the least amount of foot surface area touching an airport floor.
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Marc Andreessen
American Businessman
My own theory is that we are in the middle of a dramatic and broad technological and economic shift in which software companies are poised to take over large swathes of the economy.
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Kurt Browning
Canadian Athlete
Four world titles is a good swath at the top of the podium. The Olympics didn't work out for a couple of reasons, but it feels good when people say 'four world titles.
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Talulah Riley
English Actress
Dark matter is interesting. Basically, the universe is heavier than it should be. There's whole swathes of stuff we can't account for.
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Laeta Kalogridis
American Producer
It was very, very important to me to represent a broader swath of humanity that often isn't seen in futuristic sci-fi.
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Vermin Supreme
American Artist
Quite frankly, my constituency crosses a very wide swath of the political spectrum.
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Agnes Gund
American Public Servant
I get income, but I don't have a big swath of money to invest in things.
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Constance Baker Motley
American Activist
The middle class, in the white population, encompasses a wide swath.
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Tom Hanks
American Actor
There's a small percentage of people who can act. There's a small percentage who get to do this for a living. There's a swath of the population that are able to keep a story in their head and fight all the battles against self-consciousness and the surreal unnaturalness of acting in a movie. The technical aspects you can learn fairly quickly.
Quote examples
Rachel Morrison
American Director
Your movie becomes much more narrow-minded when you have like-minded department heads. Whereas if you can surround yourself with people who have been a mother before, been a grandmother before, you get a much broader and wide-reaching swath of human emotions.
Quote examples
Sloane Crosley
American Writer
I definitely rediscovered reading for pleasure by devoting such a large swath of my time to sitting on airplanes. I am now painfully adept at removing my shoes so as to have the least amount of foot surface area touching an airport floor.
Quote examples
Marc Andreessen
American Businessman
My own theory is that we are in the middle of a dramatic and broad technological and economic shift in which software companies are poised to take over large swathes of the economy.
Quote examples
Kurt Browning
Canadian Athlete
Four world titles is a good swath at the top of the podium. The Olympics didn't work out for a couple of reasons, but it feels good when people say 'four world titles.
Quote examples
Talulah Riley
English Actress
Dark matter is interesting. Basically, the universe is heavier than it should be. There's whole swathes of stuff we can't account for.
Quote examples
Laeta Kalogridis
American Producer
It was very, very important to me to represent a broader swath of humanity that often isn't seen in futuristic sci-fi.
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Vermin Supreme
American Artist
Quite frankly, my constituency crosses a very wide swath of the political spectrum.
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Agnes Gund
American Public Servant
I get income, but I don't have a big swath of money to invest in things.
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Constance Baker Motley
American Activist
The middle class, in the white population, encompasses a wide swath.
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