Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A sample strip cut from a piece of material.
- noun A representative portion; a sample.
- noun A strip or swath of land.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A swath.
- noun A piece or strip, as of cloth, especially one cut off for a pattern or sample: now only in trade use.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete A swath.
- noun A piece, pattern, or sample, generally of cloth.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
piece ,pattern , orsample , generally ofcloth or a similar material. - verb To create a swatch.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a sample piece of cloth
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Jean, The Christine Duchrow swatch is seriously beautiful.
Jean's Knitting Jean 2009
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Watching Washington wrestle with how to cut another swatch from the national budget cloth is getting darn depressing.
Tara Sonenshine: Another Continuing Resolution: A Real Life Fairy Tale in Washington Tara Sonenshine 2011
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If you want to use up the yarn, wait until you are at the end of the project in case you need to refer to the swatch as you work on the project.
A Passion for Knitting Nancy J. Thomas 2002
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You should always knit a piece at least 4″ square called a swatch to check your gauge.
A Passion for Knitting Nancy J. Thomas 2002
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Watching Washington wrestle with how to cut another swatch from the national budget cloth is getting darn depressing.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Tara Sonenshine 2011
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On this north-west part of the Goodwins, on which hours of the deepest interest could be spent, you can walk a distance of at least two miles, but you are separated by the great north-east swatch of deep water from getting to the extensive north-east jaw on the other side of the swatch, which is also full of wrecks, and round and along the edges of which, on the calmest day, somehow the surf and breakers for ever roar.
Heroes of the Goodwin Sands Thomas Stanley Treanor
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I hope that by frogging the "swatch" I can keep myself focussed on the linen shawl and the cabled cardigan.
Archive 2006-03-01 The Raven 2006
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I hope that by frogging the "swatch" I can keep myself focussed on the linen shawl and the cabled cardigan.
Pi Shawl The Raven 2006
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Glauber's salt, and the weight of the swatch which is being used is 5 grammes, the following calculations are to be made to give the quantities of the ingredients required: --
The Dyeing of Woollen Fabrics Franklin Beech
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Glauber's salt, and the weight of the swatch which is being used is 5 grams.
The Dyeing of Cotton Fabrics A Practical Handbook for the Dyer and Student Franklin Beech
bilby commented on the word swatch
Scots - to take a swatch at something is to take a look. Rhymes with catch.
December 26, 2007
prowsej commented on the word swatch
"Freedom to organize constitutes a unique swatch in Canada's constitutional fabric, as difficult to exercise as it is fundamental, into which legislative protection is historically woven." - Supreme Court of Canada in Dunmore
October 26, 2009
Telofy commented on the word swatch
“The pews were whole and gleamed with polish; the ancient stone altar was swatched in cloth of gold.” —Gene Wolfe, The Shadow of the Torturer
May 23, 2010