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Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A sample strip cut from a piece of material.
  2. n. A representative portion; a sample: quoted swatches of the speech in his article.
  3. n. A strip or swath of land: "I . . . drove through this hilly swatch of field and forest that wraps around the east and north of town” ( Jean Anderson).

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A swath.
  2. n. A piece or strip, as of cloth, especially one cut off for a pattern or sample: now only in trade use.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A piece, pattern, or sample, generally of cloth or a similar material.
  2. v. To create a swatch.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. obsolete A swath.
  2. n. A piece, pattern, or sample, generally of cloth.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a sample piece of cloth

Etymologies

  1. Origin unknown. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

Examples

  • “Jean, The Christine Duchrow swatch is seriously beautiful.”

    Jean's Knitting

  • “You should always knit a piece at least 4″ square called a swatch to check your gauge.”

    Simon & Schuster: A Passion for Knitting

  • “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.”

    Simon & Schuster: A Passion for Knitting

  • “Watching Washington wrestle with how to cut another swatch from the national budget cloth is getting darn depressing.”

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com

  • “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

  • “I hope that by frogging the "swatch" I can keep myself focussed on the linen shawl and the cabled cardigan.”

    Pi Shawl

  • “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

  • “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

  • “He knew her sea qualities; and as the ship tugged at her chains, moving to and fro on the swell, she kept a fine "swatch" of open water round her.”

    Labrador Days Tales of the Sea Toilers

  • “You can find a color match between your gown and one of the pieces ribbon, so you have a "swatch" to take along with you to design meetings.”

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synonyms (1)

Words with the same meaning

  1. swath

hypernyms (2)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. piece of cloth
  1. piece of material

same context (20)

Words that are found in similar contexts

  1. swatches
  2. hank
  3. knowhow
  4. swathe
  1. swath
  2. high-low
  3. pleaseth
  4. absorbency
  1. stock market
  2. riding-skirt
  3. table-land
  4. steeplechase
  1. gasbag
  2. puttee
  3. rectangle
  4. Concorde
  1. clubman
  2. hummock
  3. lappet
  4. dotty

rhymes (11)

Words with the same terminal sound

  1. Boche
  2. Scotch
  1. botch
  2. crotch
  1. gotch
  2. lauch
  1. notch
  2. poche
  1. scotch
  2. troche
  1. watch

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  1. swatch

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  1. sewing

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  • Telofy “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

  • prowsej "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 Oct 25, 2009

  • bilby Scots - to take a swatch at something is to take a look. Rhymes with catch. Dec 25, 2007

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