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Meaning 1
A brand of relatively inexpensive Swiss analog watches.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Standard Lemma guide
swatch
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Pronunciation
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Received-Pronunciation: /swɒtʃ/
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General-American: /swɔt͡ʃ/
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General-American: /swɑt͡ʃ/
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noun
Meaning 2
A piece, pattern, or sample, generally of cloth or a similar material.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- He held a swatch of the wallpaper up to see if the colors would match the room.
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noun
Meaning 3
A selection of such samples bound together.
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noun
Meaning 4
A clump or portion of something.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: figuratively
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noun
Meaning 5
A demonstration, an example, a proof.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: figuratively
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noun
Meaning 6
A tag or other small object attached to another item as a means of identifying its owner; a tally; specifically the counterfoil of a tally.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Northern-England, obsolete
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noun
Meaning 7
A channel or passage of water between sandbanks, or between a sandbank and a seashore.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK
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verb
Meaning 8
To create a swatch, especially a sample of knitted fabric.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- Swatching is important in knitting to obtain the correct gauge.
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noun
Meaning 9
a sample piece of cloth
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: piece of cloth, piece of material
History
Etymology
From second watch or Swiss watch.
From earlier Northern England dialectal swache (“the counterfoil or counterstock of a tally”) (1512); further etymology unknown. Cognate with Scots swach, swatch. Compare English swath, swathe. Compare also Old English swæcc (“taste; flavour; odour; fragrance”).
Unknown; originally used chiefly in the East of England.
Across languages
Translations
18 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: мостра (mostra) — a piece, pattern, or sample
- Czech: vzorek — a piece, pattern, or sample
- Esperanto: specimenaro — a piece, pattern, or sample
- Finnish: tilkku — a piece, pattern, or sample
- Finnish: palanen — a piece, pattern, or sample
- French: motif — a piece, pattern, or sample
- French: échantillon — a piece, pattern, or sample
- Galician: mostra — a piece, pattern, or sample
- Māori: tīpakotanga — a piece, pattern, or sample
- Portuguese: amostra — a piece, pattern, or sample
- Russian: образе́ц (obrazéc) — a piece, pattern, or sample
- Serbo-Croatian: uzorak — a piece, pattern, or sample
- Serbo-Croatian: mustra — a piece, pattern, or sample
- Spanish: trozo — a piece, pattern, or sample
- Spanish: muestra — a piece, pattern, or sample
- Czech: vzorník — selection of such samples bound together
- French: ensemble — selection of such samples bound together
- Czech: chomáč — a clump or portion of something
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