Definitions for swash
swɒʃ, swɔʃswash

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. swashverb

   the movement or sound of water

   "the swash of waves on the beach"

2. swashverb

   make violent, noisy movements

3. spatter, splatter, plash, splash, splosh, swashverb

   dash a liquid upon or against

   "The mother splashed the baby's face with water"

4. boast, tout, swash, shoot a line, brag, gas, blow, bluster, vaunt, gasconadeverb

   show off

5. swagger, bluster, swashverb

   act in an arrogant, overly self-assured, or conceited manner

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. swashnoun

   The water that washes up on shore after an incoming wave has broken

2. swashnoun

   a long, protruding ornamental line or pen stroke found in some typefaces and styles of calligraphy (plural: swashes).

3. swashverb

   To swagger

4. swashverb

   To splash

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Swashnoun

   A cant word. A figure, whose circumference is not round, but oval; and whose moldings lie not at right angles, but oblique to the axis of the work. Joseph Moxon

2. To SWASHverb

   To make a great clatter or noise: whence swashbuckler.

   We’ll have a swashing and a martial outside,
   As many other mannish cowards have,
   That do outface it with their semblances. William Shakespeare.

   Draw, if you be men: Gregory, remember thy swashing blow. William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet.

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. swash

   WASH (or Watsan, WaSH) is an acronym that stands for "water, sanitation and hygiene". It is used widely by non-governmental organizations and aid agencies in developing countries. The purposes of providing access to WASH services include achieving public health gains, improving human dignity in the case of sanitation, implementing the human right to water and sanitation, reducing the burden of collecting drinking water for women, reducing risks of violence against women, improving education and health outcomes at schools and health facilities, and reducing water pollution. Access to WASH services is also an important component of water security. Universal, affordable and sustainable access to WASH is a key issue within international development and is the focus of the first two targets of Sustainable Development Goal 6 (SDG 6). Targets 6.1 and 6.2 aim at equitable and accessible water and sanitation for all. In 2017, it was estimated that 2.3 billion people live without basic sanitation facilities and 844 million people live without access to safe and clean drinking water.The WASH-attributable burden of disease and injuries has been studied in depth. Typical diseases and conditions associated with lack of WASH include diarrhea, malnutrition and stunting, in addition to neglected tropical diseases. Lack of WASH poses additional health risks for women, for example during pregnancy, or in connection with menstrual hygiene management. Lack of sanitation contributes to about 700,000 child deaths every year due to diarrhea, mainly in developing countries. Chronic diarrhea can have long-term negative effects on children, in terms of both physical and cognitive development. Still, collecting precise scientific evidence regarding health outcomes that result from improved access to WASH is difficult due to a range of complicating factors. Scholars suggest a need for longer-term studies of technology efficacy, greater analysis of sanitation interventions, and studies of combined effects from multiple interventions in order to better analyze WASH health outcomes.Access to WASH needs to be provided at the household level but also in non-household settings like schools, healthcare facilities, workplaces (including prisons), temporary use settings, mass gatherings, and for dislocated populations. In schools, group handwashing facilities and behaviors are a promising approach to improve hygiene. Lack of WASH facilities at schools can prevent students (especially girls) from attending school, reducing their educational achievements and future work productivity. Challenges for providing WASH services include providing services to urban slums, failures of WASH systems (e.g. leaking water distribution systems), water pollution and the impacts of climate change. Planning approaches for better, more reliable and equitable access to WASH include: National WASH plans and monitoring (including gender mainstreaming), integrated water resources management (IWRM) and, more recently, improving climate resilience of WASH services. Adaptive capacity in water management systems can help to absorb some of the impacts of climate-related events and increase climate resilience.: 25  Stakeholders at various scales, i.e. from small urban utilities to national governments, need to have access to reliable information which details regional climate and climate change.

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1. swash

   Swash refers to a surge of water that flows up the beach after an incoming wave has broken. It is part of the natural process occurring in coastal environments, helping in the distribution of sediments, nutrients, and organic matter.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Swashverb

   an oval figure, whose moldings are oblique to the axis of the work

2. Swashverb

   soft, like fruit too ripe; swashy

3. Swashverb

   to dash or flow noisily, as water; to splash; as, water swashing on a shallow place

4. Swashverb

   to fall violently or noisily

5. Swashverb

   to bluster; to make a great noise; to vapor or brag

6. Swashnoun

   impulse of water flowing with violence; a dashing or splashing of water

7. Swashnoun

   a narrow sound or channel of water lying within a sand bank, or between a sand bank and the shore, or a bar over which the sea washes

8. Swashnoun

   liquid filth; wash; hog mash

9. Swashnoun

   a blustering noise; a swaggering behavior

10. Swashnoun

    a swaggering fellow; a swasher

11. Etymology: [Probably of imitative origin; cf. Sw. svasska to splash, and, for sense 3, Sw. svassa to bully, to rodomontade.]

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1. Swash

   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. Greater swash generally occurs on flatter beaches. The swash motion plays the primary role in the formation of morphological features and their changes in the swash zone. The swash action also plays an important role as one of the instantaneous processes in wider coastal morphodynamics. There are two approaches that describe swash motions: swash resulting from the collapse of high-frequency bores on the beachface; and swash characterised by standing, low-frequency motions. Which type of swash motion prevails is dependant on the wave conditions and the beach morphology and this can be predicted by calculating the surf similarity parameter εb Where Hb is the breaker height, g is gravity, T is the incident-wave period and tan β is the beach gradient. Values εb>20 indicate dissipative conditions where swash is characterised by standing long-wave motion. Values εb

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Swash

   swosh, v.t. to dash or splash.—v.i. to make a splashing noise, to wash up against.—ns. Swash′-buck′ler, a bully, a blusterer; Swash′er (Shak.), one who swashes, a blusterer.—adj. Swash′ing, slashing, crushing.—n.pl. Swash′-lett′ers, Italic capitals with top and bottom flourishes, intended to fill out ugly gaps.—ns. Swash′-plate, a disc set obliquely on a revolving axis, to give a reciprocating motion to a bar along its length; Swash′-work, lathe-work in which the cuts are inclined to the axis of rotation.—adj. Swash′y, swaggering. [Scand.; cf. dial. Sw. svasska, Norw. svakka, prov. Eng. swack, a blow.]

Dictionary of Nautical TermsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. swash

   A sudden surge of the sea. Also, a shoal in a tide-way or mouth of a river, over which the water flows, and the tide ripples in ebbing or flowing.

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1. shaws

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of swash in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of swash in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of swash in a Sentence

1. Richard Todd:

   My image was all daring deeds, until my swash began to buckle a bit

2. Kelly Buck:

   Our whole family loves hunting for shark teeth, xander and my husband were searching in the swash during low tide when Xander spotted this one in the mud.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=swash
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Swash
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=swash
4. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swash
5. ^ ChatGPT
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6. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/swash
7. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=swash
8. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=swash
9. ^ Dictionary of Nautical Terms
   https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/26000/pg26000-images.html#:~:text=swash