swatch

[ swoch ]

/ swɒtʃ /

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noun

a sample of cloth or other material.

a sample, patch, or characteristic specimen of anything.

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Origin of swatch

First recorded in 1505–15; akin to switch

Words nearby swatch

swashing, swash letter, swash plate, swastika, swat, swatch, swath, swathe, Swati, Swatow, swats

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How to use swatch in a sentence

Meanwhile, significant swatches of the US have very little reliable alternatives, like access to public transit.
One way to cut down air pollutants: call an Uber|Angely Mercado|October 7, 2021|Popular-Science
However, the shift in upfront ad dollars from linear to streaming opens up that money to a wider swatch of ad sellers, including connected TV platform owners Amazon and Roku and major streaming services like YouTube.
‘The worlds are meshing’: How streaming is reshaping the TV advertising upfront deal|Tim Peterson|May 17, 2021|Digiday
The impacts of the extra plastic have yet to be measured, but environmentalists are already seeing the telltale blue swatches wash up on beaches everywhere.
12 months of pandemic life in 12 photographs|Purbita Saha|March 11, 2021|Popular-Science
Many have said this favors candidates who can raise enough money to reach a much larger swatch of voters across the city.
Teachers Union Is the Only Big Spender in San Diego Unified School Board Races|Will Huntsberry|October 26, 2020|Voice of San Diego

To wipe them and swap in a white swatch, add “AdBlock,” which removes ads from all the websites you frequent.
Seven Hacks to Revolutionize Your Facebook Experience|Nina Strochlic|September 24, 2013|DAILY BEAST
The swatch itself comes to the Met from the Vatican, where it seems to have landed 1,200 or more years ago.
Swank Threads, 1,200 Years Old|Blake Gopnik|April 2, 2012|DAILY BEAST
Then he took a swatch of black velveteen from his pocket and arranged it over the sample-table with the two gems in its folds.
Potash & Perlmutter|Montague Glass
When all is ready, the bath is heated up, the swatch entered, and the work of the test entered upon.
The Dyeing of Cotton Fabrics|Franklin Beech
For at the last moment she slipped to the wings, dropping the last swatch of lace to slide down one long, white, out-thrust leg.
The Glory of Ippling|Helen M. Urban
Another swatch too exists, opposite the East Goodwin buoy, being that in which we struck the dangerous bottom.
Heroes of the Goodwin Sands|Thomas Stanley Treanor
It appeared to Archie that to swatch with the barrel man must be a highly diverting occupation.
The Adventures of Billy Topsail|Norman Duncan

British Dictionary definitions for swatch

swatch

/ (swɒtʃ) /

noun

a sample of cloth

a number of such samples, usually fastened together in book form

printing

a small sample of colour supplied to the printer for matching during printing
a sample of ink spread on paper by a printer to check the accuracy of a required colour

Word Origin for swatch

C16: Scottish and northern English, of uncertain origin

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