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swab
I. noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Earlier this month traces of Salmonella typhimurium were found in swabs taken from the hen house. ▪ Have each student dip a cotton swab in purple grape juice and rub it over the paper. ▪ He covered my newest wound with a swab of alcohol and a lozenge of gauze. ▪ He remembers the glass jars filled with cotton swabs, tongue depressors, latex gloves. ▪ It is later learned he might also be getting an alcohol swab as well. ▪ Rectal swabs were cultured for chlamydia. II. verb EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ After a Pap smear is done, the doctor simply swabs vinegar on the cervix and shines the blue-white light on it. ▪ As they leaned against a red brick wall, a portly prison system official swabbed at the sweat trickling into his collar. ▪ At Twentieth and Blake he saw a man swabbing a garbage truck. ▪ He studied her face as she cleaned the skin of the boy's right shoulder and swabbed a patch with alcohol. ▪ Isaac swabbed perspiration from above his haunted eyes with a rag he kept handy for cleaning the windshield. ▪ She sits in a soft curve at her easel, gently swabbing away three centuries from a grumpy London sky. ▪ There was no time for emotion as the blood was swabbed away and she concentrated on the badly gashed cheekbone.
swab
I. swab1 /swɒb $ swɑːb/ noun [COUNTABLE] [date : 1600-1700; Origin : Probably from early Dutch swabbe] 1. a small piece of material used to clean a wound or take a small amount of a substance from someone’s body in order to test it: ▪ a cotton swab
2. a small amount of a substance that is taken from someone’s body with a swab in order to test it: ▪ The doctor took a throat swab to check for infection.
II. swab2 verb (past tense and past participle swabbed, present participle swabbing) [TRANSITIVE] 1. (also swab something ↔ down) to clean something using a large amount of water: ▪ a girl who was swabbing the tiled floor with a mop
2. to clean a wound with a small piece of special material
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