swatch

swatch  (swch)

n.

1. A sample strip cut from a piece of material.

2. A representative portion; a sample: quoted swatches of the speech in his article.

3. 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).

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swatch [swɒtʃ]

n

1. (Clothing, Personal Arts & Crafts / Textiles) a sample of cloth

2. (Clothing, Personal Arts & Crafts / Textiles) a number of such samples, usually fastened together in book form

3. (Communication Arts / Printing, Lithography & Bookbinding) Printing

a.  a small sample of colour supplied to the printer for matching during printing

b.  a sample of ink spread on paper by a printer to check the accuracy of a required colour

[Scottish and northern English, of uncertain origin]

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

swatch - a sample piece of cloth               piece of cloth, piece of material - a separate part consisting of fabric

Translations

swatch [swɒtʃ] N (Textiles) → muestra f

swatch

n → (Textil)muster nt; (= collection of samples) → Musterbuch nt