swatch

[ swoch ]

noun

1. a sample of cloth or other material.
2. a sample, patch, or characteristic specimen of anything.

swatch

/ swɒtʃ /

noun

1. a sample of cloth
2. a number of such samples, usually fastened together in book form
3. printing
   1. a small sample of colour supplied to the printer for matching during printing
   2. a sample of ink spread on paper by a printer to check the accuracy of a required colour

Word History and Origins

Origin of swatch¹

First recorded in 1505–15; akin to switch

Word History and Origins

Origin of swatch¹

C16: Scottish and northern English, of uncertain origin

Example Sentences

You should also note its clearing dimensions, which describe the swatch of snow you can remove in a single pass.

From Popular-Science

Meanwhile, significant swatches of the US have very little reliable alternatives, like access to public transit.

From 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.

From 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.

From Popular-Science

Many have said this favors candidates who can raise enough money to reach a much larger swatch of voters across the city.

From Voice of San Diego

To wipe them and swap in a white swatch, add “AdBlock,” which removes ads from all the websites you frequent.

From The Daily Beast

The swatch itself comes to the Met from the Vatican, where it seems to have landed 1,200 or more years ago.

From The 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.

From Project Gutenberg

When all is ready, the bath is heated up, the swatch entered, and the work of the test entered upon.

From Project Gutenberg

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.

From Project Gutenberg

Another swatch too exists, opposite the East Goodwin buoy, being that in which we struck the dangerous bottom.

From Project Gutenberg

It appeared to Archie that to swatch with the barrel man must be a highly diverting occupation.

From Project Gutenberg