SWASH

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.

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swash

Noun

  1. The water that washes up on shore after an incoming wave has broken
  2. a long, protruding ornamental line or pen stroke found in some typefaces and styles of calligraphy.
  3. 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.
  4. Liquid filth; wash; hog mash.
  5. A blustering noise.
  6. swaggering behaviour.
  7. A swaggering fellow; a swasher.
  8. An oval figure, whose mouldings are oblique to the axis of the work.

Verb

  1. To swagger; to bluster and brag.
  2. To dash or flow noisily; to splash.
  3. To fall violently or noisily.

Adjective

  1. Soft, like overripe fruit; swashy; squashy.


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