swash vs well

swash

verb
  • To dash or flow noisily; to splash. 

  • To swipe. 

  • To streak, to color in a swash. 

  • To wade forcefully through liquid. 

  • To swagger; to act with boldness or bluster (toward). 

  • To fall violently or noisily. 

  • To swirl through liquid; to swish. 

adj
  • bold; dramatic. 

  • Having pronounced swashes. 

noun
  • A long, protruding ornamental line or pen stroke found in some typefaces and styles of calligraphy. 

  • A smooth stroke; a swish. 

  • A wet splashing sound. 

  • The water that washes up on shore after an incoming wave has broken. 

  • A streak or patch. 

  • 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. 

  • A swishing noise. 

  • An oval figure, whose mouldings are oblique to the axis of the work. 

well

verb
  • To issue forth, as water from the earth; to flow; to spring. 

  • To have something seep out of the surface. 

noun
  • A compartment in the middle of the hold of a fishing vessel, made tight at the sides, but having holes perforated in the bottom to let in water to keep fish alive while they are transported to market. 

  • A small depression suitable for holding liquid or other objects. 

  • A vertical passage in the stern into which an auxiliary screw propeller may be drawn up out of the water. 

  • A hole or excavation in the earth, in mining, from which run branches or galleries. 

  • A source of supply. 

  • The playfield of Tetris and similar video games, into which the blocks fall. 

  • An opening through the floors of a building, as for a staircase or an elevator; a wellhole. 

  • In a microtiter plate, each of the small equal circular or square sections which serve as test tubes. 

  • A well drink. 

  • A hole sunk into the ground as a source of water, oil, natural gas or other fluids. 

  • A place where a liquid such as water surfaces naturally; a spring. 

  • The lower part of a furnace, into which the metal falls. 

  • The cockpit of a sailboat. 

  • The open space between the bench and the counsel tables in a courtroom. 

  • A vertical, cylindrical trunk in a ship, reaching down to the lowest part of the hull, through which the bilge pumps operate. 

adj
  • Prudent; good; well-advised. 

  • In good health. 

  • Good, content. 

intj
  • An exclamation of sarcastic surprise (often doubled or tripled and spoken in a lowering intonation). 

  • Used to acknowledge a statement or situation. 

  • An exclamation of indignance. 

  • Used in speech to express the overcoming of reluctance to say something. 

  • Used in speech to fill gaps, particularly at the beginning of a response to a question; filled pause. 

  • Used as a greeting 

  • Used as a question to demand an answer from someone reluctant to answer. 

adv
  • To a significant degree. 

  • In a desirable manner; so as one could wish; satisfactorily; favourably; advantageously. 

  • Accurately, competently, satisfactorily. 

  • Completely, fully. 

  • Very (as a general-purpose intensifier). 

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