different between impact vs swat

English

Etymology

From Latin imp?ctus, perfect passive participle of imping? (“dash against, impinge”).

Pronunciation

• (noun): enPR: im?p?kt, IPA^(key): /??mpækt/
• (verb): enPR: im-p?kt?, IPA^(key): /?m?pækt/
• • Rhymes: -ækt

Noun

impact (countable and uncountable, plural impacts)

1. The striking of one body against another; collision.
2. The force or energy of a collision of two objects.

3. (chiefly medicine) A forced impinging.

4. A significant or strong influence; an effect.

Usage notes

• Adjectives often applied to "impact": social, political, physical, positive, negative, good, bad, beneficial, harmful, significant, great, important, strong, big, small, real, huge, likely, actual, potential, devastating, disastrous, true, primary.
• The adposition generally used with "impact" is "on" (such as in last example in section above)
• There are English speakers who are so averse to the verb sense that they have become hypersensitive to the use of the figurative noun sense, with a low threshold for labeling such use as overuse (cliché). In defensive editing, the solution is to replace the figurative noun sense with effect and the verb sense with affect, which nearly always produces an acceptable result. (Rarely, a phrase such as "the impact of late effects" is better stetted to avoid "the effect of [...] effects".)

Derived terms

Related terms

• impinge

Translations

Verb

impact (third-person singular simple present impacts, present participle impacting, simple past and past participle impacted)

1. (transitive) To collide or strike, the act of impinging.

   When the hammer impacts the nail, it bends.

2. (transitive) To compress; to compact; to press into something or pack together.

   The footprints of birds do not impact the soil in the way those of dinosaurs do.

3. (transitive, proscribed) To influence; to affect; to have an impact on.

   I can make the changes, but it will impact the schedule.

4. (transitive, rare) To stamp or impress onto something.

   Ideas impacted on the mind.

Usage notes

Some authorities object to the verb sense of impact meaning "to influence; to affect; to have an impact on". Although most verbification instances in English draw no prescriptive attention, a few do, including this one. To avoid annoying those readers who care, one can replace the verb sense with affect, which nearly always produces an acceptable result. See also the usage note for the noun sense.

Derived terms

• impaction
• impactor

Translations

French

Etymology

From Latin, see above.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.pakt/

Noun

impact m (plural impacts)

1. (literally or figuratively) impact

Further reading

• “impact” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Romanian

Etymology

From French impact, from Latin impactus.

Noun

impact n (plural impacturi)

1. impact

Declension

English

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /sw?t/, /sw?t/
• Rhymes: -?t

Etymology 1

Alteration of squat.

Verb

swat (third-person singular simple present swats, present participle swatting, simple past and past participle swatted)

1. (transitive) To beat off, as insects; to bat, strike, or hit.

   He swatted the mosquito that was buzzing around in his bedroom.

   The cat swatted at the feather.

   • 2017, Jennifer S. Holland, For These Monkeys, It’s a Fight for Survival., National Geographic (March 2017)[1]

     During my first day in the woods, Raoul, the big alpha male of Rambo II, opened wide to show me his dagger-sharp canines, then sauntered by and swatted my calf with a stick—letting me know my place in the social order. (Low.)

Translations

Noun

swat (plural swats)

1. A hard stroke, hit or blow, e.g., as part of a spanking.
2. Alternate spelling of swot: vigorous study at an educational institution.

Translations

See also

• flyswatter

Etymology 2

See SWAT.

Verb

swat (third-person singular simple present swats, present participle swatting, simple past and past participle swatted)

1. (slang) To illegitimately provoke a SWAT assault upon (someone).
   • 2017, Elizabeth Heiter, Stalked, MIRA (?ISBN):

     “You've just been swatted.” “What?” Sophia asked. “A spoofed call to police, claiming an emergency, to get a SWAT response,” Evelyn said. Realizing why the SWAT officer had noticed the controller, she guessed, […]

References

Anagrams

• 'twas, ATWS, AWTs, TAWS, TWAs, WSTA, sawt, staw, taws, was't, wast, wats

Louisiana Creole French

Etymology

From French soit (“thus”).

Conjunction

swat

1. or

Maltese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /swa?t/

Noun

swat

1. plural of sawt

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *swait-, from Proto-Indo-European *swoyd-, *sweyd-. Cognate with Old Saxon swêt, Old High German sweiz, Old Norse sveiti (“sweat, blood”). The Indo-European root also gave Latin sudor, Sanskrit Sanskrit ????? (sveda).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sw??t/

Noun

sw?t m or n

1. sweat
2. used of other moisture that comes from the body, especially blood

Declension

Derived terms

• sw?tan (“to sweat”)
• sw?ti? (“sweaty”)
• sw?tþ?rel (“a pore”)

Descendants

• English: swate, swote, swot, swete, swet
  • English: sweat

Polish

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *svat?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sfat/

Noun

swat m pers (feminine swatka)

1. A matchmaker.
2. The father of one's child-in-law.

Declension

Related terms

• (nouns) swach m pers, swacha f, swachna f, swatanie n (the act of matchmaking)
• (verb) swata? (to matchmake)

Further reading

• swat in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• swat in Polish dictionaries at PWN