different between lunge vs swarm

English

Alternative forms

• longe (US)

Etymology

From French allonge, from Old French alonge, from alongier, from Vulgar Latin *allongare, from ad + Late Latin longare, from Latin longus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l?nd?/
• Rhymes: -?nd?

Noun

lunge (plural lunges)

1. A sudden forward movement, especially with a sword.
2. A long rope or flat web line, more commonly referred to as a lunge line, approximately 20–30 feet long, attached to the bridle, lungeing cavesson, or halter of a horse and used to control the animal while lungeing.
3. An exercise performed by stepping forward one leg while kneeling with the other leg, then returning to a standing position.
4. A fish, the namaycush.

Derived terms

• lunge whip

Translations

Verb

lunge (third-person singular simple present lunges, present participle lunging or lungeing, simple past and past participle lunged)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To (cause to make) a sudden forward movement (present participle: lunging).

   I lunged at the police officer and made a grab for her gun.

   • 2004, Louis L'Amour, Rustlers of West Fork

     With savage desperation the Indian lunged his horse straight at Hopalong and, knife in hand, leaped for him!

2. (transitive) To longe or work a horse in a circle around a handler (present participle: lunging or lungeing).

Translations

Anagrams

• Leung

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse lunga, from Proto-Germanic *lungô (literally “the light organ”), cognate with Norwegian lunge, Swedish lunga, German Lunge, English lung. The noun is derived from Proto-Indo-European *leng??- (“light, agile, nimble”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?l???]

Noun

lunge c (singular definite lungen, plural indefinite lunger)

1. (anatomy) lung

Inflection

Derived terms

• lungebetændelse
• lungekapacitet
• lungekræft
• lungetransplantation

References

• “lunge” in Den Danske Ordbog
• “lunge” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?lun.d??e/
• Hyphenation: lùn?ge

Adverb

lunge

1. Archaic form of lungi.

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *lungô (“the light organ”), from Proto-Indo-European *leng??- (“light, agile, nimble”). Compare Dutch long, English lung, Danish lunge, German Lunge, Swedish lunga, Icelandic lunga.

Noun

lunge m or f (definite singular lunga or lungen, indefinite plural lunger, definite plural lungene)

1. (anatomy) a lung

Derived terms

• lungebetennelse
• lungekreft
• lungeskade

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *lungô (“the light organ”), from Proto-Indo-European *leng??- (“light, agile, nimble”). Akin to English lung.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²l????/

Noun

lunge f (definite singular lunga, indefinite plural lunger, definite plural lungene)

1. (anatomy) a lung

Derived terms

• lungebetennelse
• lungekreft
• lungeskade

Further reading

• “lunge” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

English

Etymology

From Middle English swarm, from Old English swearm (“swarm, multitude”), from Proto-Germanic *swarmaz (“swarm, dizziness”), from Proto-Indo-European *swer- (“to buzz, hum”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Swoorm (“swarm”), Dutch zwerm, German Schwarm, Danish sværm, Swedish svärm, Icelandic svarmur (“tumult, swarm”), Latin susurrus (“whispering, humming”), Lithuanian surma (“a pipe”), Russian ???????? (svirél?, “a pipe, reed”).

The verb is from Middle English swarmen, swermen, from Old English swierman (“to swarm”), from Proto-Germanic *swarmijan? (“to swarm”), from the noun. Cognate with Scots swairm, swerm (“to swarm”), Dutch zwermen, German schwärmen, Danish sværme, Swedish svärma.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /sw??m/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /sw??m/
• Rhymes: -??(?)m

Noun

swarm (plural swarms)

1. A large number of insects, especially when in motion or (for bees) migrating to a new colony.
2. A mass of people, animals or things in motion or turmoil.

   a swarm of meteorites

   • those prodigious swarms that had settled themselves in every part of it [Italy]

3. (computing) A group of nodes sharing the same torrent in a BitTorrent network.

Derived terms

• aswarm

Translations

Verb

swarm (third-person singular simple present swarms, present participle swarming, simple past and past participle swarmed)

1. (intransitive) To move as a swarm.
2. (intransitive) To teem, or be overrun with insects, people, etc.

   • Every place swarming with soldiers.

3. (transitive) To fill a place as a swarm.
4. (transitive) To overwhelm as by an opposing army.
5. To climb by gripping with arms and legs alternately.
   • 1784, William Coxe, Travels into Poland, Russia, Sweden and Denmark

     At the top was placed a piece of money, as a prize for those who could swarm up and seize it.

   • 1919, W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence, chapter 55

     She called out, and a boy came running along. He swarmed up a tree, and presently threw down a ripe nut. Ata pierced a hole in it, and the doctor took a long, refreshing draught.

6. To breed multitudes.

Translations

See also

• Appendix:English collective nouns

Anagrams

• warms

Middle English

Alternative forms

• swrame, swarme

Etymology

From Old English swearm, from Proto-Germanic *swarmaz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /swarm/, /sw?rm/

Noun

swarm (plural swarmes)

1. A swarm (large, moving group of bees)
2. (rare) A large group of people.

Derived terms

• swarmen

Descendants

• English: swarm
• Scots: swairm

References

• “swarm, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-11-24.