different between sway vs swad
sway
English
Etymology
Earlier swey (“to fall, swoon”), from Middle English sweyen, from Old Norse sveigja (“to bend, bow”), from Proto-Germanic *swaigijan? (compare Saterland Frisian swooie (“to swing, wave, wobble”), Dutch zwaaien, Dutch Low Saxon sweuen (“to sway in the wind”), from Proto-Indo-European *sweh?- (compare Lithuanian sva?gti (“to become giddy or dizzy”), the second element of Avestan ????????????????????-????????????????????????????? (pairi-šxuaxta, “to surround”), Sanskrit ?????? (svájate, “he embraces, enfolds”).
The noun derived from the verb.
Pronunciation
- enPR: sw?, IPA(key): /swe?/
- Rhymes: -e?
Noun
sway (countable and uncountable, plural sways)
- The act of swaying; a swaying motion; a swing or sweep of a weapon.
- A rocking or swinging motion.
- Influence, weight, or authority that inclines to one side
- Preponderance; turn or cast of balance.
- Rule; dominion; control; power.
- A switch or rod used by thatchers to bind their work.
- The maximum amplitude of a vehicle's lateral motion.
Translations
Verb
sway (third-person singular simple present sways, present participle swaying, simple past and past participle swayed)
- To move or swing from side to side; or backward and forward; to rock.
- Breezes blowing from beds of iris quickened her breath with their perfume; she saw the tufted lilacs sway in the wind, and the streamers of mauve-tinted wistaria swinging, all a-glisten with golden bees; she saw a crimson cardinal winging through the foliage, and amorous tanagers flashing like scarlet flames athwart the pines.
- To move or wield with the hand; to swing; to wield.
- To influence or direct by power, authority, persuasion, or by moral force; to rule; to govern; to guide. Compare persuade.
- This was the race / To sway the world, and land and sea subdue.
- To cause to incline or swing to one side, or backward and forward; to bias; to turn; to bend; warp.
- 1663, John Tillotson, The Wisdom of being Religious
- Let not temporal and little advantages sway you against a more durable interest.
- 1663, John Tillotson, The Wisdom of being Religious
- (nautical) To hoist (a mast or yard) into position.
- To be drawn to one side by weight or influence; to lean; to incline.
- 1623, Francis Bacon, A Discourse of a War with Spain
- The balance sways on our part.
- 1623, Francis Bacon, A Discourse of a War with Spain
- To have weight or influence.
- 1594, Richard Hooker, Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie
- The example of sundry churches […] doth sway much.
- 1594, Richard Hooker, Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie
- To bear sway; to rule; to govern.
Derived terms
- asway
Translations
See also
- persuade
Anagrams
- -ways, Yaws, ways, yaws
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swad
English
Alternative forms
- swod
Etymology
Related to swaddle?
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sw?d/
- Rhymes: -?d
Noun
swad (plural swads)
- A bunch, clump, mass
- (obsolete, slang) A crowd; a group of people.
- (obsolete) A boor, lout.
- 1591, unknown author, The Troublesome Reign of King John, scene 2
- Sham’st thou not coistrel, loathsome dunghill swad.
- 1633, Ben Jonson, A Tale of a Tub
- There was one busy fellow was their leader, / A blunt, squat swad, but lower than yourself.
- 1588, Robert Greene, Perimedes
- Country swains, and silly swads.
- 1591, unknown author, The Troublesome Reign of King John, scene 2
- (mining) A thin layer of refuse at the bottom of a seam.
- (Britain, dialect, obsolete, Northern) A cod, or pod, as of beans or peas.
- 1656, Thomas Blount, Glossographia
- Swad, in the north, is a peascod shell — thence used for an empty, shallow-headed fellow.
- 1656, Thomas Blount, Glossographia
References
Synonyms
- (bunch, clump): bunch, clump, mass
References
- WordNet 3.0 (2006, Princeton University); “swad” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
Anagrams
- AWDS, AWDs, DAWs, Daws, WASD, daws, wads
Middle English
Noun
swad
- Alternative form of swathe (“swath”)
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