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swing
English
Etymology
From Middle English swingen, from Old English swingan, from Proto-Germanic *swingan? (compare Low German swingen, German schwingen, Dutch zwingen, Swedish svinga), from Proto-Indo-European *sweng- (compare Scottish Gaelic seang (“thin”)). Related to swink.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?sw??/
- Rhymes: -??
Verb
swing (third-person singular simple present swings, present participle swinging, simple past swung or (archaic or dialectal) swang, past participle swung or (archaic) swungen)
- (intransitive) To rotate about an off-centre fixed point.
- The plant swung in the breeze.
- 1912, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes, Chapter 12
- With one accord the tribe swung rapidly toward the frightened cries, and there found Terkoz holding an old female by the hair and beating her unmercifully with his great hands.
- (intransitive) To dance.
- (intransitive) To ride on a swing.
- The children laughed as they swung.
- (intransitive) To participate in the swinging lifestyle; to participate in wife-swapping.
- (intransitive) To hang from the gallows.
- (intransitive, cricket, of a ball) to move sideways in its trajectory.
- (intransitive) To fluctuate or change.
- It wasn't long before the crowd's mood swung towards restless irritability.
- (transitive) To move (an object) backward and forward; to wave.
- He swung his sword as hard as he could.
- (transitive) To change (a numerical result); especially to change the outcome of an election.
- (transitive) To make (something) work; especially to afford (something) financially.
- If it’s not too expensive, I think we can swing it.
- (transitive, music) To play notes that are in pairs by making the first of the pair slightly longer than written (augmentation) and the second shorter, resulting in a bouncy, uneven rhythm.
- (transitive, cricket) (of a bowler) to make the ball move sideways in its trajectory.
- (transitive and intransitive, boxing) To move one's arm in a punching motion.
- (transitive) In dancing, to turn around in a small circle with one's partner, holding hands or arms.
- "to swing one's partner", or simply "to swing"
- (transitive, engineering) To admit or turn something for the purpose of shaping it; said of a lathe.
- The lathe can swing a pulley of 12 inches diameter.
- (transitive, carpentry) To put (a door, gate, etc.) on hinges so that it can swing or turn.
- (nautical) To turn round by action of wind or tide when at anchor.
- A ship swings with the tide.
Troponyms
- (to rotate about an off-centre fixed point): pivot, swivel
Derived terms
- come out swinging
- overswing
- swing into action
- swingle
Translations
Noun
swing (countable and uncountable, plural swings)
- The manner in which something is swung.
- The sweep or compass of a swinging body.
- A line, cord, or other thing suspended and hanging loose, upon which anything may swing.
- A hanging seat in a children's playground, for acrobats in a circus, or on a porch for relaxing.
- A dance style.
- (music) The genre of music associated with this dance style.
- The amount of change towards or away from something.
- 1853, Elizabeth Gaskell, Cranford
- Miss Pole came round with a swing to as vehement a belief in the sorrowful tale as she had been sceptical before […]
- (politics) In an election, the increase or decrease in the number of votes for opposition parties compared with votes for the incumbent party.
- The polls showed a wide swing to Labour.
- 1853, Elizabeth Gaskell, Cranford
- (cricket) Sideways movement of the ball as it flies through the air.
- Capacity of a turning lathe, as determined by the diameter of the largest object that can be turned in it.
- In a musical theater production, a performer who understudies several roles.
- A basic dance step in which a pair link hands and turn round together in a circle.
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. - (obsolete) Free course; unrestrained liberty.
- Take thy swing.
- 1788, Edmund Burke, speech in the Impeachment of Warren Hastings
- To prevent anything which may prove an obstacle on the full swing of his genius.
- Influence or power of anything put in motion.
- (boxing) A type of hook with the arm more extended.
Quotations
- 1937 June 11, Judy Garland, “All God’s Chillun Got Rhythm”, A day at the races, Sam Wood (director), Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
- All God’s chillun got rhythm. All God's chillun got swing.
- Maybe haven't got money, maybe haven't got shoes.
- All God’s chillun got rhythm for to push away their blues.
Derived terms
- sex swing
- swing and a miss
- swing of things
- swings and roundabouts
- what you lose on the swings you gain on the roundabouts
Translations
Anagrams
- Gwins, wings
Czech
Noun
swing m
- swing (dance)
Further reading
- swing in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
- swing in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989
French
Etymology
Borrowed from English swing.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /swi?/
Noun
swing m (plural swings)
- swing; several senses
Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from English swing.
Noun
swing m (invariable)
- swing (music and dance style; golf swing)
Portuguese
Etymology
Borrowed from English swing.
Noun
swing m (plural swings)
- swing (a dance and music style)
- swinging (exchange of partners for sex)
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from English swing.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?swin/, [?sw?n]
Noun
swing m (plural swings)
- swing (dance)
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glider
English
Etymology
From Middle English glider, glydare, equivalent to glide +? -er.
Pronunciation
- (UK) enPR: gl?'d?(r), IPA(key): /??la?d?(?)/
- (US) IPA(key): /??la?d?/
- Rhymes: -a?d?(r)
Noun
glider (plural gliders)
- One who glides.
- Any heavier-than-air aircraft optimised for unpowered flight; a sailplane.
- A pilot of glider aircraft.
- Any animal with the ability to glide, such as the gliding possum.
- Synonym of glide (“cap affixed to base of legs of furniture”)
- A kind of garden swing.
- 1978, Tom Reamy, Blind Voices (2003), page 73
- Francine sat in the glider on the porch, swinging lightly, her mind a thousand miles away. The chain squeaked a little, almost like a cricket.
- 2011, Mary Biever, He Uses It For Good!, page 5
- Then I went into the backyard, which had a flower-covered arbor, a small garden wall, and room behind it for a garden. Swings and gliders adorned the yard.
- 1978, Tom Reamy, Blind Voices (2003), page 73
- (mathematics) In the Game of Life cellular automaton, a particular configuration of five cells that recurs periodically at fixed offsets and appears to "walk" across the grid.
- Hypernym: spaceship
- 2008, Derek Abbott, Paul C. W. Davies, Arun Kumar Pati, Quantum Aspects Of Life (page 246)
- In Conway's Life interesting effects can be obtained by colliding gliders.
- A vehicle, of a usually motorised type, without a powertrain.
- (entomology) Any of various species of dragonfly that glide on out-held wings while flying, such as the common glider, Tramea loewii, of Australia, New Guinea, Indonesia, and the Pacific.
Hyponyms
- hang glider, motor glider, paraglider, sailplane
Derived terms
- glider gun
- sugar glider
Translations
Further reading
- glider on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- Gilder, gilder, girdle, girled, gridle, regild, ridgel
Swedish
Verb
glider
- present tense of glida.
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