different between swinging vs pensile

English

Pronunciation

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

Noun

swinging (countable and uncountable, plural swingings)

1. The act or motion of that which swings.
   • 1973, Socialist Review (volume 8, page 331)

     Mr. Henderson's chief trouble seems to be that he cannot forget his old shiftiness of views and his pendulum-like swingings between Liberalism and Independent Labourism […]

2. An activity where couples engage in sexual activity with different partners.

Translations

Verb

swinging

1. present participle of swing

Adjective

swinging (comparative more swinging, superlative most swinging)

1. (informal) Fine, good, successful.

2. Alternative form of swingeing

   • “It is an eating fever then,” says the landlady; “for he hath devoured two swinging buttered toasts this morning for breakfast.”

3. Sexually promiscuous.

English

Alternative forms

• pensill (obsolete)

Etymology

From classical Latin p?nsilis, from the past participle stem of pendere (“to hang”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p?nsa?l/

Adjective

pensile (comparative more pensile, superlative most pensile)

1. Hanging down, suspended.
   • 1658, Sir Thomas Browne, The Garden of Cyrus (Folio Society 2007, p. 165)

     However the account of the Pensill or hanging gardens of Babylon […] is of no slender antiquity.

   • 1837 Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History

     Far aloft, over the Altar of the Fatherland, on their tall crane standards of iron, swing pensile our antique Cassolettes or Pans of Incense; dispensing sweet incense-fumes[.]

Anagrams

• Lepines, espinel, sleep in, sleep-in

Italian

Etymology

From Latin p?nsilis (“hanging”). Doublet of pesolo. Compare Portuguese pênsil.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pen?si.le/
• Rhymes: -?nsile

Adjective

pensile (plural pensili)

1. hanging, suspended

Derived terms

• giardino pensile
• pensilina

Noun

pensile m (plural pensili)

1. wall cabinet; wall cupboard

Latin

Adjective

p?nsile

1. nominative neuter singular of p?nsilis
2. accusative neuter singular of p?nsilis
3. vocative neuter singular of p?nsilis