swing
has definitions from the fields of dance,music,fine art,baseball,sport,golf,boxing,sexuality,performing arts
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[ verb ] move in a curve or arc, usually with the intent of hitting
Examples "He swung his left fist" "swing a bat" Used in print (Howard Fast, April Morning....)I do n't know whether he was_after our rider , who had gone_by a minute before , or whether he was simply scouting conditions ; but when he passed us by , a musket roared , and he reared his horse , swung it around , and began to whip it back in the direction from which he had come . (Frieda Arkin, "The Light of the Sea," in The...)She swung her eyes up to the blue of the window , her jaws gently mashing the bitter beans . (Arthur Miller, "The Prophecy," in The Best...)She stood clutching her shawl around her shoulders until he had swung the car onto the road . (Richard Ferber, Bitter Valley....)She swung the quirt again , and this time he caught her wrist and pulled her out of the saddle . Related terms |
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[ verb ] move or walk in a swinging or swaying manner
Synonyms Examples "He swung back" Used in print (The Christian Science Monitor,...)They are definitely in the same room with you , but your head starts to swing as though you were sitting on the very edge of a tennis_court watching a spirited volley . (Louis Zara, Dark Rider....)He stared at the far morning , expecting a pendulum to swing across the horizon . (Robert Penn Warren, Wilderness....)He thought_of Simms_Purdew , who once had risen at the edge of a cornfield , a maniacal scream on his lips , and swung a clubbed musket like a flail to beat down the swirl of Rebel bayonets about him . (Bruce Palmer, "My Brother's Keeper", Many Are...)The flat-bottomed boat swung slowly to the pull of the current . (Octavia Waldo, A Cup of the Sun....)One lithe leg straddled the railing and swung loosely before the creaking , torn pales . |
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[ verb ] change direction with a swinging motion; turn
Examples "swing back" "swing forward" Related terms |
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[ verb ] influence decisively
Synonyms Examples "This action swung many votes over to his side" Used in print (James Boylan, "Mutinity"...)Arnold_Lodley and Michael_Perse were like the rest - lukewarm , ready to swing against Hudson in a crisis . Related terms |
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[ verb ] make a big sweeping gesture or movement
Used in print (The Dallas Morning News,...)`` It 's kind_of like golf - if you do n't swing a club very often , your timing gets off '' . (Frank Getlein and Harold C. Gardiner, S.J., Movies,...)The unfortunate queen mounted the scaffold ; the headsman swung his axe ; the head dropped off ; end of film . |
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[ verb ] alternate dramatically between high and low values
Examples "his mood swings" "the market is swinging up and down" Used in print (The Providence Journal...)He met with enthusiastic audience approval , especially when he swung from jazz to Latin_American things like the Mambo . |
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[ verb ] hang freely
Examples "the ornaments dangled from the tree" "The light dropped from the ceiling" Used in print (Harold Searles, "Schizophrenic Communication,"...)A borderline schizophrenic young man told me that to him the various theoretical concepts about which he had been expounding , in a most articulate fashion , during session after session with me , were like great cubes of almost tangibly solid matter up in the air above him ; as he spoke I was reminded of the great bales of cargo which are swung , high in the air , from a docked steamship . |
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[ verb ] hit or aim at with a sweeping arm movement
Examples "The soccer player began to swing at the referee" Used in print (Samuel Elkin, "The Ball Player," Nugget, 6: 5...)Mike_Deegan tossed his glove away and began to swing at the catcher . Related terms |
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[ noun ] changing location by moving back and forth
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[ noun ] a state of steady vigorous action that is characteristic of an activity
Examples "the party went with a swing" "it took time to get into the swing of things" Related terms |
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[ verb ] live in a lively, modern, and relaxed style
Examples "The Woodstock generation attempted to swing freely" Used in print (Charles Glicksberg, "Sex in Contemporary Literature"...)Righteous in their denunciation of all that makes_for death , the beat prophets bid all men become cool cats ; let them learn to `` swing '' freely , to let_go , to become authentically themselves , and_then perhaps civilization will be saved . Related terms |
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[ noun ] (boxing) a sweeping blow or stroke
Examples "he took a wild swing at my head" Related terms |
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[ noun ] mechanical device used as a plaything to support someone swinging back and forth
Used in print (Octavia Waldo, A Cup of the Sun....)It swayed with the wicker swings and screeched with the rusted hinges of screen_doors . Related terms |
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[ noun ] (baseball,sport) in baseball; a batter's attempt to hit a pitched ball
Synonyms Examples "he took a vicious cut at the ball" Related terms |
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[ noun ] (music,fine art) a style of jazz played by big bands popular in the 1930s; flowing rhythms but less complex than later styles of jazz
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[ noun ] Last name, frequency rank in the U.S. is 11293
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[ noun ] (dance) a square dance figure; a pair of dancers join hands and dance around a point between them
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