swing
IPA: swˈɪŋ
noun
- 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 that can swing back and forth, in a children's playground, for acrobats in a circus, or on a porch for relaxing.
- An energetic and acrobatic late-1930s partner-based dance style, also known as jitterbug and lindy-hop.
- (music) The genre of music associated with this dance style.
- The amount of change towards or away from something.
- (politics) In an election, the increase or decrease in the number of votes for opposition parties compared with votes for the incumbent party.
- (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.
- The maximum amount of change that has occurred or can occur; the sum of the maximum changes in any direction.
- (obsolete) Free course; unrestrained liberty.
- Influence or power of anything put in motion.
- (boxing) A type of hook with the arm more extended.
- A surname.
verb
- (intransitive) To rotate about an off-centre fixed point.
- (intransitive) To dance.
- (intransitive) To ride on a swing.
- (intransitive) To participate in the swinging lifestyle; to participate in wife-swapping.
- (intransitive) To hang from the gallows; to be punished by hanging, swing for something or someone; (often hyperbolic) to be severely punished.
- (intransitive, cricket, of a ball) To move sideways in its trajectory.
- (transitive, cricket) (of a bowler) To make the ball move sideways in its trajectory.
- (intransitive) To fluctuate or change.
- (transitive) To move (an object) backward and forward; to wave.
- (transitive) To change (a numerical result); especially to change the outcome of an election.
- (transitive) To make (something) work; especially to afford (something) financially.
- (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 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.
- (transitive, engineering) To admit or turn something for the purpose of shaping it; said of a lathe.
- (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.
- To turn in a different direction.
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Examples of "swing" in Sentences
- I'll let you swing.
- The swing vacillates regularly.
- The flag was swinging all night.
- You have the swing and the bunt in baseball.
- The pendulum always swings in the same plane.
- The soldiers are marching, swinging their arms.
- Aughra is cantankerous and prone to mood swings.
- The quality of the article is swinging back and forward.
- The ensembles behind the soloists are swinging, and not in the way.
- As long as my swing is there, I know I'm going to get a hit somehow.
- For persons in the past, the pendulum will swing in the other direction.
- Missouri, as you all know, those of you who follow politics, is what they call a swing state.
- "Climb out, dad," Liverpool commanded as he prepared to swing from the bank and enter the rapids.
- Conference of Catholic Bishops uses its power especially with conservative Democrats in swing congressional districts leftover
- If all free market companies banded together they could fund a ton of campaigns in swing states and take out dozens of politicians.
- Thus up, straight up, twelve inches, each foot must be raised every time and all the time, ere the forward swing from the knee could begin.
- If your swing is the right to bear arms, or the woman's right to choose, do you think that the right to bear arms or Roe vs. Wade will really be repealed.
- Someone else pointed out that these national polls say very little about how a general election will turn out, particularly in the states we term swing states.
- As the Obama campaign looks at the polling, looks at the key battleground states across the country, they see one of their issues right now some would say is a weakness is what they call swing women voters.
- The most simple kind of swing is formed by tying the two ends of a strong rope to the branches of two trees which may chance to be conveniently placed for the purpose, the rope having been previously passed through two holes in a piece of flat board, which serves for the seat.
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