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swing English

Meaning swing meaning

What does swing mean?
Definitions in simple English

swing Noun

— A swing is a hanging seat found in a playground that children can sit on and swing on. The child was swinging on the swing at the playground. — Swing is a style of dance. — Swing is the genre of dance linked to the style of dance.

swing Verb

— If someone or something swings, they move forward and backward. The plant swung in the breeze. — If someone swings, he dances. — If someone swings, they ride on a swingset. — If someone swings, they hang from the gallows. — If something swings, it changes quickly; it fluctuates. — If you swing, you move (an object) back and forward; you wave.

swing

— verb move in a curve or arc, usually with the intent of hitting He swung his left fist swing a bat — verb (= sway) move or walk in a swinging or swaying manner He swung back — verb change direction with a swinging motion; turn swing back swing forward — verb (= sweep) make a big sweeping gesture or movement — verb influence decisively This action swung many votes over to his side — verb hit or aim at with a sweeping arm movement The soccer player began to swing at the referee — verb alternate dramatically between high and low values his mood swings the market is swinging up and down — verb (= dangle, drop) hang freely the ornaments dangled from the tree The light dropped from the ceiling — verb live in a lively, modern, and relaxed style The Woodstock generation attempted to swing freely — noun a state of steady vigorous action that is characteristic of an activity the party went with a swing it took time to get into the swing of things — noun changing location by moving back and forth — noun a sweeping blow or stroke he took a wild swing at my head — noun mechanical device used as a plaything to support someone swinging back and forth — noun a style of jazz played by big bands popular in the 1930s; flowing rhythms but less complex than later styles of jazz — noun a square dance figure; a pair of dancers join hands and dance around a point between them — verb have a certain musical rhythm The music has to swing — verb engage freely in promiscuous sex, often with the husband or wife of one's friends There were many swinging couples in the 1960's — verb be a social swinger; socialize a lot — verb play with a subtle and intuitively felt sense of rhythm — noun (= cut) in baseball; a batter's attempt to hit a pitched ball he took a vicious cut at the ball — noun (= lilt) a jaunty rhythm in music — noun the act of swinging a golf club at a golf ball and (usually) hitting it

Synonyms swing synonyms

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swing English » English

rock sway wave shake oscillate dangle brandish wag wobble waver move hang flourish vibrate vacillate wield swinging seesaw jolt beat tremble fluctuate sweep rotate hammock fling flap cradle wobbling wave about turn swing music stroke roll pendulum oscillation jerk dangling agitate wiggle whirl whip waving waggle wabble vacillation throw swing over suspend stir

Topics swing topics

What do people use swing to talk about?
Social behavior Social activity

Dance
Daily life Household equipment Furniture

Chair
Physical actions Move Manner of movement

Move quickly
Physical actions Move Move in a direction

Move in a circle
Physical actions Move Move in a direction

Move back and forth
Physical actions

Move something

  • What words refer to moving something through the air?
    swing
Physical actions Move something

Turn something

  • What words refer to causing something to move in a circle or curve?
    swing
Social behavior Conflict War

Weapon, shoot
Work and occupation Working with buildings Parts of a building

Door

Conjugation swing conjugation

How do you conjugate swing?

swing · verb

Examples swing examples

How do I use swing in a sentence?

Simple sentences

The party was in full swing when he left.
Swing your arm back and forth.
In her latest works she lets the uncanny swing like a grotesque pendulum from the humorous into homelike cosiness and back again.
Between two trees a rope is hanging; there is a piece of board upon it; it is a swing. Two pretty little girls, in dresses white as snow, and with long green ribbons fluttering from their hats, are sitting upon it swinging.
Tom is swinging on a swing.
The banquet was in full swing.
Swing music was a new form of jazz.
There isn't enough room to swing a cat in his flat.
Preparations are in full swing.
Who broke the swing?
The negotiations are in full swing.

Movie subtitles

I mean, how did you swing that?
Right now, all I want to do is swing by the hospital and check on Jared.
Big swing.
Look here, don't you try and swing this thing on me.
They want us to swing over tonight. They're expecting us.
Well, it's us that'll swing for him if he shoots at the wrong time.
I say she can swing it.
With this sword, Robert I'll swing a stroke from Norway down to Spain.
All right, boys, let's swing it.
Fenner can't forget the week he spent at the hospital after he took a swing at me.
They investigated, wrote a report took a swing at the police department and went home.
Get these loafers working, Kelly, or McLaren will swing his ax at them.
What are we gonna do, stand here and swing on the door?
I'm putting the rackets back in full swing, even if it means trouble with McLaren.
Yeah? Well, it's us that'll swing for him if he shoots at the wrong time.
My hot water's been cold for three days and I haven't got room to swing a cat. In fact, I haven't even got a cat.
My grandfather can swing a cat.
Saidi, get them on their feet, and we'll swing off a bit to the left.
Come on, swing over, you blighters.
We're going to swing across on ropes.
You and your men swing across into their rigging.
I told you not to swing that lantern!
I'll have one day off that ship if I swing for it!
He's the only man who can swing this case.
Never give us no sign he was going to swing off today.
Yes, sir. he's taking a shortcut across this bank, and thinking I'm going to get scared. and swing her off.
So don't you swing her off.
Listen, Ward, for three years, I've kept Nick from taking a swing at that man and now you do it.
They want us to swing over tonight.
Can y'all swing it?
Oh, yes. Swing what?
You know, swing it on out there.
Ain't y'all never heard of swing music? - What on earth is this swing music?
Are you interested in swing music? - No.
To swing around your head on a string.
This mug here's Swing.
Thanks, Swing.
How about it, Swing?
You're much too big to swing on gates.

News and current affairs

The swing to the left, to social-democratic welfare states, occurred all over Western Europe.
Fortunately, the pendulum has begun to swing back toward cooperation.
Political pendulums often swing too far.
Led by the developed countries, the pendulum began to swing in the 1980's.
But there is a real danger that the pendulum is beginning to swing back, leading to a reversal of that liberalization process.
This swing does not simply mark the return of traditional conservative parties and policies - smaller governments, more attention to the interests of capital - to power.
In fact, emerging-market buyers, including Chinese, have become the swing buyers in many instances, often making purchases anonymously.
But in the swing of the pendulum the excesses of yesterday will incite greater scrutiny and a tougher rulebook for business in the future.
But behind the scenes, maneuvering and politicking over his replacement are already in full swing.
For decades, the US and Saudi Arabia have had a balance of asymmetries in which we depended on them as the swing producer of oil, and they depended on us for ultimate military security.
Ireland is the only country that has lowered its prices and wages, and its current-account deficit is about to swing into surplus.
Changes in Israel are also contributing to the mood swing.
Japan's past predilection toward saving has long implied a large trade and current-account surplus, but now these surpluses are starting to swing the other way.
At the same time, oil markets are discovering what it is like to operate under the regime of a new swing producer: the United States.
It is not just the swing vote that Yanukovych needs to attract.
To be sure, security fears in the wake of the Paris attacks could swing some voters toward deciding to stay in the EU.
And technical issues, such as safeguards for non-euro countries, are unlikely to swing many votes.
Modern science began in Europe 300 years ago with relatively few people - perhaps no more than a thousand when the putative scientific revolution was in full swing.
The European Central Bank's chief economist, Otmar Issing, may not be scheduled to retire until May 2006. But behind the scenes, maneuvering and politicking over his replacement are already in full swing.
The swing in exchange rates could have an impact that extends far beyond the short-term rebalancing of the global marketplace.
Koizumi slashed a large portion of the budgets for public works and abandoned the rural population, which depended on a variety of redistributive schemes. Instead, Koizumi appealed to an electoral majority comprising urban and suburban swing voters.
BERLIN - The debate about emerging countries' growth prospects is now in full swing.
Brazil is similarly paralyzed, partly because of its presidential election campaign, which is currently in full swing and will conclude only at the end of the year, and partly because of recent diplomatic setbacks.

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