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(v)
(intransitive) To move or swing from side to side; or backward and forward; to rock.
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(intransitive) To hang loosely with the ability to swing.
(transitive) To clean (a surface) by means of a stroking motion of a broom or brush.
(chiefly transitive) To incise, to cut into the surface of something.
To transport oneself from place to place.
(intransitive, colloquial) To dance, originally to jive or swing music; later, to jazz, rock and roll, rhythm and blues, disco, etc.
(intransitive) To do something rhythmically, with animation and quickness, usually of music.
(n)
in baseball; a batter's attempt to hit a pitched ball
the act of swinging a golf club at a golf ball and (usually) hitting it
(N)
a style of jazz that developed in the United States during the late 1920s and early 1930s.
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see swing, out.
Synonym of swing by (“pay a brief informal visit”).
(intransitive) To swing back and forth, especially if with a regular rhythm.
The motion of something that tilts; a tilt.
A motion like that of waves; a moving in this and that direction; an irregular rising and falling.
(adj)
Shaking, swaying or moving back and forth.
(transitive) To slope or incline (something); to slant.
(intransitive) To spin, turn, or revolve.
One who or that which hits.
(transitive) To hurl; to release (an object) with some force from one’s hands, an apparatus, etc. so that it moves rapidly through the air.
The act by which something is thrown.
(heading, physical) To strike.
A step.
(chiefly uncountable) The act of turning around a centre or an axis.
To hit or strike violently and repeatedly.
(intransitive) To vary irregularly; to swing.
An abrupt rapping sound, as from an impact of a hard object against wood.
a regular periodic fluctuation in value about some mean
To throw with an initial upward direction.
undergoing physical rotation
A criminal group with a common cultural background and identifying features, often associated with a particular section of a city.
To make a non-linear physical movement.
Subject to irregular changes in quantity or quality.
To make a loud, hollow, resonant sound.
The act of one who turns (rotates or twists).
A turn in a vehicle carried out by driving in a semicircle in order to travel in the opposite direction.
A solid or hollow sphere, or roughly spherical mass.
Total reversal of opinion or attitude .
The carrying out of a task; the time required to carry it out.
A change from one thing to its opposite, or from a situation to the reverse.
Physical motion between points in space.
(uncountable) A state of progression from one place to another.
(intransitive) To move with an uneven or rocking motion, or unsteadily to and fro.
(intransitive) To change place or posture; to go, in any manner, from one place or position to another.
Anything that impels; a stimulating factor.
(US, gerund of maneuver) An act in which something or someone maneuvers
The highest value reached by some quantity in a time period.
A change in fortune; a change from being successful to having problems.
A place where waste or garbage is left; a ground or place for dumping ashes, refuse, etc.; a disposal site.
An obstacle, delay, disadvantage, or blow (an adverse event which slows down, or prevents progress towards a desired outcome).
Movement or advancement through a series of events, or points in time; development through time.
A jointed or flexible device that allows the pivoting of a door etc.
The process of change from one form, state, style or place to another.
A structure composed of a plank, balanced in the middle, used as a game in which one person goes up as the other goes down.
(intransitive) To begin, start.
(heading) To do with a place or places.
A conversion or transition from one thing to another.
The beginning of an activity.
A movement of the body, or with an implement, instrument etc., especially one performed with skill or dexterity.
of, or relating to a transition
(telecommunications) An abrupt and unwanted variation of one or more signal characteristics.
A curved piece of wood attached to the bottom of a rocking chair or cradle that enables it to rock back and forth.
(ambitransitive) To transport oneself by sitting on and directing a horse, later also a bicycle etc.
(intransitive) To swing or turn, as on a pin or pivot.
(figuratively, by extension) Something or someone having a paramount significance in a certain situation.
The act of someone who bats.
(intransitive) Not to remain constant: to change with time or a similar parameter.
A notable location with historical, cultural, or geographical significance.
A place where things join, a junction.
(uncountable) A state in which opposing forces harmonise; equilibrium.
The hot gaseous form of water, formed when water changes from the liquid phase to the gas phase (at or above its boiling point temperature).
(slang, intransitive) To inform on, especially in betrayal of others.
A place where one road crosses another; an intersection of two or more roads.
(idiomatic) An important event in a person's life or career, in the history of a nation, in the life of some project, etc.
Commonwealth and Ireland standard spelling of fervor.
(countable) Something done as an action or a movement.
A movement to do something, a beginning.
Remaining for only a brief time.
(transitive) To set up; to organize; to put into an orderly sequence or arrangement.
Lasting only a short time; temporary.
A picture, likeness, diagram or representation, usually drawn on paper.
(countable) A piece of knowledge that is hidden and intended to be kept hidden.
(transitive, sometimes with out or through) To delete or cross out; to scratch or eliminate.
Temporary.
A period of success, popularity, or power; prime.
Relating to a choice between two or more possibilities.
The daily fluctuation in the level of the sea caused by the gravitational influence of the moon and the sun.
The practice of leaving a tip (gratuity).
(hydrology, US, Canada) A region of land within which water flows down into a specified body, such as a river, lake, sea, or ocean; a drainage basin.
Used or accepted broadly rather than by small portions of population, market, scientific community, etc.
(ergative) To rotate, revolve, gyrate (usually quickly); to partially or completely rotate to face another direction.
(by extension) Highest point or state; peak.
(Cornwall) The surface of a mine.
(figuratively) The highest point.
(music) One who plays the drums.