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[ US /ˈswɪŋ/ ]
[ UK /swˈɪŋ/ ]
VERB
  1. hit or aim at with a sweeping arm movement
    The soccer player began to swing at the referee
  2. have a certain musical rhythm
    The music has to swing
  3. play with a subtle and intuitively felt sense of rhythm
  4. engage freely in promiscuous sex, often with the husband or wife of one's friends
    There were many swinging couples in the 1960's
  5. be a social swinger; socialize a lot
  6. move in a curve or arc, usually with the intent of hitting
    swing a bat
    He swung his left fist
  7. hang freely
    the ornaments dangled from the tree
    The light dropped from the ceiling
  8. alternate dramatically between high and low values
    his mood swings
    the market is swinging up and down
  9. live in a lively, modern, and relaxed style
    The Woodstock generation attempted to swing freely
  10. move or walk in a swinging or swaying manner
    He swung back
  11. change direction with a swinging motion; turn
    swing back
    swing forward
  12. influence decisively
    This action swung many votes over to his side
  13. make a big sweeping gesture or movement
NOUN
  1. a square dance figure; a pair of dancers join hands and dance around a point between them
  2. a style of jazz played by big bands popular in the 1930s; flowing rhythms but less complex than later styles of jazz
  3. mechanical device used as a plaything to support someone swinging back and forth
  4. a sweeping blow or stroke
    he took a wild swing at my head
  5. in baseball; a batter's attempt to hit a pitched ball
    he took a vicious cut at the ball
  6. 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
  7. the act of swinging a golf club at a golf ball and (usually) hitting it
  8. changing location by moving back and forth
  9. a jaunty rhythm in music
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How To Use swing In A Sentence

  • Both throw a lot of strikes and both make hitters swing the bat early in the count.
  • The principals of the local schools could be counted on for a couple of fresh scrubbed altar boys in charge of polished crucifix, candlesticks and dangerously toxic swinging thuribles.
  • Therefore, at the state that the body is fixed with a plate shape, the cover-used outer swinging cover can be stored in the box-shaped article storage box with a same side.
  • A swingle-tree hung at the pole's end, and a second pair of reins was fast to the driver's seat, the four cheek-buckles lying crossed over the wheeler's backs. Ambrotox and Limping Dick
  • His golf swing is poetry in motion .
  • Shortly after the demolition of the tower, the reef, as if enraged at having been denied a number of victims owing to the existence of the warning light, trapt the "Winchelsea" as she was swinging up Channel, and smashed her to atoms, with enormous loss of life. Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 2 Great Britain and Ireland, Part 2
  • What was supposedly impossible, rapid large swings in currency values, became an almost everyday event.
  • '' Then I got about 30 swings with the regular bat and it felt pretty much the same as swinging the fungo, which is obviously a good sign. '', who had surgery to repair a tendon in his right middle finger Aug. 14, visited his doctor in Arizona on Thursday and remains on schedule to return by late September. Tsn.ca Top Stories RSS
  • She struggled with the handle before swinging the door open, diving in and slamming it shut again.
  • A launch angle of about 12 degrees and a spin rate of 2,000 revolutions per minute is ideal for an above-average swing speed.
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