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Noun swing has 9 senses
- swing - 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"
--1 is a kind of action, activity, activeness
- swing - mechanical device used as a plaything to support someone swinging back and forth
--2 is a kind of mechanical device; plaything, toy
--2 is a part of playground
--2 has particulars: trapeze
- swing - a sweeping blow or stroke; "he took a wild swing at my head"
--3 is a kind of blow
- swing, swinging, vacillation - changing location by moving back and forth
--4 is a kind of motion, movement, move
- swing, swing music, jive - a style of jazz played by big bands popular in the 1930s; flowing rhythms but less complex than later styles of jazz
--5 is a kind of jazz
- lilt, swing - a jaunty rhythm in music
--6 is a kind of rhythmicity
- golf stroke, golf shot, swing - the act of swinging a golf club at a golf ball and (usually) hitting it
--7 is a kind of stroke, shot
--7 has particulars:
- baseball swing, swing, cut - in baseball; a batter's attempt to hit a pitched ball; "he took a vicious cut at the ball"
--8 is a kind of stroke, shot
- swing - a square dance figure; a pair of dancers join hands and dance around a point between them
--9 is a kind of country-dance, country dancing, contredanse, contra danse, contradance
--9 is a part of square dance, square dancing
Verb swing has 13 senses
- swing - move in a curve or arc, usually with the intent of hitting; "He swung his left fist"; "swing a bat"
--1 is one way to move, displace
Sample sentence:
The girls swing the wooden sticks
- swing, sway - move or walk in a swinging or swaying manner; "He swung back"
--2 is one way to move back and forth
Sample sentence:
The wooden sticks swing
- swing - change direction with a swinging motion; turn; "swing back"; "swing forward"
--3 is one way to travel, go, move, locomote
Sample sentences:
Something is ----ing PP
Somebody ----s PP
- swing, swing over - influence decisively; "This action swung many votes over to his side"
--4 is one way to influence, act upon, work
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something
- swing, sweep, swing out - make a big sweeping gesture or movement
--5 is one way to wield, handle
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Somebody ----s something PP
- dangle, swing, drop - hang freely; "the ornaments dangled from the tree"; "The light dropped from the ceiling"
--6 is one way to hang
Sample sentence:
The lights swing from the ceiling
- swing - hit or aim at with a sweeping arm movement; "The soccer player began to swing at the referee"
--7 is one way to aim, take, train, take aim, direct
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s PP
- swing - alternate dramatically between high and low values; "his mood swings"; "the market is swinging up and down"
--8 is one way to change
Sample sentence:
Something ----s
- swing - live in a lively, modern, and relaxed style; "The Woodstock generation attempted to swing freely"
--9 is one way to live
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s
- swing - have a certain musical rhythm; "The music has to swing"
--10 is one way to be
Sample sentence:
Something ----s
- swing, get around - be a social swinger; socialize a lot
--11 is one way to socialize, socialise
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s
- swing - play with a subtle and intuitively felt sense of rhythm
--12 is one way to play
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s
- swing - engage freely in promiscuous sex, often with the husband or wife of one's friends; "There were many swinging couples in the 1960's"
--13 is one way to fornicate
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s
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