swan dive
swallow dive | a dive in which the diver arches the back with arms outstretched before entering the water |
swallow
drink deglutition | the act of swallowing, one swallow of the liquid was enough, he took a drink of his beer and smacked his lips |
| swallow | small long-winged songbird noted for swift graceful flight and the regularity of its migrations |
barn swallow
chimney swallow Hirundo rustica | common swallow of North America and Europe that nests in barns etc. |
cliff swallow
Hirundo pyrrhonota | North American swallow that lives in colonies and builds bottle-shaped mud nests on cliffs and walls |
tree swallow tree martin
Hirundo nigricans | of Australia and Polynesia, nests in tree cavities |
white-bellied swallow
tree swallow Iridoprocne bicolor | bluish-green-and-white North American swallow, nests in tree cavities |
bank martin
bank swallow
sand martin
Riparia riparia | swallow of the northern hemisphere that nests in tunnels dug in clay or sand banks |
wood swallow
swallow shrike | Australasian and Asiatic bird related to the shrikes and resembling a swallow |
swallow-tailed kite
swallow-tailed hawk
Elanoides forficatus | graceful North American black-and-white kite |
| fairy swallow | fancy domestic pigeon having blue-and-white plumage and heavily muffed feet |
chimney swift
chimney swallow Chateura pelagica | American swift that nests in e.g. unused chimneys |
sea swallow
Sterna hirundo | common tern of Eurasia and America having white black and grey plumage |
swallow-tailed coat
swallowtail
morning coat | a man's full-dress jacket with two long tapering tails at the back |
swallow
sup | a small amount of liquid food, a sup of ale |
sinkhole
sink
swallow hole | a depression in the ground communicating with a subterranean passage (especially in limestone) and formed by solution or by collapse of a cavern roof |
celandine greater celandine
swallowwort swallow wort
Chelidonium majus | perennial herb with branched woody stock and bright yellow flowers |
| swallow | believe or accept without questioning or challenge, Am I supposed to swallow that story? |
accept live with
swallow | tolerate or accommodate oneself to, I shall have to accept these unpleasant working conditions, I swallowed the insult, She has learned to live with her husband's little idiosyncrasies |
| swallow | keep from expressing, I swallowed my anger and kept quiet |
swallow
take back
unsay
withdraw | take back what one has said, He swallowed his words |
| swallow | utter indistinctly, She swallowed the last words of her speech |
| swallow | engulf and destroy, The Nazis swallowed the Baltic countries |
swallow
get down | pass through the esophagus as part of eating or drinking, Swallow the raw fish--it won't kill you! |
immerse swallow
swallow up
bury eat up | enclose or envelop completely, as if by swallowing, The huge waves swallowed the small boat and it sank shortly thereafter |
| swallow-tailed | (especially of butterflies and birds) having a forked tail like that of a swallow |