swing swinging vacillation | changing location by moving back and forth |
swing | a square dance figure, a pair of dancers join hands and dance around a point between them |
baseball swing swing cut | in baseball, a batter's attempt to hit a pitched ball, he took a vicious cut at the ball |
golf stroke golf shot swing | the act of swinging a golf club at a golf ball and (usually) hitting it |
swing | a sweeping blow or stroke, he took a wild swing at my head |
swing | mechanical device used as a plaything to support someone swinging back and forth |
swing door swinging door | a door that swings on a double hinge, opens in either direction |
lilt swing | a jaunty rhythm in music |
swing swing music jive | a style of jazz played by big bands popular in the s, flowing rhythms but less complex than later styles of jazz |
temper mood humor humour | a characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling, whether he praised or cursed me depended on his temper at the time, he was in a bad humor |
swing voter floating voter | a voter who has no allegiance to any political party and whose unpredictable decisions can swing the outcome of an election one way or the other |
Goodman Benny Goodman Benjamin David Goodman King of Swing | United States clarinetist who in formed a big band (including black as well as white musicians) and introduced a kind of jazz known as swing (-) |
mood mode modality | verb inflections that express how the action or state is conceived by the speaker |
indicative mood indicative declarative mood declarative common mood fact mood | a mood (grammatically unmarked) that represents the act or state as an objective fact |
subjunctive mood subjunctive | a mood that represents an act or state (not as a fact but) as contingent or possible |
optative mood optative | a mood (as in Greek or Sanskrit) that expresses a wish or hope, expressed in English by modal verbs |
imperative mood imperative jussive mood imperative form | a mood that expresses an intention to influence the listener's behavior |
interrogative mood interrogative | some linguists consider interrogative sentences to constitute a mood |
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 |
sudden infant death syndrome SIDS infant death crib death cot death | sudden and unexpected death of an apparently healthy infant during sleep |
climate mood | the prevailing psychological state, the climate of opinion, the national mood had changed radically since the last election |
sudden death | (sports) overtime in which play is stopped as soon as one contestant scores, e.g. football and golf |
evening shift swing shift | the work shift during the evening (as p.m. to midnight) |
swing | alternate dramatically between high and low values, his mood swings, the market is swinging up and down |
swing | hit or aim at with a sweeping arm movement, The soccer player began to swing at the referee |
swing | engage freely in promiscuous sex, often with the husband or wife of one's friends, There were many swinging couples in the's |
swing sweep swing out | make a big sweeping gesture or movement |
swing | play with a subtle and intuitively felt sense of rhythm |
swing sway | move or walk in a swinging or swaying manner, He swung back |
swing | change direction with a swinging motion, turn, swing back, swing forward |
swing around swing about turn around | turn abruptly and face the other way, either physically or metaphorically, He turned around to face his opponent, My conscience told me to turn around before I made a mistake |
swing | move in a curve or arc, usually with the intent of hitting, He swung his left fist, swing a bat |
swing get around | be a social swinger, socialize a lot |
swing swing over | influence decisively, This action swung many votes over to his side |
swing | live in a lively, modern, and relaxed style, The Woodstock generation attempted to swing freely |
dangle swing drop | hang freely, the ornaments dangled from the tree, The light dropped from the ceiling |
swing | have a certain musical rhythm, The music has to swing |
sudden | happening without warning or in a short space of time, a sudden storm, a sudden decision, a sudden cure |
suddenly all of a sudden of a sudden | happening unexpectedly, suddenly she felt a sharp pain in her side |
all of a sudden all at once | without warning, all at once, he started shouting |
in full swing in full action | proceeding with full vigor, the party was in full swing |