What's the difference between swig and swing?

Swig


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To drink in long draughts; to gulp; as, to swig cider.
  • (v. t.) To suck.
  • (n.) A long draught.
  • (n.) A tackle with ropes which are not parallel.
  • (n.) A beverage consisting of warm beer flavored with spices, lemon, etc.
  • (v. t.) To castrate, as a ram, by binding the testicles tightly with a string, so that they mortify and slough off.
  • (v. t.) To pull upon (a tackle) by throwing the weight of the body upon the fall between the block and a cleat.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "A paramedic taking a swig from the Coke bottle in his glove compartment that's half vodka."
  • (2) Just when you’re wondering if the real Nigel Farage will stand up, he ends the ad by swigging from a good old pint of ale.
  • (3) One man took turns swigging from what appeared to be a bottle of pink champagne in each hand, shouting “no justice, no peace” to no one in particular.
  • (4) Goldfish are swallowed, whisky is swigged from condoms, bodily fluids are smeared on furniture.
  • (5) And in case you wondered where she stood on this final, most pathetic failure of New York's imperious chief executive, on Monday night across from Piers Morgan, Quinn took a massive swig from a 32oz soft drink.
  • (6) When two men dressed entirely in tin foil with silver bobbles on their heads walked into the village swigging beer, TV reporters immediately surrounded them.
  • (7) They sew, but they also knit (at Knit and Natter), and cycle (with Radiant Riders), and taste beer (Swig for Victory).
  • (8) Nadal trots to his chair for a quick swig of an energy drink.
  • (9) The battered boozer taking an occasional swig from his bottle of Whyte and Mackay on the late Inverness-to-Glasgow train shares an ambition with the progressive lawyer nursing a glass of red Burgundy in his lovely north Edinburgh home.
  • (10) Like every appletini-swigging SATC devotee who swore watching Carrie or Samantha was like seeing themselves, the Entourage audience gravitated quickly to Vince's effortless starpower, to E's everyman, to Turtle's dogged hustler and to Drama's … OK, only a member of the Screen Actors Guild could truly empathise with the relentless humiliation of Johnny Drama, but it was impossible not to celebrate his few small instances of victory.
  • (11) Not to be put off, the British comic’s latest film Grimsby has drawn fury for depicting the Lincolnshire port as a rundown badlands strewn with litter and peopled by beer-swigging children and hooligan parents.
  • (12) People swigged beer, marijuana spiced the air, hip-hop streamed from a sound system.
  • (13) Swigging his brown bitter while Morrissey sipped his orange juice, he tried to find out whether this Smiths person liked Special K, Prefab Sprout or the Beatles.
  • (14) Photograph: Linda Nylind for the Guardian We found a spot outside HSBC, sniggered at the irony, and I took a swig from my hip flask of hot water, honey and lemon, and another swig of Buttercup cough syrup before we kicked off.
  • (15) Ahrendts, who is married to her childhood sweetheart and has three children, rises at 5am and swigs Diet Coke.
  • (16) Remember the rise of the 90s “ladette”, personified in 1999 by the then Radio 1 Breakfast Show presenter Zoë Ball swigging from a bottle of Jack Daniel’s on the morning of her wedding to Norman Cook?
  • (17) In my view, people are searching for a different coffee experience, and that’s what artisan coffee is.” When Extract started roasting coffee beans in a shed in 2007, there were no hordes of bearded, craft beer swigging hipsters banging down the door for their daily caffeine hit.
  • (18) The two leaders, along with Merkel’s chemistry professor husband, Joachim Sauer, then sat down with locals for a specially brewed G7 summit banana and clove-flavour weissbier, weisswurst and pretzels, all of them appearing to swig back the beer, despite the early hour.
  • (19) A portly, bespectacled figure sporting a plum-coloured tie, Cayne swigged from a plastic bottle of water while answering questions.
  • (20) One quick swig from the magic bottle later and he's okay.

Swing


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To move to and fro, as a body suspended in the air; to wave; to vibrate; to oscillate.
  • (v. i.) To sway or move from one side or direction to another; as, the door swung open.
  • (v. i.) To use a swing; as, a boy swings for exercise or pleasure. See Swing, n., 3.
  • (n.) To turn round by action of wind or tide when at anchor; as, a ship swings with the tide.
  • (n.) To be hanged.
  • (v. t.) To cause to swing or vibrate; to cause to move backward and forward, or from one side to the other.
  • (v. t.) To give a circular movement to; to whirl; to brandish; as, to swing a sword; to swing a club; hence, colloquially, to manage; as, to swing a business.
  • (v. t.) To admit or turn (anything) for the purpose of shaping it; -- said of a lathe; as, the lathe can swing a pulley of 12 inches diameter.
  • (n.) The act of swinging; a waving, oscillating, or vibratory motion of a hanging or pivoted object; oscillation; as, the swing of a pendulum.
  • (n.) Swaying motion from one side or direction to the other; as, some men walk with a swing.
  • (n.) A line, cord, or other thing suspended and hanging loose, upon which anything may swing; especially, an apparatus for recreation by swinging, commonly consisting of a rope, the two ends of which are attached overhead, as to the bough of a tree, a seat being placed in the loop at the bottom; also, any contrivance by which a similar motion is produced for amusement or exercise.
  • (n.) Influence of power of a body put in swaying motion.
  • (n.) Capacity of a turning lathe, as determined by the diameter of the largest object that can be turned in it.
  • (n.) Free course; unrestrained liberty or license; tendency.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) During control, no significant difference between systolic fluctuation (delta Pa) and pleural swings (delta Ppl) was found.
  • (2) Anterior as well as posterior regions were both strongly active in relation to the swing-phase of stepping.
  • (3) Records were broken on seats lost and swings suffered.
  • (4) The purpose of this study was to analyze and compare the effects of the leg during swing and stance phases of forward propulsion of the body for both men and women.
  • (5) He is joined by Cathy O’Toole, the ALP candidate for the crucial swing seat of Herbert where Rudd’s campaign bus has stopped on Sunday evening.
  • (6) During normal locomotion, SA-m exhibited a single burst of EMG activity per step cycle, during the swing phase.
  • (7) A single spin density gradient ultracentrifugation method in a swinging bucket rotor has been applied for the detection and isolation of low density lipoprotein (LDL) subfractions.
  • (8) Iowa (10pm ET) Real Clear Politics average: Obama +2.0pt 2008 result: Obama won by 9.4pt 2004 result: Bush won by 0.7pt Swing counties with 50k+ population: Polk (+5.1), Scott (+5.0), Woodbury (-10.0) This state is where the primary season begins, and it likes to keep Americans guessing.
  • (9) It would still need to work with government funded national anti-doping organisations where they exist (though even those considered an example to others, such as UK Anti Doping, are facing swingeing cuts) and bully as well as cajole sports into testing properly with rigour and independence.
  • (10) Same-sex marriage: supreme court's swing votes hang in the balance – live Read more The court heard legal arguments for two and a half hours, in a landmark challenge to state bans on same-sex marriage that is expected to yield a decision in June.
  • (11) McCain, a former Republican presidential candidate with an influential voice on US foreign affairs, is seen by the Obama administration as a potentially important intermediary in its intensive push to persuade Congress to swing behind the plan for airstrikes .
  • (12) This is done by scoring the septal cartilage in its basal attachment to the maxillary crest, providing a "swinging door" which can be sutured finally as desired.
  • (13) Yellow signs swing from lampposts urging citizens to “hold high the great banner of national unity”.
  • (14) Tony Dolphin, the chief economist at the IPPR thinktank, said: "Any reasonable person might say, these departments are already suffering swingeing cuts, and we're seeing reductions in frontline services: how can you possibly say you're going to take another 1% off without affecting services?"
  • (15) On a turnout of 50.78%, Labour's shellshocked candidate Imran Hussain was crushed by a 36.59% swing from Labour to Respect that saw Galloway take the seat with a majority of 10,140.
  • (16) With the Republican primary in full swing, Ted Cruz, a hardliner by most measures, seemed a natural choice for this constituency.
  • (17) Although the cranes swing, much of the new living zones now being created range from the ho-hum to the outright catastrophic.
  • (18) Squirrel monkeys controlled the air temperature within their test chamber by pulling a chain to select between two preset air temperatures, 10 and 50 degrees C. When the force required to pull the chain was increased in steps from 2.94 to 6.86 N, interresponse interval increased, resulting in wider air temperature swings within the chamber.
  • (19) Sleep disturbances and mood swings were significantly improved on the nocte dosage.
  • (20) But you could also help swing an entire precinct for Hillary’s opponent with a protest vote or by staying home out of frustration.