(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.
Swung
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Swing
() imp. & p. p. of Swing.
Example Sentences:
(1) The pendulum swung even further with growing fossil, archaeological and genetic data in the 1990s.
(2) So far, the UK election has thrown up a carnival of peculiar results | Lewis Baston Read more Scotland, of course, is a different story: but David Cameron’s antagonistic response to the 2014 referendum clearly swung a lot of anti-Tory voters towards the SNP.
(3) As the political pendulum has swung over the decades, these competing archetypes have spurred endless innovations from inflation-linked bonds to free TV licences.
(4) The starting premise of the remain campaign was that elections in Britain are settled in a centre-ground defined by aversion to economic risk and swung by a core of liberal middle-class voters who are allergic to radical lurches towards political uncertainty.
(5) No, what swung it for us was their debut album, An Awesome Wave, which has been rapturously received.
(6) Olfactory fibers derived from the nasal cavity reached the entire surface of the bulb, forming a dense fiber plexus, then swung deeply and terminated in the olfactory glomeruli which were arranged in 2-4 rows.
(7) In normal subjects, the left ventricular (LV) epicardial apex swung up to the base only a few millimeters, and the mitral annulus ring moved about 14 mm as mean value toward the apex during systole.
(8) Oil prices swung rapidly on Monday, first rising on tension between Saudi Arabia and Iran before fears about the strength of the global economy drove prices lower.
(9) The ball's swung into the mixer, where Glen Johnson is penalised for hand-ball.
(10) Here's what Scott Murray said about it in his minute-by-minute report : "A ball is swung into the Cameroon box from the right by Matsui, to the far post where Honda - and no yellow-shirted defenders - awaits.
(11) In Virginia, which swung decisively back to the Republicans in last week's midterm elections, there is fear that China plays a decisive role in the loss of jobs and wealth.
(12) 67 min and a bit: The ball's swung into the Italian area from the right.
(13) Sure, there are signs that public favour has swung around again pretty fast – as MCV points out , the Xbox One 'Day One' edition is now number two on Amazon UK's video game bestseller list , one place ahead of PS4 (though the Amazon US list has several PS4 packages in the top 10).
(14) Three.” Campaigning organisations such as housing charity Shelter argue that the balance of power has swung too far in favour of landlords, against tenants who are chasing a limited supply of property and can be evicted without reason.
(15) The corner is swung in by Nasri and Kompany heads harmlessly over.
(16) A laudatory review was lost in one of the regular printers' strikes of the time: it might, he felt, have swung things his way.
(17) They have swung the US from engagement to isolation and back for more than a century.
(18) Whelan, Gordon Brown's spin doctor in the 1990s and part of the media campaign behind Labour's 1997 victory, said union power had undoubtedly swung the vote for the younger Miliband brother.
(19) The therapy of testis tumors is multimodal, using lymphadenectomy, radiation therapy and chemotherapy, but the pendulum has swung so that chemotherapy has assumed the vital role in management.
(20) The US is finally giving up its old approach of telling the continent what to do.” The political pendulum has already swung in the latter.