Swing
To move to and fro, as a body suspended in the air; to wave; to vibrate; to oscillate.
To sway or move from one side or direction to another; as, the door swung open.
To use a swing; as, a boy swings for exercise or pleasure. See Swing, n., 3.
To turn round by action of wind or tide when at anchor; as, a ship swings with the tide.
To be hanged.
To cause to swing or vibrate; to cause to move backward and forward, or from one side to the other.
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.
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.
The act of swinging; a waving, oscillating, or vibratory motion of a hanging or pivoted object; oscillation; as, the swing of a pendulum.
Swaying motion from one side or direction to the other; as, some men walk with a swing.
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.
Influence of power of a body put in swaying motion.
Capacity of a turning lathe, as determined by the diameter of the largest object that can be turned in it.
Free course; unrestrained liberty or license; tendency.
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Swing Quotations
Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars. Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your gait. The grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of will and energy to execute your ideas.
Henry Ford
Big doors swing on little hinges.
W. Clement Stone
It takes more than capital to swing business. You've got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by - Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics.
Isaac Asimov
You've got to be rich to have a swing like that.
Bob Hope
The most important thing in an argument, next to being right, is to leave an escape hatch for your opponent, so that he can gracefully swing over to your side without too much apparent loss of face.
Sydney J. Harris
Yes, I think I have the best swing on the Tour. Why have scores comedown in the last ten years? Partly because they are imitating me.
Lee Trevino
No one who ever had lessons would have a swing like mine.
Lee Trevino
I found out some really cool ways to swing around the Winchester.
Shane West
After all we did for Britain, selling that corduroy and making it swing, all we got was a bit of tin on a piece of leather.
George Harrison
You don't swing where you sleep.
Sammy Davis, Jr.
Where I fall down is my short game. I don't practice enough, and when I have to take a half swing from 50 yards out, that's trouble.
Pete Sampras
Golfers are forever working on mechanics. My tennis swing hasn't changed in 10 years.
Pete Sampras
I think that gravity sets into everything, including careers, but pendulums do swing and mountains do become valleys after a while... if you keep on walking.
Sylvester Stallone
Reverse every natural instinct and do the opposite of what you are inclined to do, and you will probably come very close to having a perfect golf swing.
Ben Hogan
The ultimate judge of your swing is the flight of the ball.
Ben Hogan
He has the finest, fundamentally sound golf swing I've ever seen.
Jack Nicklaus
I have such an extreme attitude about work, where I can just completely be derelict of my responsibilities and then when I am not derelict, I am completely indulged in it. I swing pretty wildly from the two extremes.
Geddy Lee
The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
At Kansas City, Kansas, before the saloons were closed, they were getting ready to build an addition to the jail. Now the doors swing idly on the hinges and there is nobody to lock in the jails.
Billy Sunday
I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions.
James A. Michener
You know, Neil Young is singing Rock n' roll will never die, and Neil never rocked and rolled in his life. I mean, he rocked, but he didn't roll. He has got no swing in him.
Joni Mitchell
A baseball swing is a very finely tuned instrument. It is repetition, and more repetition, then a little more after that.
Reggie Jackson
But primarily, the drummer's supposed to sit back there and swing the band.
Buddy Rich
I played with Annika today. I love being paired with her. She does not make many mental mistakes, and she has the ability to repeat her swing over and over and wears people down.
Natalie Gulbis
And if you're a golfer and you watch a golf film and Matt Damon swing, and it's not great, then you're not going to believe in the golf story, you're not going to believe in the rest of the film. That's the whole movie, so if that swing looks like crap, the movie's crap.
Shia LaBeouf
I trained more than anybody ever in a golf film ever made - my swing is pretty hot.
Shia LaBeouf
We stand our best chance of leaving a legacy to those who want to learn, our children, by standing firm. In matters of style, hey, swing with the stream. But in matters of principle, you need to stand like a rock.
Kevin Costner
A working woman could save a few shillings a week, and then every five weeks she'd come in and we'd cut her hair. She could shampoo it under the shower, swing it and dry it off or just let it dry by itself. It changed the lives of many young girls who'd never had the opportunity to be styled like that before.
Vidal Sassoon
One truth is the swing of the sentence, the beat and poise, but down deeper it's the integrity of the writer as he matches with the language.
Don DeLillo
People always ask me how I can hit the ball so far, and I say, 'I just swing.' It's the coaches who first told me I had good bat speed. I was just swinging, and I guess it was fast. I'm pretty fast at everything.
Eric Davis
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Swing Translations
swing in Afrikaans is swaai
swing in Danish is svinge
swing in Dutch is balanceren, doen schommelen
swing in Finnish is keinuttaa, heiluttaa
swing in French is balancer, vanner, brandir, pivotent, pivotons
swing in German is sich frei bewegen, sich drehen, Anschlag, Hub
swing in Italian is altalena, brandire
swing in Spanish is columrio, tremolar, balancearse
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