Swing

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. fiil To rotate about an off-centre fixed point.

   “The plant swung in the breeze.”

2. fiil To dance.
3. fiil To ride on a swing.

   “The children laughed as they swung.”

4. fiil To participate in the swinging lifestyle; to participate in wifeswapping.

   “We find it difficult to meet couples our age, and often swing with single, straight men. We have rules: no married guys cheating on their wives, no one too young or too old, and no one who supports Trump.”

5. fiil To hang from the gallows; to be punished by hanging, swing for something or someone; (often hyperbolic) to be severely punished.

   ““It's all clear,” he whispered. “Have you the chisel and the bags? Great Scott! Jump, Archie, jump, and I'll swing for it!” Sherlock Holmes had sprung out and seized the intruder by the collar. The other dived down the hole, and I heard the sound of rending cloth as Jones clutched at his skirts.”

6. fiil To move sideways in its trajectory.
7. fiil (of a bowler) To make the ball move sideways in its trajectory.
8. fiil To fluctuate or change.

   “It wasn't long before the crowd's mood swung towards restless irritability.”

9. fiil To move (an object) backward and forward; to wave.

   “He swung his sword as hard as he could.”

10. fiil To change (a numerical result); especially to change the outcome of an election.
11. fiil To make (something) work; especially to afford (something) financially.

    “If it’s not too expensive, I think we can swing it.”

12. fiil To play notes that are in pairs by making the first of the pair slightly longer than written (augmentation) and the second shorter, resulting in a bouncy, uneven rhythm.
13. fiil To move one's arm in a punching motion.
14. fiil In dancing, to turn around in a small circle with one's partner, holding hands or arms.

    “"to swing one's partner", or simply "to swing"”

15. fiil To admit or turn something for the purpose of shaping it; said of a lathe.

    “The lathe can swing a pulley of 12 inches diameter.”

16. fiil To put (a door, gate, etc.) on hinges so that it can swing or turn.
17. fiil To turn round by action of wind or tide when at anchor.

    “A ship swings with the tide.”

18. fiil To turn in a different direction.

    “Soon after departure, we cross the invisible border into Scotland to enjoy more stunning coastal scenery, before the line finally swings inland at Burnmouth to traverse pine-clad valleys, shadowed by the A1 trunk road until we rejoin the coast at Cove, east of Dunbar.”

19. fiil To be sexually oriented.

    “swing both ways”

20. isim The act, or an instance, of swinging.
21. isim The manner in which something is swung.

    “He worked tirelessly to improve his golf swing.”

22. isim The sweep or compass of a swinging body.
23. isim A line, cord, or other thing suspended and hanging loose, upon which anything may swing.
24. isim A hanging seat that can swing back and forth, in a children's playground, for acrobats in a circus, or on a porch for relaxing.

    “To Edward […] he was terrible, nerve-inflaming, poisonously asphyxiating. He sat rocking himself in the late Mr. Churchill's swing chair, smoking and twaddling.”

25. isim An energetic and acrobatic late-1930s partner-based dance style, also known as jitterbug and lindy-hop.
26. isim The genre of music associated with this dance style.

    “It makes no diff'rence / if it's sweet or hot. / Just give that rhythm / ev'rything you've got! / It don't mean a thing / if it ain't got that swing.”

27. isim The amount of change towards or away from something.

    “Miss Pole came round with a swing to as vehement a belief in the sorrowful tale as she had been sceptical before […]”

28. isim In an election, the increase or decrease in the number of votes for opposition parties compared with votes for the incumbent party.

    “The polls showed a wide swing to Labour.”

29. isim Sideways movement of the ball as it flies through the air.
30. isim Capacity of a turning lathe, as determined by the diameter of the largest object that can be turned in it.