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(noun) changing location by moving back and forth |
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Synonyms: swinging |
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Related Words: motion, move, movement |
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(noun) a square dance figure; a pair of dancers join hands and dance around a point between them |
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Related Words: contra danse, contredanse, country dancing, country-dance |
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(noun) a style of jazz played by big bands popular in the 1930s; flowing rhythms but less complex than later styles of jazz |
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Synonyms: jive, swing music |
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Related Words: jazz |
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(verb) change drastically "his mood swings"; "the market is swinging up and down" |
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Related Words: change, fluctuate, vacillate, waver |
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(noun) a sweeping blow or stroke; "he took a wild swing at my head" |
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Related Words: blow |
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(verb) hit or aim at with a sweeping arm movement; "The soccer player began to swing at the referee" |
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Related Words: aim, direct, take, take aim, train |
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(verb) make a big sweeping gesture or movement |
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Synonyms: sweep, swing out |
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Related Words: handle, wield |
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(verb) move or walk in a swinging or swaying manner; "He swung back" |
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Synonyms: sway |
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Related Words: brachiate, lash, move back and forth, oscillate, vibrate, waver, weave |
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(verb) change direction with a swinging motion; turn; "swing back"; "swing forward" |
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Related Words: go, locomote, move, travel |
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(verb) move in a curve; "He swung his left fist" |
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Related Words: displace, move, wind up |
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(verb) be a social swinger; socialize a lot |
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Synonyms: get around |
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Related Words: socialize |
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(verb) influence decisively; "This action swung many votes over to his side" |
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Synonyms: swing over |
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Related Words: act upon, influence |
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(verb) live in a lively, modern, and relaxed style; "The Woodstock generation attempted to swing freely" |
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Related Words: live |
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(noun) supports someone swinging back and forth |
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Related Words: mechanical device, plaything, toy, trapeze |
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(noun) 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" |
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Related Words: action, activeness, activity |
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(noun) in baseball; a batter's attempt to hit a pitched ball; "he took a vicious cut at the ball" |
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Synonyms: baseball swing, cut |
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Related Words: shot, stroke |
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(verb) hang freely; "the ornaments dangled from the tree"; "The light dropped from the ceiling" |
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Synonyms: dangle, drop |
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Related Words: droop, hang, loll |
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(noun) a jaunty rhythm in music |
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Synonyms: lilt |
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Related Words: rhythmicity |
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(noun) the act of swinging a golf club at a golf ball and (usually) hitting it |
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Synonyms: golf shot, golf stroke |
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Related Words: approach, approach shot, downswing, draw, drive, driving, fade, hook, putt, putting, shot, slice, stroke |
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