Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter S - Page 205
Swans-down (n.) A fine, soft, thick cloth of wool mixed with silk or cotton; a sort of twilled fustian, like moleskin.
Swan's-down cotton. See Cotton flannel, under Cotton.
Swanskin (n.) The act of a swan with the down or the feathers on.
Swanskin (n.) A species of soft flannel, thick and warm.
Swan-upping (n.) A yearly expedition on the Thames to take up young swans and mark them, as by Companies of Dyers and Vintners; -- called also swan-hopping. [Eng.] -- Encyc. Brit.
Swapped (imp. & p. p.) of Swap.
Swapping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Swap.
Swap (v. t.) To strike; -- with off. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] "Swap off his head!" -- Chaucer.
Swap (v. t.) To exchange (usually two things of the same kind); to swop. [Colloq.] -- Miss Edgeworth.
Swap (v. i.) To fall or descend; to rush hastily or violently. -- C. Richardson (Dict.).
All suddenly she swapt adown to ground. -- Chaucer.
Swap (v. i.) To beat the air, or ply the wings, with a sweeping motion or noise; to flap.
Swap (n.) A blow; a stroke. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]
Swap (n.) An exchange; a barter. [Colloq.] -- Sir W. Scott.
Swap (n.) Hastily. [Prov. Eng.]
Swap (n.) An equal exchange; "we had no money so we had to live by barter" [syn: barter, swap, swop, trade].
Swap (v.) Exchange or give (something) in exchange for [syn: trade, swap, swop, switch].
Swap (v.) Move (a piece of a program) into memory, in computer science.
SWAP, () Shared Wireless Application Protocol (HomeRF Association, WAP, WLAN).
SWAP, () Simple Workflow Access Protocol .
Swap ( v. t.) [Techspeak] To move information from a fast-access memory to a slow-access memory (swap out), or vice versa (swap in). Often refers specifically to the use of disks as virtual memory. As pieces of data or program are needed, they are swapped into core for processing; when they are no longer needed they may be swapped out again.
Swap ( v. t.) The jargon use of these terms analogizes people's short-term memories with core. Cramming for an exam might be spoken of as swapping in. If you temporarily forget someone's name, but then remember it, your excuse is that it was swapped out. To keep something swapped in means to keep it fresh in your memory: ?I reread the TECO manual every few months to keep it swapped in.? If someone interrupts you just as you got a good idea, you might say ?Wait a moment while I swap this out?, implying that a piece of paper is your extra-somatic memory and that if you don't swap the idea out by writing it down it will get overwritten and lost as you talk. Compare {page in, page out.
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To move a program from fast-access memory to a slow-access memory ("swap out"), or vice versa ("swap in"). The term often refers specifically to the use of a hard disk (or a swap file) as virtual memory or "swap space."
When a program is to be executed, possibly as determined by a scheduler, it is swapped into core for processing; when it can no longer continue executing for some reason, or the scheduler decides its time slice has expired, it is swapped out again.
This contrasts with "paging" systems in which only parts of a program's memory is transfered.
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Swape (n.) See Sweep, n., 12.
Sweep (n.) The act of sweeping.
Sweep (n.) The compass or range of a stroke; as, a long sweep.
Sweep (n.) The compass of any turning body or of any motion; as, the sweep of a door; the sweep of the eye.
Sweep (n.) The compass of anything flowing or brushing; as, the flood carried away everything within its sweep.
Sweep (n.) Violent and general destruction; as, the sweep of an epidemic disease.
Sweep (n.) Direction and extent of any motion not rectlinear; as, the sweep of a compass.
Sweep (n.) Direction or departure of a curve, a road, an arch, or the like, away from a rectlinear line.
The road which makes a small sweep. -- Sir W. Scott.
Sweep (n.) One who sweeps; a sweeper; specifically, a chimney sweeper.
Sweep (n.) (Founding) A movable templet for making molds, in loam molding.
Sweep (n.) (Naut.) (a) The mold of a ship when she begins to curve in at the rungheads; any part of a ship shaped in a segment of a circle.
Sweep (n.) (Naut.) (b) A large oar used in small vessels, partly to propel them and partly to steer them.
Sweep (n.) (Refining) The almond furnace. [Obs.]
Sweep (n.) A long pole, or piece of timber, moved on a horizontal fulcrum fixed to a tall post and used to raise and lower a bucket in a well for drawing water. [Variously written swape, sweep, swepe, and swipe.]
Sweep (n.) (Card Playing) In the game of casino, a pairing or combining of all the cards on the board, and so removing them all; in whist, the winning of all the tricks (thirteen) in a hand; a slam.
Sweep (n.) pl. The sweeping of workshops where precious metals are worked, containing filings, etc.
Sweep net, A net for drawing over a large compass.
Sweep of the tiller (Naut.), A circular frame on which the tiller traverses.
Sward (n.) Skin; covering. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] -- Halliwell.
Sward (n.) The grassy surface of land; that part of the soil which is filled with the roots of grass; turf.
The sward was trim as any garden lawn. --Tennyson.
Sward pork, Bacon in large fitches. [Prov. Eng.]
Swarded (imp. & p. p.) of Sward.
Swarding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sward.
Sward (v. t. & i.) To produce sward upon; to cover, or be covered, with sward. -- Mortimer.
Sward (n.) Surface layer of ground containing a mat of grass and grass roots [syn: turf, sod, sward, greensward].
Sward-cutter (n.) A plow for turning up grass land.
Sward-cutter (n.) A lawn mower.
Swarded (a.) Covered with sward. -- Mrs. Browning.
Swardy (a.) Covered with sward or grass.
Sware () imp. of Swear. [Obs. or Poetic]
Cophetua sware a royal oath. -- Tennyson.
Swear (v. i.) [imp. Swore, formerly Sware; p. p. Sworn; p. pr. & vb. n. Swearing.] To affirm or utter a solemn declaration, with an appeal to God for the truth of what is affirmed; to make a promise, threat, or resolve on oath; also, to affirm solemnly by some sacred object, or one regarded as sacred, as the Bible, the Koran, etc.
Ye shall swear by my name falsely. -- Lev. xix. 12.
I swear by all the Roman gods. -- Shak.
Swear (v. i.) (Law) To give evidence on oath; as, to swear to the truth of a statement; he swore against the prisoner.
Swear (v. i.) To make an appeal to God in an irreverant manner; to use the name of God or sacred things profanely; to call upon God in imprecation; to curse.
[I] swore little; diced not above seven times a week. -- Shak.
To swear by, To place great confidence in a person or thing; to trust implicitly as an authority. "I simply meant to ask if you are one of those who swear by Lord Verulam." -- Miss Edgeworth.
To swear off, To make a solemn vow, or a serious resolution, to abstain from something; as, to swear off smoking. [Slang]
Swarf (v. i.) To grow languid; to faint. [Scot.] "To swarf for very hunger." -- Sir W. Scott.
Swarf (n.) The grit worn away from grindstones in grinding cutlery wet. [Prov. Eng.]
Swarm (v. i.) （蜜蜂）分群 [（+off）]；成群地移動（或飛行） To climb a tree, pole, or the like, by embracing it with the arms and legs alternately. See Shin. [Colloq.]
At the top was placed a piece of money, as a prize for those who could swarm up and seize it. -- W. Coxe.
Swarm (n.) （昆蟲等的）群；蜂群；（密集的）一大群，一大批 A large number or mass of small animals or insects, especially when in motion. "A deadly swarm of hornets." -- Milton.
Swarm (n.) Especially, a great number of honeybees which emigrate from a hive at once, and seek new lodgings under the direction of a queen; a like body of bees settled permanently in a hive. "A swarm of bees." -- Chaucer.
Swarm (n.) Hence, any great number or multitude, as of people in motion, or sometimes of inanimate objects; as, a swarm of meteorites.
Those prodigious swarms that had settled themselves in every part of it [Italy]. -- Addison.
Syn: Multitude; crowd; throng.
Swarmed (imp. & p. p.) of Swarm.
Swarming (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Swarm.
Swarm (v. i.) To collect, and depart from a hive by flight in a body; -- said of bees; as, bees swarm in warm, clear days in summer.
Swarm (v. i.) To appear or collect in a crowd; to throng together; to congregate in a multitude. -- Chaucer.
Swarm (v. i.) To be crowded; to be thronged with a multitude of beings in motion.
Every place swarms with soldiers. -- Spenser.
Swarm (v. i.) To abound; to be filled (with). -- Atterbury.
Swarm (v. i.) To breed multitudes.
Not so thick swarmed once the soil Bedropped with blood of Gorgon. -- Milton.
Swarm (v. t.) 擠滿 To crowd or throng. -- Fanshawe.
Swarm (n.) A moving crowd [syn: drove, horde, swarm].
Swarm (n.) A group of many things in the air or on the ground; "a swarm of insects obscured the light"; "clouds of blossoms"; "it discharged a cloud of spores" [syn: swarm, cloud].
Swarm (v.) Be teeming, be abuzz; "The garden was swarming with bees"; "The plaza is teeming with undercover policemen"; "her mind pullulated with worries" [syn: teem, pullulate, swarm].
Swarm (v.) Move in large numbers; "people were pouring out of the theater"; "beggars pullulated in the plaza" [syn: pour, swarm, stream, teem, pullulate].
Swarmspore (n.) (Bot.) 遊走芽胞 One of innumerable minute, motile, reproductive bodies, produced asexually by certain algae and fungi; a zoospore.
Swarmspore (n.) (Zool.) One of the minute flagellate germs produced by the sporulation of a protozoan; -- called also zoospore.
Compare: Zoospore
Zoospore (n.) [Zoo- + spore.] (Bot.) 【植】遊走芽胞；【動】遊動孢子，遊動精子 A spore provided with one or more slender cilia, by the vibration of which it swims in the water. Zoospores are produced by many green, and by some olive-brown, algae. In certain species they are divided into the larger macrozoospores and the smaller microzoospores. Called also sporozoid, and swarmspore.
Zoospore (n.) (Zool.) See Swarmspore.
Swart (n.) Sward. [Obs.] -- Holinshed.
Swart (a.) Of a dark hue; moderately black; swarthy; tawny. "Swart attendants." -- Trench. "Swart savage maids." -- Hawthorne.
A nation strange, with visage swart. -- Spenser.
Swart (a.) Gloomy; malignant. [Obs.] -- Milton.
Swart star, The Dog Star; -- so called from its appearing during the hot weather of summer, which makes swart the countenance. [R.] -- Milton.
Swart (v. t.) To make swart or tawny; as, to swart a living part. -- Sir T. Browne.
Swart (a.) Naturally having skin of a dark color; "a dark-skinned beauty"; "gold earrings gleamed against her dusky cheeks"; "a smile on his swarthy face"; "`swart' is archaic" [syn: dark-skinned, dusky, swart, swarthy].
Swartback (n.) (Zool.) The black-backed gull ({Larus marinus); -- called also swarbie. [Prov. Eng.]
Swarth (a.) Swart; swarthy. "A swarth complexion." -- Chapman.
Swarth (n.) An apparition of a person about to die; a wraith. [Prov. Eng.] -- Grose.
Swarth (n.) Sward; short grass. Grassy swarth, close cropped by nibbling sheep. -- Cowper.
Swarth (n.) See Swath.
Swarthily (adv.) In a swarthy manner; with a tawny hue; duskily.
Swarthiness (n.) The quality or state of being swarthy; a dusky or dark complexion; tawniness.
Swarthiness (n.) A swarthy complexion [syn: darkness, duskiness, swarthiness].
Swarthness (n.) Swarthiness. [R.] -- Dr. R. Clerke.
Swarthy (a.) Being of a dark hue or dusky complexion; tawny; swart; as, swarthy faces. "A swarthy Ethiope." -- Shak.
Their swarthy hosts would darken all our plains. -- Addison.
Swarthy (v. t.) To make swarthy. [Obs.] -- Cowley.
Swarthy (a.) Naturally having skin of a dark color; "a dark-skinned beauty"; "gold earrings gleamed against her dusky cheeks"; "a smile on his swarthy face"; "`swart' is archaic" [syn: dark-skinned, dusky, swart, swarthy].
Swartiness (n.) Swarthiness. [Obs.]
Swartish (a.) Somewhat swart, dark, or tawny.
Swartness (n.) The quality or state of being swart.
Swarty (a.) Swarthy; tawny. [Obs.] -- Burton.
Swarve (v. i.) To swerve. [Obs. or Scot.] -- Spenser. Jamieson.
Swarve (v. i.) To climb. [Prov. Eng.] -- Halliwell.
Swash (n.) An oval figure, whose moldings are oblique to the axis of the work. -- Moxon.
Swash plate (Mach.), A revolving circular plate, set obliquely on its shaft, and acting as a cam to give a reciprocating motion to a rod in a direction parallel to the shaft.
Swash (a.) Soft, like fruit too ripe; swashy. [Prov. Eng.] -- Pegge.
Swashed (imp. & p. p.) of Swash.
Swashing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Swash.
Swash (v. i.) To dash or flow noisily, as water; to splash; as, water swashing on a shallow place.
Swash (v. i.) To fall violently or noisily. [Obs.] -- Holinshed.
Swash (v. i.) To bluster; to make a great noise; to vapor or brag.
Swash (n.) Impulse of water flowing with violence; a dashing or splashing of water.
Swash (n.) A narrow sound or channel of water lying within a sand bank, or between a sand bank and the shore, or a bar over which the sea washes.
Swash (n.) Liquid filth; wash; hog mash. [Obs.]
Swash (n.) A blustering noise; a swaggering behavior. [Obs.]
Swash (n.) A swaggering fellow; a swasher.
Swash (n.) The movement or sound of water; "the swash of waves on the beach."
Swash (v.) Make violent, noisy movements.
Swash (v.) Dash a liquid upon or against; "The mother splashed the baby's face with water" [syn: spatter, splatter, plash, splash, splosh, swash].
Swash (v.) Show off [syn: boast, tout, swash, shoot a line, brag, gas, blow, bluster, vaunt, gasconade].
Swash (v.) Act in an arrogant, overly self-assured, or conceited manner [syn: swagger, bluster, swash].
Swashbuckler (n.) A bully or braggadocio; a swaggering, boastful fellow; a swaggerer. -- Milton.
Swashbuckler (n.) A reckless impetuous irresponsible person [syn: daredevil, madcap, hothead, swashbuckler, lunatic, harum-scarum].
Swasher (n.) One who makes a blustering show of valor or force of arms. -- Shak.
Swashing (a.) Swaggering; hectoring. "A swashing and martial outside." -- Shak.
Swashing (a.) Resounding; crushing. "Swashing blow." -- Shak.
Swashway (n.) Same as 4th Swash, 2.
Swashy (a.) Soft, like fruit that is too ripe; quashy; swash. [Prov. Eng.] Swastika
SWAT team (n.) [acronym: Special Weapons and Training.] 特種武器和戰術部隊（英語：Special Weapons And Tactics，縮寫：S.W.A.T）為美國首創的特種警察部隊，專門執行危險任務，包括執行高度危險性拘捕令、營救人質、阻止恐怖份子攻擊以及從事重型武裝危機等等。世界多國都有仿傚美國，將其國家或者地區特種警察單位命名為特種武器和戰術部隊。
值得一提的是，SWAT並不是所有美國特種警察單位的名稱，有些警察局或執法機關會以「SRT」（Special Response Team；特別反應部隊）或「ESU」（Emergency Service Unit；緊急勤務單位）等多種名稱來稱呼它們的特種警察單位。In the United States, a SWAT (Special Weapons And Tactics) team is a law enforcement unit which uses specialized or military equipment and tactics. First created in the 1960s to handle riot control or violent confrontations with criminals, the number and usage of SWAT teams increased in the 1980s and 1990s during the War on Drugs and later in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks. In the United States as of 2005, SWAT teams were deployed 50,000 times every year, almost 80% of the time to serve search warrants, most often for narcotics. SWAT teams are increasingly equipped with military-type hardware and trained to deploy against threats of terrorism, for crowd control, and in situations beyond the capabilities of ordinary law enforcement, sometimes deemed "high-risk." Other countries have developed their own paramilitary police units (PPUs) that are also described as or compared to SWAT forces.
SWAT units are often equipped with specialized firearms including submachine guns, assault rifles, breaching shotguns, sniper rifles, riot control agents, and stun grenades. In addition, they may use specialized equipment including heavy body armor, ballistic shields, entry tools, armored vehicles, night vision devices, and motion detectors for covertly determining the positions of hostages or hostage takers, inside enclosed structures.
SWAT team (n.) [acronym: Special Weapons and Training.] A special group of police trained to deal with unusually dangerous or violent situations, and having special weapons, such as rifles more powerful than those carried by regular police officers. They are employed, for example, in situations when hostages are being held, or heavily armed persons need to be captured. Called also {SWAT} or {S.W.A.T.}.
Swat () [Obs.] imp. of {Sweat}. -- Chaucer.
Swat (v. t.) 猛擊；拍打 To hit, especially with an instrument in the hand; to smack.
Swat (v. t.) (Baseball) To hit (a baseball) powerfully, and for a long distance.
Swat (n.) A former state in Northwest India, now a part of Pakistan. It was ruled by a prince called a Wali. SWAT team
Sweat (v. i.) [imp. & p. p. {Sweat} or {Sweated} (Obs. {Swat}); p. pr. & vb. n. {Sweating}.] (v. i.) 出汗；（物體表面）結水珠，附上水汽 Sweat (v. t.) 使出汗；出汗弄濕；（使）滲出，（使）流出；榨出 To excrete sensible moisture from the pores of the skin; to perspire. -- Shak.
Sweat (v. i.) Fig.: To perspire in toil; to work hard; to drudge. -- He 'd have the poets sweat. -- Waller.
Sweat (v. i.) To emit moisture, as green plants in a heap.
Swat (n.) 用勁打擊；全壘打 A sharp blow.
Swat (v.) Hit swiftly with a violent blow; "Swat flies."
Swatch (n.) A swath. [Obs.] -- Tusser.
Swatch (n.) A piece, pattern, or sample, generally of cloth. -- Halliwell. -- Jamieson.
Swatch (n.) A sample piece of cloth
Swate () Obs. imp. of Sweat. -- Thomson.
Swath (n.) A line of grass or grain cut and thrown together by the scythe in mowing or cradling.
Swath (n.) The whole sweep of a scythe, or the whole breadth from which grass or grain is cut by a scythe or a machine, in mowing or cradling; as, to cut a wide swath.
Swath (n.) A band or fillet; a swathe. -- Shak.
Swath bank, A row of new-mown grass. [Prov. Eng.]
Swath (n.) The space created by the swing of a scythe or the cut of a mowing machine.
Swath (n.) A path or strip (as cut by one course of mowing) [syn: swath, belt].
Swathed (imp. & p. p.) of Swathe.
Swathing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Swathe.
Swathe (v. t.) To bind with a swathe, band, bandage, or rollers.
Their children are never swathed or bound about with any thing when they are first born. -- Abp. Abbot.
Swathe (n.) A bandage; a band; a swath.
Wrapped me in above an hundred yards of swathe. -- Addison.
Milk and a swathe, at first, his whole demand. -- Young.
The solemn glory of the afternoon, with its long swathes of light between the far off rows of limes. -- G. Eliot.
Swathe (n.) An enveloping bandage [syn: swathe, wrapping].
Swathe (v.) Wrap in swaddling clothes; "swaddled the infant" [syn: swaddle, swathe].
Swather (n.) (Agric.) A device attached to a mowing machine for raising the uncut fallen grain and marking the limit of the swath.
Swatte () Obs. imp. of Sweat. -- Chaucer.
Swayed (imp. & p. p.) of Sway.
Swaying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sway.
Sway (v. t.) 搖動，使搖擺；弄歪，使傾斜 To move or wield with the hand; to swing; to wield; as, to sway the scepter.
As sparkles from the anvil rise, When heavy hammers on the wedge are swayed. -- Spenser.
Sway (v. t.) To influence or direct by power and authority; by persuasion, or by moral force; to rule; to govern; to guide.
The will of man is by his reason swayed. -- Shak.
She could not sway her house. -- Shak.
This was the race To sway the world, and land and sea subdue. -- Dryden.
Sway (v. t.) To cause to incline or swing to one side, or backward and forward; to bias; to turn; to bend; warp; as, reeds swayed by wind; judgment swayed by passion.
As bowls run true by being made On purpose false, and to be swayed. -- Hudibras.
Let not temporal and little advantages sway you against a more durable interest. -- Tillotson.
Sway (v. t.) (Naut.) To hoist; as, to sway up the yards.
Syn: To bias; rule; govern; direct; influence; swing; move; wave; wield.
Sway (v. i.) 搖動，搖擺；歪，傾斜 To be drawn to one side by weight or influence; to lean; to incline.
The balance sways on our part. -- Bacon.
Sway (v. i.) To move or swing from side to side; or backward and forward.
Sway (v. i.) To have weight or influence.
The example of sundry churches . . . doth sway much. -- Hooker.