Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter S - Page 209
Swinesty (n.) A sty, or pen, for swine.
Swung (imp. & p. p.) of Swing.
Swang (Archaic imp.) of Swing.
Swinging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Swing.
Swing (v. i.) To move to and fro, as a body suspended in the air; to wave; to vibrate; to oscillate.
I tried if a pendulum would swing faster, or continue swinging longer, in case of exsuction of the air. -- Boyle.
Swing (v. i.) To sway or move from one side or direction to another; as, the door swung open.
Swing (v. i.) To use a swing; as, a boy swings for exercise or pleasure. See Swing, n., 3.
Swing (v. i.) (Naut.)
To turn round by action of wind or tide when at anchor; as, a ship swings with the tide.
Swing (v. i.) To be hanged. [Colloq.] -- D. Webster.
To swing round the circle, To make a complete circuit. [Colloq.]
He had swung round the circle of theories and systems in which his age abounded, without finding relief. -- A. V. G. Allen.
Swing (v. t.) To cause to swing or vibrate; to cause to move backward and forward, or from one side to the other.
He swings his tail, and swiftly turns his round. -- Dryden.
They get on ropes, as you must have seen the children, and are swung by their men visitants. -- Spectator.
Swing (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.
Swing (v. t.) (Mach.) 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.
To swing a door, gate, etc. (Carp.), To put it on hinges so that it can swing or turn.
Swing (n.) The act of swinging; a waving, oscillating, or vibratory motion of a hanging or pivoted object; oscillation; as, the swing of a pendulum.
Swing (n.) Swaying motion from one side or direction to the other; as, some men walk with a swing.
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.
Swing (n.) Influence of power of a body put in swaying motion.
The ram that batters down the wall, For the great swing and rudeness of his poise, They place before his hand that made the engine. -- Shak.
Swing (n.) Capacity of a turning lathe, as determined by the diameter of the largest object that can be turned in it.
Swing (n.) Free course; unrestrained liberty or license; tendency. "Take thy swing." -- Dryden.
To prevent anything which may prove an obstacle to the full swing of his genius. -- Burke.
Full swing. See under Full.
Swing beam (Railway Mach.), A crosspiece sustaining the car body, and so suspended from the framing of a truck that it may have an independent lateral motion.
Swing bridge, A form of drawbridge which swings horizontally, as on a vertical pivot.
Swing plow, or Swing plough. (a) A plow without a fore wheel under the beam.
Swing plow, or Swing plough. (b) A reversible or sidehill plow.
Swing wheel. (a) The scape-wheel in a clock, which drives the pendulum.
Swing wheel. (b) The balance of a watch.
Swing (n.) 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."
Swing (n.) Mechanical device used as a plaything to support someone swinging back and forth.
Swing (n.) A sweeping blow or stroke; "he took a wild swing at my head."
Swing (n.) Changing location by moving back and forth [syn: swing, swinging, vacillation].
Swing (n.) A style of jazz played by big bands popular in the 1930s; flowing rhythms but less complex than later styles of jazz [syn: swing, swing music, jive].
Swing (n.) A jaunty rhythm in music [syn: lilt, swing]
Swing (n.) The act of swinging a golf club at a golf ball and (usually) hitting it [syn: golf stroke, golf shot, swing].
Swing (n.) In baseball; a batter's attempt to hit a pitched ball; "he took a vicious cut at the ball" [syn: baseball swing, swing, cut].
Swing (n.) A square dance figure; a pair of dancers join hands and dance around a point between them.
Swing (v.) Move in a curve or arc, usually with the intent of hitting; "He swung his left fist"; "swing a bat."
Swing (v.) Move or walk in a swinging or swaying manner; "He swung back" [syn: swing, sway].
Swing (v.) Change direction with a swinging motion; turn; "swing back"; "swing forward."
Swing (v.) Influence decisively; "This action swung many votes over to his side" [syn: swing, swing over].
Swing (v.) Make a big sweeping gesture or movement [syn: swing, sweep, swing out].
Swing (v.) Hang freely; "the ornaments dangled from the tree"; "The light dropped from the ceiling" [syn: dangle, swing, drop].
Swing (v.) Hit or aim at with a sweeping arm movement; "The soccer player began to swing at the referee."
Swing (v.) Alternate dramatically between high and low values; "his mood swings"; "the market is swinging up and down."
Swing (v.) Live in a lively, modern, and relaxed style; "The Woodstock generation attempted to swing freely."
Swing (v.) Have a certain musical rhythm; "The music has to swing."
Swing (v.) Be a social swinger; socialize a lot [syn: swing, get around].
Swing (v.) Play with a subtle and intuitively felt sense of rhythm.
Swing (v.) Engage freely in promiscuous sex, often with the husband or wife of one's friends; "There were many swinging couples in the 1960's."
Swing, () Java's graphical user interface (GUI)
package that provides a large collection of widgets (buttons, labels, lists etc.) that behave similarly on different platforms. Swing features "pluggable look & feel", allowing the program to look like a Windows, Motif or Macintosh) application. It is implemented using the Model-View-Controller (MVC) architecture and makes extensive use of nested "containers" to control the handling of events
such as keystrokes. (2007-05-30)
Swingdevil (n.) The European swift.
Swinge (v. & n.) See Singe.
Swinged (imp. & p. p.) of Swinge.
Swingeing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Swinge.
Swinge (v. t.) To beat soundly; to whip; to chastise; to punish.
Swinge (v. t.) To move as a lash; to lash.
Swinge (n.) The sweep of anything in motion; a swinging blow; a swing.
Swinge (n.) Power; sway; influence.
Swingebuckler (n.) A swashbuckler; a bully; a roisterer.
Swingeing (a.) Huge; very large.
Swingel (n.) The swinging part of a flail which falls on the grain in thrashing; the swiple.
Swinger (n.) One who swings or whirls.
Swinger (n.) One who swinges.
Swinger (n.) Anything very large, forcible, or astonishing.
Swinger (n.) A person who engages frequently in lively and fashionable pursuits, such as attending night clubs or discos.
Swinger (n.) A person who engages freely in sexual intercourse.
Swingle (v. i.) To dangle; to wave hanging.
Swingle (v. i.) To swing for pleasure.
Swingled (imp. & p. p.) of Swingle.
Swingling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Swingle.
Swingle (v. t.) To clean, as flax, by beating it with a swingle, so as to separate the coarse parts and the woody substance from it; to scutch.
Swingle (v. t.) To beat off the tops of without pulling up the roots; -- said of weeds.
Swingle (n.) A wooden instrument like a large knife, about two feet long, with one thin edge, used for beating and cleaning flax; a scutcher; -- called also swingling knife, swingling staff, and swingling wand.
Swinglebar (n.) A swingletree.
Swingletail (n.) The thrasher, or fox shark. See Thrasher.
Swingletree (v. i.) A whiffletree, or whippletree. See Singletree.
Swingling () a. & n. from Swingle, v. t.
Swingtree (n.) The bar of a carriage to which the traces are fastened; the whiffletree.
Swinish (a.) Of or pertaining to swine; befitting swine; like swine; hoggish; gross; beasty; as, a swinish drunkard or sot.
Swank (imp.) of Swink.
Swonk (imp.) of Swink.
Swonken (p. p.) of Swink.
Swinking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Swink.
Swink (v. i.) To labor; to toil; to salve. [Obs. or Archaic]
Or swink with his hands and labor. -- Chaucer.
For which men swink and sweat incessantly. -- Spenser.
The swinking crowd at every stroke pant "Ho." -- Sir Samuel Freguson.
Swink (v. t.) To cause to toil or drudge; to tire or exhaust with labor. [Obs.]
And the swinked hedger at his supper sat. -- Milton.
Swink (v. t.) To acquire by labor. [Obs.] -- Piers Plowman.
To devour all that others swink. -- Chaucer.
Swink (n.) Labor; toil; drudgery. [Obs.] -- Chaucer. Spenser.
Swinker (n.) A laborer.
Swinney (n.) See Sweeny.
Swipe (n.) A swape or sweep. See Sweep.
Swipe (n.) A strong blow given with a sweeping motion, as with a bat or club.
Swipe (n.) Poor, weak beer; small beer.
Swiped (imp. & p. p.) of Swipe.
Swiping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Swipe.
Swipe (v. t.) To give a swipe to; to strike forcibly with a sweeping motion, as a ball.
Swipe (v. t.) To pluck; to snatch; to steal.
Swipe card (n.) 磁卡 A plastic card such as a credit card or ID card bearing magnetically encoded information which is read when the edge of the card is slid through an electronic device.
Compare: Magnetically
Magnetically (adv.) 帶磁性地；有吸引力地 See magnetic.
Magnetically (adv.) Involving magnets or magnetism.
// All the speakers are magnetically shielded.
// The keypad attaches magnetically to the safe's door.
Magnetically (adv.) In a way that is very powerful and attractive.
// She felt magnetically drawn to him.
Compare: Magnetic
Magnetic (a.) 磁鐵的；磁性的；有磁性的；地磁的；有吸引力的，有魅力的 Exhibiting or relating to magnetism.
‘The clock has a magnetic back to stick to the fridge.’
Magnetic (a.) Capable of being attracted by or acquiring the properties of a magnet.
‘Steel is magnetic.’
Magnetic (a.) (Of a bearing in navigation) Measured relative to magnetic north.
Magnetic (a.) Very attractive or alluring.
‘His magnetic personality.’
Swiple (n.) That part of a flail which strikes the grain in thrashing; a swingel.
Swipper (a.) Nimble; quick.
Swirled (imp. & p. p.) of Swirl.
Swirling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Swirl.
Swirl (n.) To whirl, or cause to whirl, as in an eddy.
Swirl (n.) A whirling motion; an eddy, as of water; a whirl.
Swish (v. t.) To flourish, so as to make the sound swish.
Swish (v. t.) To flog; to lash.
Swish (v. i.) To dash; to swash.
Swish (n.) A sound of quick movement, as of something whirled through the air.
Swish (n.) Light driven spray.
Swiss (n. sing. & pl.) A native or inhabitant of Switzerland; a Switzer; the people of Switzerland.
Swiss (a.) Of or pertaining to Switzerland, or the people of Switzerland.
Switch (n.) A small, flexible twig or rod.
Switch (n.) A movable part of a rail; or of opposite rails, for transferring cars from one track to another.
Switch (n.) A separate mass or trees of hair, or of some substance (at jute) made to resemble hair, worn on the head by women.
Switch (n.) A mechanical device for shifting an electric current to another circuit.
Switched (imp. & p. p.) of Switch.
Switching (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Switch.
Switch (v. t.) To strike with a switch or small flexible rod; to whip.
Switch (v. t.) To swing or whisk; as, to switch a cane.
Switch (v. t.) To trim, as, a hedge.
Switch (v. t.) To turn from one railway track to another; to transfer by a switch; -- generally with off, from, etc.; as, to switch off a train; to switch a car from one track to another.
Switch (v. t.) To shift to another circuit.
Switch (v. i.) To walk with a jerk.
Switchel (n.) A beverage of molasses and water, seasoned with vinegar and ginger.
Switching () a. & n. from Switch, v.
Switchmen (n. pl. ) of Switchman.
Switchman (n.) One who tends a switch on a railway.
Switchy (a.) Whisking.
Swithe (adv.) Instantly; quickly; speedily; rapidly.
Switzer (n.) A native or inhabitant of Switzerland; a Swiss.
Switzerland (n.) 瑞士, 瑞士聯邦 [註 3]（德語：Schweizerische Eidgenossenschaft；法語：Confédération suisse；義大利語：Confederazione Svizzera；羅曼什語：Confederaziun svizra；正式稱呼採用拉丁語：Confœderatio Helvetica，因此瑞士的ISO 3166雙拉丁字母國家代號是「CH」）通稱瑞士（德語：Schweiz [註 4]；法語：Suisse；義大利語：Svizzera；羅曼什語：Svizra），為中歐或者西歐國家之一 [註 5]，劃分為26個州 [註 6]。瑞士為聯邦制國家，伯爾尼是聯邦政府所在地。瑞士北靠德國，西鄰法國，南接義大利，東臨奧地利和列支敦斯登。
瑞士屬內陸山地國家，地理上分為阿爾卑斯山、瑞士高原及侏羅山脈三部分，面積41,285平方公里，阿爾卑斯山佔國土大部分面積，而800萬人口中，大多分布於瑞士高原，瑞士高原也是瑞士主要城市如經濟中心蘇黎世及日內瓦的所在地。瑞士因自然風光及氣候條件而有「世界公園」的美譽 [註 7] [15]:162 [10]:1 [16]: 307。
瑞士一開始有僱傭兵制度，後來才改採武裝中立，自1815年維也納會議後從未捲入過國際戰爭，瑞士自2002年起才成為聯合國正式會員國[註 8]，但瑞士實行積極外交政策且頻繁參與世界各地的重建和平活動 [18]；瑞士為紅十字國際委員會的發源地且為許多國際性組織總部所在地，如聯合國日內瓦辦事處。在歐洲區域組織方面，瑞士為歐洲自由貿易聯盟的創始國及申根區成員國，但並非歐盟及歐洲經濟區成員國。
依照人均國民生產總值，瑞士是世界最富裕的國家之一，同時瑞士人均財富也居（除摩納哥之外的）世界首位 [註 9] [19] [20]。依國際匯率計算，瑞士為世界第19大經濟體；以購買力平價計算則為世界第39大經濟體；出口額及進口額分別居世界第20位及第18位。瑞士由3個主要語言及文化區所組成，分別為德語區、法語區及義大利語區，而後加入了羅曼什語區。雖然瑞士人中德語人口居多數，但瑞士並未形成單一民族及語言的國家，而且其國民中外國出生的比例相當高。對國家強烈的歸屬感則來自於共同的歷史背景及價值觀，如聯邦主義及直接民主制等 [21]。傳統上以瑞士永久同盟於1291年8月初締結為建國之初始，而8月1日是瑞士國慶日。
Switzerland, officially the Swiss Confederation, is a sovereign state in Europe. It consists of 26 cantons, and the city of Bern is the seat of the federal authorities. [1] [2] [note 1] The federal republic is situated in western, central and southern Europe, [9] [note 4] and is bordered by Italy to the south, France to the west, Germany to the north, and Austria and Liechtenstein to the east. Switzerland is a landlocked country geographically divided between the Alps, the Swiss Plateau and the Jura, spanning a total area of 41,285 km2 (15,940 sq mi) (land area 39,997 km2 (15,443 sq mi)). While the Alps occupy the greater part of the territory, the Swiss population of approximately eight million people is concentrated mostly on the plateau, where the largest cities are to be found: among them are the two global cities and economic centres Zürich and Geneva.
The establishment of the Old Swiss Confederacy dates to the late medieval period, resulting from a series of military successes against Austria and Burgundy. Swiss independence from the Holy Roman Empire was formally recognized in the Peace of Westphalia in 1648. The country has a history of armed neutrality going back to the Reformation; it has not been in a state of war internationally since 1815 and did not join the United Nations until 2002. Nevertheless, it pursues an active foreign policy and is frequently involved in peace-building processes around the world. [10] In addition to being the birthplace of the Red Cross, Switzerland is home to numerous international organisations, including the second largest UN office. On the European level, it is a founding member of the European Free Trade Association, but notably not part of the European Union, the European Economic Area or the Eurozone. However, it participates in the Schengen Area and the European Single Market through bilateral treaties.
Spanning the intersection of Germanic and Romance Europe, Switzerland comprises four main linguistic and cultural regions: German, French, Italian and Romansh. Although the majority of the population are German speaking, Swiss national identity is rooted in a common historical background, shared values such as federalism and direct democracy, [11] and Alpine symbolism. [12] [13] Due to its linguistic diversity, Switzerland is known by a variety of native names: Schweiz [ˈʃvaɪts] (German); [note 5] Suisse [sɥis(ə)] (French); Svizzera [ˈzvittsera] (Italian); and Svizra [ˈʒviːtsrɐ] or [ˈʒviːtsʁːɐ] (Romansh).[note 6] On coins and stamps, the Latin name -- frequently shortened to "Helvetia" -- is used instead of the four national languages.
Switzerland is one of the most developed countries in the world, with the highest nominal wealth per adult and the eighth-highest per capita gross domestic product according to the IMF. [14] [15] Switzerland ranks at or near the top globally in several metrics of national performance, including government transparency, civil liberties, quality of life, economic competitiveness, and human development. Zürich and Geneva have each been ranked among the top cities in the world in terms of quality of life, with the former ranked second globally, according to Mercer. [16]
Swive (v. t.) To copulate with (a woman). [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Swivel (n.) (Mech.) A piece, as a ring or hook, attached to another piece by a pin, in such a manner as to permit rotation about the pin as an axis.
Swivel (n.) (Mil.) A small piece of ordnance, turning on a point or swivel; -- called also swivel gun. -- Wilhelm.
Swivel bridge, A kind of drawbridge that turns round on a vertical axis; a swing bridge.
Swivel hook, A hook connected with the iron strap of a pulley block by a swivel joint, for readily taking the turns out of a tackle.
Swivel joint, A joint, the two pieces composing which turn round, with respect to each other, on a longitudinal pin or axis, as in a chain, to prevent twisting.
Swivel (v. i.) To swing or turn, as on a pin or pivot.
Swivel (n.) A coupling (as in a chain) that has one end that turns on a headed pin.
Swivel (v.) Turn on a pivot [syn: pivot, swivel].