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• swing — [ swiŋ ] n. m. • 1895; mot angl., de to swing « balancer » ♦ Anglic. I ♦ 1 ♦ Boxe Coup de poing donné en ramenant le bras de l extérieur à l intérieur. « Joe Mitchell, d un furieux swing du droit, fendit l arcade sourcilière de son adversaire »… …   Encyclopédie Universelle

• Swing — may refer to:ports* Swing bowling, a subtype of fast bowling in cricket * Golf swing * Baseball swing * Swing (boxing)Dance* Swing (dance) ** West Coast Swing ** East Coast Swing ** Lindy Hop ** Jive (dance)MusicKey concepts* Swung note, changes… …   Wikipedia

• swing — [swiŋ] vi. swung, swinging [ME swingen < OE swingan, akin to Ger schwingen, to brandish < IE base * sweng , to curve, swing] 1. to sway or move backward and forward with regular movement, as a freely hanging object or a ship at anchor;… …   English World dictionary

• Swing — Swing, n. 1. The act of swinging; a waving, oscillating, or vibratory motion of a hanging or pivoted object; oscillation; as, the swing of a pendulum. [1913 Webster] 2. Swaying motion from one side or direction to the other; as, some men walk… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• Swing — bezeichnet Swing (Musikrichtung), Musikrichtung, die in den 1930ern aus der Jazz Tanzmusik entstand Swing (Rhythmus), fließende Rhythmik, die eines der wesentlichsten Elemente des Jazz darstellt Swing (Tanz), Tanzstil, der in den 1930ern in den… …   Deutsch Wikipedia

• swing — ► VERB (past and past part. swung) 1) move back and forth or from side to side while or as if suspended. 2) move by grasping a support and leaping. 3) move in a smooth, curving line. 4) (swing at) attempt to hit or punch. 5) shift from one… …   English terms dictionary

• Swing — Swing, v. t. 1. To cause to swing or vibrate; to cause to move backward and forward, or from one side to the other. [1913 Webster] He swings his tail, and swiftly turns his round. Dryden. [1913 Webster] They get on ropes, as you must have seen… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• Swing — Swing, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Swung}; Archaic imp. {Swang}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Swinging}.] [OE. swingen, AS. swingan to scourge, to fly, to flutter; akin to G. schwingen to winnow, to swingle, oscillate, sich schwingen to leap, to soar, OHG. swingan… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• swing — vb 1 Swing, wave, flourish, brandish, shake, thrash are comparable when they mean to wield or to handle something so that it moves alternately backward and forward or upward and downward or around and around. Swing often implies regular… …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

• Swing-by — auch: Swing|by 〈[ baı] n. 15; Raumf.〉 = Fly by [<engl. swing by „kurz vorbeischauen“] * * * Swing by   [ baɪ, englisch], Raumfahrt: das Fly by. * * * Swịng by [... baɪ], das; s, s [engl. swing by, eigtl. = das Vorüberschwingen] (Raumf.): ↑ …   Universal-Lexikon