Usually means: Quickly moving or capable of speed.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. Swift, swift: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. swift, swift: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. swift: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. swift: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Swift, swift: Vocabulary.com
  6. Swift, swift: Wordnik
  7. swift: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. SWIFT, Swift, swift: Wiktionary
  9. swift: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. swift: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. swift: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. swift: Dictionary.com
  13. swift (adj.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. swift: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. SWIFT, Swift (Apple programming language), Swift (Deimian crater), Swift (UK comics), Swift (comic), Swift (comics), Swift (disambiguation), Swift (distributed storage), Swift (lunar crater), Swift (microarchitecture), Swift (parallel scripting language), Swift (programming language), Swift (surname), Swift (textiles), Swift, The Swift: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Swift: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. swift: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. swift: Rhymezone
  19. swift: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. swift: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. SWIFT: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  22. swift: Free Dictionary
  23. swift: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. Swift: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. swift: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

Business (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. swift: Webster's New World Finance & Investment Dictionary
  3. Numa DERIVATIVES ACRONYMS (No longer online)
  4. SWIFT: bizterms.net
  5. SWIFT, SWIFT: Bloomberg Financial Glossary
  6. SWIFT: Investopedia
  7. Swift (bird), swift: Legal dictionary
  8. Swift: WashingtonPost.com: Business
  9. Swift (bird): Financial dictionary
  10. Glossary of Trade and Shipping Terms (No longer online)
  11. SWIFT: Financial dictionary
  12. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Webopedia (No longer online)
  2. Swift (bird), swift: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. SWIFT, Swift (bird): Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. SWIFT: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  3. swift: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Imagine the Universe! Dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. swift, swift: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. S.W.I.F.T: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. High-Energy Astrophysics (No longer online)

(Note: See swifter as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Fast; quick; rapid.
adjective:  Capable of moving at high speeds.
noun:  A small plain-colored bird of the family Apodidae that resembles a swallow and is noted for its rapid flight.
noun:  Any of certain lizards of the genus Sceloporus.
noun:  (entomology) A moth of the family Hepialidae, swift moth, ghost moth.
noun:  (entomology) Any of various fast-flying hesperiid butterflies.
noun:  (textiles) A light, collapsible reel used to hold a hank of yarn in order to wind off skeins or balls.
noun:  The main cylinder of a carding-machine.
noun:  (obsolete) The current of a stream.
adverb:  (obsolete, poetic) Swiftly.
noun:  A surname transferred from the nickname, originally a nickname for a swift or quick person.
noun:  (computing) A general-purpose multi-paradigm compiled programming language introduced by Apple Inc. in 2014.
noun:  A place name:
noun:  An unincorporated community in DuPage County, Illinois, United States.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Roseau County, Minnesota, United States.
noun:  An extinct town in Pemiscot County, Missouri, United States.
noun:  A minor river in Leicestershire and Warwickshire, England, which joins the (Warwickshire) Avon north of Rugby.
noun:  (finance) Alternative letter-case form of SWIFT (“Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication”)
noun:  (banking) Acronym of Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication.
noun:  Acronym of Social Widget Information Filtering Technologies.
noun:  (UK) Acronym of South Wales Integrated Fast transit.
noun:  (aviation) Acronym of Southwest Airlines Integrated Flights Tracking.
noun:  (US, Colorado) Acronym of Statewide Interlibrary loan Fast Track.
noun:  (US, Colorado) Acronym of State Wildland Inmate Fire Team.
noun:  (computing) Acronym of Simple Web Interface Toolset.
noun:  (business, risk analysis) Acronym of Structured What If Technique.
noun:  (mathematics) Acronym of Stored Waveform Inverse Fourier Transform.
noun:  (sciences, transport) Acronym of Stratospheric Wind Interferometer For Transport Studies.

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