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▸ verb: (intransitive) To dance.
▸ verb: (intransitive) To ride on a swing.
▸ verb: (intransitive) To participate in the swinging lifestyle; to participate in wife-swapping.
▸ verb: (intransitive) To hang from the gallows; to be punished by hanging, swing for something or someone; (often hyperbolic) to be severely punished.
▸ verb: (intransitive, cricket, of a ball) To move sideways in its trajectory.
▸ verb: (transitive, cricket) (of a bowler) To make the ball move sideways in its trajectory.
▸ verb: (intransitive) To fluctuate or change.
▸ verb: (transitive) To move (an object) backward and forward; to wave.
▸ verb: (transitive) To change (a numerical result); especially to change the outcome of an election.
▸ verb: (transitive) To make (something) work; especially to afford (something) financially.
▸ verb: (transitive, music) To play notes that are in pairs by making the first of the pair slightly longer than written (augmentation) and the second shorter, resulting in a bouncy, uneven rhythm.
▸ verb: (transitive and intransitive, boxing) To move one's arm in a punching motion.
▸ verb: (transitive) In dancing, to turn around in a small circle with one's partner, holding hands or arms.
▸ verb: (transitive, engineering) To admit or turn something for the purpose of shaping it; said of a lathe.
▸ verb: (transitive, carpentry) To put (a door, gate, etc.) on hinges so that it can swing or turn.
▸ verb: (nautical) To turn round by action of wind or tide when at anchor.
▸ verb: To turn in a different direction.
▸ noun: The manner in which something is swung.
▸ noun: The sweep or compass of a swinging body.
▸ noun: A line, cord, or other thing suspended and hanging loose, upon which anything may swing.
▸ noun: A hanging seat that can swing back and forth, in a children's playground, for acrobats in a circus, or on a porch for relaxing.
▸ noun: An energetic and acrobatic late-1930s partner-based dance style, also known as jitterbug and lindy-hop.
▸ noun: (music) The genre of music associated with this dance style.
▸ noun: The amount of change towards or away from something.
▸ noun: (politics) In an election, the increase or decrease in the number of votes for opposition parties compared with votes for the incumbent party.
▸ noun: (cricket) Sideways movement of the ball as it flies through the air.
▸ noun: Capacity of a turning lathe, as determined by the diameter of the largest object that can be turned in it.
▸ noun: In a musical theater production, a performer who understudies several roles.
▸ noun: A basic dance step in which a pair link hands and turn round together in a circle.
▸ noun: The maximum amount of change that has occurred or can occur; the sum of the maximum changes in any direction.
▸ noun: (obsolete) Free course; unrestrained liberty.
▸ noun: Influence or power of anything put in motion.
▸ noun: (boxing) A type of hook with the arm more extended.
▸ noun: A surname.
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porch swing,
glider,
basket swing,
rocking chair,
swinging bench,
swinging bridge,
swinging chair,
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