Dictionary Entry
swift
swift is a 5-letter English word with 14 senses as intransitive verb, adverb, noun, and adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Moving a great distance in a short time; moving with celerity or velocity; fleet; rapid; quick; speedy; prompt. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
5 letters · Scrabble 11 · Words With Friends 11 · 14 senses
Definitions
- 1intransitive verb
Moving a great distance in a short time; moving with celerity or velocity; fleet; rapid; quick; speedy; prompt.
- 2intransitive verb
Of short continuance; passing away quickly.
- 3adverb
Swiftly.
- 4noun
The current of a stream.
- 5noun
Any one of numerous species of small, long-winged, insectivorous birds of the family Micropodidae. In form and habits the swifts resemble swallows, but they are destitute of complex vocal muscles and are not singing birds, but belong to a widely different group allied to the humming birds.
- 6noun
Any one of several species of lizards, as the pine lizard.
- 7noun
The ghost moth. See under Ghost.
- 8noun
A reel, or turning instrument, for winding yarn, thread, etc.; -- used chiefly in the plural.
- 9noun
The main card cylinder of a flax-carding machine.
- 10noun
common western lizard; seen on logs or rocks
- 11noun
a small bird that resembles a swallow and is noted for its rapid flight
- 12noun
an English satirist born in Ireland (1667-1745)
- 13noun
United States meat-packer who began the use of refrigerated railroad cars (1839-1903)
- 14adjective
moving very fast
"fleet of foot"
"the fleet scurrying of squirrels"
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