swing

swing is a 5-letter English word with 36 senses as intransitive verb, noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To move to and fro, as a body suspended in the air; to wave; to vibrate; to oscillate. Face value is 9 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 9 · Words With Friends 11 · 36 senses

Definitions

1. intransitive verb. To move to and fro, as a body suspended in the air; to wave; to vibrate; to oscillate.
2. intransitive verb. To sway or move from one side or direction to another; as, the door swung open.
3. intransitive verb. To use a swing; as, a boy swings for exercise or pleasure. See Swing, n., 3.
4. noun. To turn round by action of wind or tide when at anchor; as, a ship swings with the tide.
5. noun. To be hanged.
6. transitive verb. To cause to swing or vibrate; to cause to move backward and forward, or from one side to the other.
7. transitive verb. 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.
8. transitive verb. 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.
9. noun. The act of swinging; a waving, oscillating, or vibratory motion of a hanging or pivoted object; oscillation; as, the swing of a pendulum.
10. noun. Swaying motion from one side or direction to the other; as, some men walk with a swing.
11. noun. 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.
12. noun. Influence of power of a body put in swaying motion.
13. noun. Capacity of a turning lathe, as determined by the diameter of the largest object that can be turned in it.
14. noun. Free course; unrestrained liberty or license; tendency.
15. noun. changing location by moving back and forth

    Synonyms: swinging, vacillation

16. noun. a square dance figure; a pair of dancers join hands and dance around a point between them
17. noun. in baseball; a batter's attempt to hit a pitched ball

    "he took a vicious cut at the ball"

    Synonyms: cut

18. noun. the act of swinging a golf club at a golf ball and (usually) hitting it
19. noun. a sweeping blow or stroke

    "he took a wild swing at my head"

20. noun. mechanical device used as a plaything to support someone swinging back and forth
21. noun. a jaunty rhythm in music

    Synonyms: lilt

22. noun. a style of jazz played by big bands popular in the 1930s; flowing rhythms but less complex than later styles of jazz

    Synonyms: jive

23. noun. 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"

24. verb. alternate dramatically between high and low values

    "his mood swings"

    "the market is swinging up and down"

25. verb. hit or aim at with a sweeping arm movement

    "The soccer player began to swing at the referee"

26. verb. engage freely in promiscuous sex, often with the husband or wife of one's friends

    "There were many swinging couples in the 1960's"

27. verb. make a big sweeping gesture or movement

    Synonyms: sweep

28. verb. play with a subtle and intuitively felt sense of rhythm
29. verb. move or walk in a swinging or swaying manner

    "He swung back"

    Synonyms: sway

30. verb. change direction with a swinging motion; turn

    "swing back"

    "swing forward"

31. verb. move in a curve or arc, usually with the intent of hitting

    "He swung his left fist"

    "swing a bat"

32. verb. be a social swinger; socialize a lot
33. verb. influence decisively

    "This action swung many votes over to his side"

34. verb. live in a lively, modern, and relaxed style

    "The Woodstock generation attempted to swing freely"

35. verb. hang freely

    "the ornaments dangled from the tree"

    "The light dropped from the ceiling"

    Synonyms: dangle, drop

36. verb. have a certain musical rhythm

    "The music has to swing"

Synonyms

swinging, vacillation, cut, lilt, jive, sweep, sway, dangle, drop

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in swing:

wings

Common word forms

swings, swinged, swinger, swinges, swinging, swingable

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