swing
Noun
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is a type of:
- mechanical device - mechanism consisting of a device that works on mechanical principles
- plaything, toy - an artifact designed to be played with
subtypes: trapeze - a swing used by circus acrobatsis a part of: playground - yard consisting of an outdoor area for children's play -
is a type of: blow - a powerful stroke with the fist or a weapon
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same as: swinging, vacillation
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is a type of: jazz - a genre of popular music that originated in New Orleans around 1900 and developed through increasingly complex stylessame as: jive, swing music
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is a type of: rhythmicity - the rhythmic property imparted by the accents and relative durations of notes in a piece of musicsame as: lilt
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is a type of: shot, stroke - (sports) the act of swinging or striking at a ball with a club or racket or bat or cue or handsubtypes:
- downswing - a swing downward of a golf club
- fade, slice, slicing - a golf shot that curves to the right for a right-handed golfer
- draw, hook, hooking - a golf shot that curves to the left for a right-handed golfer
- drive, driving - hitting a golf ball off of a tee with a driver
- explosion - a golf shot from a bunker that typically moves sand as well as the golf ball
- putt, putting - hitting a golf ball that is on the green using a putter
- approach, approach shot - a relatively short golf shot intended to put the ball onto the putting green
- sclaff - a poor golf stroke in which the club head hits the ground before hitting the ball
- shank - a poor golf stroke in which the heel of the club hits the ball
- teeoff - the act of hitting a golf ball from the teeing ground at the start of each hole
same as: golf shot, golf stroke -
is a type of: shot, stroke - (sports) the act of swinging or striking at a ball with a club or racket or bat or cue or handsame as: baseball swing, cut
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is a type of: contra danse, contradance, contredanse, country dancing, country-dance - a type of folk dance in which couples are arranged in sets or face one another in a lineis a part of: square dance, square dancing - American country dancing in which couples form squares
Verb
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is a type of: displace, move - cause to move or shift into a new position or place, both in a concrete and in an abstract sensesubtypes: wind up - give a preliminary swing to the arm pitching
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is a type of: move back and forth - move in one direction and then into the opposite directionsubtypes:same as: sway
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same as: swing over
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is a type of: hang - be suspended or hanging
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is a type of: change - undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature
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is a type of: live - lead a certain kind of life; live in a certain style
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is a type of: be - have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun)
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same as: get around
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referred to in: music - an artistic form of auditory communication incorporating instrumental or vocal tones in a structured and continuous manneris a type of: play - play on an instrument
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is a type of: fornicate - have sex without being married
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