SWING


Meaning of SWING in English

I. verb

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a door swings open/shut (= moves forward to open or backwards to shut )

The door swung shut behind me.

a party is in full swing (= people at a party are having a good time talking, dancing etc )

At 3 am, the party was still in full swing.

a swing bridge British English (= one that can be pulled up for ships to go under )

mood swings (= changes of mood )

Sudden mood swings can be a sign of mental illness.

sb's golf swing (= the way someone moves a golf club when hitting the ball )

Keith's been working on improving his golf swing.

sth swings shut

The gate swung shut behind her.

swing bridge

swing door

swing set

swing shift

swinging door

swinging sixties

Dad grew up in the swinging sixties.

swing/spring/leap into action (= suddenly start doing something )

The fire crew immediately swung into action.

swung...open

The gates swung silently open .

the pendulum...swing

After several years of Republican government, the pendulum will undoubtedly swing back and voters will elect a Democrat.

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADVERB

around

But as his hand grasped her arm, she recognised defeat, and, halting, she swung around .

The boat swung around to its new heading.

The snapping jaws missed, but he felt its far as it swung around and scampered away.

Its passengers swing around like boxed chickens in the back of a livestock lorry on a mountain pass.

When the car started to swing around again, I made myself steer in the direction of the skid.

Alarmed, she swung around and lit the candle.

Our robes billowed as we swung around .

away

Prentice swung away and lurched towards the door.

I took out my key but the door swung away from me into the depths of the room.

Unable to bear any more, she swung away to stumble over the ploughed field.

And the hospital can swing away , since in a hearing it has absolute protection from libel.

The dead is sitting up! and swung away .

back

Thus the pendulum of public pressure swings back and forth, reflecting the unresolved tensions within public policy.

Conroy said he believed the pendulum had swung back toward the belief that children should be punished.

In recent years the pendulum has swung back .

Places that seemed wrapped up for one man or the other a couple of weeks ago keep swinging back into play.

The flowers open so much that the petals swing back .

This year, the suburbanites may be swinging back to the Democratic column.

More so now than a few years ago, the pendulum's swinging back .

Public opinion swung back to Truman.

over

A similar effect is used in another part with a ball swinging over the screen.

The whistle would go, Whitaker would show us how to swing over the regulator and we would be away.

His girl leaned over him, talking to him, with her long straight hair swinging over his face.

Chimpanzees, on the other hand, usually only cross if the branches are so close that they can swing over .

The rig will swing over the front of the board and try to pull you over.

round

She swung round and walked swiftly out of the office.

He swings round dizzily and heads for the streets, feeling as if he may fly.

The Audi followed, spinning slightly on the wet road, the back end swinging round as the driver revved too hard.

Dropping the wing, Mungo swung round , losing his balance.

Thigh-deep in the loch, Hector swung round .

He swung round and began to walk back to Church Row.

Caught red-handed, her plate piled high, she swung round .

When he swung round she stared at him helplessly, shocked by his appearance.

wildly

Daak was moving again now, swinging wildly from side to side in an attempt to avoid the lasers' targeting.

For in practice, the shift in the focus of monetary policy meant that interest rates would swing wildly .

Through the smoke he saw the balloon dropping, its basket swinging wildly .

Allowing interest rates to swing wildly meant allowing bond prices to swing wildly.

The Test has been delicately poised for four days, with fortunes swinging wildly .

Allowing interest rates to swing wildly meant allowing bond prices to swing wildly.

She lashed out, her arm swinging wildly .

Some ropes had come loose and were swinging wildly in the wind.

■ NOUN

arm

Let you r arms swing with you.

Five minutes passed and several police cars careened by. long black arms swung threateningly at the parked cars.

It was Ace's hand on her arm that swung her round to meet him, her face full of frightened guilt.

She walked faster, her strong arms swinging her along.

She reached for the fire, intending to pluck a brand, but something grabbed her arm and swung her round.

Room to swing my arms , and swing my mind.

Petey fell back, arms swinging .

axe

Manager Lennie Lawrence will swing the axe at Swindon and demand 90-minute commitment.

He imagines himself somewhere else, far away from here, walking through the woods and swinging an axe over his shoulder.

No need to swing the axe here, just slot the picks on to the cracks between the welded icicles.

Bowring's control broke, and he swung the axe toward the unbearable sight of the grinning face.

He rides a massive chariot pulled by three wolves, and swings his mighty axe Elf-Biter.

It is the same as swinging an axe to chop down a tree.

I started swinging the axe at the lumps of driftwood.

bag

Maura stopped in front of them, still swinging her school bag .

The canvas of the swinging bag could be used as number-one sandpaper.

Kate walked away, swinging her bag .

bat

Felt queasy after, but swung the bat okay and then came back to the hotel, which is small but clean.

I kept swinging the bat , but by now Guy and Carmine had biked out of range and were looking back.

We have the hitter sit on the ball swinging a bat .

Both throw a lot of strikes and both make hitters swing the bat early in the count.

club

Diana's golfing history is a lesson to all for she was more or less 40 before swinging a club !

Muskets were swung as clubs , pistols were fired point-blank, and swords flashed and clanged.

The golfer must be in a position to swing the club back.

This from a man who has swung clubs with President Clinton and a half-dozen Hall of Fame golfers.

Framed photographs of Manningham swinging a club decorated the lime green walls.

The best of your countrymen have become good golf robots, outstanding golf robots, all swinging the club the same way.

Turn away, swing the arms and club and then pull the body and legs through.

The guard swung the club backwards once more, striking Nineteen on the arm.

direction

That frenzied period has passed and, if anything, the pendulum has swung in the other direction .

Let your arms swing in the opposite direction .

This, of course, causes the pendulum to swing in the same direction .

By the 1870s and 1880s, however, the pendulum was swinging in the opposite direction .

mood

The bags under their eyes reflect the wild mood swings that have afflicted the party since the first week.

pendulum

The pendulum has swung from silly dreaming to grinding pragmatism.

The pendulum swung back and the feminine principle experienced five centuries of heavy repression.

Thus the pendulum of public pressure swings back and forth, reflecting the unresolved tensions within public policy.

Conroy said he believed the pendulum had swung back toward the belief that children should be punished.

In recent years the pendulum has swung back.

For death penalty adherents, the pendulum has finally swung their way: California will enforce the death penalty more quickly.

Now the pendulum seems to have swung the other way.

tree

Wind and height forgotten, Pascoe swung down from the tree like a gymnast.

A fridge I lied about swinging through the trees !

In woodlands they can swing from tree to tree or scramble over the treetops to drop to the forest floor below.

They swing from tree to tree.

vote

One worker in ten may not be enough to mount powerful strikes; but it is plenty enough to swing a vote .

PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

be in full swing

Barcelona was full of visitors, and preparations for the Olympic Games were in full swing.

By 10 o'clock the party was in full swing and everyone was dancing.

The college football season is now in full swing.

Behind us, the party was in full swing.

Inaugural activities were in full swing Saturday despite the cold.

These are the sure signs that green corn tamale season is in full swing.

They know who loves them, and their career is in full swing.

the swinging sixties

there's not enough room to swing a cat

tip/swing the balance

Your letter of recommendation swung the balance in his favor.

Chernobyl had further tipped the balance .

His influence on deputies is significant, but it will be Mr Yeltsin's performance that will swing the balance .

Perhaps remorse at having joined it had tipped the balance of Fred's mind.

Teachers may try to tip the balance about this Englishness.

The nature of his choice or the terms in which it is expressed may then tip the balance .

The thought or feeling tipped the balance , made the difference.

Vigorous efforts were made to tip the balance more in favour of those with greater needs.

What tipped the balance against that was my continuing dreadful performance in the classroom.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

A lantern swung from a hook in the roof.

A small jewelled cross swung from a gold chain around her neck.

As you swing the golf club back, try to keep your eye on the ball.

Bennett kicked a leg out, then swung a fist that didn't make contact.

Do you swing ?

Doors swung open and then shut as hospital porters pushed a patient down the corridor.

His opinions would often swing from one extreme to the other.

She swung the ax, hitting the log squarely in the middle.

The car swung north towards the Arizona mountains.

The door swung open slowly.

The driver swung the Cadillac off the road with a squeal of tires.

The only sound was the creak of a sign swinging in the wind.

The speedometer needle swung wildly back and forth.

The wooden bridge swung from side to side in a terrifying fashion.

We began the workout by swinging our arms.

We used to have contests to see who could swing the highest.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

But as his hand grasped her arm, she recognised defeat, and, halting, she swung around.

Daak was moving again now, swinging wildly from side to side in an attempt to avoid the lasers' targeting.

Fortunately, the pendulum appears finally to be swinging the other way.

I waited out at the end of the seaplane dock and swung aboard his sailboat as it drifted into the dock.

Instinctively he swung the wheel and the truck hit the car.

The door of a garden shed had swung open.

When the car started to swing around again, I made myself steer in the direction of the skid.

II. noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

big

Lead experienced the biggest swing , hitting a ten-year high of £800 a tonne in March.

The Easter holiday is the likely culprit for the big swings , though.

full

The campaign has already been in full swing for several months, even though it has not officially started.

Behind us, the party was in full swing .

I was on campus when the food riots hit full swing .

These are the sure signs that green corn tamale season is in full swing .

The trouble with playing from this distance, however, is that you do not require a full swing .

Her training regimen, which is now in full swing for Boston, involves a daily run of 5 to 8 miles.

From around 50 yards out you will not need to produce a full swing .

They know who loves them, and their career is in full swing .

national

It is possible, for instance, to see in California at this time the beginnings of a national swing to the right.

In 1987, the small 2.5 percent national swing from Conservative to Labour was differentiated between North and South.

In the 1979 and 1983 elections there were examples of locally popular candidates holding their marginal seats against the national swing .

Already, they have contributed to great national mood swings .

■ NOUN

bridge

It was a great walk, with swing bridges across the river, and we never met a soul all day.

Two bascule bridges and one swing bridge further upstream had become totally inadequate.

At the dock's entrance is a cast-iron swing bridge .

It was five minutes to eight when Yanto cycled over the low swing bridge on to the wharfs of Sharpness Docks.

A wrought-iron girder swing bridge at the Northern Entrance Lock may be the original installed by Brunel.

A bloke jumped out of the boat, ran past me, over the swing bridge and opened it up.

The dock's redeeming qualities are the old swing bridges and the boats themselves, many of them beautiful old sailing ships.

door

The door swings open to reveal an empty top shelf.

The door swings shut, and they are locked for ever in their chosen cell.

mood

His mood swings are generally only related to the latest project he's working on.

Loi was well on his way down into the depths of a mood swing .

They caused me to have terrible mood swings and it put my relationship with Stuart under a lot of strain.

The mood swing was worrying, but at least it was an upbeat beginning to the day.

It was the beginning of a frustrating period for Hunt and his mood swings were on the downturn.

It gives you enormous mood swings , which nobody told me about.

Pat Jerrom says Danniella had violent mood swings and threatened to commit suicide.

A woman who is not ovulating escapes the sharp changes in hormone levels that can lead to mood swings .

vote

Pinochet and who hold the swing vote in the upper house.

Justice Sandra Day O'Connor provided the key swing vote in both cases.

voter

Within this group, 40 % are identified as swing voters .

Clinton hammered away at campaign themes tailor-made to appeal to predominantly white swing voters who might otherwise vote for Republican Bob Dole.

They are the classic swing voters .

■ VERB

play

She could hear her three- year-old son Rufus laughing as he played on the swings nearby.

You are playing on the swing .

This groove is played with a swing eighth note feel - great line, great track, great album.

take

He had a majority of 13,783, which would take an 18 % swing to shift.

He was an animal child, ten years old, he stood up to the plate and took fluid practice swings .

Since that lunch everything had taken an upward swing .

He slapped her on the side of the head and she took half a swing at him.

He takes a practice swing , sets himself again, looks at the target - and what happens?

Sooner or later the President will take a swing through Florida.

I must admit I admired the way he didn't even flinch when Richie took his first swing of the day.

PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

be in full swing

Barcelona was full of visitors, and preparations for the Olympic Games were in full swing.

By 10 o'clock the party was in full swing and everyone was dancing.

The college football season is now in full swing.

Behind us, the party was in full swing.

Inaugural activities were in full swing Saturday despite the cold.

These are the sure signs that green corn tamale season is in full swing.

They know who loves them, and their career is in full swing.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

Ed said he could help me with my swing .

There has been a huge swing in public opinion on the issue.

With a heavy swing of the mallet, he drove the post into the ground.

Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary.      Дополнительный английский словарь Longman DOCE5.