Bob vs Swing - What's the difference?
bob | swing |
To move gently and vertically, in either a single motion or repeatedly up and down, at or near the surface of a body of water.
To move (something) as though it were bobbing in water.
To curtsy.
To strike with a quick, light blow; to tap.
* Elyot
A bobbing motion.
A bobber.
* Lauson
A curtsy.
A bob haircut.
Any round object attached loosely to a flexible line, a rod, a body part etc., so that it may swing when hanging from it
* 1773 ,
The dangling mass of a pendulum or plumb line.
The docked tail of a horse.
A short line ending a stanza of a poem.
The short runner of a sled.
A small wheel, made of leather, with rounded edges, used in polishing spoons, etc.
A working beam in a steam engine.
A particular style of ringing changes on bells.
A blow; a shake or jog; a rap, as with the fist.
(obsolete) A knot or short curl of hair; also, a bob wig.
* Shenstone
(obsolete) The refrain of a song.
* L'Estrange
(obsolete) A jeer; a sharp jest or taunt.
* Shakespeare
To cut (hair) into a bob haircut.
To shorten by cutting; to dock; to crop
Short form of bobsleigh
A shilling.
* , Episode 12, The Cyclops
:1933 , (George Orwell), (Down and Out in Paris and London) , xxix
::‘’Ere]] s for the trousers, one and a tanner for the boots, and a [['og, ’og for the cap and scarf. That’s seven bob.’
* 1960 , , (Jeeves in the Offing) , chapter XVII
A 10-cent coin.
(slang) An unspecified amount of money.
* Spot me a few bob , Robert.
(computer graphics) A graphical element, resembling a hardware sprite, that can be blitted around the screen in large numbers.
* 1986 , Eugene P Mortimore, Amiga programmer's handbook, Volumes 1-2
* 1995 , "John Girvin", Blitting bobs'' (on Internet newsgroup ''comp.sys.amiga.programmer )
* 2002 , "demoeffects", Demotized 0.0.1 - A collection of demo effects from the early days of the demo scene.'' (on Internet newsgroup ''fm.announce )
To rotate about an off-centre fixed point.
* 1912 , (Edgar Rice Burroughs), (Tarzan of the Apes), Chapter 12
To dance.
To ride on a swing.
To participate in the lifestyle; to participate in wife-swapping.
To hang from the gallows.
(intransitive, cricket, of a ball) to move sideways in its trajectory.
To fluctuate or change.
To move (an object) backward and forward; to wave.
To change (a numerical result); especially to change the outcome of an election.
To make (something) work; especially to afford (something) financially.
(music) To play notes that are in pairs by making the first of the pair slightly longer than written (augmentation) and the second, resulting in a bouncy, uneven rhythm.
(cricket) (of a bowler) to make the ball move sideways in its trajectory.
(transitive, and, intransitive, boxing) To move one's arm in a punching motion.
In dancing, to turn around in a small circle with one's partner, holding hands or arms.
(engineering) To admit or turn something for the purpose of shaping it; said of a lathe.
(carpentry) To put (a door, gate, etc.) on hinges so that it can swing or turn.
(nautical) To turn round by action of wind or tide when at anchor.
The manner in which something is swung.
A line, cord, or other thing suspended and hanging loose, upon which anything may swing.
A hanging seat in a children's playground, for acrobats in a circus, or on a porch for relaxing.
* , chapter=12
, title= A dance style.
(music) The genre of music associated with this dance style.
The amount of change towards or away from something.
# (politics) In an election, the increase or decrease in the number of votes for opposition parties compared with votes for the incumbent party.
(cricket) Sideways movement of the ball as it flies through the air.
The diameter that a lathe can cut.
In a musical theater production, a performer who understudies several roles.
A basic dance step in which a pair link hands and turn round together in a circle.
Capacity of a turning lathe, as determined by the diameter of the largest object that can be turned in it.
(obsolete) Free course; unrestrained liberty.
* (John Dryden)
* Burke
In intransitive terms the difference between bob and swing
is that bob is to move gently and vertically, in either a single motion or repeatedly up and down, at or near the surface of a body of water while swing is to fluctuate or change.In transitive terms the difference between bob and swing
is that bob is to shorten by cutting; to dock; to crop while swing is in dancing, to turn around in a small circle with one's partner, holding hands or arms.In obsolete terms the difference between bob and swing
is that bob is a jeer; a sharp jest or taunt while swing is free course; unrestrained liberty.In lang=en terms the difference between bob and swing
is that bob is an unspecified amount of money while swing is the genre of music associated with this dance style.As a proper noun Bob
is a diminutive=Robert given name.bob
English
Etymology 1
Verb
(bobb)- The cork bobbed gently in the calm water.
- The ball, which we had thought lost, suddenly bobbed up out of the water.
- I bobbed my head under water and saw the goldfish.
- bob''' one's head'' (= to ' nod )
- He was suddenly bobbed on the face by the servants.
Derived terms
* bobber * bob for apples * bob upNoun
(en noun)- a bob of the head
- Or yellow bobs turn'd up before the plough / Are chiefest baits, with cork and lead enough.
Etymology 2
Noun
(en noun)- Ecod! I have got them. Here they are. My cousin Con's necklaces, bobs and all.
- A plain brown bob he wore.
- To bed, to bed, will be the bob of the song.
- He that a fool doth very wisely hit, / Doth very foolishly, although he smart, / Not to seem senseless of the bob .
Verb
(bobb)- I got my hair bobbed . How do you like it?
Etymology 3
Noun
(bob)- One of the bottlenosed fraternity it was went by the name of James Wought alias Saphiro alias Spark and Spiro, put an ad in the papers saying he'd give a passage to Canada for twenty bob .
Derived terms
* bob-a-job * bent as a nine-bob note * two-bob bitUsage notes
* The use of bob for shilling is dated slang in the UK and Australia, since decimalisation. In East African countries where the currency is the shilling, it is current usage, and not considered slang. OED gives first usage as 1789. * The use of bob to describe a 10-cent coin is derived from the fact that it was of equal worth to a shilling during decimalisation, however since then, the term has slowly dropped out of usage and is seldom used today.Etymology 4
Etymology 5
(blitter) (object)Noun
(en noun)- The bob list determines the drawing priority...
- IMHO, youd (SIC) be better doing other things with the CPU and letting the blitter draw bobs , esp on a machine with fast ram.
- Changes: This release adds 2 new effects (bobs and unlimited bobs), has a GFX directory for sharing graphics, adds utility functions to the common code...
Derived terms
* shadebobAnagrams
* English palindromes ----swing
English
(wikipedia swing)Etymology 1
From (etyl) swingen, from (etyl) swingan, from (etyl) (compare Scottish Gaelic seang 'thin').Verb
- The plant swung in the breeze.
- With one accord the tribe swung rapidly toward the frightened cries, and there found Terkoz holding an old female by the hair and beating her unmercifully with his great hands.
- The children laughed as they swung .
- It wasn't long before the crowd's mood swung towards restless irritability.
- He swung his sword as hard as he could.
- If it’s not too expensive, I think we can swing it.
- "to swing''' one's partner", or simply "to '''swing "
- The lathe can swing a pulley of 12 inches diameter.
- A ship swings with the tide.
Derived terms
* come out swingingTroponyms
*(to rotate about an off-centre fixed point) pivot, swivelEtymology 2
From the above verb.Noun
(en noun)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=To Edward […] he was terrible, nerve-inflaming, poisonously asphyxiating. He sat rocking himself in the late Mr. Churchill's swing chair, smoking and twaddling.}}
- The polls showed a wide swing to Labour.
- Take thy swing .
- To prevent anything which may prove an obstacle to the full swing of his genius.
