Flew vs Swoop - What's the difference?
flew | swoop |
to fly or glide downwards suddenly; to plunge (in the air) or nosedive
to move swiftly, as if with a sweeping movement, especially to attack something
* 1922 , (Margery Williams), (The Velveteen Rabbit)
To fall on at once and seize; to catch while on the wing.
To seize; to catch up; to take with a sweep.
* Dryden
* Glanvill
To pass with pomp; to sweep.
an instance, or the act of suddenly plunging downward
* 1922 , (Margery Williams), (The Velveteen Rabbit)
an act of rushedly doing something
(music) passing quickly from one note to the next
As verbs the difference between flew and swoop
is that flew is simple past of fly while swoop is to fly or glide downwards suddenly; to plunge (in the air) or nosedive.As a noun swoop is
an instance, or the act of suddenly plunging downward.swoop
English
Verb
(en-verb) (intransitive)- The lone eagle swooped down into the lake, snatching its prey, a small fish.
- The dog had enthusiastically swooped down on the bone.
- There was a person called Nana who ruled the nursery. Sometimes she took no notice of the playthings lying about, and sometimes, for no reason whatever, she went swooping about like a great wind and hustled them away in cupboards.
- A hawk swoops a chicken.
- And now at last you came to swoop it all.
- The grazing ox which swoops it [the medicinal herb] in with the common grass.
- (Drayton)
Noun
(en noun)- The quality of decision is like the well-timed swoop of a falcon which enables it to strike and destroy its victim. – Sun Tzu
- One evening, when the Boy was going to bed, he couldn't find the china dog that always slept with him. Nana was in a hurry, and it was too much trouble to hunt for china dogs at bedtime, so she simply looked about her, and seeing that the toy cupboard door stood open, she made a swoop .
- Fortune's a right whore. If she give ought, she deals it in small parcels, that she may take away all at one swoop . – John Webster
