Flog vs Swing - What's the difference?
flog | swing |
To whip or scourge someone or something as punishment.
To use something to extreme; to abuse.
* {{quote-newsgroup
, title=VL idles rough when warm...
, group=aus.cars
, author=Chris Wardrop
, date=October 30
, year=2002
, passage=I did seven laps of Fyshwick with the mechanic today. I was turning lots of heads on the last few, people must of thought I was nuts, flogging' the car then stopping, then driving slow then ' flogging it again.
(UK) To sell something.
* {{quote-newsgroup
, title=Optus $5/month 5110, T10 and 2288 only 4 days
, group=aus.comms.mobile
, author=Paul Edwards
, date=January 26
, year=2001
, passage=And then there's my part time job at Telstra Bigpond flogging' their cable network for just $67.55/month long term cost, a BARGAIN, and the other part time job ' flogging Foxtel at something like $50/month.
(transitive, Australia, New Zealand) To steal something.
(transitive, Australia, New Zealand) To defeat easily or convincingly.
* {{quote-newsgroup
, title=Nothing to Crow About
, group=rec.sport.football.australian
, author=Mr Ripper
, date=August 16
, year=1999
, passage=The Swannies got on a real roll over rounds 16/17 & 18 of 1987. In consecutive SCG matches, they flogged the Eags 30.21 to 10.11, followed that with a 36.20 to 11.7 demolition of the Dons and finally a 31.12 to 15.17 thrashing of Richmond.
* {{quote-newsgroup
, title=Eng v Aus 1977
, group=aus.sport.cricket
, author=Cas.
, date=June 9
, year=2001
, passage=Anyone with cable watch this on ESPN "History of Cricket" last night? Australia got flogged by an innings in the fourth test.
* {{quote-newsgroup
, title=POLISER- Roosters v Bulldogs
, group=aus.sport.rugby-league
, author=Greg Vincent }:c{
, date=June 5
, year=2004
, passage=It'll make the Raiders look good. Getting flogged' by a team that got '''flogged''' by a team that got ' flogged by the Bulldogs.
(agriculture) To exploit.
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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
As verbs the difference between flog and swing
is that flog is (flyga) while swing is to rotate about an off-centre fixed point.As a noun swing is
the manner in which something is swung.flog
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Verb
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Synonyms
* (to whip or scourge) whipDerived terms
* flog a dead horse * flogger * flog the logSee also
* flail * flay * vapulateAnagrams
* golf ----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.