Flutter vs Swoop - What's the difference?
flutter | swoop |
(lb) To flap or wave quickly but irregularly.
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*:Long after his cigar burnt bitter, he sat with eyes fixed on the blaze. When the flames at last began to flicker and subside, his lids fluttered , then drooped?; but he had lost all reckoning of time when he opened them again to find Miss Erroll in furs and ball-gown kneeling on the hearth.
(lb) Of a winged animal: to flap the wings without flying; to fly with a light flapping of the wings.
*1900 , , (The Wonderful Wizard of Oz)
*:Banks of gorgeous flowers were on every hand, and birds with rare and brilliant plumage sang and fluttered in the trees and bushes.
(lb) To cause something to flap.
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(lb) To drive into disorder; to throw into confusion.
*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:Like an eagle in a dovecote, I / Fluttered your Volscians in Corioli.
The act of fluttering; quick and irregular motion.
* Milnes
A state of agitation.
* (Henry James)
An abnormal rapid pulsation of the heart.
(British) A small bet or risky investment.
* 1915 : , Ch. 93
* So with his victory odds currently at 14/1 or 3/1 for the podium, he's still most certainly well worth a flutter ... -
The rapid variation of signal parameters, such as amplitude, phase, and frequency.
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 flutter and swoop
is that flutter is (lb) to flap or wave quickly but irregularly while swoop is to fly or glide downwards suddenly; to plunge (in the air) or nosedive.As nouns the difference between flutter and swoop
is that flutter is the act of fluttering; quick and irregular motion while swoop is an instance, or the act of suddenly plunging downward.flutter
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(en verb)Noun
(wikipedia flutter) (en noun)- the flutter of a fan
- the chirp and flutter of some single bird
- (Alexander Pope)
- Their visitor was an issue - at least to the imagination, and they arrived finally, under provocation, at intensities of flutter in which they felt themselves so compromised by his hoverings that they could only consider with relief the fact of nobody's knowing.
- "Oh, by the way, I heard of a rather good thing today, New Kleinfonteins; it's a gold mine in Rhodesia. If you'd like to have a flutter you might make a bit."
Gray Matter: How will Schu do?
Derived terms
* flutter in the dovecote * flutterbyswoop
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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