Verb

(en verb)

To float in the air.

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To linger in one place.

* 1883 , (Robert Louis Stevenson), (Treasure Island)

The neighborhood, to our ears, seemed haunted by approaching footsteps; and what between the dead body of the captain on the parlor floor, and the thought of that detestable blind beggar hovering near at hand, and ready to return, there were moments when, as the saying goes, I jumped in my skin for terror.

To waver, or be uncertain.

(computing) To place the cursor over a hyperlink or icon without clicking.

Verb

To rotate about an off-centre fixed point.

The plant swung in the breeze.

* 1912 , (Edgar Rice Burroughs), (Tarzan of the Apes), Chapter 12

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.

To dance.

To ride on a swing.

The children laughed as they swung .

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.

It wasn't long before the crowd's mood swung towards restless irritability.

To move (an object) backward and forward; to wave.

He swung his sword as hard as he could.

To change (a numerical result); especially to change the outcome of an election.

To make (something) work; especially to afford (something) financially.

If it’s not too expensive, I think we can swing it.

(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.

"to swing''' one's partner", or simply "to '''swing "

(engineering) To admit or turn something for the purpose of shaping it; said of a lathe.

The lathe can swing a pulley of 12 inches diameter.

(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.

A ship swings with the tide.