Lithe vs Swift - What's the difference?

Lithe is a related term of swift.

As a verb lithe

is (obsolete) to go or lithe can be (obsolete) to become calm or lithe can be (obsolete) to give ear; attend; listen.

As an adjective lithe

is (obsolete) mild; calm.

As a noun lithe

is (scotland) shelter.

As an initialism swift is

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lithe

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) lithen, from (etyl) . See also (l), (l).

Verb

(obsolete) To go.

Etymology 2

From (etyl) lithe, from (etyl) .

Adjective

(er)

(obsolete) Mild; calm.

''lithe weather

slim but not skinny

lithe body

She was frankly disappointed. For some reason she had thought to discover a burglar of one or another accepted type—either a dashing cracksman in full-blown evening dress, lithe , polished, pantherish, or a common yegg, a red-eyed, unshaven burly brute in the rags and tatters of a tramp.

Capable of being easily bent; pliant; flexible; limber

the elephant’s lithe proboscis.

* 1861 , , page 125

… she danced with a kind of passionate fierceness, her lithe body undulating with flexuous grace …

Synonyms

* lithesome, lissome,

Etymology 3

From (etyl) lithen, from (etyl) .

Verb

(head)

(obsolete) To become calm.

(obsolete) To make soft or mild; soften; alleviate; mitigate; lessen; smooth; palliate.

Etymology 4

From (etyl) lithen, from (etyl) . More at (l).

Verb

(lith)

(obsolete) To give ear; attend; listen.

To listen to.

Etymology 5

Origin uncertain; perhaps an alteration of (lewth).

Noun

(en noun)

(Scotland) Shelter.

* 1932 , (Lewis Grassic Gibbon), Sunset Song :

So Cospatric got him the Pict folk to build a strong castle there in the lithe of the hills, with the Grampians dark and bleak behind it, and he had the Den drained and he married a Pict lady and got on her bairns and he lived there till he died.

Anagrams

swift

English

Adjective

(er)

fast; quick; rapid.

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Capable of moving at high speeds.

Noun

(en noun)

(obsolete) The current of a stream.

A small plain-colored bird of the family Apodidae that resembles a swallow and is noted for its rapid flight. Other common names for the birds of this family include swiftlet, needletail and spinetail.

Some lizards of the genus .

A moth of the family , (swift moth), ghost moth.

* {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=May-June, author= William E. Conner

, title= An Acoustic Arms Race , volume=101, issue=3, page=206-7, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Earless ghost swift moths become “invisible” to echolocating bats by forming mating clusters close (less than half a meter) above vegetation and effectively blending into the clutter of echoes that the bat receives from the leaves and stems around them.}}

Synonyms

* (lizard) (fence lizard), (spiny lizard)

Derived terms

* (steam) swiftwater, * (bird) (common swift) () * (lizard) (fence swift) ()

Derived terms

* swiftly

Adverb

(en adverb)

(obsolete, poetic) Swiftly.

* 1602 , , II. iii. 263:

Light boats sail swift , though greater hulks draw deep.

* 1793 ,

Ply swift and strong the oar.

Synonyms

* (l) ----