Swat vs Swing - What's the difference?
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(chiefly, US, law enforcement) Special weapons and tactics. The area of expertise of police officers trained and equipped to neutralize armed or entrenched criminals.
(chiefly, US, law enforcement) a SWAT team
To rotate about an off-centre fixed point.
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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.
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, 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.
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As a proper noun swat
is a valley and a district in nwfp administrative province of pakistan.As a verb swing is
to rotate about an off-centre fixed point.As a noun swing is
the manner in which something is swung.swat
English
(wikipedia SWAT)Alternative forms
*Acronym
(Acronym) (head)Usage notes
* Often used attributively before such nouns as (team) or (squad). * While the specific meaning of the acronym applies only to the United States, the term is informally used in other countries to describe similar police teams.Noun
(en noun)- "This situation is out of control. We need a SWAT team," the policeman said.
Anagrams
*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.