Swing vs Cradle - What's the difference?
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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.
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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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* Burke
A bed or cot for a baby, oscillating on rockers or swinging on pivots.
* Cowper
* Shakespeare
(figuratively) The place of origin, or in which anything is nurtured or protected in the earlier period of existence.
(figuratively) Infancy, or very early life.
* Shakespeare
* Clarendon
An implement consisting of a broad scythe for cutting grain, with a set of long fingers parallel to the scythe, designed to receive the grain, and to lay it evenly in a swath.
A tool used in mezzotint engraving, which, by a rocking motion, raises burrs on the surface of the plate, so preparing the ground.
A framework of timbers, or iron bars, moving upon ways or rollers, used to support, lift, or carry ships or other vessels, heavy guns, etc., as up an inclined plane, or across a strip of land, or in launching a ship.
A case for a broken or dislocated limb.
A frame to keep the bedclothes from contact with the sensitive parts of an injured person.
(mining) A machine on rockers, used in washing out auriferous earth.
(mining) A suspended scaffold used in shafts.
(carpentry) A ribbing for vaulted ceilings and arches intended to be covered with plaster.
(nautical) A basket or apparatus in which, when a line has been made fast to a wrecked ship from the shore, the people are brought off from the wreck.
A rest for the receiver of a telephone, or for certain computer hardware.
(contact juggling) A hand position allowing a contact ball to be held steadily on the back of the hand.
To contain in or as if in a cradle.
To rock (a baby to sleep).
To wrap protectively.
* cradling the injured man’s head in her arms
To lull or quieten, as if by rocking.
* D. A. Clark
To nurse or train in infancy.
* Glanvill
(lacrosse) To rock the lacrosse stick back and forth in order to keep the ball in the head by means of centrifugal force.
To cut and lay (grain) with a cradle.
To transport a vessel by means of a cradle.
* Knight
To put ribs across the back of (a picture), to prevent the panels from warping.
In transitive terms the difference between swing and cradle
is that swing is in dancing, to turn around in a small circle with one's partner, holding hands or arms while cradle is to wrap protectively.In nautical terms the difference between swing and cradle
is that swing is to turn round by action of wind or tide when at anchor while cradle is a basket or apparatus in which, when a line has been made fast to a wrecked ship from the shore, the people are brought off from the wreck.As verbs the difference between swing and cradle
is that swing is to rotate about an off-centre fixed point while cradle is to contain in or as if in a cradle.As nouns the difference between swing and cradle
is that swing is the manner in which something is swung while cradle is a bed or cot for a baby, oscillating on rockers or swinging on pivots.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.
Quotations
* 1937 June 11, Judy Garland, “All God’s Chillun Got Rhythm”, A day at the races , Sam Wood (director), Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer *: All God’s chillun got rhythm. All God's chillun got swing . *: Maybe haven't got money, maybe haven't got shoes. *: All God’s chillun got rhythm for to [sic. ] push away their blues.Derived terms
* swing of thingscradle
English
(wikipedia cradle)Noun
(en noun)- the cradle that received thee at thy birth
- No sooner was I crept out of my cradle / But I was made a king, at nine months old.
- a cradle of crime
- the cradle of liberty
- from the cradle to the grave
- from their cradles bred together
- a form of worship in which they had been educated from their cradles
- (Knight)
- The cradle was ill-made. One victim fell into the sea and was lost and the ensuing delay cost three more lives.
- He slammed the handset into the cradle .
Synonyms
* (machine on rockers used in washing out auriferous earth) rocker * (rest for receiver of a telephone) restDerived terms
* cat's cradle * cradle cap * cradleland * cradlesong * from the cradle to the grave * the hand that rocks the cradle rules the world * rob the cradleSee also
* cribVerb
(cradl)- It cradles their fears to sleep.
- He that hath been cradled in majesty will not leave the throne to play with beggars.
- In Lombardy boats are cradled and transported over the grade.