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What is the difference between swoop and arc?

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Swoop is a synonym of arc.


As verbs the difference between swoop and arc

is that swoop is to fly or glide downwards suddenly; to plunge (in the air) or nosedive while arc is to move following a curved path.

As nouns the difference between swoop and arc

is that swoop is an instance, or the act of suddenly plunging downward while arc is (astronomy) that part of a circle which a heavenly body appears to pass through as it moves above and below the horizon.

swoop

English

Verb

(en-verb) (intransitive)
  • to fly or glide downwards suddenly; to plunge (in the air) or nosedive
    • The lone eagle swooped down into the lake, snatching its prey, a small fish.
  • to move swiftly, as if with a sweeping movement, especially to attack something
    • The dog had enthusiastically swooped down on the bone.
  • * 1922 , (Margery Williams), (The Velveteen Rabbit)
    • 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.
  • To fall on at once and seize; to catch while on the wing.
    • A hawk swoops a chicken.
  • To seize; to catch up; to take with a sweep.
  • * Dryden
    • And now at last you came to swoop it all.
  • * Glanvill
    • The grazing ox which swoops it [the medicinal herb] in with the common grass.
  • To pass with pomp; to sweep.
    • (Drayton)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • an instance, or the act of suddenly plunging downward
    • The quality of decision is like the well-timed swoop of a falcon which enables it to strike and destroy its victim. – Sun Tzu
  • * 1922 , (Margery Williams), (The Velveteen Rabbit)
    • 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 .
  • an act of rushedly doing something
    • 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
  • (music) passing quickly from one note to the next

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    arc

    English

    (wikipedia arc)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (astronomy) That part of a circle which a heavenly body appears to pass through as it moves above and below the horizon.
  • (geometry) A continuous part of the circumference of a circle (circular arc) or of an other curve.
  • A curve, in general.
  • A band contained within parallel curves, or something of that shape.
  • (electrics) A flow of current across an insulating medium; especially a hot, luminous discharge between either two electrodes or as lightning.
  • A story arc.
  • (mathematics) A continuous mapping from a real interval (typically [0, 1]) into a space.
  • (graph theory) A directed edge.

    • Synonyms

    * (curve) curve, swoop * (circular arc) circular arc, circle segment * (directed edge) arrow, directed edge

    Verb

  • To move following a curved path.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2011
    • , date=February 4 , author=Gareth Roberts , title=Wales 19-26 England , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=Gatland's side got back to within striking distance when fly-half Jones's clever pass sent centre Jonathan Davies arcing round Shontayne Hape.}}
  • To form an electrical arc.

    • Related terms

    * arch

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