Swoop vs Descend - What's the difference?
swoop | descend |
to fly or glide downwards suddenly; to plunge (in the air) or nosedive
to move swiftly, as if with a sweeping movement, especially to attack something
* 1922 , (Margery Williams), (The Velveteen Rabbit)
To fall on at once and seize; to catch while on the wing.
To seize; to catch up; to take with a sweep.
* Dryden
* Glanvill
To pass with pomp; to sweep.
an instance, or the act of suddenly plunging downward
* 1922 , (Margery Williams), (The Velveteen Rabbit)
an act of rushedly doing something
(music) passing quickly from one note to the next
To pass from a higher to a lower place; to move downwards; to come or go down in any way, as by falling, flowing, walking, etc.; to plunge; to fall; to incline downward
(poetic) To enter mentally; to retire.
(with on or upon) To make an attack, or incursion, as if from a vantage ground; to come suddenly and with violence.
To come down to a lower, less fortunate, humbler, less virtuous, or worse, state or station; to lower or abase one's self
To pass from the more general or important to the particular or less important matters to be considered.
To come down, as from a source, original, or stock; to be derived; to proceed by generation or by transmission; to fall or pass by inheritance.
(anatomy) To move toward the south, or to the southward.
(music) To fall in pitch; to pass from a higher to a lower tone.
To go down upon or along; to pass from a higher to a lower part of
In lang=en terms the difference between swoop and descend
is that swoop is to seize; to catch up; to take with a sweep while descend is to go down upon or along; to pass from a higher to a lower part of.In music|lang=en terms the difference between swoop and descend
is that swoop is (music) passing quickly from one note to the next while descend is (music) to fall in pitch; to pass from a higher to a lower tone.As verbs the difference between swoop and descend
is that swoop is to fly or glide downwards suddenly; to plunge (in the air) or nosedive while descend is to pass from a higher to a lower place; to move downwards; to come or go down in any way, as by falling, flowing, walking, etc; to plunge; to fall; to incline downward.As a noun swoop
is an instance, or the act of suddenly plunging downward.swoop
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Verb
(en-verb) (intransitive)- The lone eagle swooped down into the lake, snatching its prey, a small fish.
- The dog had enthusiastically swooped down on the bone.
- 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.
- A hawk swoops a chicken.
- And now at last you came to swoop it all.
- The grazing ox which swoops it [the medicinal herb] in with the common grass.
- (Drayton)
Noun
(en noun)- The quality of decision is like the well-timed swoop of a falcon which enables it to strike and destroy its victim. – Sun Tzu
- 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 .
- 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
Anagrams
*descend
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(Webster 1913)Verb
(en verb)- The rain descended , and the floods came. Matthew vii. 25.
- We will here descend to matters of later date. Fuller.
- [He] with holiest meditations fed, Into himself descended . .
- And on the suitors let thy wrath descend . .
- he descended from his high estate
- the beggar may descend from a prince
- a crown descends to the heir
- they descended the river in boats; to descend a ladder
- But never tears his cheek descended . .