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Swooped vs Swooper - What's the difference?

swooped | swooper |

As a verb swooped

is past tense of swoop.

As a noun swooper is

one who, or that which, swoops.

swooped

English

Verb

(head)
  • (swoop)

    • 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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    swooper

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who, or that which, swoops.
  • *{{quote-news, year=2008, date=May 9, author=Matt Higgins, title=New Direction for Skydiving: From Vertical to Horizontal, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=In competition, where swoopers perform freestyle maneuvers, negotiate slalom-style courses and aim for accuracy, the spectacle is often compared to auto racing. }}