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Swinging   /swˈɪŋɪŋ/   Listen
verb
Swing  v. t.  (past & past part. swung, archaic swang; pres. part. swinging)  
1.
To cause to swing or vibrate; to cause to move backward and forward, or from one side to the other. "He swings his tail, and swiftly turns his round." "They get on ropes, as you must have seen the children, and are swung by their men visitants."
2.
To give a circular movement to; to whirl; to brandish; as, to swing a sword; to swing a club; hence, colloquially, to manage; as, to swing a business.
3.
(Mach.) To admit or turn (anything) for the purpose of shaping it; said of a lathe; as, the lathe can swing a pulley of 12 inches diameter.
To swing a door, To swing a gate, etc. (Carp.), to put it on hinges so that it can swing or turn.


Swing  v. i.  (past & past part. swung, archaic swang; pres. part. swinging)  
1.
To move to and fro, as a body suspended in the air; to wave; to vibrate; to oscillate. "I tried if a pendulum would swing faster, or continue swinging longer, in case of exsuction of the air."
2.
To sway or move from one side or direction to another; as, the door swung open.
3.
To use a swing; as, a boy swings for exercise or pleasure. See Swing, n., 3.
4.
(Naut.) To turn round by action of wind or tide when at anchor; as, a ship swings with the tide.
5.
To be hanged. (Colloq.)
To swing round the circle, to make a complete circuit. (Colloq.) "He had swung round the circle of theories and systems in which his age abounded, without finding relief."





Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48


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"Swinging" Quotes from Famous Books



... one, who doesn't put her hand into her pocket to please her neighbors. Besides, I have a little affair with the Sheikh of Mohamera—objects of virtue, indigo, who knows what? As you know, I am a versatile man." And swinging around on his stool, Magin ...
— The Best Short Stories of 1917 - and the Yearbook of the American Short Story • Various
... hand must Hagen / stagger and fall to ground. So swift the blow he dealt him, / the meadow did resound. Had sword in hand been swinging, / Hagen had had his meed, So sorely raged he stricken: / to rage in sooth was ...
— The Nibelungenlied - Translated into Rhymed English Verse in the Metre of the Original • trans. by George Henry Needler
... grown indifferent to shell-fire to huddle under cover, adding to the wretchedness of life in trench or bombproof as nothing else can. And the Doctor, biting hard upon the worn stem of the old briar-root, as he goes swinging along through the hissing deluge with his chin upon his breast and his fierce eyes sullenly fixed upon the goal ahead, recalls, even more vividly than upon Sunday, the angry buffalo ...
— The Dop Doctor • Clotilde Inez Mary Graves
... been touring properly, of course we should have been going to the Giant's Causeway and the swinging Bridge at Carrick-a-rede; but propriety is the last thing we aim at in our itineraries. We were within worshipping distance of two rather important shrines in our literary pilgrimage; for we had met a very knowledgeable traveller at the Sorley Boy, and after a little chat ...
— Penelope's Irish Experiences • Kate Douglas Wiggin
... that both those brothers should go against Grettir at once; and thus was it done, and great swinging and pulling about there was, now one side, now the other getting the best of it, though one or other of the brothers Grettir ever had under him; but each in turn must fall on his knee, or have some slip one of the other; and so hard they griped each at each, that they were all blue ...
— The Story of Grettir The Strong • Translated by Eirikr Magnusson and William Morris


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