OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 3424

swing

/ˈswɪŋ/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
columpio • fuin fuan • hamaca • tambesco
A hanging seat that can swing back and forth, in a children's playground, for acrobats in a circus, or on a porch for relaxing.
A German court has ruled that a landlord was within her rights to evict a man for persistently using a squeaky swing set as a sex prop in his flat late at night.
To Edward […] he was terrible, nerve-inflaming, poisonously asphyxiating. He sat rocking himself in the late Mr. Churchill's swing chair, smoking and twaddling.
swing
A type of hook with the arm more extended.
Word forms
📚 verb • entry_id 3423

swing

/ˈswɪŋ/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
balancear • mecerse
To rotate about an off-centre fixed point.
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.
columpiarse • mecerse
To ride on a swing.
The children laughed as they swung.
mecer
To move (an object) backward and forward; to wave.
He swung his sword as hard as he could.
desplazar
To change (a numerical result); especially to change the outcome of an election.