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A student who studies excessively
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swot
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
v. study intensively, as before an exam; "I had to bone up on my Latin verbs before the final exam" [syn: cram , grind away , drum , bone up , get up , mug up , swot up , bone ] [also: swotting , swotted ]
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Swot or SWOT may refer to: Surface Water Ocean Topography Mission , a proposed NASA mission to make the first global survey of Earth's surface water SWOT analysis , a strategic planning tool used to evaluate the Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
I. noun EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ Everyone else in the class hated him because they thought he was a real swot . EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ At school I certainly wasn't a swot , but I wasn't a layabout, either. ▪ In Annie's own youth Ruth would have been ...
Usage examples of swot.
Would it be appropriate to say, then, that the body of Our Saviour saw but Our Saviour saw not, swot but swot not, swinked but.
A few of the Jurisfiction agents looked up but most were too busy swotting up on their pass notes, cramming for their impending destinations.
America, of course, so Piers would have to do some swotting on the plane.
Two days of spreadsheets, SWOT analyses, performance indicators, e-mail numbers, acetates and acronyms.
I could swot up Anna Livia's lines in a few hours' intense cramming.
Now, if he did know, hed be able to swot up on that side of things and get ready to catch all the hand-grenades they lobbed at him.
Bridgewater via Birmingham He needs to swot up his geography -- or perhaps he was just unlucky with his hitches.
I wanted to be with the rest of the class, trampling the hell out of some other poor heartbroken kid – one of the swots or weeds or Indians or Jews who were habitually and horribly bullied.
He startled young Barnes by the achievement, which only junior swots think only junior swots know about.
We had to go and ask one of the German swots on Z-watch what it meant.
I had swotted up the old classics for my university entrance, had learned passages by heart.
Miles swotted procedures and directed operations with a good cheer that edged toward manic as his helpers became glummer.
Like a vicious boy it had noticed something, swotted it out of pointless malice, and gone its way.