What is "swing"

Swing \Swing\, v. t.

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.
   --Dryden.

   They get on ropes, as you must have seen the children, and are swung by their men visitants.
   --Spectator.

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, gate, etc. (Carp.), to put it on hinges so that it can swing or turn.

Swing \Swing\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Swung; Archaic imp. Swang; p. pr. & vb. n. Swinging.] [OE. swingen, AS. swingan to scourge, to fly, to flutter; akin to G. schwingen to winnow, to swingle, oscillate, sich schwingen to leap, to soar, OHG. swingan to throw, to scourge, to soar, Sw. svinga to swing, to whirl, Dan. svinge. Cf. Swagger, Sway, Swinge, Swink.]

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.
   --Boyle.

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.]
   --D. Webster.

   To swing round the circle, to make a complete circuit.

   He had swung round the circle of theories and systems in which his age abounded, without finding relief.
   --A. V. G. Allen.

Swing \Swing\, n.

1. The act of swinging; a waving, oscillating, or vibratory motion of a hanging or pivoted object; oscillation; as, the swing of a pendulum.

2. Swaying motion from one side or direction to the other; as, some men walk with a swing.

3. A line, cord, or other thing suspended and hanging loose, upon which anything may swing; especially, an apparatus for recreation by swinging, commonly consisting of a rope, the two ends of which are attached overhead, as to the bough of a tree, a seat being placed in the loop at the bottom; also, any contrivance by which a similar motion is produced for amusement or exercise.

4. Influence of power of a body put in swaying motion.

   The ram that batters down the wall, For the great swing and rudeness of his poise, They place before his hand that made the engine.
   --Shak.

5. Capacity of a turning lathe, as determined by the diameter of the largest object that can be turned in it.

6. Free course; unrestrained liberty or license; tendency. ``Take thy swing.'' --Dryden. To prevent anything which may prove an obstacle to the full swing of his genius. --Burke. Full swing. See under Full. Swing beam (Railway Mach.), a crosspiece sustaining the car body, and so suspended from the framing of a truck that it may have an independent lateral motion. Swing bridge, a form of drawbridge which swings horizontally, as on a vertical pivot. Swing plow, or Swing plough.

   1. A plow without a fore wheel under the beam.

   2. A reversible or sidehill plow. Swing wheel.

      1. The scape-wheel in a clock, which drives the pendulum.

      2. The balance of a watch.

Old English swinge "stroke, blow; chastisement," from swing (v.). Meaning "suspended seat on ropes" is from 1680s. Meaning "shift of public opinion" is from 1899. The meaning "variety of big dance-band music with a swinging rhythm" is first recorded 1933, though the sense has been traced back to 1888; its heyday was from mid-30s to mid-40s. Phrase in full swing "in total effect or operation" (1560s) perhaps is from bell-ringing. The backyard or playground swing-set is from 1951.

Old English swingan "beat, strike; scourge, flog; to rush, fling oneself" (strong verb, past tense swang, past participle swungen), from Proto-Germanic *swingan (cognates: Old Saxon, Old High German swingan, Old Frisian swinga, German schwingen "to swing, swingle, oscillate"), from PIE *sweng(w)- "to swing, turn, toss" (perhaps Germanic only).\n

\nThe meaning "move freely back and forth" is first recorded 1540s. Transitive sense "cause to oscillate" is from 1550s. Sense of "bring about, make happen" is from 1934. Sense of "engage in promiscuous sex" is from 1964; earlier, more generally, "enjoy oneself unconventionally" (1957). Related: Swung; swinging. Swing-voter "independent who often determines the outcome of an election" is from 1966.

Etymology 1 vb. 1 (context intransitive English) To rotate about an off-centre fixed point. 2 (context intransitive English) To dance. 3 (context intransitive English) To ride on a swing. 4 (context intransitive English) To participate in the http://en.wikipedi

1. org/wiki/swinging lifestyle; to participate in wife-swapping. 5 (context intransitive English) To hang from the gallows. 6 (context intransitive cricket of a ball English) to move sideways in its trajectory. 7 (context intransitive English) To fluctuate or change. 8 (context transitive English) To move (an object) backward and forward; to wave. 9 (context transitive English) To change (a numerical result); especially to change the outcome of an election. 10 (context transitive English) To make (something) work; especially to afford (something) financially. 11 (context transitive music English) To play notes that are in pairs by making the first of the pair slightly longer than written (augmentation) and the second, resulting in a bouncy, uneven rhythm. 12 (context transitive cricket English) (qualifier: of a bowler) to make the ball move sideways in its trajectory. 13 (context transitive and intransitive boxing English) To move one's arm in a punching motion. 14 (context transitive English) In dancing, to turn around in a small circle with one's partner, holding hands or arms. 15 (context transitive engineering English) To admit or turn something for the purpose of shape it; said of a lathe. 16 (context transitive carpentry English) To put (a door, gate, etc.) on hinges so that it can swing or turn. 17 (context nautical English) To turn round by action of wind or tide when at anchor. Etymology 2

   n. 1 The manner in which something is swung. 2 A line, cord, or other thing suspended and hanging loose, upon which anything may swing. 3 A hanging seat in a children's playground, for acrobats in a circus, or on a porch for relaxing.

1. v. move in a curve or arc, usually with the intent of hitting; "He swung his left fist"; "swing a bat"

2. move or walk in a swinging or swaying manner; "He swung back" [syn: sway]

3. change direction with a swinging motion; turn; "swing back"; "swing forward"

4. influence decisively; "This action swung many votes over to his side" [syn: swing over]

5. make a big sweeping gesture or movement [syn: sweep, swing out]

6. hang freely; "the ornaments dangled from the tree"; "The light dropped from the ceiling" [syn: dangle, drop]

7. hit or aim at with a sweeping arm movement; "The soccer player began to swing at the referee"

8. alternate dramatically between high and low values; "his mood swings"; "the market is swinging up and down"

9. live in a lively, modern, and relaxed style; "The Woodstock generation attempted to swing freely"

10. have a certain musical rhythm; "The music has to swing"

11. be a social swinger; socialize a lot [syn: get around]

12. play with a subtle and intuitively felt sense of rhythm

13. engage freely in promiscuous sex, often with the husband or wife of one's friends; "There were many swinging couples in the 1960's"

14. [also: swung]

1. n. a state of steady vigorous action that is characteristic of an activity; "the party went with a swing"; "it took time to get into the swing of things"

2. mechanical device used as a plaything to support someone swinging back and forth

3. a sweeping blow or stroke; "he took a wild swing at my head"

4. changing location by moving back and forth [syn: swinging, vacillation]

5. a style of jazz played by big bands popular in the 1930s; flowing rhythms but less complex than later styles of jazz [syn: swing music, jive]

6. a jaunty rhythm in music [syn: lilt]

7. the act of swinging a golf club at a golf ball and (usually) hitting it [syn: golf stroke, golf shot]

8. in baseball; a batter's attempt to hit a pitched ball; "he took a vicious cut at the ball" [syn: baseball swing, cut]

9. a square dance figure; a pair of dancers join hands and dance around a point between them

10. [also: swung]

Swing or swinging may refer to:

Swing is a Canadian néo-trad band of Franco-Ontarian origins. The two main members of Swing are Michel Bénac and Jean-Philippe Goulet.

"Swing dance" is a group of dances that developed with the swing style of jazz music in the 1920s-1940s, with the origins of each dance predating the popular "swing era". During the swing era, there were hundreds of styles of swing dancing, but those that have survived beyond that era include: Lindy Hop, Balboa, Collegiate Shag, and Lindy Charleston. Today, the most well-known of these dances is the Lindy Hop, which originated in Harlem in the early 1930s. While the majority of swing dances began in African American communities as vernacular African American dances, a swing era dance, like Balboa, developed outside of these communities.

Somewhat surprisingly, "swing dance" was not commonly used to identify a group of dances until the later half of the twentieth century. Historically, the term "Swing" referred to the style of jazz music, which inspired the evolution of the dance. When referring to the dance, most of the participants of the original swing era would have used the term "jitterbug." Jitterbug is an umbrella term that denotes all forms of swing dance, though it is often used as a synonym for the six-count derivative of Lindy Hop called "East Coast Swing". It was also common to use the word to identify a kind of dancer (i.e., a swing dancer). A "jitterbug" might prefer to dance Lindy Hop, Shag, or any of the other swing dances. The term was famously associated with swing era band leader Cab Calloway because, as he put it, "[The dancers] look like a bunch of jitterbugs out there on the floor due to their fast, often bouncy movements. The Jitterbug consists of a bouncy six-beat rhythm.

Swing is a studio album released by The Manhattan Transfer in 1997 on the Atlantic Records label. This album is a collection of 1930's and 1940s swing music with The Manhattan Transfer's jazz twist. The album also features a guest appearance by Stephane Grappelli, one of his last recordings before his death.

The swing or overhand is a type of hook, with the main difference being that in the swing the arm is usually more extended.

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Swing is a Hong Kong musical duo that was founded in 1999. The members are Eric Kwok and Jerald Chan. The former name of the group is Snowman. Their best known work is "1984" and "A ticket in half" （半張飛）.

Swing was disbanded in 2002. They returned in 2009 when releasing the Wu Dang album. Another album Electro was released in 2010 .

Swing is an American romantic comedy film starring Constance Brenneman, Innis Casey, Tom Skerritt, Jacqueline Bisset, Jonathan Winters, Nell Carter, Dahlia Waingort, Adam Tomei, Barry Bostwick, Mindy Cohn and directed by Martin Guigui.

Swing is a French film by Tony Gatlif, released in 2002.

Swing is a short film, made in Kuwait in 2011, that sums up the story of life. The film, starring Ema Shah, Aida, and Karkar, was written and directed by Abdullah Al-Daihani, and edited by Yousef Al-Mujeem. The music was composed by Ibrahim Al-Mazidi.

Swing is a GUI widget toolkit for Java. It is part of Oracle's Java Foundation Classes (JFC) – an API for providing a graphical user interface (GUI) for Java programs.

Swing was developed to provide a more sophisticated set of GUI components than the earlier Abstract Window Toolkit (AWT). Swing provides a native look and feel that emulates the look and feel of several platforms, and also supports a pluggable look and feel that allows applications to have a look and feel unrelated to the underlying platform. It has more powerful and flexible components than AWT. In addition to familiar components such as buttons, check boxes and labels, Swing provides several advanced components such as tabbed panel, scroll panes, trees, tables, and lists.

Unlike AWT components, Swing components are not implemented by platform-specific code. Instead, they are written entirely in Java and therefore are platform-independent. The term "lightweight" is used to describe such an element.

Swing is currently in the process of being replaced by JavaFX.

A swing is a hanging seat, often found at playgrounds for children including adults, at circus for acrobats, or on a porch for relaxing, although they may also be items of indoor furniture, such as Latin American hammock or the Indian oonjal. The seat of a swing may be suspended from chains or ropes. Once a swing is in motion it continues to oscillate like a pendulum until external interference or drag brings it to a halt. Swing sets are very popular with children.

On playgrounds, several swings are often suspended from the same metal or wooden frame, known as a swing set, allowing more than one child to play at a time. Such swings come in a variety of sizes and shapes. For infants and toddlers, swings with leg holes support the child in an upright position while a parent or sibling pushes the child to get a swinging motion. Some swing sets include play items other than swings, such as a rope ladder or sliding pole.

For older children, swings are sometimes made of a flexible canvas seat, of rubberized ventilated tire tread, of plastic, or of wood. A common backyard sight is a wooden plank suspended on both sides by ropes from a tree branch.

An electoral swing analysis (or swing) shows the extent of change in voter support, typically from one election to another, expressed as a positive or negative percentage. A multi-party swing is an indicator of a change in the electorate's preference between candidates or parties (e.g. Conservative to Social Democrat). A swing can be calculated for the electorate as a whole, for a given electoral district or for a particular demographic.

A swing is particularly useful for analysing change in voter support over time, or as a tool for predicting the outcome of elections in constituency-based systems. Swing is also usefully deployed when analysing the shift in voter intentions revealed by (political) opinion polls or to compare polls concisely which may rely on differing samples and on markedly different swings and therefore predict extraneous results.

The term swing refers to the extent of change in voter support, typically from one election or opinion poll to another, expressed as a positive or negative percentage point. For the Australian House of Representatives and the lower houses of the parliaments of all the states and territories except Tasmania and the ACT, Australia employs preferential voting in single-member constituencies. Under the full-preference instant-runoff voting system, in each seat the candidate with the lowest vote is eliminated and their preferences are distributed, which is repeated until only two candidates remain. While every seat has a two-candidate preferred (TCP) result, seats where the major parties have come first and second are commonly referred to as having a two-party-preferred (TPP) result. The concept of "swing" in Australian elections is not simply a function of the difference between the votes of the two leading candidates, as it is in Britain. To know the majority of any seat, and therefore the swing necessary for it to change hands, it is necessary to know the preferences of all the voters, regardless of their first preference votes. It is not uncommon in Australia for candidates who have comfortable leads on the first count to fail to win the seat, because "preference flows" go against them.

Swing is a 2010 short film on anti-smoking directed by Abhinav Kamal. The film stars Amrita Neve in the female lead. DOP of the film has been carried out by Rajesh K.

The film received the Best Short Film Award in the festival Hollywood Boulevard conducted in connection with Liba Chrysalis, LIBA Chennai. The film was judged by Tamil film actor director Cheran. The film was produced by Ten Motion Arts.

"Swing" is a song written by Chris Stapleton and Frank Rogers, and recorded by American country music artist Trace Adkins. It was released in May 2006 as the first single from his album Dangerous Man.

"Swing" is a 2012 song by Slovak hip hop band AMO. While the original version of the composition was released on the group's studio album Positive (2011), its single version with featuring a vocal contribution by Celeste Buckingham, sung in English, was issued on June 5, 2012.

The single peaked at number five on the component Rádio SK 50 Oficiálna and at number forty-six on the Rádio Top 100 Oficiálna, respectively. The accompanying music video directed Martin Hudák.

"Swing" is the lead single from Savage's debut solo album, Moonshine. It was released in January 2005 and went on to reach number one in the New Zealand singles chart. In 2008, it was released as a single in the United States with a re-done version featuring Soulja Boy, as well as an additional version featuring Pitbull. Both remixes are featured on the rapper's second studio album Savage Island, and the Soulja Boy version additionally appeared on Now That's What I Call Music! 29. There are also covers of this song by metalcore bands Drop Dead, Gorgeous and Miss May I.

"Swing" was remixed by Australian producer Joel Fletcher in 2013. The remix, credited as " Joel Fletcher & Savage", has reached number two in Australia - charting much higher than the original version. A music video was filmed on 17 December 2013 and released on 14 January 2014. The track features on the Australian release of Ministry of Sound - The Annual 2014. This version of the song was certified triple platinum by the Australian Recording Industry Association.

Swing is a computer puzzle game, released for the PlayStation and PC, developed in Germany by the now defunct Software 2000. In the USA, a similar game was released under the name "Marble Master". A downgraded version of the game was released for the Game Boy Color.

Released in 1997, the object of the game is to score points by dropping balls onto sets of see-saws, in rows of three or more of the same colour. The twist, however, is that each ball has a different weight, determined by the number written on the front of it. The higher the number, the heavier the ball. This means that if a ball is placed onto one side of the see-saw which is heavier than the total value of the balls on the other side, the balance would be upset, sending the top ball flying across the playing field to land on another column. Cascade 'throws' can be achieved, and the game is over if a column reaches too tall. A variety of bonus balls, all with special uses, also feature.

In 1999, a sequel was released: Swing Plus: Total Mind Control. The game was never released outside Germany.

In 2008, a Java remake was made named XSwing Plus.

In 2015, a remake for Android made in Unity3D was released as Color-X-Plode. One year later it was also released for iOS.

In jazz and related musical styles, the term swing is used to describe the sense of propulsive rhythmic "feel" or " groove" created by the musical interaction between the performers, especially when the music creates a "visceral response" such as feet-tapping or head-nodding (see pulse). The term "swing" is also used to refer to several other related jazz concepts including the swung note (a "lilting" rhythm of unequal notes) and the genre of swing, a jazz style which originated in the 1930s.

As swing jazz was dance music and coevolved together with swing dances such as the Lindy Hop, the term swing can be understood as music that makes the listener want to dance. Even though there is overlap between these concepts, music from any era of jazz or even from non-jazz music can be said to have "swing" (in the sense of having a strong rhythmic groove or feel).

While some jazz musicians have called the concept of "swing" a subjective and elusive notion, they acknowledge that the concept is well-understood by experienced jazz musicians at a practical, intuitive level. Jazz players refer to "swing" as the sense that a jam session or live performance is really "cooking" or "in the pocket."

If a jazz musician states that an ensemble performance is "really swinging," this suggests that the performers are playing with a special degree of rhythmic coherence and "feel." Although referring to a "sense of swing" is often done in the context of ensemble performances (e.g. a jazz combo or band), even an unaccompanied soloist can be said to be performing with "swing."

Swing is the third extended play (EP) and fifth overall release by Mandopop boy band Super Junior-M, a sub-group of the South Korean band Super Junior. The EP consists of six songs, which were released for digital download on March 21, 2014 in China and Taiwan by S.M. Entertainment. The group released the album in Korean music sites, such as MelOn, genie, Naver music and more, on March 31, 2014.

Swing, in British politics, is a number used as an indication of the scale of voter change between two political parties. It originated as a mathematical calculation for comparing the results of two constituencies. Britain uses a first-past-the-post voting system. The swing (in percentage points) is the percentage of voter support minus the comparative percentage of voter support corresponding to the same electorate or demographic.

The swing is calculated by comparing the percentage of voter support from one election to another. The percentage value of the comparative elections results are compared with the corresponding results of the substantive election. An electoral swing analysis shows the extent of change in voter support from one election to another. It can be used as a means of comparison between individual candidates or political parties for a given electoral region or demographic.