Sling

Definition: Sling

Sling

Noun

1. Liquor and water with sugar and lemon or lime juice.

2. Bandage to support an injured forearm; consisting of a wide triangular piece of cloth hanging from around the neck.

3. A plaything consisting of a Y-shaped stick with elastic between the arms; used to propel small stones.

Verb

1. Hurl as if with a sling.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "sling" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)

Bible

Economics

Mechanical Engineering

Mining

Shipping

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Synonyms: Sling

Arms

Bow, crossbow, balister, catapult, sling; battering ram; (impulse); gunnery; ballistics; (propulsion).

Drunkenness

Drink; alcoholic drinks; blue ruin, grog, port wine; punch, punch bowl; cup, rosy wine, flowing bowl; drop, drop too much; dram; beer; (beverage); aguardiente; apple brandy, applejack; brandy, brandy smash; chain lightning, champagne, gin, ginsling; highball, peg, rum, rye, schnapps, sherry, sling, uisquebaugh, usquebaugh, whisky, xeres.

Pendency

Suspend, hang, sling, hook up, hitch, fasten to, append.

Regression

Dart, lance, tilt; ejaculate, jaculate; fulminate, bolt, drive, sling, pitchfork.

Crosswords: Sling

French (sling), Manx (weaver's reed ), Swedish (sling), Turkish (sling).

Sling it go on, you aren't welcome (Phoenix Nights; writing credit: Neil Fitzmaurice; Peter Kay)

One gin sling! (The Cheap Detective; writing credit: Neil Simon)

This is a gin sling! (The Cheap Detective; writing credit: Neil Simon)

Won Jin Sling is the waiter . One brandy, Won Jin Sling (The Cheap Detective; writing credit: Neil Simon)

Its Doc not guns don't sling weight (Left & Right Featuring Method Man And Redman; performing artist: D'Angelo)

The only thing I sling is condoms for spring break (Left & Right Featuring Method Man And Redman; performing artist: D'Angelo)

Sling Your Hook (1969)

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Books

• Sling Blade: A Screenplay (reference)

• The Boy With a Sling (reference)

• The sling and the arrow (reference)

• The sling and the swallow (reference)

• With Stone and Sling (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Wire Rope News & Sling Technology (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Sling Blade (reference)

• Some Folks Call It a Sling Blade (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Sling Blade: Music From The Miramax Motion Picture [SOUNDTRACK] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Tamrac 574701 Velocity 7 - Photo Sling Pack, Black (reference)

• Tamrac 574704 Velocity 7 - Photo Sling Pack, Blue (reference)

• Case Logic NDS-3 Neoprene CD Sling Pack (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

[Arm sling and artificial legs]. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Physical Therapy Department, Deshon General Hospital, Butler, Pennsylvania : Use of the Sayre head sling for the correction of scoliosis. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Medicine - Military - Equipment : Knapsack ready to sling on back. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Line engraving published in "Harper's Weekly", 1862, depicting the interior of the ship's gun turret. Passaic was armed with two large Dahlgren smooth-bore guns: one XI-inch and one XV-inch. Note round shot in the foreground, that at right in a hoisting sling, and turning direction marking on the gun carriage. Credit: NAVY.

Two girls talking to man with his arm in sling. Credit: Library of Congress.

Dutch Gap, Va., vicinity. Sling for transporting big guns. Credit: Library of Congress.

Production. Halftrac armoured cars. Attaching a chain sling to a lift of steel plates for the production of halftrac scout cars in a converted Eastern lock and safe plant. Diebold Safe and Lock Company, Canton, Ohio. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

And to carry his arm in a sling, and prevented his signing anything

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Health

Urethral sling procedures pass a ribbon of fascia or artificial material beneath the urethra. (references)

For severe cases of stress incontinence, the surgeon may secure the bladder with a wide sling. (references)

The sling, fixed to the anterior body wall, serves to elevate and compress the urethra, restoring continence in 80 percent of patients. (references)

Trade

Sri Lanka

For container cargo, the weight, center of gravity, and sling or grab points may be marked to encourage careful handling. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "sling": baby sling ♦ cargo sling ♦ gin sling ♦ have one's arm in a sling ♦ hurl with a sling ♦ rum sling ♦ sling a hammock ♦ sling a stone ♦ sling about ♦ sling arms! ♦ sling away ♦ sling beam ♦ sling cart ♦ sling dog ♦ sling ink ♦ sling mud at ♦ sling on ♦ sling one's hook ♦ sling out ♦ sling over one's shoulder ♦ sling psychometer ♦ sling your hook!. Additional references.

Beginning with "sling": sling-back, sling-backs, sling-bag, sling-bombs, sling-hammock, sling-like, sling-shot.

Ending with "sling": axe-sling, mud-sling.

Albanian

hobe, hedh (aim, cast, cheat, chuck, dart, dash, diddle, discard, dispose of, down-load, drop, evade, flash, fling, flip, fob, fob off, have, heave, hose, hurl, land, launch, pitch, pour out, project, push, rain, release, scrap, send, set down, sink, spill, sprinkle, strew, swing, tap, throw, throw away, throw down, throw over, toss, touch off, transfer, winnow), gjuajtje me hobe, gjuaj (aim, chase, Chevy, hit, Hunt, prey, prey upon, shoot, strike, throw), fashë (band, bandage, gauze, patch, roller bandage, swathe). (various references)

Arabic 

‏حمالة الكتف (shoulder strap), ‏حمالة السيف (baldric), ‏حمالة الطفل, ‏حزم (bind, bunch, bundle, decide, determination, dogmatise, firmness, hardness, packing, parcel, resolution, rope, sheaf, stack, strap, truss), ‏حزام البندقية, ‏حبل الرفع, ‏حبال (bonds, rope), ‏علق (annotate, comment, commentate, dangle, gloss, hang, hang up, hinge, pin out, rest, shelve, stop, string up, suspend, swing), ‏علاقة طبية, ‏المخذفة, ‏السلنك شراب مسكر, ‏رفع (boost, brace, bring to his feet, bring up, cat, crane, dismiss, elevate, elevation, exalt, expand, fork out, heave, heighten, hike, hoist, hold up, inflate, jack, lever, leverage, lift, lifting, mount, pick, pick me up, pick up, promote, purchase, push up, put up with smth., raise, rear, rise, rising, rode, roll up, scroll, send up, set up, take up, thrust, turn up, up-end, upheave, uphold, uplift), ‏رمى (bin, bowl along, cast, cast down, chuck, discard, lance, pitch, pop, project, strike in, sweep, throw, tilt). (various references)

Bulgarian 

клуп (loop, mesh, noose), повдигам с въже, повдигам с ремък, прашка (catapult), превръзка през рамо, провесвам (dangle, hang, loll, suspend, swing), джин със сода, захар, лимон, мятам (cast, drive, fling, launch, pitch, put on, sell, send, shaft, shoot, slip over, spoof, swing, throw, toss, tumble about), уиски със сода, захар, лимон, коняк със сода, захар, лимон, такелажна верига, товароподемна примка, хвърлям (aim, broadcast, cast, cob, dart, dash, draw, fling, fling down, flung, heave, hurl, hurtle, jerk, launch, pass, pitch, plunk, pounce, precipitate, project, send, shadow, shed, shoot, shoot out, sock, throw, throw off, throw out, toss, toss about, whop), хвърляне (cast, casting, delivery, draught, fling, heave, hurl, hurling, pitch, precipitation, projection, release, shy, throw, throwing, toss), ром със сода, захар, лимон, ластик (ribbing). (various references)

Chinese 

背帶 (braces, straps, suspenders), 吊繩 , 吊索, 彈�" . (various references)

Czech

smyèka (kink, knot, loop, noose), zdvihat, zavìsit (hang, hang out, hang up, ring off, suspend), prak (catapult, slingshot), osidlo, mrštit (chuck, dash, fling, heave, hurl, hurtle, pitch, pop, strike, throw, toss), hod (cast, heave, pitch, throw, toss), házet parkem. (various references)

Danish

strop (bail clamp, bride, cargo sling, cross strap, harness, ornamental link, strap, strop, tie-bar), slynge (ansa, catapult, loop, tie), sling (cargo sling), loekke (ansa, loop), længe (long), hejsning (jacking up, lifting, raising), hejsetov, baeresele. (various references)

Dutch

strop (abortion, loss), laadleng, hijs (discharge with married gear), glasdraagriem, draagband (cargo sling). (various references)

Farsi 

فلاخن , پرتاب کردن (Hurl, Jaculate, Pelt, Project, Shoot, Shove, Slog, Thrust, Unsling), پراندن (Fly, Jet, Jump, Squirt, Whisk), قلاب سنگ , تسمه تفنگ , زنجیردار, زنجیر (Bond, Catena, Curb, Hobble, Link, Manacle, Tow), انداختن (Cast, Delete, Drop, Hitch, Hurl, Hurtle, Jaculate, Launch, Layaway, Omit, Put, Relegate, Shovel, Slough, Souse, Throw, Thrust, Toss), رسن (Cord, Line, Rope), بند (Article, Bond, Clamp, Clause, Dam, Dike, Fascia, Fit, Hinge, Internode, Joggle, Joint, Levee, Ligament, Ligature, Line, Link, Manacle, Noose, Paragraph, Provision, Proviso, Segment, Snare, Stanza, Tie, Trawl, Weir, Wristband). (various references)

Finnish

ritsa (catapult, slingshot), raksi (strap, tag), linko (buzzer, centrifugal drying machine, centrifugal hydro-extractor, centrifuge, drying machine, hydroextractor, shwisser, whuzzer, wusser), lingota (fling, hurl, spin-dry), kannike (handle), hihna (band, belt, strap, thong). (various references)

French

élinguer, élingue. (various references)

German

schlinge (gin, guelder rose, halter, loop, mesh, noose, snare, snowball), schleudern (catapult, catapults, centrifuge, dash, extract, fling, flung, hurl, launch, pelt, pitch, precipitate, precipitation, send, skid, slingshots, slung, smote, spin, spin-dry, throw, to catapult, to dash, to hurl, to skid, to smote, toss). (various references)

Greek 

βρόχος (loop), αορτήρας, αναρτήρας (hanger, main operating rod, suspender), αναρτώ (suspend), αρτάνη (spreader), αρτάνη φόρτωσης, είδοσ ποτού, εκδφενδονίζω, περιλάβειο, θηλειά (hitch, loop), μεταφορά με σαμπάνι (cargo sling), κρεμώ (drape, hang, loll, suspend), σαμπάνι, σαμπάνιο, σαμπάνια (champagne), σφενδόνα, σφενδόνη, σφεντόνη, κούνια (cradle, crib, hammock, swing), κν.σαμπανιά φόρτωσης, κρεμαστάρι βραχίονοσ, μεταφορά με αρτάνη (cargo sling). (various references)

Hebrew 

מתל�" (rack, suspension, tab), מע� ב, לתלות (hang, hang up, string up, suspend), ל�"שליך במקלעת, �"טל�" (casting, fling, imposition, infliction, projection, throwing). (various references)

Hungarian

parittya, vállszíj (rifle-sling, Sam Browne belt, shoulder belt, shoulder strap, strap), szorítókötél, sorscsapás (setback, set-back, stroke of fate), parittyakő, karfelkötő kendő, kötélhám, jegelt gines limonádés ital, hurok (bight, bow, halter, hitch, kink, knot, lobe, loop, noose, slip knot, snare, snarl, springe), hordóakasztó, heveder (band, belt, belting, bracer, cartridge belt, chafing-mat, girth, harness, strap), hasló (belly-band, girth), hám (halter, harness, trace), dobás (cast, fling, jet, pitch, pitching, put, shot, shy, throw, throwing, toss, whirling), brága (rope sling, strop). (various references)

Indonesian

pengali-ali (catapult, slingshot), menyandang, ayunan (cradle, swaying), andukan (prop), ambin (strap). (various references)

Italian

sospendere (hang, interrupt, rusticate, stay, suspend), scagliare (dart, dash, fling, hurl, hurl oneself, hurtle, launch, rush, throw, throw oneself), stroppo (strap, strop), imbracatura (harness, slinging, strapping), avventare (catapult, hurl, skid, slingshots, toss), braca, braca di caricamento, braga (bifurcated pipe, forked pipe, tee-pipe, three-way pipe), bricolla da vetraio, fascia a tracolla, anello di fettuccia, imbracare, imbragata, imbragatura carico (cargo sling), lanciare (cast, chuck, dash, drop, fling, flip, float, hurl, launch, move out, pitch, promote, propose, put up, send, send up, set, shoot, start, throw, utter), portare a tracolla, fionda (catapult, slingshot). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

投石機 (a catapult). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

とうせきき (a catapult). (various references)

Korean 

새총. (various references)

Manx

tilgey (abort, cast, cast off, casting, chuck, discharge, disgorge, ejection, fling, hurl, launch; throwing, miscarriage, miscarry, misconception; found, moulting, pitch, plunge, pot, precipitate, precipitation, project, projection, shedding, shoot, throw, toss, toss up, toss up coin, tossing, void, vomit, vomiting), streng orraghey, strap (line, string), orraghey (bolt, cast, charge, discharge, flight, round of ammunition, shot, shy, throw), croghtane, clibbag hroggee. (various references)

Pig Latin

ingslay.(various references)

Portuguese

linga. (various references)

Romanian

trage cu praştia, ridica cu cureaua, prinde cu o curea, praştie (catapult), loviturã (attack, bang, bat, beat, beating, blow, box, bump, burglary, butt, calamity, cant, clap, clip, coup, cuff, dash, drive, fib, flap, go, heading, hit, hunch, hurt, jab, jolt, kick, knock, lick, master stroke, pelt, push, round, set back, shack, shock, shot, slash, smack, smash, stab, stick, strike, stroke, sweep, thrust), laţ (gin, lath, link, loop, noose, snare, springe, trap, wire), curea (belt, girdle, lanyard, leash, leather, strap, thong), bandulierã (bandoleer), azvârli (cast, catapult, chuck, discharge, drop, fling, hurl, jet, kick, launch, precipitate, project, send, shoot, slam, throw, toss, tumble), aruncãturã cu praştia, arunca (bowl, cast, cast aside, cast away, cast off, chuck, cob, dart, dash, deliver, discard, drop, fling, huddle on, hurl, jet, jettison, launch, peg, pelt at, pitch, pluck, plump, plunge into, precipitate, project, put, reject, rush, send, shoot, slam, throw, throw away, throw off, throw out, toss, tumble). (various references)

Russian 

рогатка (catapult, chevaux de frise, knife-rest, slingshot), ремень (belt, leather, strap, thong), вешать через плечо, метать (dart, hurl, launch, shoot, throw), лямки, бросок (burst of energy, cast, dash, fling, heave, jump, leap, pitch, shoot, shy, throw). (various references)

Scottish

tabhal (a sling, a sling to cast stones with). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

remenik (shoulder belt), praćka (catapult), omča (bight, loop, noose, springe), obesiti (gibbet, hang, hang up, string, string up, suspend, tuck up), hitnuti, baciti (bung, cast, chuck, dart, dash, fling, heave, hurl, hurtle, peg, pitch, project, shoot, slap, throw, throw out, toss). (various references)

Spanish

eslinga (bridle, strap, strop), braga (diaper, nappy, underpants). (various references)

Swedish

slunga (dart, fling, hurl, hurtle, launch, throw), bindel (band, bandage, filet, fillet, roller bandage), bärsele. (various references)

Thai

สายสะพายปืน, คล้อง, ขว้าง (cob, fling, hurl). (various references)

Turkish

sling, sapanla atmak, sapanla atma, sapan (catapult, launcher, peashooter, slingshot), kol askısı, halatla çekmek, cinli koktelyl, bocurgat halatı ile çekmek, bocurgat (capstan, whim, winch, windlass), atmak (affix, beat, blow, blow out, cashier, cast, cast away, cast off, catapult, chuck, chuck away, chuck out, dart, dash, deliver, discharge, doff, draw the longbow, drop, eject, elbow out, elbow smb. out, eliminate, fabricate, fetch, fib, flash, fling, fling away, fling out, fuse, fuze, give a kick, heave, hurl, inflict, insert, invent, junk, launch, let fly, loose, loose off, order off, peg, peg at, pelt, pitch, precipitate, project, pulsate, pulse, put, scutch, send, shoot, shoot out, shy, tell a fib, tell lies, throw, throw away, throw into, toss, uncork, utter, void), asmak (bunk, drape, drape over, gibbet, halter, hang, hang on, hang out, hang up, neglect, play hooky, post, post up, skip, skive off, string up, suspend, swing, truss, wag), askıya almak (hang on board, prop up temporarily, put aside, suspend), askı kayışı. (various references)

Ukrainian

канат (cable, rope), кидати (abandon, aim, buzz, cast, chop, chuck, dart, dash, depart, desert, desolate, elance, fall away, fling, pack in, pelt, pitch, plonk, project, throw, throw down, throw up, toss), метати з пращі, підвішувати (append), пращоподібна пов'язка, праща. (various references)

Vietnamese 

dây qu� ng (slung). (various references)

Welsh

ffon dafl. (various references)

funda, fundae, fundam, fundas, fundis. (various references)

slinge. (various references)

slinge. (various references)

escarpe. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "sling": slinger, slingers, slinging, slings, slingshot, slingshots. (additional references)

Words ending with "sling": brisling, enisling, gosling, hassling, hirsling, isling, nursling, quisling, rassling, riesling, tousling, tussling, unsling, warsling, wrassling. (additional references)

Words containing "sling": brislings, crosslinguistic, crosslinguistically, goslings, gunslinger, gunslingers, gunslinging, gunslingings, mudslinger, mudslingers, mudslinging, mudslingings, nurslings, quislingism, quislingisms, quislings, rieslings, unslinging, unslings. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Sling" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: estling, kling, Saling, selfing, Selig, selin, silny, slanbg, slangg, slig, slingo, Slint, sliny, slong, slyn, soing, sping, sring, sving, tling. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: lings.

-1 letter: gins, ling, lins, nils, sign, sing.

-2 letters: gin, ins, lin, lis, nil, sin.

-3 letters: in, is, li, si.

+1 letter: algins, aligns, clings, flings, glints, ingles, isling, lasing, liangs, ligans, lingas, losing, lungis, lyings, lysing, signal, single, singly, slings, sluing, soling.

+2 letters: ablings, agnails, bluings, closing, dingles, eloigns, engilds, english, filings, flyings, gingals, glisten, globins, glycins, goblins, gosling, ingulfs, jingals, jingles, lacings, ladings, lakings, lapsing, lashing, lasting, lawings, leasing, leggins, legions, lensing, ligands, lignins, likings, linages, lingams, lingers, lingoes, linings, linsang, lisping, listing, livings, logions, longies, longish, loosing, losings, lousing, lowings, lungyis, lushing, lusting, lutings, maligns, mingles, niggles, nilgais, nilgaus, palings, pilings, pulings, pulsing, rulings, sailing, salting, salving, sapling, scaling, sealing, seeling, selfing, selling, shingle, shingly, sibling, sidling, signals, silking, siloing, silting, singled, singles, singlet, slaking, slating, slaving, slaying, slewing, slicing, sliding, sliming, slinger, sliping, sloping, slowing, smiling, sniggle, soiling, soloing, solving, spiling, staling, styling, sulking, swingle, tiglons, tilings, tingles, unsling.