Swinging

Definition: Swinging

Swinging

Adjective

1. Moving to and fro suspended or as if suspended from above; "a swinging flower basket".

2. Characterized by a buoyant rhythm; "an easy lilting stride"; "the flute broke into a light lilting air"; "a swinging pace"; "a graceful swingy walk"; "a tripping singing measure".

Noun

1. Changing location by moving back and forth.

Date "swinging" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Domain	Definition
Food & Agriculture	The turning of a vessel at anchor from one direction to another under the influence of tide or wind. Source: European Union. (references)
	The operation of any haul(more particularly by cableway)subsequent to yarding, as often necessitated by topography. Source: European Union. (references)
Language	Aircraft manufacturers are offering all-cargo turbojet aircraft with -- tails to facilitate rapid loading. Source: European Union. (references)
Mechanical Engineering	The sideways motion of a crane. Source: European Union. (references)
Post & Telecom	The operation of passing through a number of swings in a bearing or angle of elevation. Source: European Union. (references)
Slang in 1811	SWINGING. A great swinging fellow; a great stout fellow. A swinging lie; a lusty lie. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.
Transportation	Turning of a vessel at anchor from one direction to another under the influence of winds or currents. Source: European Union. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Swinging

Synonyms: lilting (adj), swaying (adj), swingy (adj), tripping (adj), swing (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Greatness	Vast, immense, enormous, extreme; inordinate, excessive, extravagant, exorbitant, outrageous, preposterous, unconscionable, swinging, monstrous, overgrown; towering, stupendous, prodigious, astonishing, incredible; marvelous.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	Have you been swinging from powerlines (Will & Grace; writing credit: Evan Weinstein) Where's your cover? They indicate Profile who waves to them>What the hell are ya doin' back there? Without any cover fire I'll get my ass shot off!! While the rest of you are pumpin' the neighbors dog we'll get every swinging dick in this platoon killed (Heartbreak Ridge; writing credit: James Carabatsos) Bring me my pendulum, kiddies, I feel like swinging! (Beach Party; writing credit: Lou Rusoff) I have trouble swinging my butt (3 Ninjas Kick Back; writing credit: Mark Saltzman) Now I may be packing the kind of tackle, that you normally expect to find swinging about between the hind legs of a Grand National winner (Blackadder Goes Forth; writing credit: Richard Curtis; Ben Elton)
Lyrics	Daddy sits on the front porch swinging (Long Time Gone; performing artist: Dixie Chicks) And a swinging hot spot ("Big Yellow Taxi"; performing artist: Joni Mitchell)
Movie/TV Titles	That Swinging City (1966) Swinging Along (1962) The Swinging Doors (1915) Carlisle Indian School Club Swinging (1901) One Girl Swinging (1897)
Song Titles	Hollywood Swinging (performing artist: Kool & The Gang)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	Swinging on a Star (Harlequin Superromance, No 487) (reference) Swinging on the Garden Gate: A Spiritual Memoir (reference) (more book examples)

Theater & Movies	The Swinging Cheerleaders (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music	Thomas Gabriel: Swinging Christmas (reference) Ella Wishes You a Swinging Christmas [Remastered] [ORIGINAL RECORDING REMASTERED] [EXTRA TRACKS] (reference) Swinging With Tommy Dorsey (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech	SWINGING SPIDERMAN MOUSE PAD (reference) (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Consumer Goods	Wüsthof Under-Cabinet Swinging 9-Slot Oak Knife Block (reference) (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Swinging Valve for Supersonic Wind Tunnel. Credit: NASA.		Meteorological balloon with instrument package swinging below at McMurdo Station. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.
	Main deck, starboard side, table sieve, swinging table, anc collecting apparatus . In: "Report on the Construction and Work in 1880 of United States Fish Commission Steamer FISH-HAWK", by Lieutenant Zera Luther Tanner, U. S. N. United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries. Part IX. Report of the Commissioner for 1881. Plate XII, p. 53. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.		[Surgical Instruments and Apparatus] : Bainbridge table, showing swinging rack for instrument tray;... Credit: National Library of Medicine.
	Man swinging golf club. Credit: Library of Congress.		She is swinging in the hammock at this moment. Credit: Library of Congress.
	Not much swinging room in here. Credit: Library of Congress.		Frank White, full-length portrait, swinging golf club, right profile. Credit: Library of Congress.
	Swinging down the track. Credit: Library of Congress.		Children swinging in a playground or park. Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Play	Caption	Play	Caption
	Creaky door swinging in the wind.		Creaky door swinging in the wind.
	Attic door slowing swinging closed.		Creaky door swinging in the wind.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Title	Author	Quote
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	They were pushed under this timber, where each had his iron swinging in the darkness, waiting for him.
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man	Joyce, James	The earth was like a swinging smoking swaying censer, a ball of incense, an ellipsoidal ball
Grapes of Wrath	Steinbeck, John	And the light of the coming morning made his forehead seem to shine, and his hands, swinging beside him, flicked into the light and out again
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Economic History	Netherlands	Political and public opinion is increasingly swinging behind the idea of a less generous welfare system, lower taxes, and more competition. (references)
Lexicography	Devil's Dictionary	SHERIFF, n. In America the chief executive office of a country, whose most characteristic duties, in some of the Western and Southern States, are the catching and hanging of rogues. John Elmer Pettibone Cajee (I write of him with little glee) Was just as bad as he could be. 'Twas frequently remarked: "I swon! The sun has never looked upon So bad a man as Neighbor John." A sinner through and through, he had This added fault: it made him mad To know another man was bad. In such a case he thought it right To rise at any hour of night And quench that wicked person's light. Despite the town's entreaties, he Would hale him to the nearest tree And leave him swinging wide and free. Or sometimes, if the humor came, A luckless wight's reluctant frame Was given to the cheerful flame. While it was turning nice and brown, All unconcerned John met the frown Of that austere and righteous town. "How sad," his neighbors said, "that he So scornful of the law should be -- An anar c, h, i, s, t." (That is the way that they preferred To utter the abhorrent word, So strong the aversion that it stirred.) "Resolved," they said, continuing, "That Badman John must cease this thing Of having his unlawful fling. "Now, by these sacred relics" -- here Each man had out a souvenir Got at a lynching yesteryear -- "By these we swear he shall forsake His ways, nor cause our hearts to ache By sins of rope and torch and stake. "We'll tie his red right hand until He'll have small freedom to fulfil The mandates of his lawless will." So, in convention then and there, They named him Sheriff. The affair Was opened, it is said, with prayer. J. Milton Sloluck
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Swinging" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 88.51% of the time. "Swinging" is used about 782 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (-ing form)	88.51%	692	9,608
Adjective (general or positive)	7.66%	60	43,597
Noun (proper)	3.19%	25	69,787
Noun (singular)	0.64%	5	157,705
Total	100.00%	782	N/A

Expressions using "swinging": catch smb. a swinging blow ♦ compass swinging ♦ swinging chad ♦ swinging crosscut saw ♦ swinging door ♦ swinging or hinging post ♦ swinging post. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "swinging": swinging-arm.
	Ending with "swinging": all-swinging, axe-swinging, billhook-swinging, cat-swinging, club-swinging, dread-swinging, fist-swinging, free-swinging, hip-swinging, in-swinging, knife-swinging, over-swinging, sweet-swinging.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "swinging"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		lëkundje (backlash, dancing, fluctuation, hesitance, hesitancy, hesitation, jarring, jolting, nutation, oscillation, pitch, quake, reel, rolling, shake, shaking, shilly shally, shimmy, stagger, sway, swing, teeter, thrill, tossing, tremor, vacillation, vibrancy, vibration, wabble, wavering, wobble), lëkundës (oscillator, rocker, shaking, vibratory). (various references)

Arabic		‏متمايل (reeling, tottering, wavering), ‏ساحق (cracking, crusher, crushing, great, landslide, massive, out and out, overpowering, overwhelming, rank, reducible, shattering, sweeping), ‏شيطاني (demoniacal, demonic, devilish, diabolic, diabolical, fiendish, hellish, impish, infernal, playful, satanic, serpentine, unholy), ‏دوار (daze, dizziness, giddiness, revolutionary, revolving, rolling, rotary, rotating, rotational, rotative, rotatory, sturdy, swim, swimming, turn, vertigo, voluble). (various references)

Bulgarian		весел (airy, blithe, blithesome, boisterous, bright, buoyant, canty, cheery, chirp, chirpy, colorful, colourful, coltish, convivial, daft, debonair, exhilarated, festal, gamesome, gay, genial, gladsome, gleeful, gleesome, good humoured, good-humored, high, humorous, jaunty, jocular, jocund, joky, jolly, jovial, joyful, joyous, light, light hearted, lightsome, lively, mellow, merry, mirthful, peppy, perky, rackety, roistering, rollicking, rorty, rosy, saucy, slaphappy, sparkish, sportive, sporty, sprightly, upbeat, winsome), моден (chic, current, fashionable, genteel, go, high-toned, in, mainstream, mod, modern, modish, new, newfangled, nifty, rakish, saucy, smart, stylish, swanky, swell, swish), жив (above ground, active, agile, alert, alive, animate, breezy, brisk, cheerful, dashing, high-colored, high-coloured, jaunty, jazz, jazzy, live, lively, living, lusty, mercurial, mobile, nervous, nimble, organic, peppy, perky, pert, picturesque, pregnant, quick, racy, rattling, round, saucy, sharp, skittish, snappy, spicy, spirited, sprightly, spry, vital, vivacious, vivid, volatile, warm, whippy, zappy, zippy), по последната мода. (various references)

Chinese		摇摆 (Pendulous, stagger, Staggered, staggering, Swayed, swaying, swing, Swung, Wag, Wagged, Wagging, Waver, Wavered, Wavering, wiggling). (various references)

Czech		swingový, svižný (deft, nimble, rattling, spanking, spry), módní (dressy, fancy, fashionable, modish, new-fashioned, prevalent, smart, stylish), houpavý (bobbed). (various references)

Danish		svajning (evasive action, weathervaning), tovbanetransport efter udslaebning, pejlingssøgning, kranarmens bevaegelse i det vandrette plan (slewing), gyngende bevaegelse (balancing, rocking, swag, sway). (various references)

Dutch		zwaaiing (weathervaning), zwaaien (brandish, dangle, fling, sway, swing, wave, wave about), uitsleep door de lucht. (various references)

Finnish		minimin määritys pyyhkimällä. (various references)

French		pivotant. (various references)

German		schaukelnd (rocking, seesaw). (various references)

Greek		ρυμούλκησις κατόπιν απαγκιστρώσεως, ελιγμός πλοίου, αναπρώρηση (weathervaning), ταλάντωσις (slewing). (various references)

Hebrew		התנדנדות (fluctuation, pitching, rocking, seesaw, shaking, swaying), נדנוד (jerk, motion, oscillating, rocking, shaking, vibrating). (various references)

Hungarian		lengõ (pendulous), lengés (flutter, oscillation, scalloping, swag, sway, swing, vibration, wave). (various references)

Indonesian		pengayunan (action of swinging). (various references)

Italian		oscillazione (fluctuation, oscillation, rocking, vibration, waving). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		揺動 (shaking, titubation), スイッチ貿易 (bathers, swift ball, swimmer, swimming club, swimming school, swimming trunks, swing, swing door, swing out, swinger, swinger party, switch trade, swivel), やり方が渋い (Aah!, affluence, Ah!, at ease, calm, Dear me!, exclamation of relief or disappointment, flicker, large thing swaying, mildly, mischievous, naughty, Oh dear!, Oh!, reserve, rock, roll, rolling from side to side, room, shake, slow swaying, slowly, softly, stingy ways, swing, Thank God!, time, tremble, vibrate, waver, wobbling). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		スインギング , ゆらゆら (flicker, rock, roll, rolling from side to side, shake, slow swaying, swing, tremble, vibrate, waver, wobbling), ようどう (little child, shaking, titubation). (various references)

Korean		진동 (Oscillation, Quake, Vibrating, Vibration, vibrations). (various references)

Manx		lunjeaney (sway, swaying, swing; wobbling, wobble), lunjeanagh (vacillating, wobble, wobbly), leaystey (balancing, bank, boggle, brandish, dangle, fluctuate, fluctuating, heel, hesitate, hesitating, hesitation, loll, lolling, oscillate, oscillation, reel, reeling, rock, rocking, roll, see-saw, sway, swaying, swerve, swing, swing back, vacillate, vacillating, vacillation, waddle; wavering, waddling; fluctuation, wave, wave of hand, waver, waver of fixture), leaystagh (hesitant, nodding, oscillatory, reeling, rocking, vibrant, waddling, wavering). (various references)

Pig Latin		ingingsway.(various references)

Portuguese		balanço (audit, rocking, sway, swing, teeter, vacillation, waggle, weighing machine). (various references)

Romanian		pendular, oscilaţie (fluctuation, hesitation, oscillation, pendulation, vacillation, variation, vibration, wavering), legãnat, batant (fold, wing). (various references)

Russian		качающийся (pendular, pendulous, shaking, swingy, waggly), качание (sway, swing, teeter, weaving, wobble). (various references)

Scottish		siùdadh, luasgadh (rocking, tossing). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		raskalašno ponašanje, raskalašan (abandoned, dissipated, dissolute, fast, licentious, loose, rakish, rascally, riotous), njihanje (nutation, oscillation, sway, swing, wag, waggle), ljuljanje (roll, seesaw). (various references)

Spanish		balanceo (rocking, sway, swaying, swing, teeter). (various references)

Swedish		svängande (flourish, swaying, swing). (various references)

Thai		ชอบเปลี่ยนคู่นอน (คำแสลง), ทันสมัย (chic, cool, fashionable, new-fashioned, sleek), มีชีวิตชีวา (effervesce, kickin', scintillating, sprightly). (various references)

Turkish		sallanma (hurry up, jolt, look alive, look snappy, lurch, make it snappy, oscillation, rocking, shaking, sway, swing, taking, vacillation, wag, wagging, wobble, wriggle), sallanan (pendulous, rocking, rocky, shaking, tipsy, unsteady, vacillating, wavering, wobbly), sallama (agitation, flourish, jog, rocking, shake, shaking, swing, wag, wagging, waving), salınan, salınım (fade out, oscillation, swing, undulation), ritmik (cadenced, eurhythmic, rhythmic, rhythmical), kuvvetli (Doughty, energetic, forceful, heady, healty, hearty, intense, lusty, mighty, muscular, potent, powered, powerful, retentive, robust, rugged, sappy, sinewed, sinewy, sound, stalwart, stout, strong, tenacious, vigorous, virile, virulent), inip çıkan (fluctuating, undulant, yo-yo), hareketli (active, alive and kicking, animate, bouncing, brisk, bustling, full of action, go-go, like a jack-in-the-box, live, mobile, moving, rattling, restless, shifting, sliding, zippy), etkili (commanding, effective, effectual, efficacious, efficient, forceful, forcible, hefty, influential, moving, operative, penetrating, penetrative, poignant, potent, powerful, sovereign, telling, trenchant), eşini paylaşan, değişken (capricious, changeable, changeful, choppy, erratic, factor, fickle, fitful, flexible, flexile, fluid, fluxional, incalculable, inconsistent, inconstant, inequable, labile, mercurial, mobile, mutable, protean, shifting, sliding, streaked, streaky, uncertain, unfunded, unstable, unsteady, variable, variant, versatile), canlı (active, alive, animate, animated, beany, breezy, bright, brightly, brisk, bustling, colorful, colourful, Corky, crisp, crispy, dashing, dewy, driving, exhilarated, expressive, exuberant, feeling, fresh, full of beans, full of life, gay, genially, ginger, gingery, glowing, go-go, graphic, graphical, hearty, humming, in the flesh, inspired, life, live, lively, living, living being, living creature, lusty, mercurial, mettled, mettlesome, peppy, perky, picturesque, quick, racy, rich, rousing, sappy, saturated, smart, snappy, spirited, sprightly, springy, vibrant, vital, vivacious, vivid, warm, with it, zippy), açık (aboveground, apparent, articulate, avowed, bare, blank, broad, candid, categorical, clean-cut, clear, clear-cut, cloudless, confessed, decided, declared, decollete, deficiency, deficient, deficient amount, deficit, definite, definitive, direct, distinct, downright, evident, expansive, explicit, exposed, express, expressly, fair, forthright, free, gaping, hospitable, in blank, light, loose, lucent, lucid, luminous, obvious, open, open air, open ended, outdoor, outright, overt, pale, patent, perspicuous, plain, point blank, precise, raw, revealing, round, serene, shadowless, shirt-sleeve, shortage, shortfall, spread, Square, straightforward, translucent, unambiguous, unashamed, unclouded, uncomplicated, unconcealed, uncovered, uncrossed, undisguised, unequivocal, unlocked, unmistakable, unobstructed, unprotected, unsealed, upfront, vacant, visible, well-marked, wide open, wishywashy). (various references)

Ukrainian		розмахування (flourish, flutter), хитний (dingle-dangle, niddle-noddle, wambly, wiggle-waggle), гойдання (dingle-dangle, oscillation, sway, swing, vibration, wabble, wobble), поворотний (climacteric, fulcrum, rotating, rotatory, tilting). (various references)

Vietnamese		nhún nhảy. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "swinging": swingingest, swingingly, swingings. (additional references)
	Words ending with "swinging": overswinging, upswinging. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Swinging" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: swanning, swingbin. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "swinging" (pronounced swi"nging)
5	-w i" ng i ng	winging.
4	-i" ng i ng	bringing, clinging, flinging, ringing, singing, slinging, springing, stinging, stringing, wringing.
3	-ng i ng	banging, belonging, clanging, ganging, hanging, haranguing, longing, mudslinging, overhanging, prolonging, upbringing.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "g-g-i-i-n-n-s-w"
	-1 letter: signing, singing, winging.
	-2 letters: wining, wising.
	-3 letters: swing, wings.
	-4 letters: gigs, gins, inns, iwis, nisi, sign, sing, swig, wigs, wing, wins.
	-5 letters: gig, gin, inn, ins, sin, wig, win, wis.
	Words containing the letters "g-g-i-i-n-n-s-w"
	+1 letter: swingeing, swingings, swingling, wingdings.
	+2 letters: swingingly, upswinging.
	+3 letters: pigeonwings, songwriting, swingingest.
	+4 letters: overswinging, songwritings.
	+5 letters: handwringings.
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Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
swinging	1,085	swinging medallion	27
swinging couple	797	swinging wife swapping	26
swinging wife	160	swinging pic	24
swinging lifestyle	152	swinging uk	24
swinging club	88	swinging housewife	23
swinging single	81	interracial swinging	22
swinging story	78	swinging personals	22
adult swinging	76	swinging woman	22
swinger swinging	73	swinging party	21
swinging couple home page	69	swinging chair	20
sex swinging	60	soft swinging	20
swinging granny	56	swinging couple web page	18
swinging door	55	swinging couple web site	18
swinger swinging couple	43	swinging amateur	17
swinging richards	41	swinging group	17
swinging couple picture	38	swinging lifestyles	17
swinging couple swapping	37	amateur swinging couple	17
dollar swinging	33	partner swapping swinging	17
swinging couple photo	31	couple club swinging	16
swinging tit	30	swinging bridge	16
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.


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Swinging

Definition: Swinging

Swinging

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Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Joyce, James

Grapes of Wrath

Steinbeck, John

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Devil's Dictionary

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