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Definition: Swishing |
SwishingAdjective1. Resembling a sustained `sh' or soft whistle; "swishing windshield wipers"; "a swishy skirt". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "swishing" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1808. (references) |
Synonym: SwishingSynonym: swishy (adj). (additional references) |
| Synonyms by domain: blur pan (fine arts, sports & leisure), cyclic noise (electrical engineering), swish (language, medicine), swish pan (fine arts, sports & leisure). |
Crosswords: Swishing |
| English words defined with "swishing": birr ♦ purr ♦ swish ♦ whir, whirr, whiz, whizz. (references) |
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| "Firelamp" by Steve Commentary: "My lamp, swishing my camera about." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. |
| Play | Caption | Play | Caption |
 | Swishing sound with music accompaniment. | | Brief swishing sound from star wars light saber . |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Title | Author | Quote |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | From the right of the road there came a sharp swishing. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Swishing" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 91.89% of the time. "Swishing" is used about 37 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) | 91.89% | 34 | 59,261 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 5.41% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Noun (singular) | 2.7% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 37 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "swishing"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
German | sausend (rushing, sweepingly). (various references) | |
Indonesian | desah (sound of wheezing or huffing, wheeze). (various references) | |
Manx | feddagh (whistler). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ishingsway.(various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "swishing": swishingly. (additional references) | |
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"Swishing" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Swithins. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "g-h-i-i-n-s-s-w" | |
-1 letter: hissing, swinish, wishing, wissing. | |
-2 letters: swings, winish, wising. | |
-3 letters: nighs, shins, sighs, signs, sings, sinhs, swigs, swing, swish, whigs, whins, wings. | |
-4 letters: ghis, gins, hins, hisn, hiss, iwis, nigh, nisi, shin, sigh, sign, sing, sinh, sins, swig, whig, whin, wigs, wing, wins, wish, wiss. | |
-5 letters: ghi, gin, hin, his, ins, sin, sis, wig, win, wis. | |
| Words containing the letters "g-h-i-i-n-s-s-w" | |
+2 letters: swishingly, whistlings. | |
+3 letters: weightiness, whisperings. | |
+4 letters: scrimshawing. | |
+5 letters: brainwashings, weightinesses, whitewashings. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Images: Digital Art | 5. Sounds 6. Quotations: Fiction 7. Usage Frequency 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Derivations 10. Anagrams 11. Bibliography |
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