swing

/swɪŋ/

意味: 揺れ、ブランコ

例文: Momo played on the swing.
　　  モモはブランコで遊んだ。

言葉のよくある組み合わせ: swing set(ブランコセット), swing music(スウィング音楽), swing vote(スウィング票)

定義: 物を前後や左右に動かすこと、またはその動き。ブランコのように揺れることや、意見や状況が変わることも指します。音楽では、特にジャズのリズムを指すこともあります。

swingは約50,000語に1回程度の頻出度です。

Definitions(定義)

Noun: a state of steady vigorous action that is characteristic of an activity
Noun: mechanical device used as a plaything to support someone swinging back and forth
Noun: a sweeping blow or stroke
Noun: changing location by moving back and forth
Noun: a style of jazz played by big bands popular in the 1930s; flowing rhythms but less complex than later styles of jazz
Noun: a jaunty rhythm in music
Noun: the act of swinging a golf club at a golf ball and (usually) hitting it
Noun: in baseball; a batter’s attempt to hit a pitched ball
Noun: a square dance figure; a pair of dancers join hands and dance around a point between them
Verb: move in a curve or arc, usually with the intent of hitting
Verb: move or walk in a swinging or swaying manner
Verb: change direction with a swinging motion; turn
Verb: influence decisively
Verb: make a big sweeping gesture or movement
Verb: hang freely
Verb: hit or aim at with a sweeping arm movement
Verb: alternate dramatically between high and low values
Verb: live in a lively, modern, and relaxed style
Verb: have a certain musical rhythm
Verb: be a social swinger; socialize a lot
Verb: play with a subtle and intuitively felt sense of rhythm
Verb: engage freely in promiscuous sex, often with the husband or wife of one’s friends

Parts of Speech(品詞)

Noun, Verb

Examples(例文)

Noun: the party went with a swing
Noun: it took time to get into the swing of things
Noun: he took a wild swing at my head
Noun: he took a vicious cut at the ball
Verb: He swung his left fist
Verb: swing a bat
Verb: He swung back
Verb: swing back
Verb: swing forward
Verb: This action swung many votes over to his side
Verb: the ornaments dangled from the tree
Verb: The light dropped from the ceiling
Verb: The soccer player began to swing at the referee
Verb: his mood swings
Verb: the market is swinging up and down
Verb: The Woodstock generation attempted to swing freely
Verb: The music has to swing
Verb: There were many swinging couples in the 1960’s

Synonyms/Antonyms(類語/反意語)

Synonyms(類語): baseball swing, cut, dangle, drop, get around, golf shot, golf stroke, jive, lilt, sway, sweep, swing, swing music, swing out, swing over, swinging, vacillation

Antonyms(反意語):

Hypernyms/Hyponyms(上位語/下位語)

Hypernyms (General categories)(上位語): action, aim, be, blow, change, country-dance, fornicate, hang, influence, jazz, live, mechanical device, motion, move, move back and forth, play, plaything, rhythmicity, socialize, stroke, travel, wield

Coordinate Terms(同じ上位語をもつもの): abound, accept, accompany, account, account for, acetylate, act, adjust, advance, agency, agitate, alkalinize, americanize, angle, answer, appear, approach, ascend, assibilate, assimilate, assume, automobile, bachelor, back, backhander, bake, balance, ball, balloon, bang, barbarize, baseball swing, be well, beat, bed-hop, beetle, begin, behavior, belong, betake oneself, billow, blackmail, blow, boil, boogie, bop, bounce, bow, box, brandish, break, break into, breathe, breeze, broadcaster, brutalize, buccaneer, bumper, bumper guard, bushwhack, busk, busyness, buy, cadence, calcify, capacitate, caravan, carbonate, carburetor, career, carom, carry, caseate, cash out, catch, catch on, center, change by reversal, change hands, change integrity, change magnitude, change posture, change shape, change state, change surface, charge, chase away, circle, circuit, circulate, clean, clinker, clip, cockhorse, cohere, collapse, color, come, come in, come in for, come in handy, come round, commute, compact, compare, complexify, compressor, concretize, confuse, conjugate, connect, consist, contain, continue, convert, cool, cool jazz, copyholder, cost, count, counterblow, coupling, cover, crack, crash, crawl, creolize, cruise, cure, curler, cut, cut across, damage, dandle, dangle, darken, dawn, deaden, decalcify, decarboxylate, decay, deck, decrepitate, deepen, defervesce, democratize, deoxidize, depend, derail, desalinate, descend, descent, deserve, destabilize, develop, diaphragm, dicer, die, digest, dim, disagree, disarrange, discolor, dislocate, displace, dissimilate, dissipate, distill, distribute, diverge, do, do-si-do, doll, dollhouse, dominate, drag, draw, draw a bead on, dress, drift, drive, drop, dry, dull, ease, eke out, electromechanical device, end, engage, entertain, eruption, escapement, evaporate, expel, exteriorize, fail, fall, fall for, feel, felt, feminize, ferry, figure, fit, fix, flick, flicker, flip, float, flocculate, flock, flow, fluctuate, fly, fold, follow, forge, form, format, foul, fraternize, freshen, frisbee, funk, funnel, gape, gearshift, gel, gelatinize, get around, get at, ghost, give way, glaze, glide, go, go around, go out, golf stroke, grab, gradate, gravitate, grow, gum, hail, hammer, hang, harden, haste, have, head, herd, hiss, hit, hobby, hobnob, hold, hoodoo, hook, hot jazz, hula-hoop, hum, hurtle, hush, hustle, hydrate, hydrolyze, ice up, impend, imprint, incandesce, incarnate, indurate, industrialize, introject, ionize, iridesce, island hop, isomerize, jack-in-the-box, jar, jumble, jumping jack, jungle gym, kaleidoscope, keratinize, kick, kill, kite, knock, knockdown, knockout, lance, landler, lateralize, launch, leave, lego, lend, let go, level, liberalize, lie, lift, lighten, lilt, litter, locomotion, loiter, longways, look, lower, lubricate, lurch, machine, make, make sense, maneuver, manipulate, masse, mature, measure, meccano, mellow, meter, migration, militate, miscue, mobilize, modern jazz, modernize, modify, mold, mope, move, mutate, narrow, normalize, object, obsolesce, occult, opacify, operation, osculate, outflank, overdrive, overhang, overturn, owe, oxidise, oxidize, pace, pall, pan, pantograph, pass, pass over, pay, pea shooter, pig, pinata, pinwheel, piston, plasticize, play, play along, play out, playhouse, plow, ply, pogo stick, point, popgun, pour, prance, precede, precess, prejudice, press, press down, prim, proceed, professionalize, progress, promenade, promise, promote, propagate, propel, propeller, prove, pull, pulse, pump, punch, purify, pursue, pursuit, push, put, put out, race, raft, rage, raise, rake, range, rank, ratchet, rate, rattle, recede, receive, recognize, recombine, record changer, reflate, regenerate, regress, rejuvenate, relate, relax, relocate, remain, reorient, repair, represent, repress, rest, resume, retard, reticulate, retreat, retrograde, return, ride, rise, rock, roll, round, rout out, run, run into, rush, rut, salinate, saltate, sandbox, saponify, sashay, scan, scat, scramble, seeder, seek, seem, seesaw, seethe, sell, send, separate, sequester, settle, shade, shallow, shear, shift, shine, shot, shutter, shuttle, sift, sight, singsong, sink, ski, ski binding, slice into, slide, sling, slingshot, slip, slippage, slither, smack, smacker, smoothen, snowshoe, soften, solarize, sound off, sparkle, specify, speed, spill, splicer, splint, spot, sprinkler, square dance, squat, stab, stabilize, stagnate, stand, stand by, station, stator, stay, steamer, steepen, step, stick, stick horse, stiffen, stinger, stink, stir, stoker, stratify, stray, strengthen, stretcher, striker, sublime, subtend, suburbanize, suck, suffer, suffuse, suit, superannuate, supply chamber, swap, swash, swat, swim, swing, swipe, symphonize, synthesize, take back, target, taxi, teddy, tend, tennis stroke, test, thump, thwack, tighten, tone arm, top, total, trad, trail, train set, tram, transaminate, transfer, transform, translate, translation, transmit, transpire, transplant, transport, trap, travel, travel by, travel purposefully, travel rapidly, trim, trundle, tug, turn, turn on, ulcerate, undergo, underlie, undulate, unlive, unseat, unwind, uppercut, uproot, upstage, vascularize, vegetate, vesiculate, vibrator, vitrify, voting machine, vulcanize, walk, wallop, want, wanton, warm, warm up, wash, water pistol, weathervane, weave, wedge, wench, wend, wheel, wheelwork, whine, whip, whish, whisk, whistle, whore, wind, winder, windshield wiper, withdraw, woosh, work, yo-yo, zigzag, zoom

Hyponyms (Specific examples)(下位語): approach, brachiate, downswing, drive, droop, explosion, fluctuate, hook, lash, oscillate, putt, sclaff, shank, slice, teeoff, trapeze, waver, wind up

Derivationally Related Words(派生語)

Derivationally Related Words: jive, lilt, sway, sweep, swing, swinger, swinging, swingy, vacillate

Categories(カテゴリー)

Domain Categories: technology

Usage Category: formal

Usage Context: descriptive

Grammatical Notes:
intransitive verb, transitive verb
countable noun

Prefixes/Suffixes(接頭辞/接尾辞)

Prefixes(接頭辞):

Suffixes(接尾辞): ing

Exam Level

Media Appearance(メディア登場例)

Books(洋書): Atomic Habits, Holes

Movies(映画): Big Hero 6, Frozen, The Bad Guys

Other Information(その他)

Is Abstract?(抽象的な言葉?) Yes

Is Emotion Word?(感情的な言葉?) No

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