swings

We have found lemma(root) word of swings : swing.

Definitions


[swɪŋ], (Verb)

Definitions:
- move or cause to move back and forth or from side to side while suspended or on an axis
(e.g: her long black skirt swung about her legs)

- move by grasping a support from below and leaping
(e.g: we swung across like two trapeze artists)

- move or cause to move in a smooth, curving line
(e.g: she swung her legs to the side of the bed)

- shift or cause to shift from one opinion, mood, or state of affairs to another
(e.g: opinion swung in the Chancellor's favour)

- play music with a flowing but vigorous rhythm
(e.g: the band swung on)

- (of an event, place, or way of life) be lively, exciting, or fashionable

- engage in group sex or swap sexual partners within a group, especially on a habitual basis


Phrases:
- get back into the swing of things
- get into the swing of things
- go with a swing
- in full swing
- not room to swing a cat
- swing both ways
- swing for the fences
- swing into action
- swing the lead
- swings and roundabouts

Origin:
Old English swingan ‘to beat, whip’, also ‘rush’, geswing ‘a stroke with a weapon’, of Germanic origin; related to German schwingen ‘brandish’


[swɪŋ], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a seat suspended by ropes or chains, on which someone may sit and swing back and forth

- an act of swinging
(e.g: with the swing of her arm, the knife flashed through the air)

- a discernible change in opinion, especially the amount by which votes or points scored change from one side to another
(e.g: a five per cent swing to Labour)

- a style of jazz or dance music with a flowing but vigorous rhythm

- a swift tour involving a number of stops, especially one undertaken as part of a political campaign

- (in musical theatre) an understudy, typically one who covers multiple roles in the chorus of a particular production


Phrases:
- get back into the swing of things
- get into the swing of things
- go with a swing
- in full swing
- not room to swing a cat
- swing both ways
- swing for the fences
- swing into action
- swing the lead
- swings and roundabouts

Origin:
Old English swingan ‘to beat, whip’, also ‘rush’, geswing ‘a stroke with a weapon’, of Germanic origin; related to German schwingen ‘brandish’




definition by Oxford Dictionaries