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Meaning:

Noun:

  • A dance style.
  • A hanging seat in a children's playground, for acrobats in a circus, or on a porch for relaxing.
  • cricket sideways movement of the ball as it flies through the air.
  • In a musical theater production, a performer who understudies several roles. See understudy.
  • music The genre of music associated with this dance style.
  • Particularly, the increase or decrease in the number of votes in an election for opposition parties compared with votes for the incumbent party.
  • The amount of change towards or away from something.
  • The diameter that a lathe can cut.
  • The manner in which something is swung.

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Verb:

  • cricket (''of a ball'') to move sideways in its trajectory.
  • intransitive To dance.
  • intransitive To fluctuate or change.
  • intransitive To hang from the gallows.
  • intransitive To move backward and forward, especially rotating about or hanging from a fixed point.
  • intransitive To participate in the swinging lifestyle; to participate in wife-swapping.
  • intransitive To ride on a swing.
  • cricket (''of a bowler'') to make the ball move sideways in its trajectory.
  • music To play notes that are in pairs by making the first of the pair slightly longer than written (augmentation) and the second, resulting in a bouncy, uneven rhythm.
  • transitive To change (a numerical result); especially to change the outcome of an election.
  • transitive To make (something) work; especially to afford (something) financially.
  • transitive To move (an object) backward and forward; to wave.

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