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Swing logo #10101) Action 2) Action with a golf club 3) Activeness 4) Activity 5) Alternate 6) An old tire 7) Ballroom dance 8) Big Bad Voodoo Daddy genre 9) Big band music 10) Big band sound 11) Big band style 12) Boxing terminology 13) Cut at the plate 14) Dance-music genre 15) DOS game 16) Drum pattern 17) Fluctuate
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Swing logo #10101) Agency 2) Bat 3) Bend 4) Blow 5) Change 6) Dangle 7) Downswing 8) Engineer 9) Era 10) Fade 11) Hang 12) Hooking 13) Jive 14) Lilt 15) Loll 16) Move 17) Music 18) Oscillate 19) Putt 20) Putting 21) Sclaff 22) Slicing 23) Space 24) Teeoff 25) Trapeze 26) Vary 27) Veer 28) Wangle
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Swing logo #22358a bowling style usually employed by fast and medium-pace bowlers. The fielding side will polish the ball on one side of the seam only; as the innings continues, the ball will become worn on one side, but shiny on the other. When the ball is bowled with the seam upright, the air will travel faster over the shiny side than the worn side. This makes t...
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Swing logo #21002• (n.) To be hanged. • (n.) Free course; unrestrained liberty or license; tendency. • (v. t.) To cause to swing or vibrate; to cause to move backward and forward, or from one side to the other. • (n.) Capacity of a turning lathe, as determined by the diameter of the largest object that can be turned in it. • (v. t.) To give...
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swing logo #21003in music, both the rhythmic impetus of jazz music and a specific jazz idiom prominent between about 1935 and the mid-1940s—years sometimes called the ... [12 related articles]
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Swing logo #22730Popular blend of several African American dances, which include Lindy and Ragtime Jazz and Blues, as well as all the other dance music to accompanying dances of the past ninety years. Today it generally refers to the ballroom and night club version which is based on two slow and two quick counts or the slow and two quick counts of rhythm dances. Se...
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Swing logo #20477(In topic `Web Development`) Swing is a Java toolkit written in Java comprising of a set of program components used by Java developers to create GUI`s. Swing is included in the Java Foundation Classes (JFC) which are provided in the  Java Developers Toolkit (JDK).
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Swing logo #20526Hitting at the ball with the mallet using one of four basic shots: forehand, backhand, neck, and tail.
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swing logo #209731. The act of swinging; a waving, oscillating, or vibratory motion of a hanging or pivoted object; oscillation; as, the swing of a pendulum. ... 2. Swaying motion from one side or direction to the other; as, some men walk with a swing. ... 3. A line, cord, or other thing suspended and hanging loose, upon which anything may swing; especially, an app...
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Swing logo #20972Swing intransitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Swung ; Archaic imperfect Swang ; present participle & verbal noun Swinging .] [ Middle English swingen , Anglo-Saxon swingan to scourge...
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Swing logo #20972Swing noun 1. The act of swinging; a waving, oscillating, or vibratory motion of a hanging or pivoted object; oscillation; as, the swing of a pendulum. 2. Swaying motion from one side or direction to the other; as, some men walk with a swing . 3. A line, cord, o...
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Swing logo #20972Swing transitive verb 1. To cause to swing or vibrate; to cause to move backward and forward, or from one side to the other. « He swings his tail, and swiftly turns his round.» Dryden. « They get on ropes, as you must have seen the children, and are swung
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Swing logo #22357A ball that curves through the air, as opposed to off the seam. See also, reverse swing
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swing logo #23393Swing is a punch made with a sweep of the arm
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Swing logo #21217Swing is slang for to be hanged.
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Swing logo #22359Bowling technique that causes the ball to deviate in the air. Factors that influence this deviation include: the angle of the seam relative to the travel of the ball, the relative shininess of the two sides of the ball, the bowler's arm and hand action, the hardness and prominence of the seam, cloud cover and relative humidity. That the ball does s...
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Swing logo #24154A thespian ninja who has the ability to jump into multiple roles as an understudy at any given moment.
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Swing logo #23819(1) The style of the 30s, when the big band was the dominant form of Jazz. The style implies certain types of harmony (use of added 6ths rather than 7ths in major and minor chords, of un-embellished diminished chords, frequent use of the augmented 5th and little use of the augmented 11th, etc.) and a rhythmic organization that states the beat expli...
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Swing logo #23720slang for be promiscuous, engage in group sex or swapping casual sexual partners.
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Swing logo #20176Swing, the movable front(lens) and back (film) panels (standards) of most view and monorail cameras. They allow manipulation of perspective and depth of field. (see Depth of field, Monorail, Movements, & Standard)
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swing logo #20974jive noun a style of jazz played by big bands popular in the 1930s; flowing rhythms but less complex than later styles of jazz
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swing logo #20974swinging noun changing location by moving back and forth
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Swing logo #21644The action of hitting the ball.
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Swing logo #21782A member of a musical theatre company who can take over a number of different chorus parts at a moment's notice. An American term. Also swing showboy, swing showgirl, swing show.
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swing logo #23909change direction with a swinging motion; turn
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