Meaning of SWOOP
| Pronunciation: | | swoop
|
 WordNet Dictionary |
| |
| | Definition: | |
- [n] a swift descent through the air
- [n] a very rapid raid
- [n] (music) rapid sliding up or down the musical scale; "the violinist was indulgent with his swoops and slides"
- [v] seize or catch with a swooping motion
- [v] move down on as if in an attack; "The raptor swooped down on its prey"; "The teacher swooped down upon the new students"
- [v] move with a sweep, or in a swooping arc
|
| |
| | Websites: | | |
| |
| | Synonyms: | | pounce, slide, swoop up |
| |
| | See Also: | | come down, descend, descent, fall, foray, glissando, go down, maraud, move, raid, snap, snatch, snatch up, stoop | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
| |
| | Definition: | |
\Swoop\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Swooped}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Swooping}.] [OE. swopen, usually, to sweep, As. sw[=a]pan to
sweep, to rush; akin to G. schweifen to rove, to ramble, to
curve, OHG. sweifan to whirl, Icel. sveipa to sweep; also to
AS. sw[=i]fan to move quickly. Cf. {Sweep}, {Swift}, a. & n.,
{Swipe}, {Swivel}.]
1. To fall on at once and seize; to catch while on the wing;
as, a hawk swoops a chicken.
2. To seize; to catch up; to take with a sweep.
And now at last you came to swoop it all. --Dryden.
The grazing ox which swoops it [the medicinal herb]
in with the common grass. --Glanvill.
\Swoop\, v. i.
1. To descend with closed wings from a height upon prey, as a
hawk; to swoop.
2. To pass with pomp; to sweep. [Obs.] --Drayton.
\Swoop\, n.
A falling on and seizing, as the prey of a rapacious bird;
the act of swooping.
The eagle fell, . . . and carried away a whole litter
of cubs at a swoop. --L'Estrange.
|
| |
|
|