Swing into action

Definition

swing /swÇŋ/ v ( pt, pp swung /swʌŋ/) ၁။ လႊဲသည္။ ယမ္းသည္။ His arms swung/ He swung his arms as he walked. ❍ The bucket was swinging from the end of a rope. ❍ The gymnast swung round on the parallel bars. ၂။ လႊဲသည္။ လႊားခနဲခုန္သည္။ The ape swung (along) from branch to branch. ❍ He swung himself (up) into the saddle. ၃။ လႊားခနဲေျပးသည္။ ျဖတ္သည္။ The riders swung past us and away into the distance. ၄။ လႊဲ သည္။ ယမ္းသည္။ A car swung sharply round the corner. ❍ The boom swung across. ❍ She swung the axe (above her head). ❍ He swung the camera round in a broad arc. ❍ The door (was) swung open/ shut. ၅။ ~ (sth) (at sb/ sth) (တအား) ထိုးသည္၊ ႐ိုက္သည္။ She swung at me with her fist. ❍ They started swinging punches (at each other). ၆။ ~ around/ round ခ်ာခနဲ လွည့္သည္။ She swung round (on him) angrily. ❍ He swung round to confront his accusers. ၇။ ~ (sb) (from sth) to sth ; ~ (sb) around/ round (to sth) ေျပာင္းလဲသည္။ ေျပာင္းသည္။ Voters have/ Voting has swung to the left. ❍ He swings from wild optimism to total despair. ❍ Can you swing them round to my point of view? ၈။ ျမဴးျမဴးႂကြႂကြ တီး သည္။ a band/ tune that really swings. ၉။ ( infml ) ေဆာင္ၾကဥ္းေပးသည္။ ဖန္တီးေပးသည္။ I need to interview the play's director — can you swing it for me? n ၁။ [C] လႊဲ ျခင္း။ He took a wild swing at the ball. ❍ the swing of a pendulum ❍ walk with slight swing of the hips. ၂။ [C] ဒန္း။ children playing/ riding on the swings. ၃။ [U] ျမဴးျမဴးႂကြႂကြ ဂ်တၨ္ေတးသံ။ ၄။ [U, sing] ျမဴးႂကြေသာ နရီစည္း။ music with a swing (to it). ၅။ [C] ေျပာင္းလဲျခင္း။ Voting showed a 10% swing to Labour. ❍ He is liable to abrupt swings of mood/ mood swings (eg from happiness to despair). ❏ get in/ into the swing (of sth) [ IDM ] ( infml ) ေနသား တက် ျဖစ္သည္။ ေနသားက်သည္။ I've only been here for a week, so I haven't got into the swing of things yet. ❏ go with a swing [ IDM ] ( infml ) ၁။ ျမဴးႂကြသည္။ The party certainly went with a swing. ၂။ ျမဴးသည္။ ❏ swing-door n ဆင္နားရြက္တံခါး။ ❏ swinging adj ( dated infml ) သက္ဝင္ျမဴးႂကြေသာ။ the Swinging Sixties (ie 1960s). ❏ swing into action [ IDM ] စတင္လႈပ္ရွားသည္။ Immediately after the explosion the anti-terrorist squad swung into action. ❏ swings and roundabouts [ IDM ] ( infml esp Brit ) အ႐ံႈးႏွင့္အျမတ္ေထျခင္း။ Higher earnings mean more tax, so it's all swings and roundabouts. ❍ What you gain on the swings you may lose on the roundabouts. ❏ swing-wing n ေတာင္ပံအရွင္။ a swing-wing bomber.

Examples

1. Swing your arms loosely at your sides.
2. The rope bridge was swinging in the breeze.
3. [swing to and fro] : A restaurant sign swung to and fro in the wind.
4. [swing back and forth] : As she shook her head
5. her earrings swung back and forth.
6. [swing at/towards/around/into etc] : Brown swung the ball towards the near post.
7. [swing something into/around/out etc] : I swung the car into a narrow side street.
8. [swing towards/round etc] : She swung round and stared angrily at us.
9. [swing open/shut] : The door swung shut with a loud bang.
10. [swing something at something/someone] : He swung the bat wildly at the ball
11. missing it completely.
12. [swing at] : Mrs Shaw swung at the youth with her umbrella.
13. She should be able to swing a significant number of women’s votes.
14. [swing something away from someone/something] : This latest scandal could swing popular support away from them.
15. [swing from] : My mother’s moods swing from depression to elation.
16. [swing the other way] : Public opinion has begun to swing the other way (=away from what it was before).