flourish vs swing

flourish

verb
  • To make bold, sweeping movements with. 

  • To thrive or grow well. 

  • To make bold and sweeping, fanciful, or wanton movements, by way of ornament, parade, bravado, etc.; to play with fantastic and irregular motion. 

  • To be in a period of greatest influence. 

  • To prosper or fare well. 

  • To adorn with beautiful figures or rhetoric; to ornament with anything showy; to embellish. 

  • To use florid language; to indulge in rhetorical figures and lofty expressions. 

  • To execute an irregular or fanciful strain of music, by way of ornament or prelude. 

  • To make ornamental strokes with the pen; to write graceful, decorative figures. 

  • To develop; to make thrive; to expand. 

noun
  • A ceremonious passage such as a fanfare. 

  • An ornamentation. 

  • A dramatic gesture such as the waving of a flag. 

  • A decorative embellishment on a building. 

swing

verb
  • To turn in a different direction. 

  • To move one's arm in a punching motion. 

  • To put (a door, gate, etc.) on hinges so that it can swing or turn. 

  • To move sideways in its trajectory. 

  • To change (a numerical result); especially to change the outcome of an election. 

  • To hang from the gallows; to be punished by hanging, swing for something or someone; (often hyperbolic) to be severely punished. 

  • To make (something) work; especially to afford (something) financially. 

  • To admit or turn something for the purpose of shaping it; said of a lathe. 

  • To play notes that are in pairs by making the first of the pair slightly longer than written (augmentation) and the second shorter, resulting in a bouncy, uneven rhythm. 

  • To move (an object) backward and forward; to wave. 

  • To ride on a swing. 

  • To dance. 

  • To fluctuate or change. 

  • (of a bowler) To make the ball move sideways in its trajectory. 

  • To participate in the swinging lifestyle; to participate in wife-swapping. 

  • To turn round by action of wind or tide when at anchor. 

  • To rotate about an off-centre fixed point. 

  • In dancing, to turn around in a small circle with one's partner, holding hands or arms. 

noun
  • In a musical theater production, a performer who understudies several roles. 

  • Influence or power of anything put in motion. 

  • The amount of change towards or away from something. 

  • The genre of music associated with this dance style. 

  • The manner in which something is swung. 

  • The sweep or compass of a swinging body. 

  • A dance style. 

  • In an election, the increase or decrease in the number of votes for opposition parties compared with votes for the incumbent party. 

  • A basic dance step in which a pair link hands and turn round together in a circle. 

  • A type of hook with the arm more extended. 

  • A hanging seat that can swing back and forth, in a children's playground, for acrobats in a circus, or on a porch for relaxing. 

  • A line, cord, or other thing suspended and hanging loose, upon which anything may swing. 

  • Sideways movement of the ball as it flies through the air. 

  • Capacity of a turning lathe, as determined by the diameter of the largest object that can be turned in it. 

  • The maximum amount of change that has occurred or can occur; the sum of the maximum changes in any direction. 

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