Sweep
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To clean (a floor, etc) using a broom or brush. To move through an (horizontal) arc or similar long stroke. To search (a place) methodically. To play a sweep shot. To brush the ice in front of a moving stone, causing it to travel farther and to curl less. To move something in a particular motion, as a broom
Part of speech: noun
Definition: The person who steers a dragon boat. A person who stands at the stern of a surf boat, steering with a steering oar and commanding the crew. A chimney sweep. A search (typically for bugs [electronic listening devices]). A batsman's shot, played from a kneeling position with a swinging horizontal bat. A lottery, usually on the results of a sporting event, where players win if their randomly chosen team wins. A flow of water parallel to shore caused by wave action at an ocean beach or at a point or headland.
Example sentence: Roll on, deep and dark blue ocean, roll. Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain. Man marks the earth with ruin, but his control stops with the shore.
Swing
Part of speech: noun
Definition: The manner in which something is swung.A hanging seat in a children's playground, for acrobats in a circus, or on a porch for relaxing.A dance style.The genre of music associated with this dance style.The amount of change towards or away from something.Particularly, the increase or decrease in the number of votes in an election for opposition parties compared with votes for the incumbent party.sideways movement of the ball as it flies through the air.The diameter that a lathe can cut.In a musical theater production, a performer who understudies several roles. See understudy.
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To move backward and forward, especially rotating about or hanging from a fixed point.To dance.To ride on a swing.To participate in the swinging lifestyle; to participate in wife-swapping.To hang from the gallows.(of a ball) to move sideways in its trajectory.To fluctuate or change.To move (an object) backward and forward; to wave.To change (a numerical result); especially to change the outcome of an election.To make (something) work; especially to afford (something) financially.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.(of a bowler) to make the ball move sideways in its trajectory.
Example sentence: When I am angry, I pray God to swing our globe into the fiery sun and prevent the sorrows of the not-yet-born: but when I am content, I want to lie forever in the shade, till I become a shade myself.