English Explanatory Dictionary

swift

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Fast; quick; rapid.
  2. Capable of moving at high speeds.
  3. Quick-thinking; bright.
adv
  1. Swiftly.
noun
  1. A small plain-colored bird of the family Apodidae that resembles a swallow and is noted for its rapid flight.
  2. Any of certain lizards of the genus Sceloporus.
  3. A moth of the family Hepialidae, swift moth, ghost moth.
  4. Any of various fast-flying hesperiid butterflies.
  5. A light, collapsible reel used to hold a hank of yarn in order to wind off skeins or balls.
  6. The main cylinder of a carding-machine.
  7. The current of a stream.
name
  1. A surname transferred from the nickname, originally a nickname for a swift or quick person.
  2. A general-purpose multi-paradigm compiled programming language introduced by Apple Inc. in 2014.
  3. Alternative letter-case form of SWIFT (“Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication”).
  4. A place name:
  5. An unincorporated community in DuPage County, Illinois, United States.
  6. An unincorporated community in Roseau County, Minnesota, United States.
  7. An extinct town in Pemiscot County, Missouri, United States.
  8. A minor river in Leicestershire and Warwickshire, England, which joins the (Warwickshire) Avon north of Rugby.
name
  1. Acronym of Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication.
  2. Acronym of South Wales Integrated Fast transit.
  3. Acronym of Southwest Airlines Integrated Flights Tracking.
  4. Acronym of Statewide Interlibrary loan Fast Track.
  5. Acronym of State Wildland Inmate Fire Team.
  6. Acronym of Simple Web Interface Toolset.
noun
  1. Acronym of Structured What If Technique.
  2. Acronym of Stored Waveform Inverse Fourier Transform.
  3. Acronym of Stratospheric Wind Interferometer For Transport Studies.

Pronunciation

/swɪft/ en-us-swift.ogg LL-Q1860 (eng)-AnotherFriendlyHuman-Swift.wav

Word forms

swift swifter swiftest more swift most swift swifts

Etymology

From Middle English swift, from Old English swift (“swift; quick”), from Proto-Germanic *swiftaz (“swift; quick”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)weyp- (“to twist; wind around”). Cognate with Icelandic svipta (“to pull quickly”), Old English swīfan (“to revolve, sweep, wend, intervene”). More at swivel.

Synonyms

swith needletail spinetail swiftlet fence lizard spiny lizard

Related words

swiftfootedness swift-footedness swifthandedness swift-handedness Swift

Derived words

outswift overswift over-swift swiftboating swift-boating swift boating swiftboat swift-boat swift boat Swift Current swiften swift-flowing swift-flying swiftfoot swiftfooted swift-footed swift fox swift fruit bat swift half swifthanded swift-handed swiftie swiftly swiftness swift parrot swift tern swift-thinking swiftwater swiftwing ultraswift Lyell’s swift swiftlike rice swift swiftless swift brick African swift alpine swift Andean swift ashy-tailed swift band-rumped swift Bates's swift black swift Blyth's swift Bradfield's swift chimney swift common swift Cook's swift Costa Rican swift crested swift crevice swift dark-rumped swift emerald swift Eurasian swift European swift fence swift Fernando Po swift Forbes-Watson's swift fork-tailed swift ghost swift great dusky swift
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