Brass and reed virtuosos over a strong back beat.

A member of the company of a musical who understudies one of the leads and is also in the chorus, but doesn't have a character name in the chorus.

A social or country/western dance done to jazz, rock, or swing music. The triple Lindy is the basis of the dance.

a type of Big Band jazz of the late 1930s and 1940s

a style of jazz played by big bands popular in the 1930s; flowing rhythms but less complex than later styles of jazz

a jaunty rhythm in music

a square dance figure; a pair of dancers join hands and dance around a point between them

have a certain musical rhythm; "The music has to swing"

play with a subtle and intuitively felt sense of rhythm

a sort of understudy for the all the members of the ensemble

A style of jazz that relies on four-beat rhythms, or the pulse that underlies this music

(1) The style of the 30s, when the big band was the dominant form of jazz. The style implies certain types of harmony (use of added 6ths rather than 7ths in major and minor chords, of un-embellished diminished chords, frequent use of the augmented 5th and little use of the augmented 11th, etc.) and a rhythmic organization that states the beat explicitly, puts more weight on 1 and 3 and tends to obey the bar-line phrasing. (2) A rhythmic manner, unique to jazz, in which the first of a pair of written 8th notes is played longer than the second, even twice as long, while the second tends to receive a slight accent, though the distribution of accents is irregular and syncopated. (The degree of this effect depends on the overall tempo, and is modified by the requirements of expression and phrasing.) (3) As a direction in a chart, played with a swing feel, as opposed to latin. (4) A mysterious, unexplainable quality in any music, but especially jazz, which makes one 'feel that shit all up in your body' (Miles Davis).

Jazz term coined to describe Louis Armstrong's style; more commonly refers to big band jazz.

To swing is when an individual player or ensemble performs in such a rhythmically coordinated way as to command a visceral response from the listener (to cause feet to tap and heads to nod); an irresistible gravitational buoyancy that defies mere verbal definition. . A way of performing eighth notes where downbeats and upbeats receive approximately 2/3 and 1/3 of the beat, respectively, providing a rhythmic lilt to the music. . A stylistic term to designate a jazz form that originated in the 1930s with the advent of the big bands (as in Swing Era).

a term applied to the style of jazz that originated about 1935, particularly in the music of the Benny Goodman orchestra

to get a beat, to move, a verb that developed out of the noun generally applied to music of the late 1930's; as a verb and as an adjective ( swinging), still much used.

A rhythm in music in which the down beat is felt slightly longer than the up beat (sometimes called a shuffle).

According to knowledgable reader Rafael Dueno, "A swing is the understudy of the chorus. You know how chorus members understudy the smaller parts and the people in the smaller parts understudy the leads? Swings are people who know the chorus numbers perfectly, so they can equally replace an absent chorus member at the front of the line to the right as well as one at the back to the left. Sometimes chorus members don't all do the exact same dances at the same time; sometimes they are split in half and each side mirrors the other. Ask a regular chorus member to simply switch over, and they're bound to mess up, for they have already perfected doing it from one side. Swings are capable of doing either side, for they have learned both sections well." A swing is often the dance captain.

The rhythmic style of most jazz. In swing music, the division of the beats is uneven and there is considerable stress on the notes between beats. The feeling of swing music is compound, but it is usually written in simple.

The term "swing dance" is commonly used to refer either to a group of dances developing to the evolving Jazz music during the Jazz a.k.a. Swing era (late 1910s to 1940s) or to the forms that are later evolutions based upon this era. Historical swing dances as a family are usually situated within an African American vernacular dance tradition, though there are some exceptions which developed within the white or mainstream American community based on prior partner dances mainly influenced by European dance.

Swing is a studio album released by The Manhattan Transfer in 1997 on the Atlantic Records label. This album is a collection of 1930's and 1940's swing music with The Manhattan Transfer's jazz twist.

Influence of power of a body put in swaying motion.

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

move in a curve or arc, usually with the intent of hitting; "He swung his left fist"; "swing a bat"

move or walk in a swinging or swaying manner; "He swung back"

influence decisively; "This action swung many votes over to his side"

Refers to the height of the lathe centres over the bed and governs the maximum diameter that can be "swung". Swing = twice center height. See also: Lathe

A collection of graphical user interface (GUI) components that runs uniformly on any native platform which supports the Java virtual machine*. Because they are written entirely in the Java programming language, these components may provide functionality above and beyond that provided by native-platform equivalents. (Contrast with AWT.)

Swing is a GUI component toolkit for the user to interact with. This component set is also known as Sun's Java Foundation Classes (JFC) and comes bundled up as part of J2SE. The components include frames, text fields, combo boxes and tables. Swing controls are user-facing and so run on a client machine. As a Swing application's front end does not consist of 'thin' HTML pages, it is sometimes referred to as a thick-client.

Swing is a GUI toolkit for Java. Swing is one part of the Java Foundation Classes (JFC). Swing includes graphical user interface (GUI) widgets such as text boxes, buttons, split-panes, and tables.

Swing is a framework for building GUI applications, much like AWT. Swing, however, provides much more functionality and provides components that do not rely on native peer components to handle their look and feel. It is therefore possible to create new look and feel models for any specific application using Swing.

Swing is a Java toolkit written in Java comprising of a set of program components used by Java developers to create GUI's. Swing is included in the Java Foundation Classes (JFC) which are provided in the Java Developers Toolkit (JDK).

A line, cord, or other thing suspended and hanging loose, upon which anything may swing; especially, an apparatus for recreation by swinging, commonly consisting of a rope, the two ends of which are attached overhead, as to the bough of a tree, a seat being placed in the loop at the bottom; also, any contrivance by which a similar motion is produced for amusement or exercise.

Pendulum action of an athlete's body, or parts of the body.

bondage toy which is suspended from a ceiling, holding an actor while they participate in sex acts.

hang freely; "the ornaments dangled from the tree"; "The light dropped from the ceiling"

an application of a pendulum

Circus article used under the circus cupola now, but it is still as important as it was before. Compared with common swing in recreation parks, it only lacks a restrictive bar (so it is possible to perform a 360° revolution trick on a circus swing), it meets the ring sizes and requirements of performers themselves.

An apparatus much like the one you used as a child, but much more fun. Swings can hang from the ceiling or be self supporting on the floor. A swing supports one member of the couple off the ground giving the other member more creative angles for sexual pleasures.

A swing is a hanging seat, usually found in a playground for children, a circus for acrobats, or on a porch for relaxing. The seat of a swing can be attached to a chain or a rope. Once a swing is in motion it continues to oscillate like a pendulum until drag (or interference) brings it to a halt.

Hitting at the ball with the mallet using one of four basic shots: forehander, backhander, neckshot, tailshot

a state of steady vigorous action that is characteristic of an activity; "the party went with a swing"; "it took time to get into the swing of things"

a sweeping blow or stroke; "he took a wild swing at my head"

the act of swinging a golf club at a golf ball and (usually) hitting it

in baseball; a batter's attempt to hit a pitched ball; "he took a vicious cut at the ball"

make a big sweeping gesture or movement

hit or aim at with a sweeping arm movement; "The soccer player began to swing at the referee"

a more direct path to the top and to the ball

The movement of the club along an arc, away from the ball and then following through.

the smooth arc motion as the club is raised up, and brought down to hit the ball.

Change of path by the ball in air. Mostly because of wetness of ball or when the ball gets old.

The action of hitting the ball.

The action of stroking the ball.

A ball that curves through the air, as opposed to off the seam. See also, reverse swing

hitting at the ball with the mallet using one of four basic shots: forehand, backhand, neck, and tail.

The throwing of the ball from an inside position on the lane towards the gutter; i.e., I was starting on board 15 swinging to 5 at the arrows."

The full action involved in stroking the ball, which includes the takeaway, backswing, downswing, and follow through.

a) To move logs to a landing from a distance deck to which they have previously been yarded.. AKA "shuttle logging". b)The capability of a yarder to swing to either side to position logs beside the machine.

The free foot is raised and moved forward, backward, sideways or crosswise

mechanical device used as a plaything to support someone swinging back and forth

changing location by moving back and forth

change direction with a swinging motion; turn; "swing back"; "swing forward"

a positive, indivisible motion to and fro, or, in a golf shot, backward and forward

a technical trading term, generally defined as a price move up or down that is uninterrupted by retracements

1. A test movement-An uninterrupted sequence of rein-backs interspersed with forward steps in walk. The number of steps is prescribed, and the whole procedure may be repeated several times, followed by an onward transition (as in "back 4, forward 4, back 4, proceed collected trot"). 2. See "Swinging Back."

Occurs when the entire crew is moving perfectly in unison and the shell seems to be moving very fast without much effort.

An object that allows a person or two to be suspended and move back and forth during sex.

Swing in a British political context is a single figure used as an indication of the scale of voter change in a single constituency. It originated as a mathematical calculation for comparing the results of two constituencies. The term "swing" has a different meaning in Australia, which has a different voting system.

The term swing is used in Australia in a different sense from that employed in Britain, where the term originated (see Swing (politics)). For the Australian House of Representatives (and for the lower houses of the parliaments of all the states and territories except Tasmania and the ACT), Australia employs preferential voting in single-member constituencies. Under this system, voters number all the candidates on their ballot paper in the order of their preference.