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swift

adj
/swɪft/

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.

  1. derived from *(s)weyp-✻ — “to twist; wind around”
  2. inherited from *swiftaz✻
  3. inherited from swift — “swift; quick”
  4. inherited from swift

Definitions

  1. Fast

    Fast; quick; rapid.

    • swift action
    • swift response
    • swift recovery

  2. Capable of moving at high speeds.

  3. Quick-thinking

    Quick-thinking; bright.

    • That's what limos do — advertise, and he should have known that. But, as I told you before, officer, he's not too swift.
  4. ›+ 21 more definitions

    1. Swiftly.

      • Light boats sail swift, though greater hulks draw deep.
      • Ply swift and strong the oar.
      • Let no thing escape; / Catch these for me before we all are flown, / Torn, violate, by time’s triumphal rape: / Run swift into the wheeling day; the night / Takes all of us.

    2. A small plain-colored bird of the family Apodidae that resembles a swallow and is noted…

      A small plain-colored bird of the family Apodidae that resembles a swallow and is noted for its rapid flight.

    3. Any of certain lizards of the genus Sceloporus.

      • As a guide to start your collection we'd suggest either iguanas, tejus, swifts, basilisks, horned toads or alligator lizards.

    4. A moth of the family Hepialidae, swift moth, ghost moth.

    5. Any of various fast-flying hesperiid butterflies.

    6. A light, collapsible reel used to hold a hank of yarn in order to wind off skeins or…

      A light, collapsible reel used to hold a hank of yarn in order to wind off skeins or balls.

    7. The main cylinder of a carding-machine.

    8. The current of a stream.

    9. A surname transferred from the nickname, originally a nickname for a swift or quick…

      A surname transferred from the nickname, originally a nickname for a swift or quick person.

      • Taylor Swift has countless Grammys and American Music Awards, but this new honor will be a first for the global pop star.

    10. A general-purpose multi-paradigm compiled programming language introduced by Apple Inc.…

      A general-purpose multi-paradigm compiled programming language introduced by Apple Inc. in 2014.

      • If anyone outside Apple saw Swift coming, they certainly weren't making any public predictions.
      • Apple has made its Swift programming tools open source, Google opened up its TensorFlow machine-learning software, and IBM did the same with its SystemML.
      • Unlike some children’s apps, which employ drag-and-drop blocks to teach coding, the Apple program uses Swift, a professional programming language that the company introduced in 2014.

    11. Alternative letter-case form of SWIFT (“Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial…

      Alternative letter-case form of SWIFT (“Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication”).

      • That year [2012], Iran was cut off from the Swift global payment system.

    12. A place name

      A place name:

    13. Acronym of Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication.

    14. Acronym of South Wales Integrated Fast transit.

    15. Acronym of Southwest Airlines Integrated Flights Tracking.

    16. Acronym of Statewide Interlibrary loan Fast Track.

    17. Acronym of State Wildland Inmate Fire Team.

    18. Acronym of Simple Web Interface Toolset.

    19. Acronym of Structured What If Technique.

    20. Acronym of Stored Waveform Inverse Fourier Transform.

    21. Acronym of Stratospheric Wind Interferometer For Transport Studies.

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Derived

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Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at swift. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at swift. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at swift

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA