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Definition of Swoop
1. Verb. Move down on as if in an attack. "The teacher swooped down upon the new students"
Generic synonyms: Come Down, Descend, Fall, Go Down
Specialized synonyms: Stoop
Derivative terms: Pounce
2. Noun. (music) rapid sliding up or down the musical scale. "The violinist was indulgent with his swoops and slides"
Generic synonyms: Glissando
Category relationships: Music
Derivative terms: Slide
3. Verb. Move with a sweep, or in a swooping arc.
4. Noun. A very rapid raid.
5. Verb. Seize or catch with a swooping motion.
6. Noun. A swift descent through the air.
Definition of Swoop
1. v. t. To fall on at once and seize; to catch while on the wing; as, a hawk swoops a chicken.
2. v. i. To descend with closed wings from a height upon prey, as a hawk; to stoop.
3. n. A falling on and seizing, as the prey of a rapacious bird; the act of swooping.
Definition of Swoop
1. Verb. to fly or glide downwards suddenly; to plunge (in the air) or nosedive ¹
2. Verb. to move swiftly, as if with a sweeping movement, especially to attack something ¹
3. Noun. an instance, or the act of suddenly plunging downward ¹
4. Noun. an act of rushedly doing something ¹
5. Noun. (music) passing quickly from one note to the next ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Swoop
1. to make a sudden descent [v -ED, -ING, -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Swoop
Literary usage of Swoop
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. St. Nicholas by Mary Mapes Dodge (1884)
"swoop-a-hoo ! here we go ; All a-gliding along; swoop-a-hoo ! here we go ; With
a roller-skate ... swoop-a-hoo ! cheeks so red ; Full of laughter, the air ! ..."
2. A new pronouncing dictionary of the Spanish and English languages by Mariano Velázquez de la Cadena, Edward Gray, Juan L. Iribas (1902)
"Swoon, ». Desmayo, deliquio, desfallecimiento, pasmo, sincope. swoop, -'- El acto
de echarse na ave de rapiña sobre sn presa. swoop ..."
3. Great Senators of the United States Forty Years Ago, (1848 and 1849): With by Oliver Dyer (1889)
"The old lion got up, and with one swoop of his paw he drove Brecken- ridge to
the Bible and me to the bottle, and we have both been there ever since. ..."
4. Java, Facts and Fancies by Augusta de Wit (1905)
"... same impatient fling — ready for a swoop and rake — so exactly resembling
sea-gulls skimming along, as to render the comparison almost a description. ..."
5. St. Nicholas by Mary Mapes Dodge (1884)
"swoop-a-hoo ! here we go ; All a-gliding along; swoop-a-hoo ! here we go ; With
a roller-skate ... swoop-a-hoo ! cheeks so red ; Full of laughter, the air ! ..."
6. A new pronouncing dictionary of the Spanish and English languages by Mariano Velázquez de la Cadena, Edward Gray, Juan L. Iribas (1902)
"Swoon, ». Desmayo, deliquio, desfallecimiento, pasmo, sincope. swoop, -'- El acto
de echarse na ave de rapiña sobre sn presa. swoop ..."
7. Great Senators of the United States Forty Years Ago, (1848 and 1849): With by Oliver Dyer (1889)
"The old lion got up, and with one swoop of his paw he drove Brecken- ridge to
the Bible and me to the bottle, and we have both been there ever since. ..."
8. Java, Facts and Fancies by Augusta de Wit (1905)
"... same impatient fling — ready for a swoop and rake — so exactly resembling
sea-gulls skimming along, as to render the comparison almost a description. ..."
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