Swift is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for SWIFT in dictionary:

VERB:
• to tighten with a rope
• Moving a great distance in a short time; moving with celerity or velocity; fleet; rapid; quick; speedy; prompt.
• Of short continuance; passing away quickly.
• Swiftly.
• make tight
NOUN:
• a swift-flying insectivorous bird with long, slender wings and a superficial resemblance to a swallow, spending most of its life on the wing.
• a moth, typically yellow-brown in colour, with fast darting flight. The eggs are scattered in flight and the larvae live underground feeding on roots, where they can be a serious pest.
• a light, adjustable reel for holding a skein of silk or wool.
• The current of a stream.
• Any one of numerous species of small, long-winged, insectivorous birds of the family Micropodidae. In form and habits the swifts resemble swallows, but they are destitute of complex vocal muscles and are not singing birds, but belong to a widely different group allied to the humming birds.
• Any one of several species of lizards, as the pine lizard.
• The ghost moth. See under Ghost.
• A reel, or turning instrument, for winding yarn, thread, etc.; -- used chiefly in the plural.
• The main card cylinder of a flax-carding machine.
• United States meat-packer who began the use of refrigerated railroad cars (1839-1903)
• an English satirist born in Ireland (1667-1745)
• a small bird that resembles a swallow and is noted for its rapid flight
• common western lizard; seen on logs or rocks
• fast-flying bird with pointed wings
ADVERB:
• swiftly
• swiftly or quickly
ADJECTIVE:
• rapid
• happening quickly or promptly
• moving or capable of moving at high speed
• moving or able to move quickly
• moving very fast
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• moving with a great rate of motion
• a fast-flying bird

Words related to SWIFT

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Words that contain SWIFT

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How to use SWIFT in a sentence

• As it was, when he stepped out from behind the draperies of the upper window those of the lower window were still waving, but the swift figure had almost reached the desk.
• A polite man in livery bowed her through the swift whirl of the glass wheel, and she found herself in a large hall with floor and walls of marble.
• It is taken only in the swift water at the foot of the last leap or descent.
• The ball flew from his hand straight and swift towards the centre stump of the wicket.
• Clergymen, like Swift and Lawrence Sterne, were worldly in their lives and immoral in their writings, and were practically unbelievers.
• Later she refused more than a swift glance of dismay at the photograph of the bully proudly displayed to her by the recipient.
• Fielding took a swift step forward, but with an odd twist of the brows Saltash reassured him.
• During these few swift seconds Graham had stood stunned, with the girl crushed against his breast.
• Then, swift and smooth as a shadow, he shot in diagonally, well below the range of those crashing strokes.
• She leaped through the mirror as through an open window, and settled at once into a low, even, swift gallop.
• There would be a dreary relapse into monotony after months of association with clever people, the swift succession of brilliant little functions.
• With practiced eye he picked out a smooth, grassy, level spot, in the midst of scattered evergreen trees, and there Tom Swift skillfully brought his Air Scout to rest.
• Then Dodge delivered two swift, straight-from-the-shoulder blows.
• Swift along the May woods the figures fled, vision succeeding vision, beauty treading on beauty.
• After dinner my father waded in, going hips under where the water was deep and swift.
• And as Pontiac lurched among the black shadows of the trees, his pursuer crept up behind him, and with a swift stroke of the tomahawk cleft his skull.
• Swift as a snake, and more deadly of purpose, Sybilla glided along the gloomy avenues of the wood toward the sea-side terrace.

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