swing

/swɪŋ/ noun [C]

Translation

FOR CHILDREN › a chair hanging on two ropes that children sit on and swing backwards and forwards

salıncak

1492

HIT › an attempt to hit someone

vurma, darbe, saldırma, savurma

Isn't that the boy Mark took a swing at (= tried to hit)?183583

CHANGE › a sudden change

anî değişim, beklenmedik başkalaşım

He suffered terrible mood swings.2326

be in full swing › If an event is in full swing, everything has started and there is a lot of activity.

en hengâmeli zamanında olmak, en civcivli/hareketli anında olmak; başını kaşıyamayacak durumda olmak

By ten o'clock, the party was in full swing.1359

(Definition of swing noun from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary English-Turkish © Cambridge University Press)

If two people are thrown together, they meet each other in a way that was not planned, or events...

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