Definitions for SWIFT

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SWIFT swift

Spelling: [swift]

IPA: /swɪft/

Swift is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 39 anagrams from letters in SWIFT (fistw).

Definitions for SWIFT

noun

1. any of numerous long-winged, swallowlike birds of the family Apodidae, related to the hummingbirds and noted for their rapid flight.
2. tree swift.
3. spiny lizard.
4. Also called swift moth, ghost moth. any of several brown or gray moths, the males of which are usually white, of the family Hepialidae, noted for rapid flight.
5. an adjustable device upon which a hank of yarn is placed in order to wind off skeins or balls.
6. the main cylinder on a machine for carding flax.
7. Gustavus Franklin, 1839–1903, U.S. meat packer.
8. Jonathan ("Isaac Bickerstaff") 1667–1745, English satirist and clergyman, born in Ireland.
9. Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication: an international consortium that routes instructions concerning transfer of funds between financial institutions.

adverb

1. swiftly.

adjective

1. moving or capable of moving with great speed or velocity; fleet; rapid:
2. coming, happening, or performed quickly or without delay:
3. quick or prompt to act or respond:
4. Slang. quick to perceive or understand; smart; clever:

Origin of SWIFT

before 900; Middle English (adj. and adv.), Old English (adj.); akin to Old English swīfan to revolve, Old Norse svīfa to rove; see swivel

Examples for SWIFT

The Internet cool kids are, of course, rallying against swift en masse.

So the family threw her a 100th birthday party, then she entered her swift decline.

This feeling was intensified by the belief that swift, as a clergyman, was insincere.

One swift glance had shown him there was no way of instant retreat.

Then there was a current of curses, a swift hissing of invective.

By the way, what inducements could a swift writer as he have to learn short-hand!

Again, Aggie studied him with a swift glance of interrogation.

This would seem reasonable, since in that direction lay the only territory open enough for swift attack by armor.

But to swift, well-versed in Hollywood dating, this is inconsequential.

They know they will face either a swift backlash or deafening silence.