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11Swift, Jonathan — born Nov. 30, 1667, Dublin, Ire. died Oct. 19, 1745, Dublin Irish author, the foremost prose satirist in English. He was a student at Dublin s Trinity College during the anti Catholic Revolution of 1688 in England. Irish Catholic reaction in… …
12swift — [[t]swɪ̱ft[/t]] swifter, swiftest, swifts 1) ADJ GRADED A swift event or process happens very quickly or without delay. Our task is to challenge the UN to make a swift decision... The police were swift to act. Syn: quick Derived words: swiftly… …
13swift — 1 adjective 1 happening quickly and immediately: My letter received a swift reply. 2 (only before noun) moving, or able to move, very fast: a swift runner | swift of foot literary (=able to run fast) 3 be swift to do sth to do something as soon… …
14Very Large Telescope — VLT redirects here. For other uses, see VLT (disambiguation). Very Large Telescope The four Unit Telescopes that form the VLT together with th …
15swift — swiftly / swift [adv] very fast apace, doublequick*, expeditiously, flat out*, fleetly, full tilt*, hastily, hurriedly, in no time*, posthaste, promptly, quick, quickly, rapidly, speedily, without losing time*, without warning*; concepts 588,799… …
16swift — I. adjective Etymology: Middle English, from Old English; akin to Old English swīfan to revolve more at swivel Date: before 12th century 1. moving or capable of moving with great speed < a swift runner > 2. occurring suddenly or within a very… …
17swift — adj. VERBS ▪ be ADVERB ▪ extremely, fairly, very, etc. ▪ incredibly, remarkably …
18swift — Pine Pine, n. [AS. p[=i]n, L. pinus.] 1. (Bot.) Any tree of the coniferous genus {Pinus}. See {Pinus}. [1913 Webster] Note: There are about twenty eight species in the United States, of which the {white pine} ({Pinus Strobus}), the {Georgia pine} …
19very — {{Roman}}I.{{/Roman}} adj. Very is used with these nouns: ↑antithesis, ↑brink, ↑centre, ↑core, ↑corner, ↑day, ↑edge, ↑end, ↑essence, ↑existence, ↑fundamentals, ↑ …
20swift — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. quick, rapid, fast, fleet, speedy; expeditious. See velocity, haste. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. flying, sudden, speedy; see fast 1 . See Synonym Study at fast . III (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) a. 1 …
