Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English - swoop
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Swoop
swoop
~1 v 1 if a bird or aircraft swoops it moves suddenly and steeply down through the air, especially to attack something + in/down etc (The hawk swooped and seized a rabbit.) 2 to make a sudden, surprise attack + in/on etc (Police swooped in on gang hideouts in a series of raids.) ~2 n 1 a swooping movement or action 2 a sudden surprise attack (Police hunting the killer arrested a man in a swoop on his flat last night.) (- see also at/in one fell swoop fell4)
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1.
(swoops, swooping, swooped) 1. If police or soldiers swoop on a place, they go there suddenly and quickly, usually in order to arrest someone or to attack the place. (JOURNALISM) The terror ended when armed police swooped on the car... The drugs squad swooped and discovered 240 kilograms of cannabis. VERB: V on n, V • Swoop is also a noun. Police held 10 suspected illegal immigrants after a swoop on a German lorry. N-COUNT 2. When a bird or aeroplane swoops, it suddenly moves downwards through the air in a smooth curving movement. More than 20 helicopters began swooping in low over the ocean... The hawk swooped and soared away carrying something. VERB: V adv/prep, V 3. If something is done in one fell swoop or at one fell swoop, it is done on a single occasion or by a single action. In one fell swoop the bank wiped away the tentative benefits of this policy. PHRASE: PHR with cl ...Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
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I. verb Etymology: alteration of Middle English swopen to sweep, from Old English swapan — more at sweep Date: 1566 intransitive verb to move with a sweep transitive verb to gain or carry off in or as if in a ~ — usually used with up • ~er noun II. noun Date: 1605 1. an act or instance of ~ing 2. a single concentrated and quickly effective effort was done in one ~ — often used with fell solved everything at one fell ~ ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
3.
v. & n. --v. 1 intr. (often foll. by down) descend rapidly like a bird of prey. 2 intr. (often foll. by on) make a sudden attack from a distance. 3 tr. (often foll. by up) colloq. snatch the whole of at one swoop. --n. a swooping or snatching movement or action. Phrases and idioms at (or in) one fell swoop see FELL(4). Etymology: perh. dial. var. of obs. swope f. OE swapan: see SWEEP ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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1. падение вниз (хищной птицы на жертву) 2. внезапное нападение, налет influenza came down upon me with a swoop —- меня подкосил (свалил) грипп 3. воен. внезапная атака Id: at one (fell) swoop —- одним злодейским (коварным) ударом 4. (обыкн. swoop down) устремляться, падать вниз; налетать, бросаться the eagle swooped down on its prey —- орел камнем упал на свою жертву 5. внезапно налетать police swooped down on a gambling club and made several arrests —- полиция совершила налет на игорный дом и несколько человек арестовала breeze swooped down upon us —- ветер налетел на нас 6. хватать, подхватывать (обыкн. swoop up) ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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1. noun 1) устремление вниз (хищной птицы на жертву) 2) внезапное нападение, налет at one fell swoop - одним ударом, одним махом 2. v. 1) устремляться вниз (обыкн. swoop down) 2) налетать, бросаться (обыкн. swoop on, swoop upon); Having seen the mouse from a great height with its sharp eyes, the big bird swooped (down) on it and carried it off for its meal. 3) хватать, подхватывать (обыкн. swoop up) - swoop down SWOOP down aeron. пикировать ...Англо-русский словарь
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- O.E. swapan "to sweep, brandish, dash," from P.Gmc. *swaipanan, from PIE base *swei- "swing, bend." Meaning "pounce upon with a sweeping movement" first recorded 1638. Spelling with -oo- may have been influenced by Scot. and northern England dial. soop "to sweep," from O.N. sopa "to sweep." ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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