Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference - swallow
Swallow
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1. v. & n. --v. 1 tr. cause or allow (food etc.) to pass down the throat. 2 intr. perform the muscular movement of the oesophagus required to do this. 3 tr. a accept meekly; put up with (an affront etc.). b accept credulously (an unlikely assertion etc.). 4 tr. repress; resist the expression of (a feeling etc.) (swallow one's pride). 5 tr. articulate (words etc.) indistinctly. 6 tr. (often foll. by up) engulf or absorb; exhaust; cause to disappear. --n. 1 the act of swallowing. 2 an amount swallowed in one action. Phrases and idioms swallow-hole Brit. = sink-hole (see SINK n. 6). Derivatives swallowable adj. swallower n. Etymology: OE swelg (n.), swelgan (v.) f. Gmc 2. n. any of various migratory swift-flying insect-eating birds of the family Hirundinidae, esp. Hirundo rustica, with a forked tail and long pointed wings. Phrases and idioms one swallow does not make a summer a warning against a hasty inference from one instance. swallow-dive a dive with the arms outspread until close to the water. swallow-tail 1 a deeply forked tail. 2 anything resembling this shape. 3 any butterfly of the family Papilionidae with wings extended at the back to this shape. swallow-tailed having a swallow-tail. Etymology: OE swealwe f. Gmc
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I. noun Etymology: Middle English swalowe, from Old English swealwe; akin to Old High German swalawa ~ Date: before 12th century any of numerous small widely distributed oscine birds (family Hirundinidae, the ~ family) that have a short bill, long pointed wings, and often a deeply forked tail and that feed on insects caught on the wing, any of several birds that superficially resemble ~s, II. verb Etymology: Middle English swalowen, from Old English swelgan; akin to Old High German swelgan to ~ Date: before 12th century transitive verb to take through the mouth and esophagus into the stomach, to envelop or take in as if by ~ing ; absorb , to accept without question, protest, or resentment , take back, retract , to keep from expressing or showing ; repress , to utter (as words) indistinctly, intransitive verb to receive something into the body through the mouth and esophagus, to perform the action characteristic of ~ing something especially under emotional stress, ~able adjective ~er noun III. noun Date: 14th century the passage connecting the mouth to the stomach, a capacity for ~ing, 3. an act of ~ing, an amount that can be ~ed at one time ...Толковый словарь английского языка
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