Definition of Swallow

Add the "Quote of the Day" to Your Site or Blog - it's EASY!

Home - Quote Topics - Quote Keywords - Author Types - Author Nationalities

Authors: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Swallow

Any one of numerous species of passerine birds of the family Hirundinidae, especially one of those species in which the tail is deeply forked. They have long, pointed wings, and are noted for the swiftness and gracefulness of their flight.

Any one of numerous species of swifts which resemble the true swallows in form and habits, as the common American chimney swallow, or swift.

The aperture in a block through which the rope reeves.

To take into the stomach; to receive through the gullet, or esophagus, into the stomach; as, to swallow food or drink.

To draw into an abyss or gulf; to ingulf; to absorb -- usually followed by up.

To receive or embrace, as opinions or belief, without examination or scruple; to receive implicitly.

To engross; to appropriate; -- usually with up.

To occupy; to take up; to employ.

To seize and waste; to exhaust; to consume.

To retract; to recant; as, to swallow one's opinions.

To put up with; to bear patiently or without retaliation; as, to swallow an affront or insult.

To perform the act of swallowing; as, his cold is so severe he is unable to swallow.

The act of swallowing.

The gullet, or esophagus; the throat.

Taste; relish; inclination; liking.

Capacity for swallowing; voracity.

As much as is, or can be, swallowed at once; as, a swallow of water.

That which ingulfs; a whirlpool.

Related Definitions:

Absorb, Abyss, Act, Affront, American, An, And, Any, Aperture, Appropriate, Are, As, At, Be, Bear, Belief, Block, By, Can, Capacity, Chimney, Cold, Common, Consume, Deeply, Draw, Drink, Embrace, Employ, Engross, Esophagus, Especially, Examination, Exhaust, Family, Flight, Followed, Food, For, Forked, Form, Gulf, Gullet, Have, He, His, Implicitly, In, Ingulf, Insult, Into, Is, Liking, Long, Much, Noted, Numerous, Occupy, Of, Once, One, Or, Passerine, Patiently, Perform, Pointed, Put, Recant, Receive, Relish, Resemble, Retaliation, Retract, Rope, Scruple, Seize, Severe, So, Species, Stomach, Swallow, Swallowed, Swallowing, Swift, Swiftness, Tail, Take, Taste, That, The, Their, They, Those, Throat, Through, To, True, Unable, Up, Voracity, Waste, Water, Which, Whirlpool, With, Without

Swallow Quotations

For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.
Aristotle

I cannot swallow whole the view of Lincoln as the Great Emancipator.
Barack Obama

My mother begged doctors to end her life. She was beyond the physical ability to swallow enough of the weak morphine pills she had around her. When she knew she was dying I promised to make sure she could go at a time of her choosing, but it was impossible. I couldn't help.
Polly Toynbee

There's loads of things you can do to make things easy for your throat, you can drink a bit of lemon and hot water couple of spoons of honey, you can gargle with port, I've done it a couple of times myself - but don't swallow it!
Cliff Richard

Even if you have a bad game, you have to swallow your pride and sign. It takes a little time, but it makes the kids happy. And it makes you feel good, too.
Lorrie Fair

Swallow Translations

swallow in Afrikaans is sluk
swallow in Danish is svale
swallow in Dutch is slikken, doorslikken, inslikken
swallow in French is avalons, empiffrer, avaler, hirondelle, avalez
swallow in German is Schwalbe, schlucken, hinunterschlucken
swallow in Italian is rondine, ingoio, divorare
swallow in Portuguese is andorinha
swallow in Spanish is golondrina, andorina


Quotes RSS Feeds Copyright 2008 BrainyMedia.com