Определение слова «swell» на английский

verb

1. (intransitive) To become bigger, especially due to being engorged.

2. (transitive) To cause to become bigger.

   • Rains and dissolving snow swell the rivers in spring.

3. (intransitive) To grow gradually in force or loudness.

   • The organ music swelled.

4. (transitive) To cause to grow gradually in force or loudness.

5. (transitive) To raise to arrogance; to puff up; to inflate.

   • to be swelled with pride or haughtiness

6. (intransitive) To be raised to arrogance.

7. To be elated; to rise arrogantly.

8. To be turgid, bombastic, or extravagant.

   • swelling words  a swelling style

9. To protuberate; to bulge out.

   • A cask swells in the middle.

noun

1. The act of swelling; increase in size.

2. A bulge or protuberance.

3. Increase of power in style, or of rhetorical force.

4. A long series of ocean waves, generally produced by wind, and lasting after the wind has ceased.

5. (music) A gradual crescendo followed by diminuendo.

6. (music) A device for controlling the volume of a pipe organ.

7. (music) A division in a pipe organ, usually the largest enclosed division.

8. A hillock or similar raised area of terrain.

9. (geology) An upward protrusion of strata from whose central region the beds dip quaquaversally at a low angle.

10. (informal, dated) A person who is stylish, fancy, or elegant.

11. (informal) A person of high social standing; an important person.

12. The front brow of a saddle bow, connected in the tree by the two saddle bars to the cantle on the other end.

adjective

1. (dated) Fashionable, like a swell or dandy.

2. (Canada, US, dated slang) Excellent.

   • ...you are my devoted friend too. You do more and work harder and oh shit I'd get maudlin about how damned swell you are. My god I'd like to see you... You're a hell of a good guy.

adverb

1. (Canada, US, informal) Very well.