Swat
verb
To hit something quickly and with force.
He swatted the fly with a newspaper.
Often appears as...
- swat a fly
- swat away
noun
An act of hitting something quickly and forcefully.
With a quick swat, he killed the mosquito.
Often appears as...
- give it a swat
- swat at something
noun
Acronym for Special Weapons And Tactics, a special group within a police department trained to deal with situations requiring higher amount of force.
The SWAT team was called in to handle the hostage situation.
Often appears as...
- swat team
- call in swat
verb
To hit something quickly and with force.
He swatted the fly with a newspaper.
Often appears as...
- swat a fly
- swat away
noun
An act of hitting something quickly and forcefully.
With a quick swat, he killed the mosquito.
Often appears as...
- give it a swat
- swat at something
noun
Acronym for Special Weapons And Tactics, a special group within a police department trained to deal with situations requiring higher amount of force.
The SWAT team was called in to handle the hostage situation.
Often appears as...
- swat team
- call in swat
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Physical action
Used when describing a quick, usually small, hitting movement by a person.
She swatted his hand away as he reached for the cookie.
Pro Tip 2/3Common with insects
Often used when trying to hit a flying insect like a mosquito or fly.
I swatted at the buzzing bees trying to land on my food.
Pro Tip 3/3Metaphorical use
Can be used metaphorically to describe rejecting something annoying or troublesome.
He swatted away all my excuses with sound arguments.
Pro Tip 1/3Physical action
Used when describing a quick, usually small, hitting movement by a person.
She swatted his hand away as he reached for the cookie.
Pro Tip 2/3Common with insects
Often used when trying to hit a flying insect like a mosquito or fly.
I swatted at the buzzing bees trying to land on my food.
Pro Tip 3/3Metaphorical use
Can be used metaphorically to describe rejecting something annoying or troublesome.
He swatted away all my excuses with sound arguments.
Pro Tip 1/3Physical action
Used when describing a quick, usually small, hitting movement by a person.
She swatted his hand away as he reached for the cookie.
Pro Tip 2/3Common with insects
Often used when trying to hit a flying insect like a mosquito or fly.
I swatted at the buzzing bees trying to land on my food.
Pro Tip 3/3Metaphorical use
Can be used metaphorically to describe rejecting something annoying or troublesome.
He swatted away all my excuses with sound arguments.
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Why the insect brain is...
exactly how neurons work together in the brain. This is also valuable for engineers, who study the insect brain to help design control systems for everything from self-flying airplanes to tiny search-and-rescue roach bots. So, size and complexity are not always the most impressive things. The next time you try to swat a fly,
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Safari Live - Day 59 PIPE...
will eat lots of grass if they're feeling a little bit unwell they've got a hairball it helps helps bring that back up again and you acting very playful what's biting you I think something must be some insect of source must be nibbling on this line you can see that Terrell is swatting and it's
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Safari Live - Day 121 PIPE...
kicked out now living a life of solitary swatting that tail keeping away all the biting flies I even have a quarry branch in the car today the insects have been particularly bad be nice if he gave that my ruler a shake just to see if they aren't one or two more fruits still
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The 5 Musketeers Eat...
that borough we did also see two other hyena closer towards the road they actually look like males to me they could have also just been very young females but not too close to the den so they're do scatter themselves aren't like we said it was hard to swat them so
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Rarest Rhino Filmed PIPE...
a female job in rhino with her male calf walking through the rain forest and munching on leaves at one point the calf turns away and wags its tail possibly to swat a fly WWF points out that the job in rhino is one of the world's rarest
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Licking bees and pulping...
As the swarm descends, alarmed humans try to swat them. They even fight back with pesticides that purposefully poison wasps, and inadvertently impact a wide-range of local wildlife. But the wasps are actually vital to this ecosystem.
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Robert Wood: Robotic...
without the presence of active control. Insects are not that way. They're unstable and this leads to the maneuverability that you've experienced if you ever try to swat them. What I'm saying is they're the fighter jets of the world.
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A low-cost, reliable...
by a yellow color change confirming that result the load swats are shaped so weirdly so that it has no language barriers and it's a totally universally comprehensive process so you might be thinking why did I do this I actually
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Stephen Petranek: 10...
suck up our oceans for the hydrogen? And swat us away like flies, the way we swat away flies when we go into the rainforest and start logging it. We can look at our own history. The late physicist Gerard O'Neill said,
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Lion vs Tiger - Who...
They mainly use it to swat flies that I've noticed anyway. What would win a lion or a tiger? Short answer is, in my opinion, a tiger. They are very self focused and they do everything for themselves.
Video examples
Why the insect brain is...
exactly how neurons work together in the brain. This is also valuable for engineers, who study the insect brain to help design control systems for everything from self-flying airplanes to tiny search-and-rescue roach bots. So, size and complexity are not always the most impressive things. The next time you try to swat a fly,
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 59 PIPE...
will eat lots of grass if they're feeling a little bit unwell they've got a hairball it helps helps bring that back up again and you acting very playful what's biting you I think something must be some insect of source must be nibbling on this line you can see that Terrell is swatting and it's
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 121 PIPE...
kicked out now living a life of solitary swatting that tail keeping away all the biting flies I even have a quarry branch in the car today the insects have been particularly bad be nice if he gave that my ruler a shake just to see if they aren't one or two more fruits still
Video examples
The 5 Musketeers Eat...
that borough we did also see two other hyena closer towards the road they actually look like males to me they could have also just been very young females but not too close to the den so they're do scatter themselves aren't like we said it was hard to swat them so
Video examples
Rarest Rhino Filmed PIPE...
a female job in rhino with her male calf walking through the rain forest and munching on leaves at one point the calf turns away and wags its tail possibly to swat a fly WWF points out that the job in rhino is one of the world's rarest
Video examples
Licking bees and pulping...
As the swarm descends, alarmed humans try to swat them. They even fight back with pesticides that purposefully poison wasps, and inadvertently impact a wide-range of local wildlife. But the wasps are actually vital to this ecosystem.
Video examples
Robert Wood: Robotic...
without the presence of active control. Insects are not that way. They're unstable and this leads to the maneuverability that you've experienced if you ever try to swat them. What I'm saying is they're the fighter jets of the world.
Video examples
A low-cost, reliable...
by a yellow color change confirming that result the load swats are shaped so weirdly so that it has no language barriers and it's a totally universally comprehensive process so you might be thinking why did I do this I actually
Video examples
Stephen Petranek: 10...
suck up our oceans for the hydrogen? And swat us away like flies, the way we swat away flies when we go into the rainforest and start logging it. We can look at our own history. The late physicist Gerard O'Neill said,
Video examples
Lion vs Tiger - Who...
They mainly use it to swat flies that I've noticed anyway. What would win a lion or a tiger? Short answer is, in my opinion, a tiger. They are very self focused and they do everything for themselves.
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Michelle Lujan Grisham
American Politician
I think, in general, we've created an environment where we've done away with the sort of day-to-day training that's necessary, including crisis intervention, behavioral health training - the kinds of things that we know that both protect officers and the community - and moved away to a highly military, advanced SWAT team mentality.
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Michelle Obama
American First Lady
I remember one parent-teacher conference at the lower school, and Barack went, and there were SWAT guys on top of the roof of the school. And Malia was like, 'Dad, really? Really? Do they really have to be up there?' And it's like, yeah, honey, they do.
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Karen Armstrong
English Writer
In the holy city of Mecca, violence of any kind was forbidden. From the moment they left home, pilgrims were not permitted to carry weapons, to swat an insect or speak an angry word, a discipline that introduced them to a new way of living.
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Bebe Buell
American Model
It's, 'Honey, where's the peacock outfit? What about my leather pants?' You have to swat them clean with a brush. And when the makeup artist passed out, I had to finish. That's why Todd would have two different kinds of eye makeup on.
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Michael Dickinson
American Scientist
It is best not to swat at the fly's starting position, but rather to aim a bit forward of that to anticipate where the fly is going to jump when it first sees your swatter.
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Dan Jenkins
American Author
You must remind yourself at all times that the golf ball is nothing. It's an object. It's something to be swatted and sometimes lost and not even looked for.
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Gary Goetzman
American Producer
No Afghans, as far as we know, have been involved in terrorist acts against our country. We shouldn't be swatting at hornets' nests we know nothing about.
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Khris Middleton
American Athlete
I think mid-range shooters are hard to get to a lot of times. Guys are going at you all the way to the paint or looking to swat it at the 3-point line.
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Richard Stallman
Scientist
Fighting patents one by one will never eliminate the danger of software patents, any more than swatting mosquitoes will eliminate malaria.
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Dean Potter
American Athlete
I don't have thoughts of an afterlife. I think dying is like when you swat a fly - it's over.
Quote examples
Michelle Lujan Grisham
American Politician
I think, in general, we've created an environment where we've done away with the sort of day-to-day training that's necessary, including crisis intervention, behavioral health training - the kinds of things that we know that both protect officers and the community - and moved away to a highly military, advanced SWAT team mentality.
Quote examples
Michelle Obama
American First Lady
I remember one parent-teacher conference at the lower school, and Barack went, and there were SWAT guys on top of the roof of the school. And Malia was like, 'Dad, really? Really? Do they really have to be up there?' And it's like, yeah, honey, they do.
Quote examples
Karen Armstrong
English Writer
In the holy city of Mecca, violence of any kind was forbidden. From the moment they left home, pilgrims were not permitted to carry weapons, to swat an insect or speak an angry word, a discipline that introduced them to a new way of living.
Quote examples
Bebe Buell
American Model
It's, 'Honey, where's the peacock outfit? What about my leather pants?' You have to swat them clean with a brush. And when the makeup artist passed out, I had to finish. That's why Todd would have two different kinds of eye makeup on.
Quote examples
Michael Dickinson
American Scientist
It is best not to swat at the fly's starting position, but rather to aim a bit forward of that to anticipate where the fly is going to jump when it first sees your swatter.
Quote examples
Dan Jenkins
American Author
You must remind yourself at all times that the golf ball is nothing. It's an object. It's something to be swatted and sometimes lost and not even looked for.
Quote examples
Gary Goetzman
American Producer
No Afghans, as far as we know, have been involved in terrorist acts against our country. We shouldn't be swatting at hornets' nests we know nothing about.
Quote examples
Khris Middleton
American Athlete
I think mid-range shooters are hard to get to a lot of times. Guys are going at you all the way to the paint or looking to swat it at the 3-point line.
Quote examples
Richard Stallman
Scientist
Fighting patents one by one will never eliminate the danger of software patents, any more than swatting mosquitoes will eliminate malaria.
Quote examples
Dean Potter
American Athlete
I don't have thoughts of an afterlife. I think dying is like when you swat a fly - it's over.
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