Definizione monolingua

swell

swell (third-person singular simple present swells, present participle swelling, simple past swelled, past participle swollen or swelled)

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

swell (plural swells)

1. A long series of ocean waves, generally produced by wind, and lasting after the wind has ceased.
   • 1883, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, ch. 24:

     There was a great, smooth swell upon the sea.

2. (music) A gradual crescendo followed by diminuendo.
3. (music) A device for controlling the volume of a pipe organ.
4. (music) A division in a pipe organ, usually the largest enclosed division.
5. A hillock or similar raised area of terrain.
   • 1909, Joseph A. Altsheler, The Last of the Chiefs, ch. 2:

     Off on the crest of a swell a moving figure was seen now and then. ""Antelope,"" said the hunters.

6. (informal) A person who is dressed in a fancy or elegant manner.
   • circa 1850, William Makepeace Thackeray, ""The Kickleburys on the Rhine"" in The Christmas Books of Mr. M. A. Titmarsh:

     It costs him no more to wear all his ornaments about his distinguished person than to leave them at home. If you can be a swell at a cheap rate, why not?

   • 1887, Horatio Alger, The Cash Boy, ch. 9:

     He was dressed in a flashy style, not unlike what is popularly denominated a swell.

7. (informal) A person of high social standing; an important person.
   • 1864, Anthony Trollope, The Small House at Allington, ch. 2:

     ""I am not in Mr Crosbies confidence. He is in the General Committee Office, I know; and, I believe, has pretty nearly the management of the whole of it."" . . .

     ""Ill tell you what he is, Bell; Mr Crosbie is a swell."" And Lilian Dale was right; Mr Crosbie was a swell.

   • 1906, Gilbert Parker, The Trespasser, ch. 8:

     You buy a lot of Indian or halfbreed loafers with beaver-skins and rum, go to the Mount of the Burning Arrows, and these fellows dance round you and call you one of the lost race, the Mighty Men of the Kimash Hills. And theyll do that while the rum lasts. Meanwhile you get to think yourself a devil of a swell—you and the gods!

swell (usually not comparable; nonstandard comparative sweller, superlative swellest)

1. (US, informal, dated) Excellent.

Definizione dizionario swell

	gonfiare
	intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged
	To grow larger in volume.

	mareggio
	A regular movement of marine waves created by wind stress in the open ocean which travels considerable distances.

accrescere

aumentare

crescendo

crescere

dilatare

dilatarsi

eccezionale

eleganza

enfiare

frangenti

gonfiarsi

gonfià

ingrossare

ingrossarsi

magnifico

moto ondoso

protuberanza

rigonfiamento

Altri significati:

swell (from inflammation)

excellent

(transitive) To cause to become bigger.

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

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

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

swell (out)

(US, informal, dated) Excellent.

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

music: crescendo followed by diminuendo

(music) A gradual crescendo followed by diminuendo.

series of waves

(to) swell