Meaning of Swift | Babel Free

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1. A small plain-colored bird of the family Apodidae that resembles a swallow and is noted for its rapid flight.
2. A surname transferred from the nickname, originally a nickname for a swift or quick person.
3. Acronym of Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication.
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4. Acronym of Structured What If Technique.
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5. Any of certain lizards of the genus Sceloporus.
6. A general-purpose multi-paradigm compiled programming language introduced by Apple Inc. in 2014.
7. Acronym of South Wales Integrated Fast transit.
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8. Acronym of Stored Waveform Inverse Fourier Transform.
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9. A moth of the family Hepialidae, swift moth, ghost moth.
10. Alternative letter-case form of SWIFT (“Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication”).
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11. Acronym of Southwest Airlines Integrated Flights Tracking.
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12. Acronym of Stratospheric Wind Interferometer For Transport Studies.
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13. Any of various fast-flying hesperiid butterflies.
14. A place name:
15. An unincorporated community in DuPage County, Illinois, United States.
16. Acronym of Statewide Interlibrary loan Fast Track.
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17. A light, collapsible reel used to hold a hank of yarn in order to wind off skeins or balls.
18. An unincorporated community in Roseau County, Minnesota, United States.
19. Acronym of State Wildland Inmate Fire Team.
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20. The main cylinder of a carding-machine.
21. An extinct town in Pemiscot County, Missouri, United States.
22. Acronym of Simple Web Interface Toolset.
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23. The current of a stream.
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24. A minor river in Leicestershire and Warwickshire, England, which joins the (Warwickshire) Avon north of Rugby.

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Examples

“As a guide to start your collection we'd suggest either iguanas, tejus, swifts, basilisks, horned toads or alligator lizards.”

“Earless ghost swift moths become “invisible” to echolocating bats by forming mating clusters close (less than half a meter) above vegetation and effectively blending into the clutter of echoes that the bat receives from the leaves and stems around them.”

“If anyone outside Apple saw Swift coming, they certainly weren't making any public predictions.”

“Apple has made its Swift programming tools open source, Google opened up its TensorFlow machine-learning software, and IBM did the same with its SystemML.”

“Unlike some children’s apps, which employ drag-and-drop blocks to teach coding, the Apple program uses Swift, a professional programming language that the company introduced in 2014.”

“That year [2012], Iran was cut off from the Swift global payment system.”

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