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I can't understand why the front pages of newspapers can cover bird flu and swine flu and everybody is up in arms about that and we still haven't really woken up to the fact that so many women in sub-Saharan Africa - 60 percent of people in - infected with HIV are women.
Annie Lennox

Meaning of "swine" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD SWINE

Old English swīn; related to Old Norse svīn, Gothic swein, Latin suīnus relating to swine.
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Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.
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PRONUNCIATION OF SWINE

swine  [swaɪn] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SWINE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Swine is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES SWINE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

swine

Domestic pig

The domestic pig, sometimes called swine or hog, is a large, even-toed ungulate; it is considered a subspecies of the wild boar or a distinct species. Their head plus body length ranges from 0.9 to 1.8 m and adults can weigh between 50 to 350 kg. Compared to other artiodactyls, their head is relatively long, pointed, and free of warts. Even-toed ungulates are generally herbivorous, although the domestic pig is an omnivore, like its wild ancestor. Domestic pigs are farmed primarily for the consumption of their flesh, called pork. The animal's bones, hide, and bristles have been fashioned into items such as brushes. Domestic pigs, especially the pot-bellied pig, are also kept as pets.

Definition of swine in the English dictionary

The definition of swine in the dictionary is Word forms: plural swines. a coarse or contemptible person.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH SWINE


disentwine
ˌdɪsɪnˈtwaɪn
dwine
dwaɪn
entwine
ɪnˈtwaɪn
equine
ˈɛkwaɪn
icewine
ˈaɪswaɪn
intertwine
ˌɪntəˈtwaɪn
intwine
ɪnˈtwaɪn
tarwhine
ˈtɑːˌwaɪn
twine
twaɪn
untwine
ʌnˈtwaɪn
whine
waɪn
wine
waɪn

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SWINE

swindle
swindle sheet
swindler
Swindon
swine fever
swine flu
swine vesicular disease
swine´s cress
swineherd
swinehood
swinelike
swinepox
swinery
swinestone
swing
swing band
swing both ways
swing bridge
swing by
swing door

WORDS THAT END LIKE SWINE

barley wine
bottled wine
chateau wine
communion wine
dessert wine
fortified wine
ginger wine
house wine
lawine
mulled wine
palm wine
red wine
Rhine wine
rice wine
sparkling wine
spirits of wine
table wine
tonic wine
vintage wine
white wine

Synonyms and antonyms of swine in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «swine» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF SWINE

Find out the translation of swine to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of swine from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «swine» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

porcina
570 millions of speakers

English

swine
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

सूअर
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الخنازير
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

свиной
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

suína
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

শূকর
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

porc
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Babi
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Schwein
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

돼지
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Babi
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

heo
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

பன்றிக்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

स्वाइन
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

domuz
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

suino
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

świń
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

свинячий
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

porcine
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

χοίρων
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

varke
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

svin
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

svin
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of swine

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SWINE»

The term «swine» is very widely used and occupies the 21.648 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «SWINE» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «swine» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «swine» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about swine

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9 QUOTES WITH «SWINE»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word swine.
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Edward Albee
You gotta have swine to show you where the truffles are.
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Max Brooks
Since 2001, people have been scared. There's been some really scary stuff that's been happening - 9/11, Iraq, Afghanistan, Katrina, anthrax letters, D.C. sniper, global warming, global financial meltdown, bird flu, swine flu, SARS. I think people really feel like the system's breaking down.
3
Jonathan Safran Foer
There is an overabundance of rational reasons to say no to factory-farmed meat: It is the No. 1 cause of global warming, it systematically forces tens of billions of animals to suffer in ways that would be illegal if they were dogs, it is a decisive factor in the development of swine and avian flus, and so on.
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Annie Lennox
I can't understand why the front pages of newspapers can cover bird flu and swine flu and everybody is up in arms about that and we still haven't really woken up to the fact that so many women in sub-Saharan Africa - 60 percent of people in - infected with HIV are women.
5
Riaad Moosa
Europeans ridicule Muslim culture because they don't understand the wisdom behind it. Take swine flu for instance: all the sudden you've got Europeans scared of pigs - we've been saying that for years!
6
George Dennison Prentice
Much smoking kills live men and cures dead swine.
7
Nathan Wolfe
The reality is: By the time swine flu got on the radar screen of global public health, it had already spread. It was already in the States, it was in Mexico, it was in New Zealand. By the time it reaches that point, you've lost the ability to contain it.
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Nathan Wolfe
Swine flu is not an anomaly. We know that swine flu - like the vast majority of new outbreaks - comes from animals. We should be monitoring those animals and the humans that come into contact with them, so we can catch these viruses early, before they infect major cities and spread throughout the world.
9
Kristi Yamaguchi
With 30,000 deaths and 200,000 hospitalizations from the seasonal flu, those numbers are certainly higher than what we've seen of the swine flu. Protecting yourself from both viruses is very important.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SWINE»

Discover the use of swine in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to swine and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Da Crockydile Book O' Frendsheep: A Pearls Before Swine Gift ...
As the first gift book based on the "Pearls Before Swine" comic strip, this "book of frendsheep" conveys the unusual brand of camaraderie shared by the not-really-so-cold-blooded crocs. Illustrations.
Stephan Pastis, 2008
2
Swine Nutrition, Second Edition
The nutritional aspects of the various feedstuffs commonly fed to swine are covered in the following section. The final chapters of the book are devoted to coverage of various techniques used in swine nutrition research.
Austin J. Lewis, L. Lee Southern, 2000
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Diseases of Swine
First published in 1958, Diseases of Swine, Tenth Edition is a fully revised and updated version of this classic reference.
Jeffrey J. Zimmerman, Locke A. Karriker, Alejandro Ramirez, 2012
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Swine in the Laboratory: Surgery, Anesthesia, Imaging, and ...
New to the Second Edition Updated sections on anesthesia and perioperative care, including practical information for more complex models Expansion of anatomic and physiologic details Additional detail in the endoscopy section Chapters on ...
M. Michael Swindle, 2007
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When Pigs Fly: A Pearls Before Swine Collection
A latest collection of the comic strip Pearls Before Swine features the hilarious, edgy exploits of such beloved characters as Rat, Pig, Zebra, Guard Duck, the Crocs, Goat and more.
Stephan Pastis, 2010
6
Feed Efficiency in Swine
This book is written for people who have a technical interest in pork production, including nutritionists, geneticists, farm management specialists, veterinarians, other academics and, of course, pork producers.
John F. Patience, 2012
7
Nutrient Requirements of Swine
Each of these popular handbooks contains comprehensive information on the nutritional needs of domestic animals and includes extensive tabular data. All are paperback and 8 1/2 x 11.
‎1998
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Pearls Before Swine: BLTs Taste So Darn Good
"Pearls Before Swine" is the hilarious new comic strip tale of two friends--an arrogant Rat who knows it all, and a slow-witted Pig who doesn't know any better.
Stephan Pastis, 2003
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Nutrient Requirements of Swine:: Eleventh Revised Edition
In addition to a thorough and current evaluation of the literature on the energy and nutrient requirements of swine in all stages of life, this volume includes information about feed ingredients from the biofuels industry and other new ...
Committee on Animal Nutrition, Subcommittee on Swine Nutrition, Board on Agriculture and Natural Resources, 2012
10
Diseases of Swine
Like human HEV, the capsid protein of swine HEV is immunogenic and induces protective immunity. It has been demonstrated that the ORF2 capsid protein of swine HEV shares common antigenic epitopes with that of human HEV and the ...
Barbara E. Straw, Jeffrey J. Zimmerman, Sylvie D'Allaire, 2013

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SWINE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term swine is used in the context of the following news items.
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Swine Flu Claims 38 More Lives in India, Total Death Toll Passes 800
Swine flu has claimed 38 more lives in India, taking the total nationwide death toll to 812, according to the latest figures released by the country's health ministry ... «TIME, Feb 15»
2
India struggles with deadly swine flu outbreak
Indian health officials are struggling to contain a swine flu outbreak that has killed more than 700 people since it took hold in mid-December. The number of ... «BBC News, Feb 15»
3
Swine Flu Pandemic Over, WHO Declares
H1N1 swine flu is no longer the dominant flu virus, crowding out others. ... The U.S. already is going ahead with plans to treat the H1N1 swine flu virus as part of ... «WebMD, Aug 10»
4
Dogs, Cats Can Get Swine Flu, Too
A dog in suburban New York City is the first in the nation confirmed to be carrying the same strain of swine flu that is infecting humans, experts told The ... «ABC News, Dec 09»
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H1N1 Swine Flu Less Severe Than Feared
When the fall/winter wave of H1N1 swine flu is over, it will have been no more severe than an average flu season, predict Harvard researcher Marc Lipsitch, ... «WebMD, Dec 09»
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Is there a history lesson from the swine flu of '76?
In October 1976, President Gerald Ford was one of 43 million Americans to receive a vaccine for swine flu. (Charles Tasnadi/Associated Press) ... «Washington Post, Nov 09»
7
My Swine Flu Experience
I distinctly remember the week the Swine Flu epidemic began. Ironically, I was sitting in my living room in Mexico saying “Swine flu? What's that?” to my brother ... «Santa Barbara Independent, Nov 09»
8
Can Pets Catch Swine Flu?
Recent media reports of the 2009 H1N1 influenza (swine flu) virus cases in companion animals have many people concerned for the health of their pets. «HSUS News, Nov 09»
9
China Investigates Deaths After Swine Flu Shot
Chinese health officials reported on Nov. 13 the first deaths in people who received the H1N1 vaccine. The Ministry of Health announced that the two people, ... «TIME, Nov 09»
10
Invited To A Swine Flu Party? CDC Says Don't Go
There's been another development in swine flu news — "swine flu parties," where people supposedly expose themselves to the virus on purpose. While the ... «NPR, Oct 09»

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