Synonyms for sling
slɪŋsling

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1. sling

   To send is to cause to go or pass from one place to another, and always in fact or thought away from the agent or agency that controls the act. Send in its most common use involves personal agency without personal presence; according to the adage, "If you want your business done, go; if not, send;" one sends a letter or a bullet, a messenger or a message. In all the derived uses this same idea controls; if one sends a ball into his own heart, the action is away from the directing hand, and he is viewed as the passive recipient of his own act; it is with an approach to personification that we speak of the bow sending the arrow, or the gun the shot. To despatch is to send hastily or very promptly, ordinarily with a destination in view; to dismiss is to send away from oneself without reference to a destination; as, to dismiss a clerk, an application, or an annoying subject. To discharge is to send away so as to relieve a person or thing of a load; we discharge a gun or discharge the contents; as applied to persons, discharge is a harsher term than dismiss. To emit is to send forth from within, with no reference to a destination; as, the sun emits light and heat. Transmit, from the Latin, is a dignified term, often less vigorous than the Saxon send, but preferable at times in literary or scientific use; as, to transmit the crown, or the feud, from generation to generation; to transmit a charge of electricity. Transmit fixes the attention more on the intervening agency, as send does upon the points of departure and destination.

   Synonyms:
   cast, dart, delegate, depute, despatch, discharge, dismiss, drive, emit, fling, forward, hurl, impel, lance, launch, project, propel, send, throw, transmit

   Antonyms:
   bring, carry, convey, get, give, hand, hold, keep, receive, retain

   Preposition:
   To send from the hand to or toward (rarely at) a mark; send to a friend by a messenger or by mail; send a person into banishment; send a shell among the enemy.

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1. slingnoun

   a highball with liquor and water with sugar and lemon or lime juice

   Synonyms:
   triangular bandage, slingshot, catapult, scarf bandage, slingback

2. slingshot, sling, catapultnoun

   a plaything consisting of a Y-shaped stick with elastic between the arms; used to propel small stones

   Synonyms:
   arbalist, slingback, catapult, launcher, bricole, onager, slingshot, triangular bandage, arbalest, scarf bandage, ballista, trebuchet, mangonel, trebucket

3. slingback, slingnoun

   a shoe that has a strap that wraps around the heel

   Synonyms:
   triangular bandage, slingshot, catapult, scarf bandage, slingback

4. slingnoun

   a simple weapon consisting of a looped strap in which a projectile is whirled and then released

   Synonyms:
   triangular bandage, slingshot, catapult, scarf bandage, slingback

5. sling, scarf bandage, triangular bandageverb

   bandage to support an injured forearm; consisting of a wide triangular piece of cloth hanging from around the neck

   Synonyms:
   triangular bandage, slingshot, catapult, scarf bandage, slingback

6. sling, catapultverb

   hurl as if with a sling

   Synonyms:
   catapult

7. slingverb

   hang loosely or freely; let swing

   Synonyms:
   catapult

8. slingverb

   move with a sling

   "sling the cargo onto the ship"

   Synonyms:
   catapult

9. slingverb

   hold or carry in a sling

   "he cannot button his shirt with his slinged arm"

   Synonyms:
   catapult

Matched Categories

1. • Carry
   • Hang
   • Highball
   • Hurl
   • Move
   • Shoe
   • Weapon

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1. slingverb

   Synonyms:
   throw, cast, hurl, fling

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1. List of paraphrases for "sling":

   scarf, slingshot, canvas, plaster, messenger

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1. Joe Meaux:

   My guns are all very recognizable, we do a lot of custom work, there was one Ak-47 copy built from a .22 I identified. Everything from the optic to the way the sling was placed was all very identifiable.

2. Sterling Candland:

   When she came out, she had a makeshift sling on her arm, and she just looked very rundown. We just looked at each other. We can't just walk away from this one with a good conscience.

3. Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.:

   When you sling mud, you lose ground.

4. Jamie Webb:

   I once dared a customer on a hen night to sling a bra to the horn to win a free shot, she did and it has become a tradition ever since.

5. Bernard Mutondo:

   Occasionally, I transported gear under the chopper and on one occasion assisted some game scouts to cross a river with a sling under the helicopter, i never once slung poachers under the helicopter.