HEAVE TO (naut. irse al pairo).
heave to heaves to; heaving to; hove to
When a boat or ship heaves to, it stops moving. (TECHNICAL)
Captain Cornish repeated his order to heave to.
PHR-V
SWOOP (descenso súbito, redada, hacer una redada, lanzarse en picado, at one fell swoop=de un solo golpe).
1.- swoop swoops swooping swooped
If police or soldiers swoop on a place, they go there suddenly and quickly, usually in order to arrest someone or to attack the place. (JOURNALISM)
The terror ended when armed police swooped on the car.
The drugs squad swooped and discovered 240 kilograms of cannabis.
VB
+ swoop swoops
Also a noun.
Police held 10 suspected illegal immigrants after a swoop on a German lorry.
N-COUNT
2.- swoop swoops swooping swooped
When a bird or aeroplane swoops, it suddenly moves downwards through the air in a smooth curving movement.
More than 20 helicopters began swooping in low over the ocean.
The hawk swooped and soared away carrying something.
VB
3.- swoop
If something is done in one fell swoop or at one fell swoop, it is done on a single occasion or by a single action.
In one fell swoop the bank wiped away the tentative benefits of this policy.
PHR: PHR with cl
SOURCE: (c) Collins DICTIONARY.
!Mira que luna! Look at that moon! Resources for learning English
Fernando Olivera: El rapto.- TEXT FROM THE NOVEL The goldfinch by Donna Tartt (...) One night we were in San Antonio, and I was having a bit of a melt-down, wanting my own room, you know, my dog, my own bed, and Daddy lifted me up on the fairgrounds and told me to look at the moon. When "you feel homesick", he said, just look up. Because the moon is the same wherever you go". So after he died, and I had to go to Aunt Bess -I mean, even now, in the city, when I see a full moon, it's like he's telling me not to look back or feel sad about things, that home is wherever I am. She kissed me on the nose. Or where you are, puppy. The center of my earth is you". The goldfinch Donna Tartt 4441 English edition
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