Usually means: Quickly moving or capable of speed.
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We found 53 dictionaries that define the word SWIFT:

General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. swift: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. Swift, swift: Merriam-Webster
  3. swift, swift: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. swift: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. swift: Collins English Dictionary
  6. Swift, swift: Vocabulary.com
  7. Swift, swift: Wordnik
  8. swift: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. SWIFT, Swift, swift: Wiktionary
  10. swift: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. swift: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. swift: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. swift: Dictionary.com
  14. swift (adj.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. swift: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. SWIFT, Swift (Apple programming language), Swift (Deimian crater), Swift (UK comics), Swift (comic), Swift (comics), Swift (disambiguation), Swift (distributed storage), Swift (lunar crater), Swift (microarchitecture), Swift (parallel scripting language), Swift (programming language), Swift (surname), Swift (textiles), Swift, The Swift: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Swift: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. swift: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. swift: Rhymezone
  20. swift: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. swift: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. SWIFT: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  23. swift: FreeDictionary.org
  24. swift: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. Swift: TheFreeDictionary.com
  26. swift: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

Business (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. swift: Webster's New World Finance & Investment Dictionary
  3. Numa DERIVATIVES ACRONYMS (No longer online)
  4. SWIFT: bizterms.net
  5. SWIFT, SWIFT: Bloomberg Financial Glossary
  6. SWIFT: Investopedia
  7. Swift (bird), swift: Legal dictionary
  8. Swift: WashingtonPost.com: Business
  9. Swift (bird): Financial dictionary
  10. Glossary of Trade and Shipping Terms (No longer online)
  11. SWIFT: Financial dictionary
  12. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Webopedia (No longer online)
  2. Swift (bird), swift: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Swift: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. SWIFT, Swift (bird): Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. SWIFT: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  3. swift: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Imagine the Universe! Dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. swift, swift: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. S.W.I.F.T: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. High-Energy Astrophysics (No longer online)

(Note: See swifter as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (SWIFT)

adjective:  Fast; quick; rapid.
adjective:  Capable of moving at high speeds.
noun:  A small plain-colored bird of the family Apodidae that resembles a swallow and is noted for its rapid flight.
noun:  Any of certain lizards of the genus Sceloporus.
noun:  (entomology) A moth of the family Hepialidae, swift moth, ghost moth.
noun:  (entomology) Any of various fast-flying hesperiid butterflies.
noun:  (textiles) A light, collapsible reel used to hold a hank of yarn in order to wind off skeins or balls.
noun:  The main cylinder of a carding-machine.
noun:  (obsolete) The current of a stream.
adverb:  (obsolete, poetic) Swiftly.
noun:  A surname transferred from the nickname, originally a nickname for a swift or quick person.
noun:  (computing) A general-purpose multi-paradigm compiled programming language introduced by Apple Inc. in 2014.
noun:  A place name:
noun:  An unincorporated community in DuPage County, Illinois, United States.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Roseau County, Minnesota, United States.
noun:  An extinct town in Pemiscot County, Missouri, United States.
noun:  A minor river in Leicestershire and Warwickshire, England, which joins the (Warwickshire) Avon north of Rugby.
noun:  (finance) Alternative letter-case form of SWIFT (“Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication”)
noun:  (banking) Acronym of Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication.
noun:  Acronym of Social Widget Information Filtering Technologies.
noun:  (UK) Acronym of South Wales Integrated Fast transit.
noun:  (aviation) Acronym of Southwest Airlines Integrated Flights Tracking.
noun:  (US, Colorado) Acronym of Statewide Interlibrary loan Fast Track.
noun:  (US, Colorado) Acronym of State Wildland Inmate Fire Team.
noun:  (computing) Acronym of Simple Web Interface Toolset.
noun:  (business, risk analysis) Acronym of Structured What If Technique.
noun:  (mathematics) Acronym of Stored Waveform Inverse Fourier Transform.
noun:  (sciences, transport) Acronym of Stratospheric Wind Interferometer For Transport Studies.

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