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noun

ˈswät

Definition of swot

British

as in nerd

a person slavishly devoted to intellectual or academic pursuits every time he begged off a night at the pub—saying he had to study—his mates teased him for being a swot

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Recent Examples of swot

Noun

Nobody talked about the furtive ambition of the swots. — Ruby Tandoh, New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2025

Verb

Yamada Jun, the IT expert, became the CEO and travelled to Germany to swot up on renewables. — The Economist, 13 June 2020 Greenblatt might want to have a chinwag with some of his colleagues in the history department and swot up the biography of someone like Wisconsin’s Robert La Follette, a progressive populist politician perhaps more to his liking. — Alex Beam, BostonGlobe.com, 2 May 2018

Recent Examples of Synonyms for swot

Noun

That gives Porsche’s 911 nerds more time to come up with a creative solution to their current hybrid predicament.

— Byron Hurd, The Drive, 26 Aug. 2026
The cool part about the idea of video is introducing more people to hip-hop writing outside of us nerds.

— Alphonse Pierre, Pitchfork, 25 Aug. 2026

Definition of nerd

Verb

Gabor filters are then used to analyze texture and edge information at different orientations and scales, helping identify corresponding pixels between the two images.

— Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 27 Aug. 2026
Scalable Capital is opening its investment platform to AI assistants including ChatGPT, Claude and Grok—giving European investors the ability to analyze portfolios, set up savings plans and place trades through prompts.

— Joshua Hong, Fortune, 26 Aug. 2026

Definition of analyze

Noun

By default, these devices mark the wearer not only as a geek, but as a try-hard and an egoist.

— Hillary Busis, Vanity Fair, 28 Aug. 2026
There’s a whole world of lagers out there that would make even the snobbiest beer geek do a double take—beers that have nothing in common with the watery brews that once defined the style for so many Americans.

— Hudson Lindenberger, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2026

Definition of geek

Verb

The pressure drop was deduced from the light curves, which show how the star's brightness changed with time during an occultation.

— Keith Cooper, Space.com, 10 Aug. 2026
No blueprints or detailed descriptions of either ship survive, but historians have deduced much about them from tax records and logbooks.

— Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 7 Aug. 2026

Definition of deduce

Verb

The first hearings would find out what really happened aboard the Ford and the Abe.

— John Seiler, Oc Register, 25 Aug. 2026
Kendrick only found out about the event a day before and was already prepping for the upcoming Jackson Street Block Party in honor of Gary native Michael Jackson’s birthday.

— Zareen Syed, Chicago Tribune, 25 Aug. 2026

Definition of find out

Verb

The sixth-year forward is an athletic rebounder and has learned to fill the gaps created by defenses focusing on Wilson in the frontcourt.

— Sabreena Merchant, New York Times, 28 Aug. 2026
From the moment Billie learns about Sophie-Rose, the teenager who inherited her legendary fake ID after it was already passed down to multiple other Gen-Z blondes, she’s obsessed.

— Ben Rosenstock, Vulture, 28 Aug. 2026

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