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swine

Farming
Pronunciation

Understanding ARPABET Pronunciation

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The pronunciation guide uses the ARPABET phonetic system—the same system used in speech recognition and text-to-speech applications.

Vowel Examples:
AE1 = cat, bat
EH1 = bed, head
IY1 = see, me
OW1 = go, boat
UW1 = boot, do
Stress Numbers:
0 = no stress (unstressed)
1 = primary stress (loud)
2 = secondary stress (medium)
Example:
AH0 TH IY1 N AH0
= a-THEE-na (Athena)

The stressed syllable (marked with 1) is pronounced louder and clearer than others.

Quick Definition

Swine are pigs, especially when referred to collectively or in formal, biblical, or archaic language.

Detailed Definition
Swine is a collective term for domestic pigs and carries a more formal or old-fashioned tone than pigs. On farms, they are kept for meat and are associated with rooting, appetite, mud, and rapid growth. In poetry, swine may represent abundance and practical husbandry, but they also carry long-standing symbolic associations with greed, uncleanness, degradation, and uncontrolled desire. Biblical and satirical uses often intensify these negative meanings, while sympathetic poems may challenge contempt for an intelligent and social animal.
Example
Example in poetry:
Swine feeding noisily can introduce appetite, disorder, and earthy realism; A herd of swine may symbolise wealth in livestock or uncontrolled consumption; Biblical imagery may associate swine with impurity, degradation, or spiritual blindness; A sympathetic portrait of swine can challenge traditional contempt and emphasise their intelligence and social nature.
Additional Notes
Swine is a collective or formal term for pigs and often carries biblical, archaic, or deliberately contemptuous associations. It may describe domestic livestock without judgement, but literary tradition frequently links swine with greed, filth, appetite, or degradation. Modern poets may challenge those assumptions by observing the animals sympathetically. Related terms include pig, boar, sow, piglet, herd, sty, rooting, livestock, and farrowing.
Also Known As
pigs hogs Grumphie pig Piggy-wig
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