Swimming

9 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Swimming \Swim"ming\, a.
     1. That swims; capable of swimming; adapted to, or used in,
        swimming; as, a swimming bird; a swimming motion.
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     2. Suffused with moisture; as, swimming eyes.


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     {Swimming bell} (Zool.), a nectocalyx. See Illust. under
        {Siphonophora}.
  
     {Swimming crab} (Zool.), any one of numerous species of
        marine crabs, as those of the family {Protunidae}, which
        have some of the joints of one or more pairs of legs
        flattened so as to serve as fins.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Swim \Swim\, v. i. [imp. {Swam}or {Swum}; p. p. {Swum}; p. pr. &
     vb. n. {Swimming}.] [AS. swimman; akin to D. zwemmen, OHG.
     swimman, G. schwimmen, Icel. svimma, Dan. sw["o]mme, Sw.
     simma. Cf. {Sound} an air bladder, a strait.]
     1. To be supported by water or other fluid; not to sink; to
        float; as, any substance will swim, whose specific gravity
        is less than that of the fluid in which it is immersed.
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     2. To move progressively in water by means of strokes with
        the hands and feet, or the fins or the tail.
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              Leap in with me into this angry flood,
              And swim to yonder point.             --Shak.
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     3. To be overflowed or drenched. --Ps. vi. 6.
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              Sudden the ditches swell, the meadows swim.
                                                    --Thomson.
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     4. Fig.: To be as if borne or floating in a fluid.
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              [They] now swim in joy.               --Milton.
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     5. To be filled with swimming animals. [Obs.]
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              [Streams] that swim full of small fishes. --Chaucer.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Swimming \Swim"ming\, n.
     The act of one who swims.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Swimming \Swim"ming\, a. [From {Swim} to be dizzy.]
     Being in a state of vertigo or dizziness; as, a swimming
     brain.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Swimming \Swim"ming\, n.
     Vertigo; dizziness; as, a swimming in the head. --Dryden.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  swim
       n : the act of swimming [syn: {swimming}]
       v 1: travel through water; "We had to swim for 20 minutes to
            reach the shore"; "a big fish was swimming in the tank"
       2: be afloat; stay on a liquid surface; not sink [syn: {float}]
          [ant: {sink}]
       [also: {swum}, {swimming}, {swam}]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  swimming
       adj 1: filled or brimming with tears; "swimming eyes"; "watery
              eyes"; "sorrow made the eyes of many grow liquid"
              [syn: {liquid}, {watery}]
       2: applied to a fish depicted horizontally [syn: {naiant}]
       n : the act of swimming [syn: {swim}]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  swimming
       See {swim}

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  74 Moby Thesaurus words for "swimming":
     Australian crawl, Rugby, acrobatics, agonistics, aquaplaning,
     aquatic, aquatics, association football, athletics, backstroke,
     balneal, balneation, bathe, bathing, breaststroke, butterfly,
     crawl, deep-sea, diving, dizziness, dizzy, dog paddle, drunken,
     drunkenness, estuarine, fin, fishtail, flapper, flipper, floating,
     fluctuating, giddiness, giddy, grallatorial, gymnastics, light,
     light-headed, lightheaded, lightheadedness, littoral, natant,
     natation, natatorial, natatory, palaestra, rugger, seashore, shore,
     sidestroke, soccer, spinning head, sports, surfboarding, surfing,
     swaying, swim, tidal, tiddly, track, track and field,
     treading water, tumbling, turned around, vertiginous,
     vertiginousness, vertigo, wading, water-dwelling, water-growing,
     water-living, water-loving, waterskiing, wavering, wooziness