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Swimming - Dictionary Definition and Overview |
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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]
(noun)
1: the act of swimming [syn: swim]
Based on WordNet 2.0
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Swimming : \Swim"ming\, n.
The act of one who swims.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Swimming : \Swim"ming\, a. [Based on Swim to be dizzy.]
Being in a state of vertigo or dizziness; as, a swimming
brain.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Swimming : \Swim"ming\, n.
Vertigo; dizziness; as, a swimming in the head. --Dryden.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Swim \Swim\, v. i. [imp. Swamor 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.
2. To move progressively in water by means of strokes with
the hands and feet, or the fins or the tail.
Leap in with me into this angry flood, And swim to
yonder point. --Shak.
3. To be overflowed or drenched. --Ps. vi. 6.
Sudden the ditches swell, the meadows swim.
--Thomson.
4. Fig.: To be as if borne or floating in a fluid.
[They] now swim in joy. --Milton.
5. To be filled withSwimming : animals. [Obs.]
[Streams] that swim full of small fishes. --Chaucer.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Swimming : \Swim"ming\, a.
1. That swims; capable of swimming; adapted to, or used in,
swimming; as, a swimming bird; a swimming motion.
2. Suffused with moisture; as, swimming eyes.
Swimming bell (Zo["o]l.), a nectocalyx. See Illust. under
Siphonophora.
Swimming crab (Zo["o]l.), any one of numerous species of
marine crabs, as those of the family Protunid[ae], which
have some of the joints of one or more pairs of legs
flattened so as to serve as fins.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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Example Usage of Swimming |
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