Found 3 items, similar to Swim.
English → Indonesian (quick)
Definition: swim
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English → English (WordNet)
Definition: swim
swim
n : the act of swimming [syn:
swimming]
[also:
swum,
swimming,
swam]
swim
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]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Swim
Swim
\Swim\, n.
1. The act of swimming; a gliding motion, like that of one
swimming. --B. Jonson.
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2. The sound, or air bladder, of a fish.
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3. A part of a stream much frequented by fish. [Eng.]
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Swim bladder, an air bladder of a fish.
To be in the swim, to be in a favored position; to be
associated with others in active affairs. [Colloq.]
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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.
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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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Swim
\Swim\, v. t.
1. To pass or move over or on by swimming; as, to swim a
stream.
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Sometimes he thought to swim the stormy main.
--Dryden.
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2. To cause or compel to swim; to make to float; as, to swim
a horse across a river.
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3. To immerse in water that the lighter parts may float; as,
to swim wheat in order to select seed.
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Swim
\Swim\, v. i. [OE. swime dizziness, vertigo, AS. sw[=i]ma;
akin to D. zwijm, Icel. svimi dizziness, svina to subside,
sv[=i]a to abate, G. schwindel dizziness, schwinden to
disappear, to dwindle, OHG. sw[=i]nan to dwindle. Cf.
Squemish,
Swindler.]
To be dizzy; to have an unsteady or reeling sensation; as,
the head swims.
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