swimming

swimming
    adj 1: filled or brimming with tears; "swimming eyes"; "sorrow
           made the eyes of many grow liquid" [syn: {liquid},
           {swimming}]
    2: applied to a fish depicted horizontally [syn: {naiant},
       {swimming}]
    n 1: the act of swimming; "it was the swimming they enjoyed
         most": "they took a short swim in the pool" [syn:
         {swimming}, {swim}]
    

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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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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Swimming \Swim"ming\, n.
   The act of one who swims.
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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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Swimming \Swim"ming\, n.
   Vertigo; dizziness; as, a swimming in the head. --Dryden.
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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