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Swim
Definitions
- 1 A surname.
- 1 An act or instance of swimming.
"I'm going for a swim."
- 2 A dizziness; swoon.
- 3 Abbreviation of someone who isn't me, used as a way to avoid self-designation or self-incrimination, especially in online drug forums. Internet, abbreviation, alt-of, no-plural
- 4 the act of swimming wordnet
- 5 The sound, or air bladder, of a fish.
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- 6 A part of a stream much frequented by fish. UK
- 7 A dance or dance move of the 1960s in which the arms are moved in imitation of various swimming strokes, such as freestyle, breaststroke, etc.
"C'mon everybody! C'mon in! Bobby's goin' to show you how to do the swim."
- 8 The flow of events; being in the swim of things. figuratively
"With the road ahead now clear, Mann […] is plunging back into the swim of business in a hurry."
- 1 Someone who isn't me; someone who isn't myself Internet, singular, third-person
"SWIM would like to know how to grow marijuana."
- 1 To move through the water, without touching the bottom; to propel oneself in water by natural means. intransitive
"We were now all upon a Level, as to our travelling; being unshipp’d, for our Bark would swim no farther, and she was too heavy to carry on our Backs […]"
- 2 To be dizzy or vertiginous; have a giddy sensation; to have, or appear to have, a whirling motion. intransitive
"My head was swimming after drinking two bottles of cheap wine."
- 3 be afloat either on or below a liquid surface and not sink to the bottom wordnet
- 4 To become immersed in, or as if in, or flooded with, or as if with, a liquid intransitive
"swimming in self-pity"
- 5 move as if gliding through water wordnet
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- 6 To move around freely because of excess space. intransitive
"A fam'd Sur-tout he wears, which once was blue, / And his foot swims in a capacious shoe."
- 7 travel through water wordnet
- 8 To traverse (a specific body of water, or a specific distance) by swimming; or, to use a specific swimming stroke; or, to compete in a specific swimming event. transitive
"For exercise, we like to swim laps around the pool."
- 9 be covered with or submerged in a liquid wordnet
- 10 To cause to swim. transitive, uncommon
"to swim a horse across a river"
- 11 be dizzy or giddy wordnet
- 12 To float. archaic, intransitive
"sink or swim"
- 13 To be overflowed or drenched. intransitive
"I am weary with my groaning; all the night make I my bed to swim; I water my couch with my tears."
- 14 To immerse in water to make the lighter parts float. transitive
"to swim wheat in order to select seed"
- 15 To test (a suspected witch) by throwing into a river; those who floated rather than sinking were deemed to be witches. historical, transitive
- 16 To glide along with a waving motion. intransitive
- 17 To have a great quantity of something. intransitive
"You should be swimming in money after this job."
Etymology
From Middle English swymmen, from Old English swimman (“to swim, float”) (class III strong verb; past tense swamm, past participle geswummen), from Proto-West Germanic *swimman, from Proto-Germanic *swimmaną (“to swim”), from Proto-Indo-European *swem(bʰ)- (“to be unsteady, move, swim”). Cognates Cognate with North Frisian sweem, swome, swume, swumi, swumme, swääm (“to swim”), Saterland Frisian and West Frisian swimme (“to swim”), Dutch zwemmen (“to swim”), German schwimmen (“to swim”), Limburgish schwämme, zwömme (“to swim”), Low German swimmen (“to swim”), Luxembourgish schwammen (“to swim”), Vilamovian švymma, śwyma, śwymma (“to swim”), Yiddish שווימען (shvimen, “to swim”), Danish and Norwegian Bokmål svømme (“to swim”), Faroese svimja (“to swim”), Norn suma (“to swim”), Norwegian Nynorsk svemja, svemje, svømma, svømme, symja, symje (“to swim”), Swedish simma (“to swim”).
From Middle English swymmen, from Old English swimman (“to swim, float”) (class III strong verb; past tense swamm, past participle geswummen), from Proto-West Germanic *swimman, from Proto-Germanic *swimmaną (“to swim”), from Proto-Indo-European *swem(bʰ)- (“to be unsteady, move, swim”). Cognates Cognate with North Frisian sweem, swome, swume, swumi, swumme, swääm (“to swim”), Saterland Frisian and West Frisian swimme (“to swim”), Dutch zwemmen (“to swim”), German schwimmen (“to swim”), Limburgish schwämme, zwömme (“to swim”), Low German swimmen (“to swim”), Luxembourgish schwammen (“to swim”), Vilamovian švymma, śwyma, śwymma (“to swim”), Yiddish שווימען (shvimen, “to swim”), Danish and Norwegian Bokmål svømme (“to swim”), Faroese svimja (“to swim”), Norn suma (“to swim”), Norwegian Nynorsk svemja, svemje, svømma, svømme, symja, symje (“to swim”), Swedish simma (“to swim”).
From Middle English swime, sweme, swaime (“a dizziness, swoon, trance”), from Old English swīma (“a swoon, swimming in the head”). Cognate with Swedish svimma (“to swoon, faint”) and Danish svime (“to swoon, faint”) / Danish besvime (“to swoon, faint”).
From Middle English swime, sweme, swaime (“a dizziness, swoon, trance”), from Old English swīma (“a swoon, swimming in the head”). Cognate with Swedish svimma (“to swoon, faint”) and Danish svime (“to swoon, faint”) / Danish besvime (“to swoon, faint”).
Abbreviation of someone who isn't me.
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