Swimming : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Swimming	by the DICT Development Group
6 results for Swimming
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
swimming adj filled or brimming with tears; "swimming eyes"; "sorrow made the eyes of many grow liquid" Synonym(s): liquid, swimming applied to a fish depicted horizontally Synonym(s): naiant, swimming n the act of swimming; "it was the swimming they enjoyed most": "they took a short swim in the pool" Synonym(s): swimming, swim
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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[94]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 with swimming animals. [Obs.] [Streams] that swim full of small fishes. --Chaucer.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Swimming \Swim"ming\, n. The act of one who swims.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Swimming \Swim"ming\, a. [From {Swim} to be dizzy.] Being in a state of vertigo or dizziness; as, a swimming brain.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Swimming \Swim"ming\, n. Vertigo; dizziness; as, a swimming in the head. --Dryden.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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[94]l.), a nectocalyx. See Illust. under {Siphonophora}. {Swimming crab} (Zo[94]l.), any one of numerous species of marine crabs, as those of the family {Protunid[91]}, which have some of the joints of one or more pairs of legs flattened so as to serve as fins.