swimming as an adjective: - 1
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swim as a noun: - 1
as a verb: - 1
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swimming
adjective
1 swimming
Filled or brimming with tears:
— Swimming eyes.
synonym: liquid.
2 swimming
Applied to a fish depicted horizontally.
synonym: naiant.
noun
Roget 443:
dim sight,
dull sight half sight,
short sight,
near sight,
long sight,
double sight,
astigmatic sight,
failing sight;
dimsightedness
&c.;
purblindness,
lippitude†;
myopia,
presbyopia†;
confusion of vision;
astigmatism;
color blindness,
chromato pseudo blepsis†,
Daltonism;
nyctalopia†;
strabismus,
strabism†,
squint;
blearedness†,
day blindness,
hemeralopia†,
nystagmus;
xanthocyanopia†,
xanthopsia [Med.];
cast in the eye,
swivel eye,
goggle-eyes;
obliquity of vision.
winking
etc.
v.;
nictitation;
blinkard†,
albino.
dizziness,
swimming,
scotomy†;
cataract;
ophthalmia.
[Limitation of vision]
blinker;
screen
etc.
(hider)
530.
[Fallacies of vision]
deceptio visus [Lat.];
refraction,
distortion,
illusion,
false light,
anamorphosis†,
virtual image,
spectrum,
mirage,
looming,
phasma†;
phantasm,
phantasma†,
phantom;
vision;
specter,
apparition,
ghost;
ignis fatuus [Lat.]
etc.
(luminary)
423;
specter of the Brocken;
magic mirror;
magic lantern
etc.
(show)
448;
mirror lens
etc.
(instrument)
445.
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Roget 267:
navigation;
aquatics;
boating,
yachting;
ship
etc.
273;
oar,
paddle,
screw,
sail,
canvas,
aileron.
natation†,
swimming;
fin,
flipper,
fish's tail.
aerostation†,
aerostatics†,
aeronautics;
balloonery†;
balloon
etc.
273;
ballooning,
aviation,
airmanship;
flying,
flight,
volitation†;
wing,
pinion;
rocketry,
space travel,
astronautics,
orbital mechanics,
orbiting.
voyage,
sail,
cruise,
passage,
circumnavigation,
periplus†;
headway,
sternway,
leeway;
fairway.
mariner
etc.
269.
flight,
trip;
shuttle,
run,
airlift.
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Roget 503:
disordered reason,
disordered intellect;
diseased mind,
unsound mind,
abnormal mind;
derangement,
unsoundness;
psychosis;
neurosis;
cognitive disorder;
affective disorder†.
insanity,
lunacy;
madness
etc.
adj.;
mania,
rabies,
furor,
mental alienation,
aberration;
paranoia,
schizophrenia;
dementation†,
dementia,
demency†;
phrenitis†,
phrensy†,
frenzy,
raving,
incoherence,
wandering,
delirium,
calenture of the brain†;
delusion,
hallucination;
lycanthropy†;
brain storm†.
vertigo,
dizziness,
swimming;
sunstroke,
coup de soleil [Fr.],
siriasis†.
fanaticism,
infatuation,
craze;
oddity,
eccentricity,
twist,
monomania
(caprice)
608;
kleptodipsomania†;
hypochondriasis [Med.]
etc.
(low spirits)
837;
melancholia,
depression,
clinical depression,
severe depression;
hysteria;
amentia†.
screw loose,
tile loose,
slate loose;
bee in one's bonnet,
rats in the upper story.
dotage
etc.
(imbecility)
499.
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swim
noun
1 swim
The act of swimming:
— It was the swimming they enjoyed most.
— They took a short swim in the pool.
synonym: swimming.
Dutch: zwemmen
Polish: pływanie
verb
1 swim
Travel through water.
Dutch: afzwemmen
2 swim
Be afloat either on or below a liquid surface and not sink to the bottom.
synonym: float.
Roget 320:
be light
etc.
adj.;
float,
rise,
swim,
be buoyed up.
render light
etc.
adj.;
lighten,
leaven.
Roget 305:
ascend,
rise,
mount,
arise,
uprise;
go up,
get up,
work one's way up,
start up;
shoot up,
go into orbit;
float up;
bubble up;
aspire.
climb,
clamber,
ramp,
scramble,
escalade†,
surmount;
shin,
shinny,
shinney;
scale,
scale the heights.
[cause to go up]
raise,
elevate
etc.
307.
go aloft,
fly aloft;
tower,
soar,
take off;
spring up,
pop up,
jump up,
catapult upwards,
explode upwards;
hover,
spire,
plane,
swim,
float,
surge;
leap
etc.
309.
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Roget 267:
sail;
put to sea
etc.
(depart)
293;
take ship,
get under way;
set sail,
spread sail,
spread canvas;
gather way,
have way on;
make sail,
carry sail;
plow the waves,
plow the deep,
plow the main,
plow the ocean;
walk the waters.
navigate,
warp,
luff†,
scud,
boom,
kedge;
drift,
course,
cruise,
coast;
hug the shore,
hug the land;
circumnavigate.
ply the oar,
row,
paddle,
pull,
scull,
punt,
steam.
swim,
float;
buffet the waves,
ride the storm,
skim,
effleurer [Fr.],
dive,
wade.
fly,
be wafted,
hover,
soar,
flutter,
jet,
orbit,
rocket;
take wing,
take a flight,
take off,
ascend,
blast off,
land,
alight;
wing one's flight,
wing one's way;
aviate;
parachute,
jump,
glide.
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Dutch: vlotten, drijven
3 swim
4 swim
Be covered with or submerged in a liquid:
— The meat was swimming in a fatty gravy.
synonym: drown.
5 swim
Move as if gliding through water.
Dutch: zwemmen
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