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swimming 音標拼音: [sw'ɪmɪŋ] n. 游水,目眩 游水,目眩 swimming adj 1: filled or brimming with tears; " swimming eyes"; " sorrow made the eyes of many grow liquid" [ synonym: { liquid}, { swimming}] 2: applied to a fish depicted horizontally [ synonym: { naiant}, { swimming}] n 1: the act of swimming; " it was the swimming they enjoyed most": " they took a short swim in the pool" [ synonym: { swimming}, { swim}] 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. [ 1913 Webster] 2. To move progressively in water by means of strokes with the hands and feet, or the fins or the tail. [ 1913 Webster] Leap in with me into this angry flood, And swim to yonder point. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] 3. To be overflowed or drenched. -- Ps. vi. 6. [ 1913 Webster] Sudden the ditches swell, the meadows swim. -- Thomson. [ 1913 Webster] 4. Fig.: To be as if borne or floating in a fluid. [ 1913 Webster] [ They] now swim in joy. -- Milton. [ 1913 Webster] 5. To be filled with swimming animals. [ Obs.] [ 1913 Webster] [ Streams] that swim full of small fishes. -- Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster]
Swimming \ Swim" ming\, n. The act of one who swims. [ 1913 Webster]
Swimming \ Swim" ming\, a. [ From { Swim} to be dizzy.] Being in a state of vertigo or dizziness; as, a swimming brain. [ 1913 Webster]
Swimming \ Swim" ming\, n. Vertigo; dizziness; as, a swimming in the head. -- Dryden. [ 1913 Webster]
Swimming \ Swim" ming\, a. 1. That swims; capable of swimming; adapted to, or used in, swimming; as, a swimming bird; a swimming motion. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Suffused with moisture; as, swimming eyes. [ 1913 Webster] { 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. [ 1913 Webster] 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
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