Swim

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. fiil To move through the water, without touching the bottom; to propel oneself in water by natural means.

   “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. fiil To become immersed in, or as if in, or flooded with, or as if with, a liquid.

   “swimming in self-pity”

3. fiil To move around freely because of excess space.

   “A fam'd Sur-tout he wears, which once was blue, / And his foot swims in a capacious shoe.”

4. fiil 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.

   “For exercise, we like to swim laps around the pool.”

5. fiil To cause to swim.

   “to swim a horse across a river”

6. fiil To float.

   “sink or swim”

7. fiil To be overflowed or drenched.

   “I am weary with my groaning; all the night make I my bed to swim; I water my couch with my tears.”

8. fiil To immerse in water to make the lighter parts float.

   “to swim wheat in order to select seed”

9. fiil To test (a suspected witch) by throwing into a river; those who floated rather than sinking were deemed to be witches.
10. fiil To glide along with a waving motion.
11. fiil To have a great quantity of something.

    “You should be swimming in money after this job.”

12. isim An act or instance of swimming.

    “I'm going for a swim.”

13. isim The sound, or air bladder, of a fish.
14. isim A part of a stream much frequented by fish.
15. isim 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.”

16. isim The flow of events; being in the swim of things.

    “With the road ahead now clear, Mann […] is plunging back into the swim of business in a hurry.”

17. isim A dizziness; swoon.
18. fiil To be dizzy or vertiginous; have a giddy sensation; to have, or appear to have, a whirling motion.

    “My head was swimming after drinking two bottles of cheap wine.”

19. isim Abbreviation of someone who isn't me, used as a way to avoid self-designation or self-incrimination, especially in online drug forums.
20. zamir Someone who isn't me; someone who isn't myself

    “SWIM would like to know how to grow marijuana.”

21. özel isim A surname.