Word Meanings - SWIM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

schwimmen, Icel. svimma, Dan. swömme, Sw. simma. Cf. Sound an air 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.

Additional info about word: SWIM

schwimmen, Icel. svimma, Dan. swömme, Sw. simma. Cf. Sound an air 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. now swim in joy. Milton. 5. To be filled with swimming animals. that swim full of small fishes. Chaucer.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of SWIM)

• Float
• Swim
• spread
• prevail

Related words: (words related to SWIM)

• SPREADINGLY
  , adv. Increasingly. The best times were spreadingly infected. Milton.
• FLOATATION
  See FLOTATION
• SPREAD-EAGLED
  1. To place in a spread-eagle position, especially as a means of punishment. 2. being in a position with the arms and legs extended fully.
• PREVAILINGLY
  So as to prevail.
• SPREAD-EAGLE
  Characterized by a pretentious, boastful, exaggerated style; defiantly or extravagantly bombastic; as, a spread-eagle orator; a spread-eagle speech.
• FLOATABLE
  That may be floated.
• PREVAIL
  1. To overcome; to gain the victory or superiority; to gain the advantage; to have the upper hand, or the mastery; to succeed; -- sometimes with over or against. When Moses held up his hand, Israel prevailed, and when he let down his hand, Amalek
• FLOATY
  Swimming on the surface; buoyant; light. Sir W. Raleigh.
• FLOATINGLY
  In a floating manner.
• FLOATAGE
  See FLOTAGE
• FLOATING CHARGE; FLOATING LIEN
  A charge, lien, etc., that successively attaches to such assets as a person may have from time to time, leaving him more or less free to dispose of or encumber them as if no such charge or lien existed.
• FLOATING
  1. Buoyed upon or in a fluid; a, the floating timbers of a wreck; floating motes in the air. 2. Free or lose from the usual attachment; as, the floating ribs in man and some other animals. 3. Not funded; not fixed, invested, or determined; as,
• FLOATER
  1. One who floats or swims. 2. A float for indicating the height of a liquid surface.
• SPREAD
  spreden, spreen, spreien, G. spreiten, Dan. sprede, Sw. sprida. Cf. 1. To extend in length and breadth, or in breadth only; to stretch or expand to a broad or broader surface or extent; to open; to unfurl; as, to spread a carpet; to spread a tent
• FLOAT
  A contrivance for affording a copious stream of water to the heated surface of an object of large bulk, as an anvil or die. Knight. 4. The act of flowing; flux; flow. Bacon. 5. A quantity of earth, eighteen feet square and one foot deep. Mortimer.
• SPREADER
  1. One who, or that which, spreads, expands, or propogates. 2. A machine for combining and drawing fibers of flax to form a sliver preparatory to spinning.
• PREVAILMENT
  Prevalence; superior influence; efficacy. Shak.
• PREVAILING
  1. Having superior force or influence; efficacious; persuasive. Shak. Saints shall assist thee with prevailing prayers. Rowe. 2. Predominant; prevalent; most general; as, the prevailing disease of a climate; a prevailing opinion. Syn.
• BEDSPREAD
  A bedquilt; a counterpane; a coverlet.
• DISPREAD
  To spread abroad, or different ways; to spread apart; to open; as, the sun dispreads his beams. Spenser.
• OUTSPREAD
  To spread out; to expand; -- usually as a past part. or adj.
• REFLOAT
  Reflux; ebb. Bacon.
• AFLOAT
  1. Borne on the water; floating; on board ship. On such a full sea are we now afloat. Shak. 2. Moving; passing from place to place; in general circulation; as, a rumor is afloat. 3. Unfixed; moving without guide or control; adrift; as, our affairs
• DESPREAD
  See DISPREAD
• BROADSPREADING
  Spreading widely.