swimming
swimming is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 4 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.Suffused with moisture; as, swimming eyes. Swimming bell (Zoöl.), a nectocalyx. See Illust. under Siphonophora. -- Swimming crab (Zoöl.), any one of numerous species of marine crabs, as those of the family Protunidæ, which have some of the joints of one or more pairs of legs flattened so as to serve as fins.
- 2.The act of one who swims.
- 3.Being in a state of vertigo or dizziness; as, a swimming brain.
- 4.Vertigo; dizziness; as, a swimming in the head. Dryden.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- aeration
- aerial
- aerification
- aeriform
- aerodynamics
- aerostatics
- air
- airy
- alkali
- ammonia
- ammoniacal
- bladder
- cloud
- diffuse
- effluvium
- elastic
- emit
- essence
- ether
- ethereal
- evanesce
- evaporable
- evaporate
- fish
- flatulence
- flatulency
- flatulent
- flatus
- fluid
- fume
- gas
- gaseity
- gaseous
- gasify
- gasometer
- partial
- pneumatics
- reek
- sound
- steam
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms & antonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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