different between swimming vs natant

English

Pronunciation

Wikiversity

• IPA^(key): /?sw?m??/
• Rhymes: -?m??

Etymology 1

From Middle English swymmynge. Equivalent to swim (“to move through water”, verb) +? -ing (suffix forming gerunds).

Noun

swimming (countable and uncountable, plural swimmings)

1. The act or art of sustaining and propelling the body in water.
2. The act or process of something that swims.
   • 1869, William Chambers, ?Robert Chambers, Chambers's Miscellany of Instructive & Entertaining Tracts (page 2)

     Swimmings of the head and intestinal pains seemed the prelude of dissolution.

Related terms

• swimming bath
• swimming cap
• swimming pool
• synchronised swimming, synchronized swimming

Translations

Etymology 2

From swim (“to be dizzy”, verb) +? -ing (suffix forming gerunds).

Noun

swimming (countable and uncountable, plural swimmings)

1. The state of being dizzy or in vertigo.

   the swimming of my head the day after heavy drinking

Translations

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

swimming

1. present participle of swim

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin nat?ntem, accusative of nat?ns. Doublet of naiant.

Adjective

natant (comparative more natant, superlative most natant)

1. floating or swimming (in water)
2. (heraldry) in a horizontal position, as if swimming

Derived terms

• subnatant

Latin

Verb

natant

1. third-person plural present active indicative of nat?