different between swimming vs natantly
swimming
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)
- The act or art of sustaining and propelling the body in water.
- 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.
- 1869, William Chambers, ?Robert Chambers, Chambers's Miscellany of Instructive & Entertaining Tracts (page 2)
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)
- 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
- present participle of swim
swimming From the web:
- what swimming pools are open
- what swimming does to your body
- what swimming stroke is the fastest
- what swimming stroke burns the most calories
- what swimming has taught me
- what swimming stroke starts in the water
- what swimming teaches you
- what swimming does to your brain
natantly
English
Etymology
natant +? -ly
Adverb
natantly (comparative more natantly, superlative most natantly)
- In a floating manner; swimmingly.
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