swim
part of speech
verb, noun (swim, swims, swam, swum, swimming)
meaning for a pupil
1) To swim means to move through water using your arms and legs. tree →
2) A swim is a time when you swim: go for a swim. tree →
3) Fish swim using their fins and tails. tree →
4) «My head is swimming» means you feel dizzy. tree →
sense in the lessons
Interpretation: Tradition sees the floating iron axe-head as a miracle done by the prophet Elisha. In the primary lessons: Maths: an action with distance, laps or time (swim 10 laps, swim for 30 minutes); laps or meters per day is a rate. Sport: swimming lessons, swimming pool, strokes like front crawl, backstroke and breaststroke. Safety: swim only where a lifeguard can see you, between the flags, never alone.
examples
- And he cut down a stick, and cast it in thither, and made the iron to swim. (Prophets 2KI.6.6, JPS 1917) tree →
- I am weary with my groaning; every night make I my bed to swim; I melt away my couch with my tears. (Writings PSA.6.7, JPS 1917) tree →
- Afterward he measured a thousand; and it was a river that I could not pass through; for the waters were risen, waters to swim in, a river that could not be passed through. (Prophets EZK.47.5, JPS 1917) tree →
- Lily swims 8 laps each day. tree →
- He swam 200 meters. tree →
- They swim for 45 minutes. tree →
- How many laps did she swim in a week? tree →
- Always swim between the red and yellow flags. tree →
- Fish swim in schools. tree →
- We go for a swim after school on Fridays. tree →
- I learned to swim when I was five. tree →
- “Shall we swim or fly, Peter?” tree →
note
Irregular: swim, swam, swum; doubles the m: swimming, swimmer. The action of the story; laps or meters per day is a rate, so the total is days × laps. Trap: a lap may be one length or there and back; read the problem.
In the corpora
- And he cut down a stick, and cast it in thither, and made the iron to swim.
- I am weary with my groaning; every night make I my bed to swim; I melt away my couch with my tears.
- Fake photos of sharks swimming in flooded streets have spread after many hurricanes; they were edited or taken from somewhere else.
- Tigers love water and swim well; Sundarbans tigers swim between islands in the mangroves of India and Bangladesh and can swim several kilometres.
- Elephants can swim and use the trunk as a snorkel, keeping only its tip above the water.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «swim» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.