Slim vs Swim - What's the difference?

slim | swim |

As a noun slim

is slime, mucus.

As an initialism swim is

someone who isn't me; someone who isn't myself.

slim

English

Adjective

(slimmer)

Slender, thin.

# (of a person or a person's build) Slender in an attractive way.

Movie stars are usually slim , attractive, and young.

# (by extension, of clothing) Designed to make the wearer appear slim.

# (of an object) Long and narrow.

# (of a workforce) Of a reduced size, with the intent of being more efficient.

(of something abstract like a chance or margin) Very small, tiny.

I'm afraid your chances are quite slim .

* {{quote-news

, year=2011 , date=January 15 , author=Saj Chowdhury , title=Man City 4 - 3 Wolves , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=Wolves' debatable third in the last 10 minutes, with the ball only crossing the line by the slimmest of margins if at all, ensured a cracking finale, although City would have been left aggrieved had they let the win slip. }}

(South Africa) Sly, crafty.

Synonyms

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Noun

(en noun)

A type of cigarette substantially longer and thinner than normal cigarettes.

I only smoke slims .

(East Africa) AIDS, or the chronic wasting associated with its later stages.

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, passage=As in the West, only about 50 per cent of patients with slim fully investigated will have a putative pathogen identified.}}

(slang, uncountable) Cocaine.

Alternative forms

* (AIDS) Slim

Verb

To lose weight in order to achieve slimness

Anagrams

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swim

English

Verb

(archaic) To float.

* 2 Kings VI:6 (KJV)

And he cut down a stick, and cast it in thither; and the iron did swim .

*Wm. Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

Why, now, blow wind, swell billow, and swim bark! The storm is up and all is on the hazard.

To move through the water, without touching the bottom; to propel oneself in water by natural means.

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, title=(The China Governess) , chapter=Foreword citation , passage=He turned back to the scene before him and the enormous new block of council dwellings. The design was some way after Corbusier but the block was built up on plinths and resembled an Atlantic liner swimming diagonally across the site.}}

To traverse (a specific body of water, or a specific distance) by swimming; or, to utilize a specific swimming stroke; or, to compete in a specific swimming event.

''For exercise, we like to swim laps around the pool.

I want to swim the 200-yard breaststroke in the finals.

* Dryden

Sometimes he thought to swim the stormy main.

(uncommon) To cause to swim.

to swim a horse across a river

Half of the guinea pigs were swum daily.

To be overflowed or drenched.

* Psalm VI:6 (KJV)

I am weary with my groaning; all the night make I my bed to swim; I water my couch with my tears.

* Thomson

Sudden the ditches swell, the meadows swim .

To immerse in water to make the lighter parts float.

to swim wheat in order to select seed

Derived terms

* sink or swim * swim like a fish * swimmer

Noun

(en noun)

An act or instance of swimming.

I'm going for a swim .

The sound, or air bladder, of a fish.

(UK) A part of a stream much frequented by fish.

Derived terms

* in the swim