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Swim vs Bath - What's the difference?

swim | bath |

In transitive terms the difference between swim and bath

is that swim is to immerse in water to make the lighter parts float while bath is to wash a person or animal in a bath.

As verbs the difference between swim and bath

is that swim is to float while bath is to wash a person or animal in a bath.

As nouns the difference between swim and bath

is that swim is an act or instance of swimming while bath is a tub or pool which is used for bathing: bathtub.

As an initialism SWIM

is {{cx|internet|lang=en}} Someone who isn't me; someone who isn't myself.

As a proper noun Bath is

a city in Somerset, England, famous for its baths fed by a hot spring.

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.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
    • , 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

    See also

    * (wikipedia) English irregular verbs 1000 English basic words

    bath

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl), from (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A tub or pool which is used for bathing: bathtub.
  • A building or area where bathing occurs.
  • * Gwilt
    • Among the ancients, the public baths were of amazing extent and magnificence.
  • The act of bathing.
  • A substance or preparation in which something is immersed.
    • a bath of heated sand, ashes, steam, or hot air
  • * {{quote-book, year=1879 , title=The Telephone, the Microphone and the Phonograph
    • , author=Th Du Moncel , page=166 , publisher=Harper , passage=He takes the prepared charcoal used by artists, brings it to a white heat, and suddenly plunges it in a bath of mercury, of which the globules instantly penetrate the pores of charcoal, and may be said to metallize it.}}
    Usage notes
    Sense 3. is usually to take''' ''(US)'' or '''have ''(UK, Aus)'' a bath. See also
    Derived terms
    * * * * * (US)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To wash a person or animal in a bath
  • * {{quote-book, year=1990
    • , author=Mukti Jain Campion , title=The Baby Challenge: A handbook on pregnancy for women with a physical disability. citation , isbn=0415048591 , page=41 , passage=Somewhere to bath''' the baby'': don't invest in a plastic baby bath. The bathroom handbasin is usually a much more convenient place to '''bath''' the baby. If your partner is more able, this could be a task he might take on as his, ' bathing the baby in a basin or plastic bown on the floor. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=2006
    • , author=Sue Dallas, Diana North and Joanne Angus , title=Grooming Manual for the Dog and Cat citation , isbn=1405111836 , page=91 , passage=For grooming at home, obviously the choice is yours whether you wish to bath the dog in your own bath or sink, or if you want to buy one specifically for the purpose. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=2007
    • , author=Robin Barker , title=Baby Love citation , isbn=17770075445 , page=179 , passage=If you find bathing stressfull during the first six weeks, only bath your baby once or twice a week. }}

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (biblical) An ancient Hebrew unit of liquid volume measure, equal to an ephah and to one-tenth of a homer, and approximately equal to 22 litres.
  • * 1611, ,
    • Ye shall have just balances, and a just ephah, and a just bath'. The ephah and the '''bath''' shall be of one measure, that the ' bath may contain the tenth part of an homer, and the ephah the tenth part of an homer: the measure thereof shall be after the homer.

    Anagrams

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