Wade vs Swim - What's the difference?
wade | swim |
to walk through water or something that impedes progress.
* Milton
* 1918 , (Edgar Rice Burroughs), Chapter VIII
to progress with difficulty
* Dryden
* Davenant
to walk through (water or similar impediment); to pass through by wading
To enter recklessly.
(archaic) To float.
* 2 Kings VI:6 (KJV)
*Wm. Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
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 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.
* Dryden
(uncommon) To cause to swim.
To be overflowed or drenched.
* Psalm VI:6 (KJV)
* Thomson
To immerse in water to make the lighter parts float.
An act or instance of swimming.
The sound, or air bladder, of a fish.
(UK) A part of a stream much frequented by fish.
In intransitive terms the difference between wade and swim
is that wade is to enter recklessly while swim is to be overflowed or drenched.In transitive terms the difference between wade and swim
is that wade is to walk through (water or similar impediment); to pass through by wading while swim is to immerse in water to make the lighter parts float.As a proper noun Wade
is {{surname|topographic|from=Old English}.As an initialism SWIM is
{{cx|internet|lang=en}} Someone who isn't me; someone who isn't myself.wade
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) wadan'', from (etyl) "to go". Cognates include Latin ''vadere "go, walk; rush" (whence English invade, evade).Verb
(wad)- So eagerly the fiend / With head, hands, wings, or feet, pursues his way, / And swims, or sinks, or wades , or creeps, or flies.
- After breakfast the men set out to hunt, while the women went to a large pool of warm water covered with a green scum and filled with billions of tadpoles. They waded in to where the water was about a foot deep and lay down in the mud. They remained there from one to two hours and then returned to the cliff.
- to wade through a dull book
- And wades through fumes, and gropes his way.
- The king's admirable conduct has waded through all these difficulties.
- wading swamps and rivers
- to wade into a fight or a debate
Etymology 2
Anagrams
* * ----swim
English
Verb
- And he cut down a stick, and cast it in thither; and the iron did swim .
- Why, now, blow wind, swell billow, and swim bark! The storm is up and all is on the hazard.
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- ''For exercise, we like to swim laps around the pool.
- I want to swim the 200-yard breaststroke in the finals.
- Sometimes he thought to swim the stormy main.
- to swim a horse across a river
- Half of the guinea pigs were swum daily.
- I am weary with my groaning; all the night make I my bed to swim; I water my couch with my tears.
- Sudden the ditches swell, the meadows swim .
- to swim wheat in order to select seed
Derived terms
* sink or swim * swim like a fish * swimmerNoun
(en noun)- I'm going for a swim .