What's the difference between bather and swim?

Bather


Definition:

  • (n.) One who bathes.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Of nine affected bathers, five showed inflammation of Montgomery's follicles of the breast.
  • (2) Families picnic between games of crazy golf or volleyball, bathers brave the shallows, children splash in the saltwater lido.
  • (3) The sauna evokes memories of childhood development, awakening feelings of maternal warmth and paternal power in the bather.
  • (4) Random samples of the weekly entry of bathers to a swimming pool were examined for tinea pedis and verruca before and at intervals after the supply of individual sachets of foot powder to all bathers.Over three and a half years the overall incidence of tinea pedis decreased from 8.5% to 2.1%, and in adult males it decreased from 21.5% to 6.9%.
  • (5) 'Hermless, hermless, there's never nae bather fae me, I go to the library, I tak oot a book, and then I go hame for meh tea.'"
  • (6) A documentary film on Denmark that is shown to immigrants as part of the test for entry should include topless bathers, said Peter Skaarup, the party's foreign affairs spokesman.
  • (7) It is concluded that sauna bathing involves dangers to the bather's health, which may appear suddenly, without prodromal warning signs.
  • (8) A 10% random sample of all bathers at a public swimming bath were examined for tinea pedis and verruca.The overall incidence of tinea pedis was 8.5% and of verruca 4.8%.
  • (9) They waved and shouted at the watching journalists as they passed a little collection of brightly coloured beach tents, used by bathers in peacetime.
  • (10) Exposure to sauna heat during sauna bathing raises the skin temperature of the bather near the hot pain perception threshold and enhances sympathetic activity.
  • (11) Lifeguards patrol the beach in the summer and surfers are asked not to come within 100 metres of the tide line, to allow bathers a good stretch of safe water.
  • (12) But this serene pool allows bathers to enjoy the marine violence without having to interact too much with it.
  • (13) Once out of the austere sauna, bathers have a shower and sit outside on a little brick wall on the side of the pavement to cool down, drinking and eating.
  • (14) Only 14 cathers were bitten (through treading on the sea-snake; no bathers were bitten while swimming).
  • (15) The bathers should be able to vary the humidity to their liking by casting water on the stones heated in or on the sauna oven.
  • (16) Great white sharks could be regular visitors to the coast by the 2080s, where they could find more bathers enjoying the Mediterranean climate.
  • (17) Instead there is just one early Bathers composition by him.
  • (18) Five thousand people were involved in the riot last December on Cronulla beach, which started as a protest to “reclaim the beach” from groups of mainly Lebanese youths who had reportedly intimidated young Australian women bathers and assaulted two volunteer life savers.
  • (19) The levels of Escherichia coli at a number of beaches was observed to be influenced by tide, and for staphylococci, by bather numbers.
  • (20) Additional attention should be directed to the bacteriology of the water surface film, which presents a more direct hazard to bathers.

Swim


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To be supported by water or other fluid; not to sink; to float; as, any substance will swim, whose specific gravity is less than that of the fluid in which it is immersed.
  • (v. i.) To move progressively in water by means of strokes with the hands and feet, or the fins or the tail.
  • (v. i.) To be overflowed or drenched.
  • (v. i.) Fig.: To be as if borne or floating in a fluid.
  • (v. i.) To be filled with swimming animals.
  • (v. t.) To pass or move over or on by swimming; as, to swim a stream.
  • (v. t.) To cause or compel to swim; to make to float; as, to swim a horse across a river.
  • (v. t.) To immerse in water that the lighter parts may float; as, to swim wheat in order to select seed.
  • (n.) The act of swimming; a gliding motion, like that of one swimming.
  • (n.) The sound, or air bladder, of a fish.
  • (n.) A part of a stream much frequented by fish.
  • (v. i.) To be dizzy; to have an unsteady or reeling sensation; as, the head swims.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Over the years the farm dams filled less frequently while the suburbs crept further into the countryside, their swimming pools oblivious to the great drying.
  • (2) Small and medium fish swim up when stressed, whereas larger fish swim down.
  • (3) All these animals have been taking the same daily swimming training, during 15 days before the injection of labelled molecules.
  • (4) When the organisms are free-swimming this is seen as the reversed locomotion of Jennings' "avoiding reaction."
  • (5) Low concentrations of cercaricides are toxic both for cercariae and parthenites from the liver of mollusks and for freely swimming cercariae.
  • (6) A comparison was made between the Q's estimated by the CO2 rebreathing method during tethered swimming and previously published data on Q determined by the dye-dilution method during free swimming in a flune.
  • (7) The maximal swimming time in the water (33--34 degrees C) with an additional load of 3 per cent of body weight failed to increase after 5 weeks of training in the animals to which dexamethasome was infected.
  • (8) The cardiac TG concentration was back to control levels by the 2nd h after the swim.
  • (9) Further the results of a test under practical conditions in a swimming pool are shown and the possibility to discriminate different types of waters by their chlorine demand under constant-titration.
  • (10) Addition of hydrocortisone, prednisolone and corticosterone into the medium as well as in vivo administration of these increased the adrenaline synthesis in swimming rats and did not alter it in intact rats.
  • (11) We confirmed that swimming activity is induced reversibly following exposure of the nerve cord to 5-HT (50 microM); the half-maximal rate of swimming activity develops in about 15 min.
  • (12) Thirty-eight female Wistar rats were randomly assigned to one of three groups: run-trained (RUN), swim-trained (SWIM) or control (CON).
  • (13) All motoneuron firing during fictive swimming is associated with a tonic depolarization that falls away slowly once firing stops, is increased by hyperpolarizing current, and is reduced by depolarizing current.
  • (14) The chemotactic receptor-transducer proteins of Escherichia coli are responsible for directing the swimming behavior of cells by signaling for either straight swimming or tumbling in response to chemostimuli.
  • (15) Eukaryotic ribosomes were isolated from the cryptobiotic embryos and from the further-developed free-swimming nauplii of the brine shrimp Artemia salina.
  • (16) The purpose of this study was to determine whether a chronic swimming program could reverse the decreased cardiac function and altered myosin biochemistry found in hearts of rats with established renal hypertension.
  • (17) The activity of hexobarbital oxidase in vivo was found to be higher in rats forced to swim regularly (sleeping time studies).
  • (18) An echocardiographic evaluation of 77 members of a championship childhood swim team showed dimensional variations from normal in most athletes.
  • (19) There are these two young fish swimming along, and they happen to meet an older fish swimming the other way, who nods at them and says, "Morning, boys, how's the water?"
  • (20) VO2 in both styles curvilinearly increased with swimming velocity, and these relationships were well fitted for the regression equation of the second order (Br: y = 3.84625x2 - 1.95914x + 1.310463,r2 = 0.999 (p < 0.05), Fr: y = 3.233446x2 - 2.28136x + 1.611524, r2 = 0.979 (p < 0.05)).

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