What's the difference between swam and swamp?

Swam


Definition:

  • () imp. of Swim.
  • (imp.) of Swim

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In regard to swimming performance, the weaver mutants swam with less ability but with more vigor than normal mice.
  • (2) However, cells grown in liquid medium swam normally and did not show any differences from wild-type cells in terms of swimming speed or tumbling frequency.
  • (3) The latest incident carries echoes of the case of another American, Evan Hunziker, who swam across the Yalu river from China to North Korea in 1996.
  • (4) Beppe Grillo , the former comedian who co-founded the M5S, made an impression on Sicilians when he swam the 3.5km (2.2-mile) stretch that divides the island from the mainland in 2012.
  • (5) However, when adapted to the dark for an hour or more, vis-à-vis pairs swam positively to the light.
  • (6) When rats swam in cold water for 10 min twice and were rewarmed by immersion in water at 38 degrees C during 20 min, embryo transport was accelerated despite that no changes occurred in the blood levels of sex steroids.
  • (7) The swimming time was increased by 5 min until the rats swam continuously for 1.5 hr.
  • (8) He told the Guardian he swam across a river and borrowed a friend’s car to make it into Port Vila.
  • (9) After a 4-week conditioning period, the "Long" group underwent a 6-week period during which they swam up to 44,000 m.wk-1, while the "Short" group maintained their swimming at 22,000 m.wk-1.
  • (10) After four boats carrying nearly 600 people successfully landed in western Indonesia – some migrants jumped into the water and swam – a fifth carrying hundreds more was turned away early on Monday.
  • (11) Rats that swam for 3 h showed a 6-fold increase in serum creatine phosphokinase (SCPK) activity which declined to control values within 7 h after swimming.
  • (12) At all times, morphologically normal spermatozoa from donors and patients swam faster and had greater rolling frequency, flagellar beat frequency and amplitude than did abnormally shaped cells.
  • (13) The rats swam for 50 min in 34-35 degrees C water with a tail weight (5% of body wt).
  • (14) Before stimulation, glycogen was higher in rats that swam on the preceding day (supercompensated rats) compared with controls.
  • (15) After dilution in salt solution, some caput sperm exhibited circular motion, whereas most cauda sperm swam progressively.
  • (16) The cheers of 1,300 Norwegian teenagers carry far over the still grey waters where, on 22 July 2011, children swam for their lives .
  • (17) During observations the diver either stayed in one place for 30 min, swam transects or followed individual fish.
  • (18) Sperm recovered from the proximal region of the caudal epididymis, near the corpus, swam in either the helical or hyperactivated patterns, or a mixture of the two.
  • (19) Perhaps that whale swam up the Thames for a reason.
  • (20) After each attack, the sharks swam round in a gentle arc and returned to the spot to snaffle the stunned and dead sardines.

Swamp


Definition:

  • (n.) Wet, spongy land; soft, low ground saturated with water, but not usually covered with it; marshy ground away from the seashore.
  • (v. t.) To plunge or sink into a swamp.
  • (v. t.) To cause (a boat) to become filled with water; to capsize or sink by whelming with water.
  • (v. t.) Fig.: To plunge into difficulties and perils; to overwhelm; to ruin; to wreck.
  • (v. i.) To sink or stick in a swamp; figuratively, to become involved in insuperable difficulties.
  • (v. i.) To become filled with water, as a boat; to founder; to capsize or sink; figuratively, to be ruined; to be wrecked.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This is a moral swamp, but it's one the Salvation Army claims to be stepping into out of charity .
  • (2) Ready to be fleeced and swamped, I wandered cautiously along Laugavegur past the lovely independent shops, the clean, friendly streets and ended up in a fun hipsterish bar called the Lebowski, where they serve Tuborg and the craft burgers are named things like The Walter (I ordered The Nihilist).
  • (3) It has been characterised by others in government as just beating back the crocodiles that come close to the boat rather than draining the swamp."
  • (4) They can expect to be swamped more often by tidal surges, battered by ever stronger typhoons and storms, and hit by deeper droughts.
  • (5) The footpaths I followed became swamped with knapweed, bramble and nettle.
  • (6) One hundred newborn swamp buffalo calves (Bubalis bubalis) from three villages in North-East Thailand were divided equally into treatment and control groups.
  • (7) The majority of US retailers expect their absolute emissions to in fact grow over time, with business growth swamping efficiency gains.
  • (8) The prevalence of antibodies at titre 1:10 varied between 31.1% in the derived savannah and 94.4% in the swamp forest.
  • (9) Guardian US environment correspondent Suzanne Goldenberg looked at the role cities would have to play in reducing emissions: At-risk cities hold solutions to climate change: UN report It is already taking shape as the 21st century urban nightmare: a big storm hits a city like Shanghai, Mumbai, Miami or New York, knocking out power supply and waste treatment plants, washing out entire neighbourhoods and marooning the survivors in a toxic and foul-smelling swamp.
  • (10) Consecutive man-of-the-match performances against Greece and Ivory Coast helped Colombia brush aside the lassitude that swamped the country’s World Cup preparations after injury to their talismanic striker Falcao .
  • (11) This month the concessions are being worked at a breakneck pace, with giant tractors and heavy machinery clearing trees, draining swamps and ploughing the land in time to catch the next growing season.
  • (12) This utterly swamps any western attempt at mitigation.
  • (13) True, some Britons might be struggling in these austerity years to deal with the rapid shift in ethnic make-up of our towns and cities, but “swamped”?
  • (14) The explosive briefing attributed to him this week blaming the alleged extremist infiltration of Birmingham schools on a failure by the Home Office to "drain the swamp" by confronting extremism long before it develops into terrorism also suggests that his views remain the same.
  • (15) Focus on tax reform, healthcare and so many other things of far greater importance!” Trump added the hashtag #DTS, for his campaign slogan “drain the swamp”.
  • (16) In "Policy Options and the Impact of National Health Insurance," Newhouse, Phelps, and Schwartz concluded that any national health insurance program which did not provide for high user copayments, particularly for ambulatory services, would swamp, and ultimately wreck, the health care delivery system, particularly for ambulatory services.
  • (17) Storms lash and floods swamp, but the hurricane of cuts outlined by this week's grim report from the Institute for Fiscal Studies will cause infinitely greater devastation to millions for many years to come, like nothing before.
  • (18) These studies concentrated on those individual birds known, by banding returns, to be residents of large wooded swamps where both eastern equine encephalomyelitis and Highlands J viruses were known to be enzootic.
  • (19) Mike Pratt, 38, Norfolk Cronus Titan 23 November 2016 4:23pm The UK economy has been swamped with low wages and I see it very difficult for this ever to be resolved without joe public yet again having to take a bullet for the rich.
  • (20) Either he is an unapologetic populist whose efforts to drain the swamp of Washington have been met, all too predictably, by powerful resistance.

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