(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)).
Traverse
Definition:
(a.) Lying across; being in a direction across something else; as, paths cut with traverse trenches.
(adv.) Athwart; across; crosswise.
(a.) Anything that traverses, or crosses.
(a.) Something that thwarts, crosses, or obstructs; a cross accident; as, he would have succeeded, had it not been for unlucky traverses not under his control.
(a.) A barrier, sliding door, movable screen, curtain, or the like.
(a.) A gallery or loft of communication from side to side of a church or other large building.
(a.) A work thrown up to intercept an enfilade, or reverse fire, along exposed passage, or line of work.
(a.) A formal denial of some matter of fact alleged by the opposite party in any stage of the pleadings. The technical words introducing a traverse are absque hoc, without this; that is, without this which follows.
(a.) The zigzag course or courses made by a ship in passing from one place to another; a compound course.
(a.) A line lying across a figure or other lines; a transversal.
(a.) A line surveyed across a plot of ground.
(a.) The turning of a gun so as to make it point in any desired direction.
(a.) A turning; a trick; a subterfuge.
(a.) To lay in a cross direction; to cross.
(a.) To cross by way of opposition; to thwart with obstacles; to obstruct; to bring to naught.
(a.) To wander over; to cross in traveling; as, to traverse the habitable globe.
(a.) To pass over and view; to survey carefully.
(a.) To turn to the one side or the other, in order to point in any direction; as, to traverse a cannon.
(a.) To plane in a direction across the grain of the wood; as, to traverse a board.
(a.) To deny formally, as what the opposite party has alleged. When the plaintiff or defendant advances new matter, he avers it to be true, and traverses what the other party has affirmed. To traverse an indictment or an office is to deny it.
(v. i.) To use the posture or motions of opposition or counteraction, as in fencing.
(v. i.) To turn, as on a pivot; to move round; to swivel; as, the needle of a compass traverses; if it does not traverse well, it is an unsafe guide.
(v. i.) To tread or move crosswise, as a horse that throws his croup to one side and his head to the other.
Example Sentences:
(1) Hence the major role of the 14-A arm of carboxybiotin is not to permit a large carboxyl migration but, rather to permit carboxybiotin to traverse the gap which occurs at the interface of three subunits and to insinuate itself between the CoA and keto acid sites.
(2) Additionally, several small vessels (rami pleurales pulmonales) originated from the esophageal branch (ramus esophagea) of the bronchoesophageal artery, traversed the pulmonary ligaments, and supplied the visceral pleura.
(3) The distance traversed by the blood before getting fully oxygenated is computed.
(4) A model for IL 2 proliferation was derived on the basis of the two-state model of the cell cycle, with cells leaving a quiescent state randomly and then traversing the other stages of the cell cycle in a determinate way.
(5) 17 alpha-estradiol (17 alpha-estradiol) or cholesterol on the number of footfaults made by female rats traversing a narrow suspended beam was investigated.
(6) The cdc2 and CDC28 gene products (lower-case letters represent genes of Schizosaccharomyces pombe, and capital letters genes of Saccharomyces cerevisiae) are functionally homologous, suggesting that the processes involved in traverse of 'start' are highly conserved.
(7) After treatment of Chinese hamster cells (line CHO) with various protocols for synchrony induction, the subsequent ability of cells to traverse the cell cycle (i e., to perform, an essential cell cycle process) has been determined by measurement of the DNA distribution pattern among cells in large populations with the Los Alamos flow microfluorometer In the cultures prepared by the various synchronizing techniques the vast majority of cells traversed the cell cycle in a normal fashion; however, in all cultures examined there remained small subpopulations which, though remaining viable for several days, could not carry out normal traverse.
(8) As clinicians comprehend more fully the multifaceted areas of resistance to treatment, they will be able to help their eating-disordered patients traverse a therapeutic impasse.
(9) Circular dichroic studies and hydropathy profiling of the amino-acid sequence of this 'lac' permease suggest a secondary structure in which the polypeptide consists of 12 hydrophobic segments in alpha-helical conformation that traverse the membrane in zig-zag fashion connected by shorter, hydrophilic domains with most of the charged residues and many of the residues commonly found in beta-turns.
(10) The integrity of the talocalcaneal joint was maintained by two strong ligaments traversing the tarsal sinus between the two bones.
(11) Second, in addition to the major bolus of labeled material that traversed the cells at about 6 h, a smaller wave of radioactivity appeared to pass through the Golgi apparatus and secretory granules and reach the lumen earlier, within the first few hours after the injection.
(12) Use of the endoscopic Congo red test provides physiologic evidence that vagus secretory nerve fibers traverse the right and left gastroepiploic nerves, leading us to believe that the gastroepiploic nerves should be routinely divided during proximal gastric vagotomy.
(13) The enzyme is in the soluble portion of the cells and the steroids have to traverse the membrane in both directions.
(14) During intestinal absorption amino acids must traverse the lipid-rich epithelial cell membrane, possibly in a lipid-soluble form.
(15) • Chris Goode's Men in the Cities is at the Traverse until 24 August.
(16) These results demonstrate that the type VII collagen of human cutaneous anchoring fibrils and plaques is secreted by keratinocytes and can traverse the epidermal basal lamina and that the fibril formation can occur in the absence of cells of human dermal origin.
(17) Double-reciprocal plotting of Ca2+ traversal rates in cholesterol-containing liposomes vs. calcium concentration suggests that cholesterol inhibits Ca2+ traversal by competing with Ca2+ for PA.
(18) The blood-borne protein traversed the autonomic graft and infiltrated into the host brain for distances between 200 micron in intraparenchymal grafts to over 1 mm in intraventricular grafts; a smaller exudate was found in the intraparenchymal model than in the intraventricular site probably due to glial scarring that impeded the protein movement in the interstitial spaces.
(19) Other robots in the Boston Dynamics stable include Petman, a robot that tests humanoid chemical protective clothing; the wheeled SandFlea robot that can leap small buildings; a small six-legged robot capable of traversing rough terrain called RHex; and the RiSE robot capable of climbing vertical walls, trees and fences using feet with micro-claws.
(20) Peroxidase does not traverse the endothelium of intramural arteries and arterioles of controls over the 10-minute period of observation.