dip vs swim

dip and swim both are nouns.

dip and swim both are verbs.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
dip	Yes	No	Yes	No
swim	Yes	No	Yes	No

As nouns, swim is a hypernym of dip; that is, swim is a word with a broader meaning than dip:

dip: a brief swim in water
swim: the act of swimming

Other hypernyms of dip include swimming.

dip (noun)	swim (noun)
a brief swim in water	the act of swimming
a gymnastic exercise on the parallel bars in which the body is lowered and raised by bending and straightening the arms
a candle that is made by repeated dipping in a pool of wax or tallow
a sudden sharp decrease in some quantity
a brief immersion
tasty mixture or liquid into which bite-sized foods are dipped
a thief who steals from the pockets or purses of others in public places
(physics) the angle that a magnetic needle makes with the plane of the horizon
a depression in an otherwise level surface

dip (verb)	swim (verb)
stain an object by immersing it in a liquid	travel through water
go down momentarily	be afloat either on or below a liquid surface and not sink to the bottom
dip into a liquid while eating	move as if gliding through water
immerse briefly into a liquid so as to wet, coat, or saturate	be covered with or submerged in a liquid
plunge (one's hand or a receptacle) into a container	be dizzy or giddy
immerse in a disinfectant solution
scoop up by plunging one's hand or a ladle below the surface
place (candle wicks) into hot, liquid wax
dip into a liquid
appear to move downward
slope downwards
lower briefly
switch (a car's headlights) from a higher to a lower beam
take a small amount from

Difference between dip and swim

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