swim vs dip

swim and dip both are nouns.

swim and dip both are verbs.

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

As nouns, dip is a hyponym of swim; that is, dip is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than swim:

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

Other hyponyms of swim include bathe, skinny-dip, plunge, dive, diving, floating, natation, skin-dive, skin diving.

swim (noun)	dip (noun)
the act of swimming	a brief swim in water
	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

swim (verb)	dip (verb)
travel through water	stain an object by immersing it in a liquid
be afloat either on or below a liquid surface and not sink to the bottom	go down momentarily
move as if gliding through water	dip into a liquid while eating
be covered with or submerged in a liquid	immerse briefly into a liquid so as to wet, coat, or saturate
be dizzy or giddy	plunge (one's hand or a receptacle) into a container
	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 swim and dip

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