Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One that dives.
- noun One that works under water, especially one equipped with breathing apparatus and weighted clothing.
- noun Any of several diving waterbirds, especially the loon.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
dyvour . - noun One who or that which dives or plunges into water.
- noun Specifically— One who makes a business of diving, as for pearl-oysters, to examine sunken vessels, etc. See
submarine armor , under armor. - noun A bird that habitually dives, as a loon, grebe, auk, or penguin; specifically, one or any of the birds variously known as Brachypterœ, Mergitores, Urinatores, Pygopodes, or Spheniscomorphœ. The term is especially applied to the loons, family Colymbidœ (which see). There are three leading species: the great northern diver, Colymbus torquatus; the black-throated diver, C. arcticus; and the red-throated diver, C. septentrionalis. All three inhabit the northern hemisphere generally, and are noted not only for their quickness in diving, but also for the length of time they remain and the distance they traverse under water, in which they move both by swimming with the feet and by paddling with the wings. See
loon . Alsodiving-bird . - noun One who plunges into or engages deeply in anything.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who, or that which, dives.
- noun Fig.: One who goes deeply into a subject, study, or business.
- noun (Zoöl.) Any bird of certain genera, as Urinator (formerly Colymbus), or the allied genus Colymbus, or Podiceps, remarkable for their agility in diving.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun someone who
dives , especially as asport - noun someone who
works underwater ; afrogman - noun the
loon (bird) - noun The New Zealand sand diver
- noun The Long-finned sand diver
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun someone who dives (into water)
- noun large somewhat primitive fish-eating diving bird of the northern hemisphere having webbed feet placed far back; related to the grebes
- noun someone who works underwater
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Examples
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At 30 feet down the pressure on the diver is the same in a swimming pool, lake or ocean.
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Usually Journalism, when a diver is devoured by a shark, says that, and it is enough.
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Usually Journalism, when a diver is devoured by a shark, says that, and it is enough.
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Several times filling and emptying his lungs in diver fashion, Grief turned over and went down through the water.
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Ecpad/Abacausa. com A diver from the French military vessel Ventose collected remains of the plane in a recovery operation Monday.
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Ron, the urchin diver, will run out of luck at some point in his life.
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Ron, the urchin diver, will run out of luck at some point in his life.
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Clearly enthused at the prospect of seeing Lara Croft – adventurer, archaeologist, skin diver, jet pilot, skilled equestrian, and expert markswoman – leap onto a well-tuned mountain bike and go bombing down a Himalayan mountain.
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Gammerstang commented on the word diver
(noun) - A pickpocket; also applied to fingers, no doubt for a similar reason. To dive is to pick pockets. --John Camden Hotten's Slang Dictionary, 1887
April 22, 2018