Diving

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Dive \Dive\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Dived}, colloq. {Dove}, a
     relic of the AS. strong forms de['a]f, dofen; p. pr. & vb. n.
     {Diving}.] [OE. diven, duven, AS. d?fan to sink, v. t., fr.
     d?fan, v. i.; akin to Icel. d?fa, G. taufen, E. dip, deep,
     and perh. to dove, n. Cf. {Dip}.]
     1. To plunge into water head foremost; to thrust the body


        under, or deeply into, water or other fluid.
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              It is not that pearls fetch a high price because men
              have dived for them.                  --Whately.
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     Note: The colloquial form dove is common in the United States
           as an imperfect tense form.
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                 All [the walruses] dove down with a tremendous
                 splash.                            --Dr. Hayes.
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                 When closely pressed it [the loon] dove . . . and
                 left the young bird sitting in the water. --J.
                                                    Burroughs.
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     2. Fig.: To plunge or to go deeply into any subject,
        question, business, etc.; to penetrate; to explore.
        --South.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Diving \Div"ing\, a.
     That dives or is used or diving.
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     {Diving beetle} (Zool.), any beetle of the family
        {Dytiscid[ae]}, which habitually lives under water; --
        called also {water tiger}.
  
     {Diving bell}, a hollow inverted vessel, sometimes
        bell-shaped, in which men may descend and work under
        water, respiration being sustained by the compressed air
        at the top, by fresh air pumped in through a tube from
        above.
  
     {Diving dress}. See {Submarine armor}, under {Submarine}.
  
     {Diving stone}, a kind of jasper.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  diving
       n 1: an athletic competition that involves diving into water
            [syn: {diving event}]
       2: a headlong plunge into water [syn: {dive}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  53 Moby Thesaurus words for "diving":
     Australian crawl, acrobatics, aerobatics, aquaplaning, aquatics,
     backstroke, balneation, banking, bathe, bathing, breaststroke,
     butterfly, chandelle, crabbing, crawl, deep-sea diving, dive,
     dog paddle, fancy diving, fin, fishtail, fishtailing, flapper,
     flipper, floating, glide, high diving, natation, nose dive,
     pearl diving, plunging, power dive, pull-up, pullout, pushdown,
     rolling, sideslip, sidestroke, skin diving, sky diving, spiral,
     stall, stunting, surfboarding, surfing, swim, swimming,
     tactical maneuvers, treading water, volplane, wading, waterskiing,
     zoom