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dive
[ dahyv ]
verb (used without object)
- to plunge into water, especially headfirst.
- to go below the surface of the water, as a submarine.
- to plunge, fall, or descend through the air, into the earth, etc.:
The acrobats dived into nets.
- Aeronautics. (of an airplane) to descend rapidly.
- to penetrate suddenly into something, as with the hand:
to dive into one's purse.
- to dart:
to dive into a doorway.
- to enter deeply or plunge into a subject, activity, etc.
verb (used with object)
- to cause to plunge, submerge, or descend.
- to insert quickly; plunge:
He dived his hand into his pocket.
noun
- an act or instance of diving.
- a jump or plunge into water, especially in a prescribed way from a diving board.
- the vertical or nearly vertical descent of an airplane at a speed surpassing the possible speed of the same plane in level flight.
- a submerging, as of a submarine or skin diver.
- a dash, plunge, or lunge, as if throwing oneself at or into something:
He made a dive for the football.
- a sudden or sharp decline, as in stock prices.
- Slang.
- a dingy or disreputable bar or nightclub:
Grab a beer with some locals at the dive on the corner.
- any shabby, run-down place, especially a residence.
- Boxing. a false show of being knocked out, usually in a bout whose result has been prearranged:
to take a dive in an early round.
- Also called sim·u·lat·ed con·tact [sim, -y, uh, -ley-tid , kon, -takt]. Soccer. a dramatic fall or feigned injury intended to persuade officials to penalize the opposing team:
His dive fooled the ref into giving his team a free kick.
dive
/ daɪv /
verb
- to plunge headfirst into water
- (of a submarine, swimmer, etc) to submerge under water
- also tr to fly (an aircraft) in a steep nose-down descending path, or (of an aircraft) to fly in such a path
- to rush, go, or reach quickly, as in a headlong plunge
he dived for the ball
- also tr; foll by in or into to dip or put (one's hand) quickly or forcefully (into)
to dive into one's pocket
- usually foll byin or into to involve oneself (in something), as in eating food
- slang.soccer (of a footballer) to pretend to have been tripped or impeded by an opposing player in order to win a free kick or penalty
noun
- a headlong plunge into water, esp one of several formalized movements executed as a sport
- an act or instance of diving
- a steep nose-down descent of an aircraft
- slang.a disreputable or seedy bar or club
- slang.boxing the act of a boxer pretending to be knocked down or out
he took a dive in the fourth round
- slang.soccer the act of a player pretending to have been tripped or impeded
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Other Words From
- post·dive adjective
- pre·dive adjective
- un·der·dive noun
- un·der·dive verb (used without object) underdived or underdove underdived underdiving
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Word History and Origins
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Origin of dive1
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Example Sentences
DeJoy recently shared a national chart with Congress showing on-time mail processing rates took a dive in July, though almost 95 percent is still on time or one day late, on average.
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Looking across a collection of long-standing Tinuiti advertisers, tablet spend growth for Google US paid search started to take a dive in Q4 2019, going from 5% growth last Q3 to 22% decline in the final quarter of the year.
The decline has been most acute for whiskey imports, which are down by almost 50%, with cognac and brandies seeing a similar dive.
Not even after its parent company, the Soviet Union, took a dive in 1991.
When used improperly those encouraging statistics take a nose dive.
The young goslings' first major life event is to cliff dive down to their parents, as was captured here by BBC cameras.
We wanted to create a dedicated hub where people can dive into it and get all this commentary on the news.
They'd never be allowed to take their clothes off and dive in the way boys do.
Then came the end: the Titanic, with a low long slanting dive went down and with her Thomas Andrews.
He'll immediately throw down his bunch of flowers and dive despairingly into the moat.
He proved that one night when we picked up a quartet of drunks at a dive on the south end of our district.
I shoved through the door of the dive, Burke following close behind.
Despite the speed of his dive, they were gaining on him, coming up fast; one snout that ended in a cupped depression was plain.
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