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| From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
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| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Diving \Div"ing\, a. That dives or is used or diving. {Diving beetle} (Zo[94]l.), any beetle of the family {Dytiscid[91]}, 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. | |
| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Dive \Dive\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Dived}, colloq. {Dove}, a relic of the AS. strong forms de[a0]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. It is not that pearls fetch a high price because men have dived for them. --Whately. Note: The colloquial form dove is common in the United States as an imperfect tense form. All [the walruses] dove down with a tremendous splash. --Dr. Hayes. When closely pressed it [the loon] dove . . . and left the young bird sitting in the water. --J. Burroughs. 2. Fig.: To plunge or to go deeply into any subject, question, business, etc.; to penetrate; to explore. --South. | |
