dive

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Although the dive was a very shallow dive, only about 5 m down, and the visibility was really poor, it was a great experience.

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  1. intransitive verb To plunge, especially headfirst, into water.
  2. intransitive verb To execute a dive in athletic competition.
  3. intransitive verb To participate in the sport of competitive diving.
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  • Instead of taking as deep a breath as he could, several rapid inhalations were made to charge the lungs with oxygen, and the dive was then made with a normal amount of air in the lungs. —  011 - Brand of the Werewolf
  • We know that the worst part of the dive is ahead, and that it belongs to me. —  Asimov'sSF,April-May2008
  • I forgot to mention that my 1TB hard dive is a Time Capsule in case it makes any difference .... —  Discussions: Message List - root
  • Phase two is an even more severe contraction in credit -- consumer spending took a nose dive, and manufacturing shed jobs at an alarming rate. —  post-gazette.com - News
  • For people who swim or scuba dive, a few are prone to develop fluid build-up in the lungs called pulmonary edema. —  RNews - TOP STORIES
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plunge ·  bird ·  leap ·  flight ·  jump ·  shoot ·  pigeon ·  eagle ·  fall ·  thrust ·  duck ·  owl

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dive:   Dove ·  dove ·  dives ·  Dives ·  dived ·  diving
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English diven, from Old English dȳfan, to dip, and from dūfan, to sink; see dheub- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Early modern English also dyve; from Middle English diven, dyven, deven, duven (pret *difde, defde), from Anglo-Saxon dy¯fan (weak verb, preterit dy¯fde) (= Icelandic dy¯fa), dip, immerse, causal of dūfan (strong verb, preterit deáf, plural dufon, past participle dofen; early Middle English duven, preterit def, deæf), dive, sink, penetrate (in comp. ge-dūfan, dive, be-dūfan, cover with water, submerge (= Old Low German bedöven, be covered with water, Low German bedaven, past participle covered, especially with water), thurh-dūfan, dive through, etc.). Perhaps ult. connected with dip, q. v. The modern pret, is prop, dived, but the preterit dove, after the assumed analogy of drove from drive (cf. strove for earlier strived, preterit of strive), is common in colloquial speech, and is found in good literary use.
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