Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A very steep dive of an aircraft.
- n. A sudden, swift drop or plunge: Stock prices took a nosedive.
Wiktionary
- n. A headfirst fall or jump.
- n. economics A rapid fall in price or value.
- v. intransitive, of aircraft To dive down in a steep angle.
- v. intransitive, economy To perform a rapid fall in price or value.
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. To drop with the nose or front first, as of an airplane.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a steep nose-down descent by an aircraft
- n. a sudden sharp drop or rapid decline
- v. plunge nose first; drop with the nose or front first, of aircraft
- n. a steep nose-down descent by an aircraft
Examples
“Ever since the "Flash Crash" in May of 2010 - when the market took an unprecedented short-term nosedive due to computer-driven trading - many investors had wondered if the growing popularity of exchange-traded funds was somehow driving the market through its manic periods.”
“Possum, that is the first I have heard of the "nosedive" concept.”
“A witness said that the woman in her 70s saw the car "nosedive" into the Avon from the opposite bank.”
“History suggests such a connection could give way at any time - over almost any issue - and send Obama into the kind of nosedive from which other presidents never recovered.”
“As for the "nosedive" comment, I think Gregg's analysis needs some context.”
“Martha Guidoni said this photo was taken after she and her husband saw the plane "nosedive" in Butte, Montana.”
“Martha Guidoni says this photo was taken after she and her husband saw the plane "nosedive" in Butte, Montana.”
“I sensed that if I lost myself in that, what I would produce would nosedive.”
“More alarming, his home run output took a nosedive, with only 16 at that same point in the year.”
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