diving

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

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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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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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,
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