'DIVE' definitions:
Definition of 'dive'
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Definition of 'Dive'
From: GCIDE
- Diva \Di"va\ (d[=e]"v[.a]), n.; It. pl. Dive (d[=e]"v[=a]). [It., prop. fem. of divo divine, L. divus.] A prima donna. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
Definition of 'Dive'
From: GCIDE
- Dive \Dive\, v. t.
- 1. To plunge (a person or thing) into water; to dip; to duck. [Obs.] --Hooker. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To explore by diving; to plunge into. [R.] [1913 Webster]
- The Curtii bravely dived the gulf of fame. --Denham. [1913 Webster]
- He dives the hollow, climbs the steeps. --Emerson. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Dive'
From: GCIDE
- Dive \Dive\, n.
- 1. A plunge headforemost into water, the act of one who dives, literally or figuratively. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A place of low resort. [Slang] [1913 Webster]
- The music halls and dives in the lower part of the city. --J. Hawthorne. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Dive'
From: GCIDE
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- It is not that pearls fetch a high price because men have dived for them. --Whately. [1913 Webster]
- Note: The colloquial form dove is common in the United States as an imperfect tense form. [1913 Webster]
- All [the walruses] dove down with a tremendous splash. --Dr. Hayes. [1913 Webster]
- When closely pressed it [the loon] dove . . . and left the young bird sitting in the water. --J. Burroughs. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Fig.: To plunge or to go deeply into any subject, question, business, etc.; to penetrate; to explore. --South. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'dive'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abate,
- ablate,
- acrobatics,
- aerobatics,
- alehouse,
- bagnio,
- banking,
- bar,
- barrel house,
- barroom,
- bate,
- bathe,
- bawdyhouse,
- be eaten away,
- beat down,
- beer garden,
- beer parlor,
- belly buster,
- belly flop,
- belly whopper,
- bistro,
- blind tiger,
- bordello,
- bound,
- break,
- break water,
- breaking water,
- brothel,
- burst,
- cabaret,
- cafe,
- cannonball,
- catabasis,
- cathouse,
- chandelle,
- cheapen,
- cheapening,
- clip joint,
- club,
- cocktail lounge,
- collapse,
- consume,
- consume away,
- corrode,
- countersink,
- crabbing,
- crash,
- crash dive,
- crib,
- cropper,
- crumble,
- culbute,
- cut,
- cut prices,
- deceleration,
- declension,
- decline,
- decline and fall,
- decrease,
- decrescendo,
- deepen,
- deflate,
- deflation,
- deliquesce,
- den,
- den of thieves,
- den of vice,
- depreciate,
- depreciation,
- depress,
- descend,
- devaluate,
- devaluation,
- die away,
- dig,
- diminish,
- diminuendo,
- dip,
- disorderly house,
- diving,
- downtrend,
- downturn,
- dramshop,
- drill,
- drinking saloon,
- drive,
- drop,
- drop off,
- duck,
- dump,
- dwindle,
- dwindling,
- ebb,
- erode,
- excavate,
- fall,
- fall away,
- fall in price,
- fall off,
- fishtailing,
- fleshpots,
- float,
- flood negative,
- flood the tanks,
- flop,
- forced landing,
- gainer,
- gin mill,
- give way,
- glide,
- go below,
- go in swimming,
- go in wading,
- go under,
- groggery,
- grogshop,
- gyp joint,
- hangout,
- header,
- hole,
- honky-tonk,
- house of assignation,
- house of joy,
- house of prostitution,
- impel,
- jackknife,
- jew down,
- joint,
- jump,
- lair,
- languish,
- lapse,
- leap,
- lessen,
- let up,
- local,
- lose altitude,
- lounge,
- lower,
- lowering,
- lunge,
- mark down,
- markdown,
- melt away,
- mine,
- move,
- nightclub,
- nose dive,
- nose-dive,
- nosedive,
- panel den,
- panel house,
- parachute,
- parachute jump,
- pare,
- pitch,
- plop,
- plummet,
- plummeting,
- plump,
- plunge,
- plunk,
- pothouse,
- pounce,
- pounce on,
- pounce upon,
- power dive,
- pratfall,
- price cut,
- price fall,
- price reduction,
- pub,
- public,
- public house,
- pull-up,
- pullout,
- pushdown,
- rathskeller,
- red-light district,
- reduce,
- reduction,
- remission,
- retreat,
- rig for diving,
- rolling,
- rumshop,
- run low,
- running dive,
- sag,
- saloon,
- saloon bar,
- settle,
- shave,
- shrink,
- sideslip,
- sink,
- sink of iniquity,
- skin-dive,
- skinny-dip,
- sky dive,
- sky-dive,
- slash,
- slowdown,
- slump,
- sound,
- speakeasy,
- spill,
- spiral,
- sporting house,
- sprawl,
- spring,
- stall,
- stationary dive,
- stew,
- stews,
- stoop,
- stumble,
- stunting,
- submerge,
- submergence,
- subside,
- subsidence,
- surface,
- surfacing,
- swan dive,
- swim,
- swoop,
- swoop down,
- tactical maneuvers,
- tail off,
- take a header,
- taproom,
- tavern,
- tenderloin,
- tread water,
- trim,
- trip,
- tumble,
- tunnel,
- volplane,
- wade,
- wane,
- waste,
- waste away,
- wear,
- wear away,
- whorehouse,
- wine shop,
- zoom
Acronyms for 'dive'
From: V.E.R.A.
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Words containing 'DIVE'
- Dived,
- Dives,
- Diving,
- dive into,
- Diving beetle,
- Diving bell,
- Diving dress,
- Diving petrel,
- Diving stone,
- cliff diving,
- crash dive,
- dive bomber,
- dive brake,
- diving board,
- diving duck,
- diving event,
- diving spider,
- diving suit,
- nose dive,
- power dive,
- scuba diving,
- skin diving,
- sky dive,
- snorkel diving,
- swallow dive,
- swan dive,
- take a dive,
- coastal diving bird,
- crash-dive,
- dive-bomb,
- dive-bombing,
- nose-dive,
- power-dive,
- skin-dive