diving 音标拼音: [d'ɑɪvɪŋ]
n . 潜水,跳水
潜水,跳水
diving n 1 :
an athletic competition that involves diving into water [
synonym : {
diving }, {
diving event }]
2 :
a headlong plunge into water [
synonym : {
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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