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    [Verb]  | "dive" | \ ˈdīv \


    1: to plunge into water intentionally and especially headfirst; also : to execute a dive

    2: submerge

    3: to come or drop down precipitously : plunge


    Origin: before 12th century ;

     Middle English diven, duven, from Old English dȳfan to dip & dūfan to dive; akin to Old English dyppan to dip ;

    [Noun]  | "diving beetle" 


    1: any of various predatory aquatic beetles (family Dytiscidae) that breathe while submerged using air trapped under their elytra


    Origin: circa 1889 ;

    [Noun]  | "diving bell" 


    1: a diving apparatus consisting of a container open only at the bottom and supplied with compressed air by a hose


    Origin: 1661 ;

    [Noun]  | "diving board" 


    1: springboard


    Origin: 1891 ;

    [Noun]  | "diving duck" 


    1: any of various ducks (such as a bufflehead) that frequent deep waters and obtain their food by diving


    Origin: 1813 ;

    [Noun]  | "diving suit" 


    1: a waterproof suit with a removable helmet that is worn by a diver who is supplied with air pumped through a tube


    Origin: 1908 ;

    [Noun]  | "dumpster diving" 


    1: the practice of searching through public trash receptacles for edible food or discarded items that retain some use or value


    Origin: 1983 ;

    [Noun]  | "free diving" 


    1: the sport of diving and swimming beneath the surface of water especially to considerable depth without a portable breathing device and typically with a face mask and one or two flippers —called also skin diving


    Origin: 1948 ;

    [Noun]  | "scuba diving" 


    1: the sport or activity of swimming underwater using scuba gear


    Origin: 1955 ;

    [Noun]  | "skin diving" 


    1: the activity or sport of swimming beneath the surface of the water especially at considerable depth without a portable breathing device : free diving


    Origin: 1937 ;

    [Verb]  | "diving" 


    1: to cast oneself head first into deep water;


      * e.g., " ... we watched her dive in after the drowning man "





    2: to go to a lower level especially abruptly;


      * e.g., " ... sales figures for existing homes dived dramatically when mortgage rates skyrocketed "



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    [Verb]  | "dive" 


    1: to cast oneself head first into deep water;


      * e.g., " ... we watched her dive in after the drowning man "





    2: to go to a lower level especially abruptly;


      * e.g., " ... sales figures for existing homes dived dramatically when mortgage rates skyrocketed "



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    [Verb]  | "dive (into)" 


    1: to start work on energetically;


      * e.g., " ... the first morning back at work was spent diving into the huge pile of e-mails that had accumulated over the previous two weeks "



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    [Verb]  | "nose-diving" 


    1: to go to a lower level especially abruptly;


      * e.g., " ... prices on just about everything nose-dived right after the holidays "





    [Verb]  | "nose-dive" 


    1: to go to a lower level especially abruptly;


      * e.g., " ... prices on just about everything nose-dived right after the holidays "





    [Noun]  | "nosedive" 


    1: the act or process of going to a lower level or altitude;


      * e.g., " ... the pilot struggled to pull his plane out of a nosedive "





     [ "diving" ]

    1: 1a. Gymnastics like aquatic sport, most participants are of Asian decent. Becuase they are the shit at diving.

      * e.g.,  ... swimmer: What time do you have diving practice this afternoon? 


     [ "diving" ]

    2: 1b. Throwing yourself involentarially off of high platforms and contemplating why the whole way down.

      * e.g.,  ... diver: 2pm just like you. 


     [ "diving" ]

    3: 2a. A sport mostly associated with swimming, but the only simalarity is the water.

      * e.g.,  ... 2 and a half hours later after practice... 


     [ "diving" ]

    4: 2b. A sport that, like swimming, requires you to paractice more than once a day at the most obsurd and early hours of the morning.

      * e.g.,  ... diver:How was your diving practice? 


     [ "diving" ]

    5:  Most swimmers are jealous of divers because they are more graceful and their practices have more meaning than swimming practice.

      * e.g.,  ... swimmer: barrying myself alive would have been more fun! How was yours? 

     [ "diving" ]

    1: Patronising establishments beneath your financial & social station, typically when already drunk from having a few at your local or some other more decent place. Usually done in multiple locations in the same night. A form of "slumming" specific to drinking alcohol.

      * e.g.,  ... "Me and John went diving last night. We started at that welfare bar on the next block over and moved down the street to those places around that block with publically funded housing. Total white trash karaoke nightmare, dude." 

     [ "diving" ]

    1: More subjective than merely surfing the web, diving involves the delving through layers of websites and old hyperlinks while searching for something that lies within the watery depths of the internet.

      * e.g.,  ... While diving, the webmaster encountered his old favorite recepie for chicken a la king, not to mention the old English lady's secret to prize-winning blueberry cobbler. 

     [ "Dive" ]

    1: A ghettofied hole in the wall bar where the poor and downtrodden alcoholics of america go to drink disounted mini-pitchers and listen to tired David alan Coe songs.

      * e.g.,  ... JC and Steve were kicked out of another Dive for spitting on the floor. 

     [ "dive" ]

    1: Informal, relaxed, "neighborhood" bar or restaurant. Sometimes cool, sometimes shitty.

      * e.g.,  ... What are you watching? 

     [ "dive" ]

    1: A run down, cheap, unclean restaurant or hotel.

      * e.g.,  ... That McDonalds is such a dive! 

     [ "dive" ]

    1: To 'take a dive' is to 'throw' a fight or sportng match by purposely fighting/playing poorly.

      * e.g.,  ... In 'Snatch', the 'Pikey' (Brad Pitt) was supposed to 'take a dive' in the 4th round. 

     [ "dive" ]

    1:  to proceed downward rapidly through the air headfirst, usually into a swimming pool, sometimes into a person, sometimes into cement.

      * e.g.,  ...  That was a very painful dive, but we could sell his face on E-bay. 


     [ "dive" ]

    2:  not the best of bars, restarants or hotels, usually very ghetto in appearance

      * e.g.,  ...  Being in this dive pisses me off so much, I'm a blow the shit up! Get the fuck out! 


     [ "dive" ]

    3:  a cool, very Japanese DDR song

      * e.g.,  ...  I believe that I have just AA'd Dive Single Heavy. Hooray for me. I am so not AZN!!!! 


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     [ "Diving" ]

    1: The voluntary act of a player of association football or soccer in the U.S where he or she falls unexpectedly as to gain the free kick or penalty for their own team. Divers are looked down upon in the community of football and will usually be given a card for their actions. If a very obvious dive is noticed, the player might even be fined by FIFA.

      * e.g.,  ... "Diving is ruining football" 

     [ "dived" ]

    1: A kiwi slang term used to describe a downward trend.

      * e.g.,  ... Man: Yo dove, did you see that stock market? Man 2: Ya na Man: yeah bro I reckon it dived Man 2: Balls 

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