Definition of "dive"

dive¹

/daɪv/

verb
third-person singular simple present dives, present participle diving, simple past dived or (chiefly U.S. and Canada) dove, past participle dived or (chiefly U.S. and Canada, nonstandard) dove or (dialectal) doven
1. (intransitive) To swim under water.
2. (intransitive) To jump into water head-first.
  Quotations
  It is not that pearls fetch a high price because men have dived for them.
  1826, Richard Whately, Elements of Logic
3. (intransitive) To jump headfirst toward the ground or into another substance.
4. (intransitive) To descend sharply or steeply.
  Quotations
  [the Hammersmith & City at Paddington]: There it dived underground, eventually enabling its train services to run over, and be entangled with, the easterly extensions of the Metropolitan and the District.
  2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, page 49
5. (intransitive) To lose altitude quickly by pointing downwards, as with a bird or aircraft.
6. (intransitive, especially with in) To undertake with enthusiasm.
7. (sports) To deliberately fall down after a challenge, imitating being fouled, in the hope of getting one's opponent penalised.
8. (transitive) To cause to descend, dunk; to plunge something into water.
  Quotations
  To dive an infant either thrice or but once in Baptism
  1594–1597, Richard Hooker, edited by J[ohn] S[penser], Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie, […], London: […] Will[iam] Stansby [for Matthew Lownes], published 1611, (please specify the page)
9. (transitive) To explore by diving; to plunge into.
  Quotations
  The Curtii bravely dived the gulf of flame.
  1668, John Denham, The Progress of Learning
  The green lane is the school-boy's friend, / Low leaves his quarrel apprehend, / […] / The brimming brook invites a leap, / He dives the hollow, climbs the steep.
  1867, Ralph Waldo Emerson, “May-Day”, in May-Day and Other Pieces, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, page 20
10. (intransitive, figuratively) To plunge or to go deeply into any subject, question, business, etc.; to penetrate; to explore.
  Quotations
  dive into the Concerns of all about them
  1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, 6th edition, volumes (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: […] J[ames] Bettenham, for Jonah Bowyer, […], published 1727
noun
plural dives
1. A jump or plunge into water.
2. A headfirst jump toward the ground or into another substance.
  Quotations
  The 24-year-old Brazilian hurdler Joao Vitor de Oliveira progressed to the Rio competition’s semi-finals by executing a Superman-style dive headfirst over the finishing line – beating South Africa’s Antonio Alkana by one hundredth of a second.
  2016 August 16, Kate Samuelson, “Here Are Other Athletes Who Famously Won with a Dive”, in Time‎
3. A downward swooping motion.
4. A swim under water.
5. A decline.
6. (slang) A seedy bar, nightclub, etc.
7. (aviation) Aerial descent with the nose pointed down.
8. (sports) A deliberate fall after a challenge.

dive²

/ˈdiːveɪ/

noun
1. plural of diva

dive³

noun
plural dives
1. Obsolete form of daeva.

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