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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. [ 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]
Diving \ Div" ing\, a. That dives or is used or diving. [ 1913 Webster] { 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. [ 1913 Webster] 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, zoom
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