| Pronunciation: | | d'Iving
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| Matching Terms: | | divination, divinator, divinatory, divine, divine guidance, divine law, divine messenger, divine office, divine service, divinely, divinement, divineness, diviner, divineress, diving bell, diving board, diving dress, diving duck, diving event, diving petrel, diving rod, diving suit, divinify, divining, divining rod, diviningly, divinistre, divinity, divinity calf, divinity fudge, divinization, divinize, divinyl ether
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- [n] a headlong plunge into water
- [n] an athletic competition that involves diving into water
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| | Synonyms: | | dive, diving event |
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| | See Also: | | belly flop, belly flopper, belly whop, belly whopper, cliff diving, flip, full gainer, gainer, half gainer, jackknife, match, swallow dive, swan dive, swim, swim meet, swimming, swimming meet |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Div"ing\, a.
That dives or is used or diving.
{Diving beetle} (Zo["o]l.), 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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| | Related Terms: | | acrobatics, aerobatics, aquaplaning, aquatics, Australian crawl, 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, pullout, pull-up, 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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