dive
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
ball-games
business
cricket
engineering
games
hobbies
lifestyle
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sports
Etymology: From Middle English diven, duven, from the merger of Old English dȳfan (“to dip, immerse”, transitive weak verb) (from Proto-Germanic *dūbijaną) and dūfan (“to duck, dive, sink, penetrate”, intransitive strong verb) (past participle ġedofen). Cognate with Icelandic dýfa (“to dip, dive”), Low German bedaven (“covered, covered with water”). See also deep, dip.
Inflected forms:
form: dives
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: diving
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: dived
pos: verb
tags: past
form: dove
pos: verb
tags: Canada
US
past
form: dived
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: dove
pos: verb
tags: Canada
US
participle
past
form: doven
pos: verb
tags: nonstandard
participle
past
rare
form: diven
pos: verb
tags: nonstandard
participle
past
rare
form: no-table-tags
pos: verb
tags: table-tags
form: glossary
pos: verb
tags: inflection-template
form: dive
pos: verb
tags: infinitive
form: dive
pos: verb
tags: first-person
present
singular
form: dived
pos: verb
tags: first-person
past
singular
form: dove
pos: verb
tags: Canada
US
first-person
past
singular
form: dive
pos: verb
tags: present
second-person
singular
form: divest
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
second-person
singular
form: dived
pos: verb
tags: past
second-person
singular
form: dove
pos: verb
tags: Canada
US
past
second-person
singular
form: divedst
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
second-person
singular
form: dives
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: diveth
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
singular
third-person
form: dived
pos: verb
tags: past
singular
third-person
form: dove
pos: verb
tags: Canada
US
past
singular
third-person
form: dive
pos: verb
tags: plural
present
form: dived
pos: verb
tags: past
plural
form: dove
pos: verb
tags: Canada
US
past
plural
form: dive
pos: verb
tags: present
subjunctive
form: dived
pos: verb
tags: past
subjunctive
form: dove
pos: verb
tags: Canada
US
past
subjunctive
form: dive
pos: verb
tags: imperative
present
form: -
pos: verb
tags: imperative
past
form: diving
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: dived
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: dove
pos: verb
tags: Canada
US
participle
past
form: doven
pos: verb
tags: Canada
US
participle
past
form: diven
pos: verb
tags: nonstandard
participle
past
rare
form: dives
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To swim under water.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: He dove in the water to save her.
gloss: To jump into water head-first.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: It is not that pearls fetch a high price because men have dived for them.
gloss: To jump headfirst toward the ground or into another substance.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: to dive into home plate
gloss: To descend sharply or steeply.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: [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.
gloss: To lose altitude quickly by pointing downwards, as with a bird or aircraft.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To undertake with enthusiasm.
pos: verb
tags: especially
intransitive
examples: She dove right in and started making improvements.
gloss: To deliberately fall down after a challenge, imitating being fouled, in the hope of getting one's opponent penalised.
pos: verb
gloss: To leap while fielding to take a brilliant catch which usually results in a wicket and appreciation.
pos: verb
gloss: To cause to descend, dunk; to plunge something into water.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: To dive an infant either thrice or but once in Baptism
gloss: To explore by diving; to plunge into.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The Curtii bravely dived the gulf of flame.
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.
gloss: To plunge or to go deeply into any subject, question, business, etc.; to penetrate; to explore.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
intransitive
examples: dive into the Concerns of all about them
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gloss: A jump or plunge into water.
pos: noun
examples: the dive of a hawk after prey
gloss: A headfirst jump toward the ground or into another substance.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
gloss: A downward swooping motion.
pos: noun
gloss: A swim under water.
pos: noun
gloss: A decline.
pos: noun
gloss: A seedy bar, nightclub, etc.
pos: noun
tags: slang
gloss: Aerial descent with the nose pointed down.
pos: noun
gloss: A deliberate fall after a challenge.
pos: noun
Derived words: back dive
backward dive
bedoven
crash dive
crash-dive
deep dive
deep-dive
divable
diveable
dive bar
dive boat
divebomb
dive-bomb
dive bomber
dive brick
dive computer
dive in
divekeeper
divemaster
diver
dive support vessel
dive-under
divewear
divey
dolphin dive
duck and dive
duck dive
dumpster dive
fish dive
forward dive
full dive
Klinsmann dive
nosedive
nose-dive
postdive
power dive
predive
sailor dive
saturation dive
scuba diving
skin-dive
skydive
skydiving
stage-dive
stagedive
stage dive
Stengel dive
swallow dive
swandive
swan-dive
swan dive
take a dive
undived
updive
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: потапям се
roman: potapjam se
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 驟降 /骤降
roman: zhòujiàng
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 暴跌
roman: bàodiē
lang: Esperanto
word: plonĝi
lang: Finnish
word: sukeltaa
lang: Finnish
word: laskeutua
lang: French
word: plonger
lang: German
word: abtauchen
lang: Hebrew
word: צָלַל
roman: tsalál
lang: Irish
word: tum
lang: Polish
word: zanurzać się
lang: Polish
word: zanurzyć się
lang: Portuguese
word: despencar
lang: Russian
word: погружа́ться
roman: pogružátʹsja
lang: Russian
word: погрузи́ться
roman: pogruzítʹsja
lang: Russian
word: пики́ровать
roman: pikírovatʹ
lang: Spanish
word: descender
lang: Swedish
word: dyka