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Definition of Diver

1. Noun. Someone who works underwater.

2. Noun. Someone who dives (into water).

3. Noun. Large somewhat primitive fish-eating diving bird of the northern hemisphere having webbed feet placed far back; related to the grebes.

Definition of Diver

1. n. One who, or that which, dives.

Definition of Diver

1. Noun. someone who dives, especially as a sport ¹

2. Noun. someone who works underwater; a frogman ¹

3. Noun. the loon (bird) ¹

4. Noun. The New Zealand sand diver ¹

5. Noun. The Long-finned sand diver ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Diver

1. one that dives [n -S] - See also: dives

Medical Definition of Diver

1. 1. One who, or that which, dives. "Divers and fishers for pearls." (Woodward) 2. One who goes deeply into a subject, study, or business. "A diver into causes." 3. Any bird of certain genera, as Urinator (formerly Colymbus), or the allied genus Colymbus, or Podiceps, remarkable for their agility in diving. The northern diver (Urinator imber) is the loon; the black diver or velvet scoter (Oidemia fusca) is a sea duck. See Loon, and Scoter. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Diver

dive brake dive in diveable divebomb divebombed divebombing divebombs dived dived in divedapper

divedappers divellicate divellicated divemaster divemasters diver (current term) diver's palsy diver's paralysis diverb diverbs

diverge diverged divergement divergements divergence divergence excess exotropia divergence insufficiency divergence insufficiency exotropia divergenceless divergences

Literary usage of Diver

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The U. S. Coal Industry, 1970-1990: Two Decades of ChangeTechnology (1992)
"The circular pattern involves only one diver, with a backup diver standing ... The diver in search of an object will go directly below the hole and make a ..."

2. The Birds of America by John James] [Audubon (1844)
"One of the most remarkable circumstances relative to this beautiful bird, which is intermediate between the Red-throated diver and the Loon, ..."

3. Spons' Dictionary of Engineering, Civil, Mechanical, Military, and Naval by Edward Spon, Oliver Byrne (1872)
"If the water be cold, the diver may put on two or more of each of the above articles. He then puts on the crinoline and woollen cap, drawing the latter well ..."

4. A history of British birds by Francis Orpen Morris (1857)
"THIS beautiful diver is common in Norway on the lakes on the higher ... A specimen of the Black-throated diver was killed near Purfleet, on the Thames, ..."

5. The Mechanics' Magazine (1854)
"Sin,—I have long entertained the idea that an important improvement might be effected in the dress of the diver engaged in submarine operations, ..."

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