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Definition of Diving
1. Noun. An athletic competition that involves diving into water.
2. Noun. A headlong plunge into water.
Generic synonyms: Swim, Swimming
Specialized synonyms: Belly Flop, Belly Flopper, Belly Whop, Belly Whopper, Cliff Diving, Flip, Full Gainer, Gainer, Half Gainer, Jackknife, Swallow Dive, Swan Dive
Derivative terms: Dive, Dive
Definition of Diving
1. a. That dives or is used or diving.
Definition of Diving
1. Verb. (present participle of dive) ¹
2. Noun. The action of the verb '''to dive''' in any sense. ¹
3. Noun. The sport of jumping head first into water. ¹
4. Noun. The practice of swimming underwater, especially using a scuba system, and especially for recreation. ¹
5. Noun. (attributively as a modifier) Of, relating to or used in diving (''jumping into water''). ¹
6. Noun. (attributively as a modifier) Of, relating to or used in diving (''swimming underwater''). ¹
7. Adjective. That or who dives or dive. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Diving
1. dive [v] - See also: dive
Medical Definition of Diving
1.
That dives or is used or diving.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Diving
Literary usage of Diving
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 Change (1992)
"It focuses principally on diving to depths that are shallower than 250 feet (76
m), the depth range in which NOAA divers generally operate. ..."
2. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History by American Museum of Natural History (1921)
"diving petrels came into the protected bay for shelter from a williwaw; several
shot. ... Out in boat for two hours. and shot twenty diving petrels, ..."
3. Reports of Cases Before the High Court and Circuit Courts of Justiciary in by Scotland High Court of Justiciary, Archibald Swinton (1842)
"as charged, for the occasion, with shifting the position of the diving-bell, NO.
63. and seeing it done, to take especial care that the counterbalance to ..."
4. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1903)
"The form of diving bell :н>\\ in use was first constructed by ... The principle
of the diving-bell will be easily understood by floating a piece of lighted ..."
5. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and General (1890)
"3—Block-laying by diving BiB. is the staging, 6 longitudinal bosnia on which the
... and toothed racks it ‘The diving bell a is suspended from the bell ..."
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