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Definition of Nosedive
1. Verb. Plunge nose first; drop with the nose or front first, of aircraft. "The airplane is sure to nosedive "
2. Noun. A sudden sharp drop or rapid decline. ; "The stock took a nosedive"
3. Noun. A steep nose-down descent by an aircraft.
Definition of Nosedive
1. Noun. A headfirst fall or jump. ¹
2. Noun. (economics) A rapid fall in price or value. ¹
3. Verb. (intransitive of aircraft) To dive down in a steep angle. ¹
4. Verb. (intransitive economy) To perform a rapid fall in price or value. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Nosedive
1. to go into a sudden steep drop [v -DIVED or -DOVE, -DIVING, -DIVES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nosedive
Literary usage of Nosedive
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1922)
"Clad in his brown habit, the reverend gentleman is in mid-air, with arms stretched
out, high up, inclining, if one may use the expression, to a nosedive, ..."
2. Syria and the Middle East Peace Process by Alasdair Drysdale, Raymond A. Hinnebusch (1991)
"60 According to an Israeli military historian, the qualitative gap between the
Israeli and Syrian troops "took a nosedive" in this war compared to previous ..."
3. All in it: "K(1)" Carries on by Ian Hay (1917)
"Next moment she lurched again, and then took a "nosedive" straight into the
British trenches. She fell on open ground, a few hundred yards behind our second ..."
4. Day One and Beyond: Practical Matters for New Middle-Level Teachersby Rick Wormeli by Rick Wormeli (2003)
"It's very difficult to recover from such a nosedive. The message is obvious: This
handout and my child's interaction with it weren't ..."
5. Applied Aerodynamics by Leonard Bairstow (1920)
"The former shows stability at all positive values of Mw, and the change from
stability of the oscillation to instability in a nosedive occurs without the ..."
6. Federal Hiring from the Welfare Rolls: Congressional Hearings edited by John L. Mica (1999)
"Starting in 1994, a second round of more sophisticated work-related reforms has
caused the caseload to nosedive further. But the raw figures understate ..."
7. Aeroplane Structures by Alfred John Sutton Pippard, John Laurence (1919)
"Such cases occur in the centre section struts, which in normal flight are in
tension, but which in a steep nosedive are subjected to compression, ..."
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