DIVING

dive, diving

(noun) a headlong plunge into water

diving, diving event

(noun) an athletic competition that involves diving into water

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Verb

diving

present participle of dive

Noun

diving (countable and uncountable, plural divings)

The action of the verb to dive in any sense.

The sport of jumping into water, often acrobatically.

Descending below the surface of the water to interact with the environment.

(football, sport) The act of pretending to be tripped or brought to the ground by an opposition player in order to secure a undeserved penalty.

Adjective

diving (not comparable)

That or who dives or dive.

Anagrams

• viding

Source: Wiktionary

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Div"ing, a.

Definition: That dives or is used or diving. Diving beetle (Zoöl.), any beetle of the family Dytiscidæ, 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.

DIVE

Dive, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Dived, colloq. Dove (, a relic of the AS. strong forms deáf, dofen; p. pr. & vb. n. Diving.] Etym: [OE. diven, duven, AS. d to sink, v. t., fr. d, v. i.; akin to Icel. d, G. taufen, E. dip, deep, and perh. to dove, n. Cf. Dip.]

1. To plunge into water head foremost; to thrust the body under, or deeply into, water or other fluid. It is not that pearls fetch a high price because men have dived for them. Whately.

Note: The colloquial form dove is common in the United States as an imperfect tense form. All [the walruses] dove down with a tremendous splash. Dr. Hayes. When closely pressed it [the loon] dove . . . and left the young bird sitting in the water. J. Burroughs.

2. Fig.: To plunge or to go deeply into any subject, question, business, etc.; to penetrate; to explore. South.

Dive, v. t.

1. To plunge (a person or thing) into water; to dip; to duck. [Obs.] Hooker.

2. To explore by diving; to plunge into. [R.] The Curtii bravely dived the gulf of fame. Denham. He dives the hollow, climbs the steeps. Emerson.

Dive, n.

1. A plunge headforemost into water, the act of one who dives, literally or figuratively.

2. A place of low resort. [Slang] The music halls and dives in the lower part of the city. J. Hawthorne.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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