[ US /ˈdaɪv/ ]
[ UK /dˈa‍ɪv/ ]
VERB
  1. drop steeply
    the stock market plunged
  2. plunge into water
    I was afraid to dive from the board into the pool
  3. swim under water
    the children enjoyed diving and looking for shells
NOUN
  1. a steep nose-down descent by an aircraft
  2. a headlong plunge into water
  3. a cheap disreputable nightclub or dance hall
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How To Use dive In A Sentence

  • Spinach, endive and romaine lettuce are great in salads; just dress with a little olive oil and red wine vinegar.
  • A couple of phone calls, arranged by a deep-sea diver I came to know while working on a story on the Miskito Coast of Nicaragua, led me to an alternately boastful and paranoidly surreptitious man named Steve. The Lampshade
  • Diving underweighted can lead to buoyant ascents at the end of the dive, so I am not advocating that everyone knocks a couple of kilos off the next time they dive.
  • Squire Western, who, surrounded by piqueurs, and girt with the conventional cor de chasse of the Gallic sportsman, sings the following ariette, diversified with true Fielding
  • He argues that the two main parties are no longer capable of holding together the divergent views within them. Times, Sunday Times
  • Fortunately, seven unaired episodes will give fans something to really dive into.
  • Maldives rufiyaa per US dollar - 12.8 (2006), 12.8 (2005), 12.8 The 2007 CIA World Factbook
  • The diverse problems of succession and authority which face the brothers, the audience, and the poet reflect upon one other throughout, and this self-awareness renders nugatory the traditional criticism of Statius as derivative.
  • Oddly, these TV wreck detectives are always trying to find out something which the experienced real divers nannying them around the wreck discovered when they first dived the ship 20 years ago.
  • Other numerous species include the yellowbilled diver Gavia adamsii, whooper swan Cygnus cygnus, lesser whitefronted goose Anser erythropus, slatybacked gull Larus Schistisagus, Kamchatka tern Sterna camtschatica, guillemot Uria aalge, thickbilled guillemot Uria lomvia, pigeon guillemot Cepphus columbs, ancient murrelet Synthliboramphus antiquus, horned puffin Fratercula Corniculata and tufted puffin Lunda cirrhata. Volcanoes of Kamchatka, Russian Federation
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