Diver

Word DIVER
Character 5
Hyphenation div er
Pronunciations /ˈdaɪ̯vəɹ/

Definitions and meanings of "Diver"

What do we mean by diver?

One that dives. noun

One that works under water, especially one equipped with breathing apparatus and weighted clothing. noun

Any of several diving waterbirds, especially the loon. noun

See dyvour. noun

One who or that which dives or plunges into water. noun

Specifically— One who makes a business of diving, as for pearl-oysters, to examine sunken vessels, etc. See submarine armor, under armor. noun

A bird that habitually dives, as a loon, grebe, auk, or penguin; specifically, one or any of the birds variously known as Brachypterœ, Mergitores, Urinatores, Pygopodes, or Spheniscomorphœ. The term is especially applied to the loons, family Colymbidœ (which see). There are three leading species: the great northern diver, Colymbus torquatus; the black-throated diver, C. arcticus; and the red-throated diver, C. septentrionalis. All three inhabit the northern hemisphere generally, and are noted not only for their quickness in diving, but also for the length of time they remain and the distance they traverse under water, in which they move both by swimming with the feet and by paddling with the wings. See loon. Also diving-bird. noun

One who plunges into or engages deeply in anything. noun

One who, or that which, dives. noun

Fig.: One who goes deeply into a subject, study, or business. noun

Any bird of certain genera, as Urinator (formerly Colymbus), or the allied genus Colymbus, or Podiceps, remarkable for their agility in diving. noun

Someone who dives, especially as a sport noun

Someone who works underwater; a frogman noun

The loon (bird) noun

The New Zealand sand diver noun

The Long-finned sand diver noun

Someone who dives (into water) noun

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

Someone who works underwater noun

Someone who dives, especially as a sport.

Someone who works underwater; a frogman.

The loon (bird).

The New Zealand sand diver.

The long-finned sand diver.

A passenger carrying vehicle using an underground route; specially, a diver tram, one using the former Kingsway tramway subway (1906-1952).

A pickpocket.

A competitor in certain sports who is known to regularly imitate being fouled, with the purpose of getting his/her opponent penalised.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Diver

The word "diver" in example sentences

At 30 feet down the pressure on the diver is the same in a swimming pool, lake or ocean. ❋ Unknown (2002)

"My father pulled that Sea Hunt character off so well, people thought he was a skin diver who'd been taught to act," Bridges says. ❋ Unknown (2009)

At Ajax he was known as a diver whose career in the Eredivisie ended when he bit PSV Eindhoven's Otman Bakkal. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Usually Journalism, when a diver is devoured by a shark, says that, and it is enough. ❋ Matthew Guerrieri (2009)

Several times filling and emptying his lungs in diver fashion, Grief turned over and went down through the water. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Ecpad/Abacausa. com A diver from the French military vessel Ventose collected remains of the plane in a recovery operation Monday. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Ron, the urchin diver, will run out of luck at some point in his life. ❋ ____Maggie (2006)

Clearly enthused at the prospect of seeing Lara Croft – adventurer, archaeologist, skin diver, jet pilot, skilled equestrian, and expert markswoman – leap onto a well-tuned mountain bike and go bombing down a Himalayan mountain. ❋ Unknown (2003)

To-day the pearl-diver is grubbing under the waves that are lapping the Sooloo Islands, the coast of Coromandel, and the shores of Algiers. ❋ Unknown (1969)

For example, the Chanel J12 watches engrave with the word diver to say is clear they to conform to the standard which pointed out for the Waterproof. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Palacios was poor and rightly subbed at HT, but to call him a diver is a stretch. ❋ Unknown (2010)

` ` I've never been known as a diver and I think video is conclusive enough, '' Williams said. ❋ Unknown (2006)

And even though the East isn't known as a diver duck destination, its breeding population of ringnecks shot up 67 percent. ❋ Unknown (2004)

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