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dive 1. a headlong plunge into water, esp one of several formalized movements executed as a sport 2. an act or instance of diving 3. a steep nose-down descent of an aircraft 4. Boxing slang the act of a boxer pretending to be knocked down or out 5. Soccer slang the act of a player pretending to have been tripped or impeded dive [′dīv] (aerospace engineering) A rapid descent by an aircraft or missile, nose downward, with or without power or thrust. (engineering) To submerge into an underwater environment so that it may be studied or utilized; includes the use of specialized equipment such as scuba, diving helmets, diving suits, diving bells, and underwater research vessels. (navigation) To submerge a submarine under power. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| Nor was the step which had determined his advance - a visit to a dive with a month's wages in his pocket - an act of such transcendent virtue, or even wisdom, as to seem to merit the favour of the gods. Ferguson told us that the silver cross which the good archbishop wore at his girdle was seized and thrown into the Seine, where it lay embedded in the mud for fifteen years, and then an angel appeared to a priest and told him where to dive for it; he did dive for it and got it, and now it is there on exhibition at Notre Dame, to be inspected by anybody who feels an interest in inanimate objects of miraculous intervention. It is known to seamen that a school of whales basking or sporting on the surface of the ocean, miles apart, with the convexity of the earth between, will sometimes dive at the same instant--all gone out of sight in a moment. |
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