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dive English

Meaning dive meaning

What does dive mean?
Definitions in simple English

dive Verb

— When you dive, you go under the water, usually jumping head first. She dived under the water and came up blowing air. He dove into the pool and started swimming. — When you dive into action, you do something with great interest. They dove into the work when they liked it.

dive

— verb (= plunge) drop steeply the stock market plunged — noun (= honkytonk) a cheap disreputable nightclub or dance hall — noun a headlong plunge into water — verb plunge into water I was afraid to dive from the board into the pool — verb swim under water the children enjoyed diving and looking for shells — noun a steep nose-down descent by an aircraft

Synonyms dive synonyms

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dive English » English

plunge submerge sink dip diving duck nosedive swim splash jump swoop submersion spring souse scuba diving plunge into plummet nose dive jump in joint immerse fall descend submerse submergence remain under water plunk lunge honkytonk honky-tonk header go under go down ducking drown douse den bathe underwater tumble tum tavern taproom swooping submersible submerging straight thrust steep sop slosh

Topics dive topics

What do people use dive to talk about?
Universe, creation Animal Animal actions

Animal movement
Physical actions Move Manner of movement Walk

Jump
Physical actions Move Travel Travel by water

Dive
Universe, creation Water Movement of water

Wave

Conjugation dive conjugation

How do you conjugate dive?

dive · verb

Examples dive examples

How do I use dive in a sentence?

Simple sentences

The sperm whale can dive to a depth of 1,000 meters.
The giant plane screamed down in an almost vertical dive.
I want to dive into the river.
It's not exactly a hot spot, it's more of a dive bar.
The fancy restaurant has become a dive.
He knows how to dive.
The submarine can dive up to 300 meters.
The submarine can dive up to a 1000 feet.
Tom knows how to dive.
This submarine can dive more than a mile deep.
As we dive deeper, the water becomes colder.
It's dangerous to dive in shallow water.
The pilot lost control and the plane went into a dive.
What a beautiful dive!
Plop into the water and dive.
I learned to dive when I was five.
He learned to dive when he was five.
She learned to dive when she was five.
Mary learned to dive when she was five.
We learned to dive when we were five.
They learned to dive when they were five.
Do you know how to dive?

Movie subtitles

It's a forty foot dive into a tub of water, but I think you can do it.
Maybe he's at that dive where that off-key canary sings.
The lowest dive.
Another fight and I'll close your dive.
Then make a dive-bombing attack.
It was a dive.
He said he lost consciousness pulling out of the dive.
You know, this blackout in dive-bombing is a very interesting medical subject.
Here's the dive.
Look, I want to tell you something about that dive.
I suppose a pilot could lie down and use auxiliary controls during the dive, but it sounds silly to me.
Provide each dive-bombing pilot with an old-fashioned stiff collar.
Just before the dive, you inflate it.
When you start a dive you release the valve, it inflates it.
I want to crawl into its dark light, dive into its shining darkness!
He wants to dive in. - Yes, sir.
I'll dive and dive, and come out with the wallet.
Dive in with your mess, lads.
He got 25 grand to double-cross you and take a dive.
Handing Burke 25 grand to take a dive.
In a waterfront dive full of wretches and vagabonds planning their ill-gotten gains there came a mysterious stranger with the salt of the sea in his veins.
Power dive!
I saw a guy take a dive once.
Now, Mommy, if any trouble starts, you dive right under the table.
I challenge Mr. Tolliver himself to dive to that sunken hull. to bring up the proof he claims is there.
I had her raised in the lowest dive in Zanzibar.so you could be proud of her!
Well, I guess we ought to be taking the high dive.
Let's see you dive in. Okay, okay, I'm goin'.
Why don't you dive?
Power dive.
When you consider the carastana on the Tagabroo with dive-bombers.
So I do a beautiful swan dive into the East River.
Men who are physically capable of taking a 7 G dive without blacking out.
When he pulled out of the dive, we must, both of us, have blacked out.
But why not, Hannes, my venue is not a dive?
Somebody better dive in. - That's the idea.
I'm paying him to take a dive.
He's probably drunk in some dive.

News and current affairs

So it is essential that the Bush and Putin administrations begin wide-ranging dialogues - at both the unofficial and official levels - in order to take their relations out of their semi-nose-dive.
By that time, with the global economy spinning into near-depression, commercial and industrial gold use, and even luxury demand, took a further dive.
Recently, during a dive in the waters at Krasnodar, in southern Russia, Putin miraculously salvaged two ancient Greek urns.
Demographically, Russia is in a dramatic nose-dive; it remains economically and socially backward; its infrastructure is underdeveloped, as are its investments in education and vocational training.
The deeper we dive into what we once thought were straight-forward evolutionary processes, the more wondrous and complex they are revealed to be.
The oceans' heat content is measured by a network of more than 3,000 free-drifting robotic floats spread out across the world's waters, where they routinely dive 2,000 meters beneath the surface.

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