Meaning of DIVING
| Pronunciation: | | d'Iving
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- [n] a headlong plunge into water
- [n] an athletic competition that involves diving into water
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| | Synonyms: | | dive, diving event |
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| | See Also: | | belly flop, belly flopper, belly whop, belly whopper, cliff diving, flip, full gainer, gainer, half gainer, jackknife, match, swallow dive, swan dive, swim, swim meet, swimming, swimming meet | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Div"ing\, a.
That dives or is used or diving.
{Diving beetle} (Zo["o]l.), any beetle of the family
{Dytiscid[ae]}, 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.
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| | Related Terms: | | acrobatics, aerobatics, aquaplaning, aquatics, Australian crawl, backstroke, balneation, banking, bathe, bathing, breaststroke, butterfly, chandelle, crabbing, crawl, deep-sea diving, dive, dog paddle, fancy diving, fin, fishtail, fishtailing, flapper, flipper, floating, glide, high diving, natation, nose dive, pearl diving, plunging, power dive, pullout, pull-up, pushdown, rolling, sideslip, sidestroke, skin diving, sky diving, spiral, stall, stunting, surfboarding, surfing, swim, swimming, tactical maneuvers, treading water, volplane, wading, waterskiing, zoom |
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