DIVE (dove)

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Irregular inflected form: dove   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does dive mean? 

• DIVE (noun)
  The noun DIVE has 3 senses:

1. a cheap disreputable nightclub or dance hall

2. a headlong plunge into water

3. a steep nose-down descent by an aircraft

  Familiarity information: DIVE used as a noun is uncommon.

• DIVE (verb)
  The verb DIVE has 3 senses:

1. drop steeply

2. plunge into water

3. swim under water

  Familiarity information: DIVE used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DIVE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A cheap disreputable nightclub or dance hall

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

dive; honkytonk

Hypernyms ("dive" is a kind of...):

cabaret; club; night club; nightclub; nightspot (a spot that is open late at night and that provides entertainment (as singers or dancers) as well as dancing and food and drink)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A headlong plunge into water

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

dive; diving

Hypernyms ("dive" is a kind of...):

swim; swimming (the act of swimming)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "dive"):

belly flop; belly flopper; belly whop; belly whopper (a dive in which the abdomen bears the main force of impact with the water)

cliff diving (diving into the water from a steep overhanging cliff)

flip (a dive in which the diver somersaults before entering the water)

full gainer; gainer (a dive in which the diver throws the feet forward to complete a full backward somersault and enters the water feet first and facing away from the diving board)

half gainer (a dive in which the diver throws the feet forward and up to complete a half backward somersault and enters the water facing the diving board)

jackknife (a dive in which the diver bends to touch the ankles before straightening out)

swallow dive; swan dive (a dive in which the diver arches the back with arms outstretched before entering the water)

Derivation:

dive (plunge into water)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A steep nose-down descent by an aircraft

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

dive; nose dive; nosedive

Hypernyms ("dive" is a kind of...):

descent (the act of changing your location in a downward direction)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "dive"):

power dive (a dive of an airplane that is accelerated both by gravity and by the power of the engine)

• DIVE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they dive    ... he / she / it dives   
Past simple: dived    / dove   
Past participle: dived   
-ing form: diving   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Drop steeply

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

dive; plunge; plunk

Context example:

the stock market plunged

Hypernyms (to "dive" is one way to...):

come down; descend; fall; go down (move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way)

Verb group:

dump; plunge (fall abruptly)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "dive"):

power-dive (make a power dive)

nosedive (plunge nose first; drop with the nose or front first, of aircraft)

duck (submerge or plunge suddenly)

crash-dive (descend steeply and rapidly)

chute; jump; parachute (jump from an airplane and descend with a parachute)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP

Sentence examples:

The stock market is going to dive
The airplane is sure to dive

Sense 2

Meaning:

Plunge into water

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Context example:

I was afraid to dive from the board into the pool

Hypernyms (to "dive" is one way to...):

submerge; submerse (sink below the surface; go under or as if under water)

Domain category:

aquatics; water sport (sports that involve bodies of water)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "dive"):

belly-flop (dive so that one hits the water with one's belly)

jackknife (dive into the water bending the body at the waist at a right angle, like a jackknife)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Something is ----ing PP
Somebody ----s PP

Sentence examples:

The men dive the area for animals
The men dive for animals in the area

Derivation:

dive (a headlong plunge into water)

diver (someone who dives (into water))

diving (a headlong plunge into water)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Swim under water

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Context example:

the children enjoyed diving and looking for shells

Hypernyms (to "dive" is one way to...):

swim (travel through water)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "dive"):

skin-dive (swim underwater with no breathing apparatus other than a snorkel)

snorkel (dive with a snorkel)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s

Derivation:

diver (someone who works underwater)

 Context examples 

He dived his arm down to the bottom of the chest, and brought up a small wooden box with a sliding lid, such as children’s toys are kept in.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Martin Eden looked with a sigh at his unfinished "Pearl-diving" on Monday morning, and took the car down to Oakland to the high school.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

A moment later he had dived under the boat, seized the keel in his mouth, and was shaking the boat violently.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

I assure you that our most pan-Germanic Junker is a sucking dove in his feelings towards England as compared with a real bitter Irish-American.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

You will be relieved to hear Mercury will go direct on March 9, so leave a space of several days, and then begin diving into your most pressing endeavors again.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

But on their way home they had to pass by the hazel-tree that Ashputtel had planted; and on the branch sat a little dove singing.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Where a sinking, or subducting, oceanic plate dives beneath another oceanic plate, an island arc of volcanoes forms.

(Major deep carbon sink linked to microbes at volcanic island chains, National Science Foundation)

A dustier environment in the gap might have meant the spacecraft's saucer-shaped main antenna would be needed as a shield during most future dives through the ring plane.

(Cassini Finds 'The Big Empty' Close to Saturn, NASA)

But meanwhile fret not thyself, my heart's dove, for it is like that there may be no war waged, and we must await the news.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

There was a crash of broken boughs as it dived wildly down into the tangle of green.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)