DIVER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does diver mean? 

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

1. someone who works underwater

2. someone who dives (into water)

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

  Familiarity information: DIVER used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DIVER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who works underwater

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

diver; frogman; underwater diver

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

adventurer; explorer (someone who travels into little known regions (especially for some scientific purpose))

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

deep-sea diver (a diver in the deeper parts of the sea)

pearl diver; pearler (a diver who searches for molluscs containing pearls)

scuba diver (an underwater diver who uses scuba gear)

Derivation:

dive (swim under water)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Someone who dives (into water)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

diver; plunger

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

swimmer (a trained athlete who participates in swimming meets)

Derivation:

dive (plunge into water)

Sense 3

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

diver; loon

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

gaviiform seabird (seabirds of the order Gaviiformes)

Holonyms ("diver" is a member of...):

Gavia; genus Gavia (type genus of the Gavidae: loons)

 Context examples 

So, too, did the Greeks, and divers other ancient peoples who were famed for their learning.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It affected their minds as the many atmospheres of deep water affect the body of the diver.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

So the diver hoisted it up, and was much disappointed on opening it to find no pearls.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Divers can also get decompression sickness, which affects the whole body.

(Barotrauma, NIH)

Thus, as token of what a puppet thing life is, the ancient song surged through him and he came into his own again; and he came because men had found a yellow metal in the North, and because Manuel was a gardener’s helper whose wages did not lap over the needs of his wife and divers small copies of himself.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

I have a dim half-remembrance of long, anxious times of waiting and fearing; darkness in which there was not even the pain of hope to make present distress more poignant: and then long spells of oblivion, and the rising back to life as a diver coming up through a great press of water.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Mrs. Crupp, after holding divers conversations respecting Peggotty, in a very high-pitched voice, on the staircase—with some invisible Familiar it would appear, for corporeally speaking she was quite alone at those times—addressed a letter to me, developing her views.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

They now proceeded to address divers remarks and reproofs to Miss Smith, who was charged with the care of the linen and the inspection of the dormitories: but I had no time to listen to what they said; other matters called off and enchanted my attention.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

But for some disarray (the work, perhaps, of the birds that had fed upon him or of the slow-growing creeper that had gradually enveloped his remains) the man lay perfectly straight—his feet pointing in one direction, his hands, raised above his head like a diver's, pointing directly in the opposite.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

I assured him I was naturally hard—very flinty, and that he would often find me so; and that, moreover, I was determined to show him divers rugged points in my character before the ensuing four weeks elapsed: he should know fully what sort of a bargain he had made, while there was yet time to rescind it.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)