About The Word Diving
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Diving
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What's The Definition Of Diving?
[n] a headlong plunge into water
[n] an athletic competition that involves diving into water Synonyms | Synonyms for Diving: dive | diving event Related Terms | Find terms related to Diving: 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 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 Diving In Webster's Dictionary \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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