Definitions for dive

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dive dive

Spelling: [dahyv]

IPA: /daɪv/

Dive is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 29 anagrams from letters in dive (deiv).

Definitions for dive

noun

1. an act or instance of diving.
2. a jump or plunge into water, especially in a prescribed way from a diving board.
3. the vertical or nearly vertical descent of an airplane at a speed surpassing the possible speed of the same plane in level flight.
4. a submerging, as of a submarine or skindiver.
5. a dash, plunge, or lunge, as if throwing oneself at or into something:
6. a sudden or sharp decline, as in stock prices.
7. Informal. a dingy or disreputable bar or nightclub.
8. Boxing. a false show of being knocked out, usually in a bout whose result has been prearranged:
9. a distinguished female singer; prima donna.

verb (used with object)

1. to cause to plunge, submerge, or descend.
2. to insert quickly; plunge:

verb (used without object)

1. to plunge into water, especially headfirst.
2. to go below the surface of the water, as a submarine.
3. to plunge, fall, or descend through the air, into the earth, etc.:
4. Aeronautics. (of an airplane) to descend rapidly.
5. to penetrate suddenly into something, as with the hand:
6. to dart:
7. to enter deeply or plunge into a subject, activity, etc.

Origin of dive

before 900; Middle English diven to dive, dip, Old English dȳfan to dip (causative of dūfan to dive, sink); cognate with Old Norse dȳfa dip, German taufen to baptize; akin to Examples for dive

For anyone looking to dive into the big, knotty history of one of the most iconic states, this book is well worth the time.

They'd never be allowed to take their clothes off and dive in the way boys do.

I made a dive for the cellar door, just as they got the range.

Not even after its parent company, the Soviet Union, took a dive in 1991.

I can dive like a fish,” said Enda; “but how can I walk beneath the waters?

Stan saw the Me's dive down to overtake and attack the Forts and Libs.

"There is no one in the Bay who can dive better than I can," he answered.

"That wasn't much of a dive," his father said, swimming up to him.

And while I may have put a bunch of stunt guys in peril on Titanic, it was my ass in the sphere on the dive.

We wanted to create a dedicated hub where people can dive into it and get all this commentary on the news.