Definitions for Dives

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Dives Di·ves

Spelling: [dahy-veez]

IPA: /ˈdaɪ viz/

Dives is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 56 anagrams from letters in Dives (deisv).

Definitions for Dives

noun

1. the rich man of the parable in Luke 16:19–31.
2. any rich man.
3. an act or instance of diving.
4. a jump or plunge into water, especially in a prescribed way from a diving board.
5. the vertical or nearly vertical descent of an airplane at a speed surpassing the possible speed of the same plane in level flight.
6. a submerging, as of a submarine or skindiver.
7. a dash, plunge, or lunge, as if throwing oneself at or into something:
8. a sudden or sharp decline, as in stock prices.
9. Informal. a dingy or disreputable bar or nightclub.
10. Boxing. a false show of being knocked out, usually in a bout whose result has been prearranged:

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 Dives

From the Latin word dīves rich, rich man

Examples for Dives

Marvin takes off his T-shirt and Dives into his swimming pool.

He is somewhere up here in one of these Dives and has forgotten all about his engine.

No, she really is; she Dives away from cars, outruns planes, ducks away from falling buses.

The tour then goes to Norway for Dives of a fjord, followed by stops in Portugal, Ukraine, Spain, and a season finale in Brazil.

You are like Dives, and think that if one rose from the dead they would hear him.

“He Dives into the details of what voters think and what the voting patterns are of the districts are like,” Nunez said.

Monsieur Dives into his Interior, and the last half-dozen of us follow.

His dips, Dives, and somersaults in the air caught the attention of all the major papers.

Because Dives had been numb to human needs, Lazarus was the new-discovered leader.

She carries them on her back as she swims and Dives, sometimes to the bottom of the river.