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DIVER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Large somewhat primitive fish-eating diving bird of the northern hemisphere having webbed feet placed far back; related to the grebes
Synonyms:
diver; loon
Classified under:
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)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Someone who dives (into water)
Synonyms:
diver; plunger
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("diver" is a kind of...):
swimmer (a trained athlete who participates in swimming meets)
Derivation:
dive (plunge into water)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Someone who works underwater
Synonyms:
diver; frogman; underwater diver
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
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)
Context examples:
By-and-by a diver came down, and the mermaid said, 'I'll give you a box of pearls if you can take it up,' for she wanted to restore the poor things to life, and couldn't raise the heavy load herself.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
How the emigrants never wrote home, otherwise than cheerfully and hopefully; how Mr. Micawber had actually remitted divers small sums of money, on account of those pecuniary liabilities, in reference to which he had been so business-like as between man and man; how Janet, returning into my aunt's service when she came back to Dover, had finally carried out her renunciation of mankind by entering into wedlock with a thriving tavern-keeper; and how my aunt had finally set her seal on the same great principle, by aiding and abetting the bride, and crowning the marriage-ceremony with her presence; were among our topics—already more or less familiar to me through the letters I had had.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
The house-maid alone came here on Saturdays, to wipe from the mirrors and the furniture a week's quiet dust: and Mrs. Reed herself, at far intervals, visited it to review the contents of a certain secret drawer in the wardrobe, where were stored divers parchments, her jewel-casket, and a miniature of her deceased husband; and in those last words lies the secret of the red-room—the spell which kept it so lonely in spite of its grandeur.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
It is nothing smaller than the Crocodile Book, which is in rather a dilapidated condition by this time, with divers of the leaves torn and stitched across, but which Peggotty exhibits to the children as a precious relic.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
