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DIVING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A headlong plunge into water
Synonyms:
dive; diving
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("diving" is a kind of...):
swim; swimming (the act of swimming)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "diving"):
belly flop; belly flopper; belly whop; belly whopper (a dive in which the abdomen bears the main force of impact with the water)
cliff diving (diving into the water from a steep overhanging cliff)
flip (a dive in which the diver somersaults before entering the water)
full gainer; gainer (a dive in which the diver throws the feet forward to complete a full backward somersault and enters the water feet first and facing away from the diving board)
half gainer (a dive in which the diver throws the feet forward and up to complete a half backward somersault and enters the water facing the diving board)
jackknife (a dive in which the diver bends to touch the ankles before straightening out)
swallow dive; swan dive (a dive in which the diver arches the back with arms outstretched before entering the water)
Derivation:
dive (plunge into water)
Sense 2
Meaning:
An athletic competition that involves diving into water
Synonyms:
diving; diving event
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("diving" is a kind of...):
match (a formal contest in which two or more persons or teams compete)
Holonyms ("diving" is a part of...):
swim meet; swimming meet (a swimming competition between two or more teams)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb dive
Context examples:
Martin went back to his pearl-diving article, which would have been finished sooner if it had not been broken in upon so frequently by his attempts to write poetry.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Martin Eden looked with a sigh at his unfinished "Pearl-diving" on Monday morning, and took the car down to Oakland to the high school.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
He mailed the bulky manuscript to The Youth's Companion, and on Saturday afternoon, after having planned an article on pearl-diving, he went to see Ruth.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Sunday he had intended to devote to studying for the high school examination, but the pearl-diving article lured him away, and he spent the day in the white-hot fever of re-creating the beauty and romance that burned in him.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
At high tide in the afternoon I watched his guests diving from the tower of his raft or taking the sun on the hot sand of his beach while his two motor-boats slit the waters of the Sound, drawing aquaplanes over cataracts of foam.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
