Dive

Verb

 * 1) To swim under water.
 * 2) To jump into water head-first.
 * 3) To descend sharply or steeply.
 * 4) (especially with in) To undertake with enthusiasm.
 * She dove right in and started making improvements.
 * 1)  To deliberately fall down after a challenge, imitating being fouled, in the hope of getting one's opponent penalised
 * 2) To cause to descend, dunk

Related terms

 * scuba diving
 * duck dive

Noun

 * 1) A jump or plunge into water.
 * 2) A swim under water.
 * 3) A decline.
 * 4)  A seedy bar, nightclub, etc.
 * 5)  Aerial descend with the nose pointed down.
 * 6)  A deliberate fall after a challenge.

Related terms

 * divebomb
 * nosedive
 * swandive/swan-dive/swan dive

Noun
dive



Adverbs for Dive
spectacularly; gracefully; unerringly; precipitately; abruptly; harrowingly; thrillingly; bravely; courageously.

Thesaurus
abate, ablate, acrobatics, aerobatics, alehouse, bagnio, banking, bar, barrel house, barroom, bate, bathe, bawdyhouse, be eaten away, beat down, beer garden, beer parlor, belly buster, belly flop, belly whopper, bistro, blind tiger, bordello, bound, break, break water, breaking water, brothel, burst, cabaret, cafe, cannonball, catabasis, cathouse, chandelle, cheapen, cheapening, clip joint, club, cocktail lounge, collapse, consume, consume away, corrode, countersink, crabbing, crash, crash dive, crib, cropper, crumble, culbute, cut, cut prices, deceleration, declension, decline, decline and fall, decrease, decrescendo, deepen, deflate, deflation, deliquesce, den, den of thieves, den of vice, depreciate, depreciation, depress, descend, devaluate, devaluation, die away, dig, diminish, diminuendo, dip, disorderly house, diving, downtrend, downturn, dramshop, drill, drinking saloon, drive, drop, drop off, duck, dump, dwindle, dwindling, ebb, erode, excavate, fall, fall away, fall in price, fall off, fishtailing, fleshpots, float, flood negative, flood the tanks, flop, forced landing, gainer, gin mill, give way, glide, go below, go in swimming, go in wading, go under, groggery, grogshop, gyp joint, hangout, header, hole, honky-tonk, house of assignation, house of joy, house of prostitution, impel, jackknife, jew down, joint, jump, lair, languish, lapse, leap, lessen, let up, local, lose altitude, lounge, lower, lowering, lunge, mark down, markdown, melt away, mine, move, nightclub, nose dive, nose-dive, nosedive, panel den, panel house, parachute, parachute jump, pare, pitch, plop, plummet, plummeting, plump, plunge, plunk, pothouse, pounce, pounce on, pounce upon, power dive, pratfall, price cut, price fall, price reduction, pub, public, public house, pull-up, pullout, pushdown, rathskeller, red-light district, reduce, reduction, remission, retreat, rig for diving, rolling, rumshop, run low, running dive, sag, saloon, saloon bar, settle, shave, shrink, sideslip, sink, sink of iniquity, skin-dive, skinny-dip, sky dive, sky-dive, slash, slowdown, slump, sound, speakeasy, spill, spiral, sporting house, sprawl, spring, stall, stationary dive, stew, stews, stoop, stumble, stunting, submerge, submergence, subside, subsidence, surface, surfacing, swan dive, swim, swoop, swoop down, tactical maneuvers, tail off, take a header, taproom, tavern, tenderloin, tread water, trim, trip, tumble, tunnel, volplane, wade, wane, waste, waste away, wear, wear away, whorehouse, wine shop, zoom

Etymology 1
From merged meanings of the weak verb dyfan: and strong verb dufan:.

Etymology 2
From ; see diva.

Verb

 * Arabic: غاص, present tense: (yaghuuD)
 * Bulgarian: гмуркам се
 * Chinese:
 * Dutch: duiken (1), onderwaterzwemmen (1)
 * Esperanto: plonĝi (1), subakviĝi (1)
 * Finnish:
 * German:
 * Hebrew: צלל
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 潜る


 * Korean: 무자맥질하다 (mujamaegjil-hada)
 * Latgalian:
 * Latvian: nirt, ņurkot
 * Luxembourgish: dauchen
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:, нырнуть
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:


 * Arabic: غطس,
 * Chinese: 跳水
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: plonĝi
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German: ins Wasser springen
 * Hebrew: קפץ ראש


 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Latvian: nirt
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:, нырнуть
 * Spanish: hacer un clavado
 * Swedish:


 * Bulgarian: потапям се
 * Dutch: duiken, een duikvlucht maken
 * Esperanto: plonĝi
 * German: abtauchen


 * Hebrew: לצלול (litzlol)
 * Russian: погружаться
 * Swedish:


 * Russian: погружаться, уйти с головой (idiom)


 * Swedish: dyka (in)


 * French: chiquer
 * German: eine Schwalbe vortäuschen
 * Hebrew: לצלול (litzlol)


 * Russian: нырять, симулировать
 * Swedish:


 * : plunjar
 * Indonesian: selam, menyelam, menyelami, terjun

Noun

 * Bulgarian: гмуркане
 * Finnish:
 * French: plongeon


 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:


 * French: plongée
 * German: Tauchen
 * Hebrew: צלילה (tzlila)


 * Korean: 무자맥질 (mujamaegjil), 잠수 (潛水, 潜水, jamsu)
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:


 * Bulgarian: спускане


 * Dutch:
 * French: gargote


 * Spanish:


 * Bulgarian: пикиране
 * French: piqué


 * Hebrew: צלילה (tzlila)
 * Russian:

Anagrams

 * Devi, I'd've, vide, vidê, vied

Noun
dive



Anagrams

 * devi
 * vedi
 * vide