dive
名词 n.
动词 v.
英文释义
名词 n.
- Obsolete form of daeva.
- plural of diva
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A jump or plunge into water.
— the dive of a hawk after prey
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A headfirst jump toward the ground or into another substance.
— The 24-year-old Brazilian hurdler Joao Vitor de Oliveira progressed to the Rio competition’s semi-finals by executing a Superman-style dive headfirst over the finishing line – beating South Africa’s Antonio Alkana by one hundredth of a second.
- A downward swooping motion.
- A swim under water.
- A decline.
- A seedy bar, nightclub, etc.
- Aerial descent with the nose pointed down.
- A deliberate fall after a challenge.
动词 v.
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To swim under water.
— He dove in the water to save her.
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To jump into water head-first.
— It is not that pearls fetch a high price because men have dived for them.
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To jump headfirst toward the ground or into another substance.
— to dive into home plate
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To descend sharply or steeply.
— [the Hammersmith & City at Paddington]: There it dived underground, eventually enabling its train services to run over, and be entangled with, the easterly extensions of the Metropolitan and the District.
- To lose altitude quickly by pointing downwards, as with a bird or aircraft.
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To undertake with enthusiasm.
— She dove right in and started making improvements.
- To deliberately fall down after a challenge, imitating being fouled, in the hope of getting one's opponent penalised.
- To leap while fielding to take a brilliant catch which usually results in a wicket and appreciation.
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To cause to descend, dunk; to plunge something into water.
— To dive an infant either thrice or but once in Baptism
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To explore by diving; to plunge into.
— The Curtii bravely dived the gulf of flame.
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To plunge or to go deeply into any subject, question, business, etc.; to penetrate; to explore.
— dive into the Concerns of all about them
词形变化
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衍生词
back dive
backward dive
bedoven
crash dive
crash-dive
deep dive
deep-dive
divable
diveable
dive bar
dive boat
divebomb
dive-bomb
dive bomber
dive brick
dive computer
dive in
divekeeper
divemaster
diver
dive support vessel
dive-under
divewear
divey
dolphin dive
duck and dive
duck dive
dumpster dive
fish dive
forward dive
full dive
Klinsmann dive
nosedive
nose-dive
postdive
power dive
predive
sailor dive
saturation dive
scuba diving
skin-dive
skydive
skydiving
stage-dive
stagedive
stage dive
Stengel dive
swallow dive
swandive
swan-dive
swan dive
take a dive
undived
updive
词源
词源 1
From Middle English diven, duven, from the merger of Old English dȳfan (“to dip, immerse”, transitive weak verb) (from Proto-Germanic *dūbijaną) and dūfan (“to duck, dive, sink, penetrate”, intransitive strong verb) (past participle ġedofen). Cognate with Icelandic dýfa (“to dip, dive”), Low German bedaven (“covered, covered with water”). See also deep, dip.
词源 2
From Italian dive; see diva.
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