From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Diva \Di"va\ (d[=e]"v[.a]), noun; It. pl. {Dive} (d[=e]"v[=a]). [It., prop. fem. of divo divine, L. divus.] A prima donna. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Dive \Dive\, verb (used with an object)
1. To plunge (a person or thing) into water; to dip; to duck. [Obs.] --Hooker.
2. To explore by diving; to plunge into. [R.]
The Curtii bravely dived the gulf of fame. --Denham.
He dives the hollow, climbs the steeps. --Emerson.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Dive \Dive\, verb (used without an object) [imp. & p. p. {Dived}, colloq. {Dove}, a relic of the AS. strong forms de['a]f, dofen; p. pr. & vb. n. {Diving}.] [OE. diven, duven, AS. d?fan to sink, verb (used with an object), fr. d?fan, verb (used without an object); akin to Icel. d?fa, G. taufen, E. dip, deep, and perh. to dove, noun Cf. {Dip}.]
1. To plunge into water head foremost; to thrust the body under, or deeply into, water or other fluid.
It is not that pearls fetch a high price because men have dived for them. --Whately.
Note: The colloquial form dove is common in the United States as an imperfect tense form.
All [the walruses] dove down with a tremendous splash. --Dr. Hayes.
When closely pressed it [the loon] dove . . . and left the young bird sitting in the water. --J. Burroughs.
2. Fig.: To plunge or to go deeply into any subject, question, business, etc.; to penetrate; to explore. --South.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
1. A plunge headforemost into water, the act of one who dives, literally or figuratively.
2. A place of low resort. [Slang]
The music halls and dives in the lower part of the city. --J. Hawthorne.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
dive See {diva} [also: {dove}]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
noun
1: a cheap disreputable nightclub or dance hall [syn: {honkytonk}]
2: a headlong plunge into water [syn: {diving}]
3: a steep nose-down descent by an aircraft [syn: {nose dive}]
verb
1: drop steeply; "the stock market plunged" [syn: {plunge}, {plunk}]
2: plunge into water; "I was afraid to dive from the board into the pool"
3: swim under water; "the children enjoyed diving and looking for shells" [also: {dove}]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
noun
1: a distinguished female operatic singer; a female operatic star [syn: {prima donna}] [also: {dive} (pl)]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
249 Moby Thesaurus words for "dive": 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
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