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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Diver \Div"er\, noun
1. One who, or that which, dives.
Divers and fishers for pearls. --Woodward.
2. Fig.: One who goes deeply into a subject, study, or business. ''A diver into causes.'' --Sir H. Wotton.
3. (Zo["o]l.) Any bird of certain genera, as {Urinator} (formerly {Colymbus}), or the allied genus {Colymbus}, or {Podiceps}, remarkable for their agility in diving.
Note: The northern diver ({Urinator imber}) is the loon; the black diver or velvet scoter ({Oidemia fusca}) is a sea duck. See {Loon}, and {Scoter}.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
diver
noun
1: someone who works underwater [syn: {frogman}, {underwater diver}]
2: someone who dives (into water) [syn: {plunger}]
3: large somewhat primitive fish-eating diving bird of the northern hemisphere having webbed feet placed far back; related to the grebes [syn: {loon}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
22 Moby Thesaurus words for "diver": bather, bathing beauty, bathing girl, cannon, cutpurse, deep-sea diver, dip, free diver, frogman, jumper, mermaid, merman, natator, parachute jumper, pearl diver, plunger, scuba diver, skin diver, sky diver, snorkel diver, swimmer, wire
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