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dive
  1. A jump or plunge into water.
  2. A downward swooping motion.
  3. A swim under water.
  4. A decline.
  5. (slang) A seedy bar, nightclub, etc.
  6. (aviation) Aerial descent with the nose pointed down.
  7. (sports) A deliberate fall after a challenge.
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  9. Examples:
    1. “Performers would then dive into the water from the swing, embellishing their dives with graceful twists and spins.”
      “He fumbled his way out of the car and made a dive for me.”
      “After a long search of the saloons of Manhattan, Christy finds Foster playing the piano for drinks in a sleazy dive.”
diver
  1. someone who dives, especially as a sport
  2. someone who works underwater; a frogman
  3. (Britain, Ireland) the loon (bird)
  4. The New Zealand sand diver
  5. The long-finned sand diver
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  7. Examples:
    1. “After a long day at the beach, the tired diver found solace in the refreshing ocean waves.”
      “Each rebreather diver ran an 18 minutes' bottom time, giving run-times of just over three hours.”
      “One of the Hereford divers, another Ken, was a keen rebreather diver who was very grateful for Alan's extensive know-how.”
dove
  1. A pigeon, especially one smaller in size; a bird (often arbitrarily called either a pigeon or a dove or both) of more than 300 species of the family Columbidae.
  2. (politics) A person favouring conciliation and negotiation rather than conflict (as opposed to hawk).
  3. Term of endearment for one regarded as pure and gentle.
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  5. Examples:
    1. “There was an eerie silence broken by the call of a dove flying overhead.”
      “To those people, the portrait of Kennedy as a peace-loving dove who tried to stop the Vietnam War would be an insult.”
      “There, a beautiful young lady was standing and looking about like an innocent dove.”
diving
  1. The action of the verb to dive in any sense.
  2. The sport of jumping head first into water.
  3. The practice of swimming underwater, especially using a scuba system, and especially for recreation.
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divers
dive
  1. plural of diva
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Performers would then dive into the water from the swing, embellishing their dives with graceful twists and spins.”
      “He fumbled his way out of the car and made a dive for me.”
      “After a long search of the saloons of Manhattan, Christy finds Foster playing the piano for drinks in a sleazy dive.”
divings
dives
doves
  1. plural of dove
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Farmland birds that fared particularly well included kestrels, greenfinches and stock doves.”
      “Thus, he lists as noblest the meat of turtledoves, starlings, doves, quails, pheasants, blackbirds, woodcock, partridge, and chaffinch.”
      “Most days she goes to the writer's room, a calm neutral space where doves coo outside.”
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