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单词 diving
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divingn.

/ˈdʌɪvɪŋ/
Etymology: < dive v. + -ing suffix1.
The action of dive v., in its various senses.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > downward motion > [noun] > diving into water
diving1398
plunge1615
dive1700
plunging1883
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > downward motion > causing to come or go down > [noun] > dipping or plunging into liquid
submersion?a1425
dippingc1440
indippinga1564
ducking1581
diving1614
immersion1658
plout1705
souse1793
the world > movement > progressive motion > moving with current of air or water > movement in or on water > [noun] > underwater swimming
urination1697
diving1743–5
skin-diving1905
free-diving1948
scuba1952
aqualunging1953
goggle-diving1953
sub-aqua1957
snorkelling1959
scuba-diving1962
saturation diving1965
saturated diving1967
scubaing1973
1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (1495) xii. xxvi. 429 By manere of plungynge and of dyuynge.
1614 S. Rowlands Fooles Bolt soone Shott 37 A common Scould, her furious heate must coole: Wash'd by her diuing in a Cucking stoole.
1743–5 R. Pococke Trav. (Camden) II. 129 The curious manner of diveing which they lately began, in order to raise what they could of the wreck.
1854 (title) Divings into Scripture and Sprinkling of Wisdom for Little Folk.

Compounds

C1. attributive and in other combinations, as diving-bladder, diving-boat, diving-engine, diving-helmet, diving-machine, diving-suit, diving-bell n., etc.
ΘΚΠ
society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > [noun] > submersible vessel
diving-engine1601
diving-bella1684
submarine boat1713
bellc1715
diving-bladder1753
boat1802
diving-boat1802
bell-vessel1816
submarine1828
nautilus1875
submersible1900
bathysphere1930
bathyscaphe1947
mesoscaphe1955
the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > one-piece garment > [noun]
playsuit1609
romper1902
romper suit1904
diving-suit1908
bunting1914
teddy bear1917
leotard1920
Sidcot1921
sleeper1921
romper1922
pressure suit1923
boiler suit1928
maillot1928
mono1937
footy1938
all-in-one1939
siren suit1939
goonskin1943
anti-g suit1945
G-suit1945
jump suit1948
immersion suit1951
moon suit1953
poopy suit1953
dry suit1955
wetsuit1955
sleepsuit1958
Babygro1959
tank suit1959
cat-suit1960
penguin suit1961
unitard1961
bodysuit1963
shortall1966
steamer1982
1601 Bp. W. Barlow Def. Protestants Relig. 143 The diuing poole of Bethesda.
a1684 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1661 (1955) III. 292 We tried our Diving bell, or Engine in the Water Dock at Deptford...It was made of Cast lead: let downe with a strong Cable.
1693 London Gaz. No. 2842/3 Letters Patents..for a Diving-Engine.
1752 S. Johnson Rambler No. 199. ⁋3 The first experiment in nineteen diving engines of new construction.
1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. Diving Bladder, a term used by Borelli for a machine..contrived for Diving under the water to great depths..The objections all other diving machines are liable to are obviated.
1802 Naval Chron. 7 270 The Diving-boat..will be capacious enough to contain eight men.
a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) Deving-pond, a pond from which water is drawn for domestic use, by dipping a pail.
1839 P. Hawker Diary (1893) II. 163 Inflating air into the diving machine, or rather diving dress, of the man who was working under the sea.
1875 R. Hunt & F. W. Rudler Ure's Dict. Arts (ed. 7) II. 68 The diving helmet is, in principle, similar to the bell.
1908 J. London Let. 26 Oct. (1966) 264 I supply it with..diving-suits and boats.
1943 C. S. Lewis Perelandra ii. 27 If they have a scientific civilisation they may have diving-suits.
C2.
diving-board n. a board projecting some distance over the water, from which a swimmer dives.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > water sports except racing > swimming > [noun] > swimming pool > diving board
springboard1838
diving-board1893
platform1938
1893 A. Sinclair & W. Henry Swimming (Badminton Libr. of Sports & Pastimes) iv. 108 A spring diving-board is generally used for running headers.
c1938 L. Mumford City Devel. (1946) 112 The curve of a diver's body as he leaps from the diving-board.
diving-plane n. a horizontal rudder on a submarine for steering the vessel up or down; also a similar device fitted to instruments used in oceanography.
ΚΠ
1915 R. Kipling Fringes of Fleet 29 A mine and chain had jammed under her [sc. the submarine's] forward diving-plane.
1959 H. Barnes Oceanogr. & Marine Biol. i. 31 (caption) Small high-speed Plankton Indicator... All models except the last have their own diving planes.
1959 Jane's Fighting Ships 1959–60 414 She incorporates several novel features including hydro-wings or diving planes fitted to the conning tower ‘fin’.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online March 2021).

divingadj.

Etymology: < dive v. + -ing suffix2.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈdiving.
That dives, in various senses of the verb.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > downward motion > [adjective] > diving into water
duckinga1400
diving1602
1602 W. Fulbecke Parallele or Conf. Law ii. Ded. 1 The industrious search of some diuing braine.
a1639 H. Wotton Reliquiæ Wottonianæ (1672) 392 Let the diving Negro seek For gemms hid in some forlorn creek.
1716 J. Gay Trivia iii. 58 Guard well thy Pocket, for these Syrens stand, To aid the Labours of the diving Hand.

Compounds

In names of various animals.
diving-buck n. = diving goat n.
diving-duck n. the golden-eye duck ( Clangula glaucion).
ΚΠ
1813 P. Hawker Diary (1893) I. 89 I got a diving duck, and should have had more shots.
1885 C. Swainson Provinc. Names Brit. Birds 161 Diving duck (Shetland Isles).
diving goat n. a South African antelope ( Cephalophus mergens), the duyker-bok of the Boers.
ΘΚΠ
the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > antelope > [noun] > subfamily Cephalophinae (duiker)
duiker1777
diving goat1786
Maxwell's antelope1827
coquetoon1846
Maxwell's duiker1905
1786 G. Forster tr. A. Sparrman Voy. Cape Good Hope (ed. 2) II. 243 The duyker-bok, or diving goat..rising in its leap with its neck erect, and in its descent bringing it down between its legs..had the appearance of diving and gave rise to its name.
diving-pigeon n. the black guillemot or doveky ( Uria Grylle).
ΘΚΠ
the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > family Alcidae (auks) > [noun] > cepphus grylle (black guillemot)
sea-pigeon1620
sea turtle-dove1676
Greenland-dove1678
Greenland dove1678
sea-turtle1678
diving-pigeon1694
pigeon diver1694
scraber1698
puffineta1705
Greenland turtle?1787
tinkershere1799
dovekie1819
1694 Acct. Several Late Voy. (1711) ii. 84 The first Diving Pigeon I got..at Spitzbergen.
1885 C. Swainson Provinc. Names Brit. Birds 218 Diving pigeon.
diving-spider n. Argyroneta aquatica, which lives in a nest filled with air under water.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online December 2019).
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