diven.

Brit.

/dʌɪv/, U.S.

/daɪv/

Etymology: < dive v.

a. The act of diving; a darting plunge into or through water or the like. literal and figurative.The Amateur Swimming Association distinguishes between a dive and a plunge. The latter is defined as a standing dive made head-first from a firm take-off, free from spring. The plunger does not add any further impetus, but allows himself to progress till all forward motion ceases, when he raises his face above water. A dive may be running, from a spring-board, and with propulsion added on reaching the water.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > downward motion > [noun] > diving into water

diving1398

plunge1615

dive1700

plunging1883

1700 T. Brown Amusem. Serious & Comical x. 126 A Pick-Pocket; who..made a Dive into my Pocket.

1804 Miniature No. 19. ⁋2 Upon taking too profound a dive into the Bathos, he was..unfortunately drowned.

1828 Boy's Own Bk. 107 This [sc. the Dolphin] is taking a dive from the surface of the water by turning heels upwards for that purpose, instead of leaping from a bank or elsewhere.

1874 T. De W. Talmage Around Tea-table iii. 25 I first take a dive into the index, a second dive into the preface.

1893 A. Sinclair & W. Henry Swimming (Badminton Libr. of Sports & Pastimes) 107 The usual high dive is a mere drop at a down-ward angle.

1893 Earl of Dunmore Pamirs II. 270 He [the hawk]..gave a sort of dive underneath him.

b. Aviation. A precipitate descent. (Cf. nosedive n. and dive v. 1d).

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society > travel > air or space travel > action of flying (in) aircraft > specific flying operations or procedures > [noun] > sudden rapid descent

volplane1910

nosedive1912

dive1914

terminal nosedive1920

power dive1928

1914 H. Rosher In Royal Naval Air Service (1916) 13 When in the air, he bawls in your ear, ‘Now when you push your hand forward, you go down, see!’ (and he pushes your hand forward and you make a sudden dive).

1915 War Illustr. 27 Feb. 46/2 The excitement of the dive,..and the swift upward leap of the machine.

1936 Discovery Mar. 73/2 The pilot cannot pull the nose of his aeroplane up so quickly that he stalls it with the subsequent danger of a steep dive or spin.

1970 D. L. Brown Miles Aircraft since 1925 111 He opened the throttle wide and put the nose down into a steep dive.

c. Of a submarine: submerging, submersion.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > travel by water > action or motion of vessel > [noun] > diving or surfacing of submarines

dive1915

crash-dive1919

surfacing1922

1915 W. E. Dommett Submarine Vessels iv. 42 When preparing for a dive, the..valves are tried.

1962 G. Weller All about Submarines (1963) iii. 36 On Hunley's first dive, the flames of her lantern flickered low after only a half-hour... On the next trip the submarine stayed down five times as long.

2. transferred. A sudden dart into a place or across a space, esp. so as to disappear.

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the world > movement > rate of motion > swiftness > swift movement in specific manner > [noun] > sudden > a sudden dart

startc1330

gird1545

whip1550

shoota1596

whippeta1603

snap1631

jet1647

flirt1666

whid1719

dart1721

spout1787

with a thrash1870

sprit1880

divea1897

a1897 Mod. He made a dive into the nearest shop.

3. colloquial (originally U.S.) An illegal drinking-den, or other disreputable place of resort, often situated in a cellar, basement, or other half-concealed place, into which frequenters may ‘dive’ without observation.

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the world > food and drink > drink > drinking > drinking place > [noun] > tavern or public house > illegal drinking-house

shebeenc1787

joint1821

kiddleywink1830

blind tiger1857

shanty1862

dive1871

blind-pig1887

speakeasy1889

shebeen1900

booze can1905

speak1930

speako1931

nip joint1936

1871 N.Y. Herald 6 July 8/2 One of the gayly decorated dives where young ladies..dispense refreshments to thirsty souls.

1882 Society 11 Nov. 7/2 The proprietor of a New York ‘dive’.

1883 H. H. Kane in Harper's Mag. Nov. 945/1 Those who frequent the opium-smoking dives.

1885 Referee 10 May 3/3 A grand entrance takes the place of the tavern, which is relegated to down below, and is called a ‘dive’.

1886 E. W. Gilliam in N. Amer. Rev. July 33 There are 150 gambling dives, the approaches to which are so barricaded as to defy police detection.

1887 Boston Jrnl. 24 Apr. 2/4 Ordinary saloons and unlicensed dives did a rushing trade.

1892 R. L. Stevenson & L. Osbourne Wrecker viii. 122 I visited Chinese and Mexican gambling-hells, German secret societies, sailors' boarding-houses, and ‘dives’ of every complexion of the disreputable and dangerous.

1897 Daily News 17 Apr. 3/1 From highway into byway they go; now up into tottering garret, then down into dim dive.

1910 Westm. Gaz. 25 Jan. 4/1 This dingy ‘dive’ can boast of many glorious memories.

1940 W. H. Auden Another Time 112 I sit in one of the dives On Fifty-Second Street.

1958 Spectator 4 July 8/3 The degenerate dives of Berlin.

Compounds

attributive and in other combinations.

dive brake n. (see quot. 1962).

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1940 C. Gardner A.A.S.F. 238 The 87's, with their dive-brakes on, came down vertically to about 600 feet.

1954 Economist 11 Sept. (Suppl.) 3/1 The Hawker factories producing Hunters contain two or three hundred complete and half-complete machines waiting for their new dive brakes.

1962 Gloss. Aeronaut. Terms (B.S.I.) v. 5 Dive brake, any device primarily used to increase the drag of an aircraft at will.

dive-keeper n. U.S. a person who keeps a ‘dive’ (sense 3).

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1887 Chicago Tribune 4 May 3/1 Consternation has seized the divekeepers.

1910 S. E. White Rules of Game i. xvi One of the saloon keepers at Twin Falls... This dive-keeper..had offered transportation.

Draft additions 1993

In Boxing, Football, etc.: an intentional fall taken to deceive an opponent or official, esp. (in Boxing) a feigned knock-out. Frequently in to take a dive. Also transferred and figurative. slang (originally U.S.).

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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > dissimulation, pretence > [noun] > sport: feigned knock-out

dive1942

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > dissimulation, pretence > pretend, dissemble [verb (intransitive)] > in movement

feignc1386

to false a blow1590

feint1854

to take a dive1942

1942 L. V. Berrey & M. Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §701/10 Dive,..take a dive, take it, throw a fight, to allow an opponent to win by prearrangement.

1951 N.Y. Times Mag. 4 Mar. 58/3 Admittedly the sport still will come up occasionally with its ‘dives’. (A dive is a phantom knockout in which a boxer ‘swoons’ or dives to the canvas under the impact of a light blow or, sometimes, no blow at all.)

1982 Chicago Sun-Times 21 June 5/1 ‘Freddy took a dive six times,’ Time quoted one investigator as saying of Furino's performance on the polygraph.

Draft additions June 2016

dive bar n. (a) British a bar located in a basement or cellar (now rare); (b) chiefly U.S. a shabby, cheap, or disreputable bar; cf. sense 3.

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the world > food and drink > drink > drinking > drinking place > [noun] > tap-room or bar > other bars

public bar1654

American bar1856

wine room1865

last chance saloon1869

four-ale1883

private bar1892

saloon bar1902

cocktail bar1908

cocktail lounge1934

porter bar1935

lounge bar1937

wine bar1938

dive bar1940

gay bar1947

open bar1947

piano bar1947

sherry-bar1951

public1957

leather bar1961

private1963

ouzeri1964

karaoke bar1977

the world > food and drink > drink > drinking > drinking place > [noun] > tavern or public house > low drinking-house

sot's-hof1532

bousing ken1567

fuddling-school1680

sot-bay1707

night-cellar1729

sot-hole1755

lush-ken1790

lush-crib1819

Tom and Jerry shop1824

Tom and Jerry1836

deadfall1837

jerry1851

shoful1851

cribc1865

bucket-shop1875

barrel-house1883

lushing-ken1883

shebang1901

barrel shop1904

blood house1913

smoke joint1931

shypoo1936

smoke-shop1937

dive bar1974

1940 Motor 28 Aug. 81/3 The next of the impromptu monthly meetings..takes place on Saturday, September 7, venue as usual being the dive bar of St. Stephen's Tavern, Westminster, London.

1973 Sunday Post-Herald (Hong Kong) 19 Aug. 16/5 Tables outside and a dive bar downstairs.

1974 Atlanta Constit. 13 Feb. 8 a/4 Two ‘dive’ bars were closed through the work of the CAP Public Security Task Force.

1985 N. Tennant & C. Lowe West End Girls (song, perf. ‘Pet Shop Boys’) in Please (CD booklet) Running down underground To a dive bar in a West End town.

1991 N.Y. Times (Electronic ed.) 24 Feb. a10 Gone is the overwhelming presence of tacky T-shirt shops and noisy dive bars, although enough remain to let the visitor know that Key West is proud of its checkered past.

2010 Mod. Drummer Jan. 8/1 [They] always put forth their best effort, whether they're playing to a sellout crowd at Madison Square Garden or to two people at the dive bar down the street.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

divev.

Brit.

/dʌɪv/, U.S.

/daɪv/

Forms: α. Old English dúfan, Middle English duven; β. Old English dýfan, Middle English duve(n /y/, Middle English diven, Middle English–1500s (1800s dialect) deve, deeve (1500s deave), Middle English–1500s dy(e)ve, 1600s–1800s dieve, 1500s– dive. past tense Old English déaf, Middle English deæf, Middle English def, 1800s North American and English dialect dove; β. Old English dýfde, Middle English defde, 1600s– div'd, 1500s– dived.

Etymology: Old English had two verbs: (1) the primary strong verb dúfan , past tense déaf , plural dufon , past participle dofen , intransitive to duck, dive, sink; (2) the derivative causal weak verb dýfan , dýfde , gedýfd to dip, submerge. Already in 12th cent. these had begun to be confounded, the primary dūven (past tense deæf , dêf , past participle doven ) being used also transitive, and the causative dȳven intransitive, so that the two became synonyms, and before 1300 the strong verb became obsolete, dȳven (south-western düven , south-eastern dēven , midland and north dīven ) remaining, chiefly in the intransitive sense of the Old English strong verb Of the compound bedive , the past participle bedove adj. came down to 16th cent. in Scots Only traces of this verb are found in the cognate languages: Old Norse had dýfa to dip (also in same sense deyfa); Middle Dutch had bedûven, past participle bedoven, modern Dutch beduiven = Old English bedúfan. These belong to an Old Germanic ablaut series deuƀ-, dauƀ-, duƀ-, secondary form of deup-, daup-, dup-, to dip, submerge < pre-Germanic stems (weak-grade) dhup-, dhub-, respectively. The south-eastern deven gave the later deeve, deave, dieve; the modern dialect past tense dove is apparently a new formation after drive, drove, or weave, wove.

I. intransitive.

a. To descend or plunge into or under water or other liquid. (Usually, unless otherwise stated, to plunge head-foremost.)

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > downward motion > move downwards [verb (intransitive)] > dive into water

diveOE

ducka1400

splunge1839

the world > movement > progressive motion > moving with current of air or water > movement in or on water > move in or on water [verb (intransitive)] > swim underwater

diveOE

urinate1623

skin-dive1936

goggle-dive1953

aqualung1961

fin1964

scuba1977

scuba-dive1980

OE Riddle 74 4 Ic..fleah mid fuglum ond on flode swom, deaf under yþe dead mid fiscum.

c1220 Bestiary 539 Sone he [the whale] diueð dun to grunde, He drepeð hem alle wið-uten wunde.

1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. xii. 163 Þat one hath connynge..and can swymmen and dyuen.

?a1400 Balade in Jyll of Breyntford, &c. (1871) 35 To dompe als deepe as man may dyeve þus holde I bett þan labour as a Reve.

c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 124/1 Dyvyn vnder þe weter, subnato.

1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde iii. ii. f. 95^v They durste not aduenture to dyue to the bottome.

1567 J. Maplet Greene Forest f. 102 Those birds that deeuing downe to the waters to ketch fish, drowne themselues.

1660 R. Boyle New Exper. Physico-mechanicall Digress. 375 Those that dive for Pearles in the West Indies.

1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth VI. 69 [The cormorant] from a vast height drops down to dive after its prey.

1834 H. McMurtrie tr. G. Cuvier Animal Kingdom (abridged ed.) 71 These animals..close their nostrils when they dive by a kind of valve.

1855 H. W. Longfellow Hiawatha vii. 96 Straight into the river Kwasind Plunged as if he were an otter, Dove as if he were a beaver.

1857 Canad. Jrnl. Industry Sci. & Art 2 351 In England when a swimmer makes his first leap, head foremost, into the water he is said to dive, and is spoken of as having dived... Not so however, is it with the modern refinements of our Canadian English. In referring to such a feat here, it would be said, not that he dived, but that he dove.

1867 I. I. Hayes Open Polar Sea xxxvi The whole herd..dove down with a tremendous splash.

a1940 F. S. Fitzgerald Last Tycoon (1941) v. 100 He dove in and saved her life.

b. transferred. To descend with similar motion into the earth, an abyss, etc.

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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > downward motion > move downwards [verb (intransitive)] > into the earth or an abyss

divea1225

abysm1611

a1225 St. Marher. 17 Ah flih sorhfule thing ut of min ehsihðe, ant def thider [into hell].

?1615 G. Chapman tr. Homer Odysses (new ed.) x. 245 The reason, how the man-enlightning sunne Diues vnder earth.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) i. ii. 192 I come To answer thy best pleasure; be't..to diue into the fire.

1726 A. Pope tr. Homer Odyssey V. xxii. 104 The fierce soul to darkness div'd, and hell.

1882 N.Y. Herald 14 Mar. 4/5 Women dove headlong from the crosstrees into friendly and convenient nets.

c. Of a submarine: to submerge.

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society > travel > travel by water > action or motion of vessel > [verb (intransitive)] > submerge or travel under water (of submarine)

dive1872

submerge1903

crash-dive1928

to do a porpoise1929

snort1953

1872 tr. J. Verne 20,000 Leagues under Sea (1874) ii. iv. 168 I quite approved of the Nautilus entering it [sc. the gulf]. Its speed was lessened: sometimes it kept on the surface, sometimes it dived to avoid a vessel.

1902 Encycl. Brit. XXXII. 575/2 An officer..dived with her [sc. a submarine] in water about 16 ft. deep.

1955 Oxf. Junior Encycl. VIII. 49/2 When a submarine is to dive beneath the surface, its buoyancy is reduced by allowing water to enter large tanks..inside the hull.

d. Aviation. To descend or fall precipitously with increasing momentum.

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society > travel > air or space travel > action of flying (in) aircraft > specific flying operations or procedures > [verb (intransitive)] > descend > suddenly and steeply

dive1908

volplane1911

nosedive1915

crash-dive1928

power-dive1929

1908 H. G. Wells War in Air iv. §5 He could feel the airship diving down, down, down.

1914 H. Rosher In Royal Naval Air Service (1916) 37 I switched on and off, and dived down through the opening to 1,000 feet.

1916 H. Barber Aeroplane Speaks 136 Dive, to descend so steeply as to produce a speed greater than the normal flying speed.

1959 Chambers's Encycl. I. 115/1 There also exists a diving altitude above which the jet comes into its own.

†2. Of things: To sink deeply into water or the like; to penetrate into any body. Obsolete.

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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming in > go or come in [verb (intransitive)] > penetrate > deeply

divea1225

deep?c1225

seize1590

a1225 Juliana 29 Euch dunt defde in hire leofliche lich.

a1225 Juliana 76 & wið þat ilke beide & def duuelinge dun to þer eorðe.

?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 207 An bleddre ibollen of wint ne deueð naut into þeose halewinde wettres.

c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 3243 Þat þet sweord in deæf [c1300 Otho held].

1567 J. Maplet Greene Forest f. 111 The Spider..of the water. This laste is of such nimblenesse that running vpon the water neuer drowneth nor deaueth.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Timon of Athens (1623) iv. i. 2 O thou Wall..diue in the earth, And fence not Athens.

a1616 W. Shakespeare King John (1623) v. ii. 139 To diue like Buckets in concealed Welles.

a. To penetrate with the hand into any recess; to plunge the hand into water, etc., or into a vessel, esp. for the purpose of taking something out.

b. slang. To pick pockets.

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the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > picking pockets > pick pockets [verb (intransitive)]

figc1555

nip1592

dive1699

file1699

pickpocket1822

wire1853

dip1857

1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Dive, to pick a Pocket.

1716 J. Gay Trivia ii. 27 She'll lead thee with delusive Smiles along, Dive in thy Fob, and drop thee in the Throng.

1823 C. Lamb Old Benchers in Elia 195 He took snuff..diving for it under the mighty flaps of his old-fashioned waistcoat pocket.

1888 A. Jessopp Coming of Friars ii. 53 I at once dived into one of the boxes, and then spent half the night in examining some of its treasures.

†c. spec. To plunge a fork into a large pot containing portions of meat, having paid for the privilege of taking whatever the fork brings up. Obsolete.

ΚΠ

1748 T. Smollett Roderick Random I. xiii. 101 Diving, practised by those who are..inclined to live frugally... Many creditable people,..dive every day.

4. figurative. To enter deeply or plunge into (a matter); to penetrate.

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the mind > attention and judgement > enquiry > investigation, inspection > close examination, scrutiny > scrutinize [verb (transitive)]

through-seekOE

gropea1250

to search outa1382

ensearch1382

boltc1386

examinea1387

ransackc1390

ripea1400

search1409

overreach?a1425

considerc1425

perquirec1460

examec1480

peruse?1520

grounda1529

study1528

oversearch1532

perscrute1536

scrute1536

to go over ——1537

scan1548

examinate1560

rifle1566

to consider of1569

excuss1570

ripe1573

sift1573

sift1577

to pry into ——1581

dive1582

rub1591

explore1596

pervestigate1610

dissecta1631

profound1643

circumspect1667

scrutinize1671

perscrutatea1679

introspect1683

rummage1690

reconnoitre1740

scrutinate1742

to look through1744

scrutiny1755

parse1788

gun1819

cat-haul1840

vivisect1876

scour1882

microscope1888

tooth-comb1893

X-ray1896

comb1904

fine-tooth comb1949

1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis ii. 23 But Capys and oothers diuing more deepelye to bottom..Dyd wish thee woodden monster weare drowned.

1597 W. Shakespeare Richard II i. iv. 24 He did seeme to diue into their harts, With humble and familiar courtesie.

1630 W. Prynne Anti-Arminianisme 10 Into the grounds and causes of which euery meane capacity may diue.

1754 Bp. T. Sherlock Disc. (1759) I. iii. 136 The vain Attempts of Men to dive into..the Mysteries of God.

1845 M. Pattison in Christian Remembrancer Jan. 82 The king..had been diving into the collection of the canons.

5. To dart suddenly down or into some place or passage; to dart out of sight, disappear.

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the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > invisibility > be or become invisible [verb (intransitive)] > vanish or disappear > pass out of sight

sink1521

submerge1629

disappear1665

dive1748

1748 T. Smollett Roderick Random I. xiii. 102 Walking a few paces, [he] dived into a cellar and disappeared in an instant.

1843 C. Dickens Martin Chuzzlewit (1844) viii. 93 Mr. Pecksniff..dived across the street.

1870 J. H. Burton Hist. Scotl. to 1688 VII. lxxi. 42 The Highlanders..had dived into their mountain recesses.

1891 N. Gould Double Event 27 He dived into the nearest restaurant.

1893 C. King Foes in Ambush 8 He..dove out of sight.

1893 ‘Q’ Delectable Duchy 19 Where a straight pathway dived between hazel-bushes and appeared again twenty feet above.

1970 Toronto Daily Star 24 Sept. 17/4 Forest Hill struck first when Mike Brown dove on a loose ball.

II. transitive. [In early use Old English dýfan; from 16th cent. a new construction] .

a. To dip, submerge, or plunge (a person or thing) in, or into a liquid, or the like. archaic.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > downward motion > causing to come or go down > cause to come or go down [verb (transitive)] > dip or plunge into liquid > deeply or with force

divec900

ayetOE

souse1470

douse1566

implunge1590

overplunge1595

sourcec1616

plounce1631

c900 tr. Bede Eccl. Hist. (1891) v. xiii. [xii]. 436 He hine on ðam streame sencte and dyfde.

OE Riddle 26 3 Mec feonda sum feore besnyþede, woruldstrenga binom, wætte siþþan, dyfde on wætre.

c1200 Trin. Coll. Hom. 43 Louerd ne þaue þu þat storm me duue.

c1200 Trin. Coll. Hom. 43 Woreldes richeise wecheð orgel on mannes heorte, and deuð him on helle . alse storm doð þat ship in þe watere.

1593 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie iv. xii. 196 To dyue an infant either thrice or but once in Baptisme.

1605 R. Verstegan Restit. Decayed Intelligence ii. 45 The Germans vsed to take their new born children and to dyue them in riuers.

1662 W. Dugdale Hist. Imbanking & Drayning Fens 231 Thenceforth, neither flax or hemp should be dieved in the said sewers.

1854 S. T. Dobell Balder xxii. 84 Spout thee to Heaven, and dive thee to the deep.

b. To plunge (the hand or anything held) into. (A trans. variant of 3.)

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > place > placing or fact of being placed in (a) position > insertion or putting in > insert or put in [verb (transitive)] > forcibly > specifically the hand or a limb

shootc1275

divea1592

poach1856

a1592 R. Greene Frier Bacon (1594) sig. A4 She turnd her smocke ouer her Lilly armes, And diued them into milke to run her cheese.

1878 T. P. Bigg-Wither Pioneering S. Brazil I. 266 The Camaradas dive their own spoons into the bag and commence to eat from it all together.

1891 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Mar. 314 She had ‘dieved’ her kettle into the snow instead of filling it at the pump.

1893 ‘Q’ Delectable Duchy 42 He dived a hand into his tail pocket.

†c. transferred and figurative. To plunge, cause to sink.

ΚΠ

a1649 W. Drummond Hist. James IV in Wks. (1711) 78 By Largesses, Banqueting, and other Magnificence, diving himself in Debt.

1672 A. Marvell Rehearsal Transpros'd i. 55 The River dives it self under ground.

1771 ‘The Trifler’ Muse in Miniature 14 Nurse of nature..Dive me in thy depths profound.

7. To penetrate or traverse by diving; to dive into or through. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > downward motion > descend [verb (transitive)] > dive into > penetrate by diving

divec1595

c1595 J. Donne Satyre III 20 Dar'st thou dive seas, and dungeons of the earth?

?1615 G. Chapman tr. Homer Odysses (new ed.) v. 459 She..Turn'd to a cormorant, div'd, past sight, the main.

1669 J. Denham Cato Major iv. 43 The Curtii bravely div'd the Gulph of Flame.

1772 Ann. Reg. 1771 Poetry 224 She fish'd the brook,—she div'd the main.

1813 T. Busby tr. Lucretius Nature of Things i. 1015 To those who seldom dive the well of truth.

1867 R. W. Emerson May-day & Other Pieces 20 He dives the hollow, climbs the steep.

8. slang. To pick (pockets).

ΚΠ

a1637 B. Jonson Masque of Gypsies 54 in tr. Horace Art of Poetry (1640) Using your nimbles [i.e. fingers] In diving the Pockets.

Compounds

ˈdive-bomb v. (transitive) to attack with bombs at a low level after diving.

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > hostilities in the air > attack with aircraft [verb (transitive)] > drop (bombs) > bomb > type of bombing

Zepp1915

zeppelin1915

blitz1939

dive-bomb1940

pattern-bomb1943

atom-bomb1945

atomic-bomb1945

firebomb1945

cluster bomb1967

1940 Times 23 July 2/4 Patrolling off the South Coast, three Hurricane pilots spotted 16 Me. 110s flying line astern to dive-bomb a convoy.

1958 A. Toynbee East to West xxxi. 94 They [sc. hawks] ignored his impertinence and dive-bombed us thick and fast.

dive-bomber n. [= German sturzkampfflugzeug] a dive-bombing aircraft.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > aeroplane > [noun] > used in warfare > bomber

raider1908

bomber1917

night bomber1918

dart1925

bomb-dropper1928

flying boxcar1932

bombing plane1934

bomber aircraft1935

medium bomber1935

dive-bomber1937

heavy1943

nuisance raider1944

shuttle bomber1944

atomic bomber1945

interdictor1965

stealth1979

1937 Flight 4 Nov. c/1 (caption) Great Lakes dive bombers of the U.S. Marine Corps.

1939 Times 29 Sept. 10/4 The North Sea Attack. Failure of German Dive-Bombers.

1971 P. C. Smith Stuka at War iv. 38 The dive-bombers blasted a coastal gun battery on the Isle of Wight.

dive-bombing n. and adj.

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > hostilities in the air > [noun] > air operation > bombing raid > dropping of bombs > manner of

area bombardment1918

straddling1919

pattern-bombing1933

terror-bombing1933

dive-bombing1935

firebombing1935

blind-bombing1940

blitzing1940

coventrating1940

nuisance bombing1940

scatter bombing1940

coventration1942

carpet bombing1943

obliteration bombing1943

skip-bombing1943

shuttle bombing1944

atom bombing1945

atomic bombing1945

clobbering1948

loft-bombing1956

1935 Evening News 11 July 7/1 In dive-bombing, which is the most accurate form of aerial attack on surface targets yet devised, the aircraft is aimed bodily at the target in the course of an almost vertical dive, which is maintained for several thousands of feet.

1936 Jrnl. Royal Aeronaut. Soc. 40 720 Dive bombing is limited to low altitude and suffers from insufficient penetration, although the aiming is probably good.

1940 Times 8 July 3/4 The aircraft..delivered a dive-bombing attack.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	dive
释义	diven. Brit. /dʌɪv/, U.S. /daɪv/ Etymology: < dive v. 1. a. The act of diving; a darting plunge into or through water or the like. literal and figurative.The Amateur Swimming Association distinguishes between a dive and a plunge. The latter is defined as a standing dive made head-first from a firm take-off, free from spring. The plunger does not add any further impetus, but allows himself to progress till all forward motion ceases, when he raises his face above water. A dive may be running, from a spring-board, and with propulsion added on reaching the water. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > downward motion > [noun] > diving into water diving1398 plunge1615 dive1700 plunging1883 1700 T. Brown Amusem. Serious & Comical x. 126 A Pick-Pocket; who..made a Dive into my Pocket. 1804 Miniature No. 19. ⁋2 Upon taking too profound a dive into the Bathos, he was..unfortunately drowned. 1828 Boy's Own Bk. 107 This [sc. the Dolphin] is taking a dive from the surface of the water by turning heels upwards for that purpose, instead of leaping from a bank or elsewhere. 1874 T. De W. Talmage Around Tea-table iii. 25 I first take a dive into the index, a second dive into the preface. 1893 A. Sinclair & W. Henry Swimming (Badminton Libr. of Sports & Pastimes) 107 The usual high dive is a mere drop at a down-ward angle. 1893 Earl of Dunmore Pamirs II. 270 He [the hawk]..gave a sort of dive underneath him. b. Aviation. A precipitate descent. (Cf. nosedive n. and dive v. 1d). ΘΚΠ society > travel > air or space travel > action of flying (in) aircraft > specific flying operations or procedures > [noun] > sudden rapid descent volplane1910 nosedive1912 dive1914 terminal nosedive1920 power dive1928 1914 H. Rosher In Royal Naval Air Service (1916) 13 When in the air, he bawls in your ear, ‘Now when you push your hand forward, you go down, see!’ (and he pushes your hand forward and you make a sudden dive). 1915 War Illustr. 27 Feb. 46/2 The excitement of the dive,..and the swift upward leap of the machine. 1936 Discovery Mar. 73/2 The pilot cannot pull the nose of his aeroplane up so quickly that he stalls it with the subsequent danger of a steep dive or spin. 1970 D. L. Brown Miles Aircraft since 1925 111 He opened the throttle wide and put the nose down into a steep dive. c. Of a submarine: submerging, submersion. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > action or motion of vessel > [noun] > diving or surfacing of submarines dive1915 crash-dive1919 surfacing1922 1915 W. E. Dommett Submarine Vessels iv. 42 When preparing for a dive, the..valves are tried. 1962 G. Weller All about Submarines (1963) iii. 36 On Hunley's first dive, the flames of her lantern flickered low after only a half-hour... On the next trip the submarine stayed down five times as long. 2. transferred. A sudden dart into a place or across a space, esp. so as to disappear. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > rate of motion > swiftness > swift movement in specific manner > [noun] > sudden > a sudden dart startc1330 gird1545 whip1550 shoota1596 whippeta1603 snap1631 jet1647 flirt1666 whid1719 dart1721 spout1787 with a thrash1870 sprit1880 divea1897 a1897 Mod. He made a dive into the nearest shop. 3. colloquial (originally U.S.) An illegal drinking-den, or other disreputable place of resort, often situated in a cellar, basement, or other half-concealed place, into which frequenters may ‘dive’ without observation. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > drinking > drinking place > [noun] > tavern or public house > illegal drinking-house shebeenc1787 joint1821 kiddleywink1830 blind tiger1857 shanty1862 dive1871 blind-pig1887 speakeasy1889 shebeen1900 booze can1905 speak1930 speako1931 nip joint1936 1871 N.Y. Herald 6 July 8/2 One of the gayly decorated dives where young ladies..dispense refreshments to thirsty souls. 1882 Society 11 Nov. 7/2 The proprietor of a New York ‘dive’. 1883 H. H. Kane in Harper's Mag. Nov. 945/1 Those who frequent the opium-smoking dives. 1885 Referee 10 May 3/3 A grand entrance takes the place of the tavern, which is relegated to down below, and is called a ‘dive’. 1886 E. W. Gilliam in N. Amer. Rev. July 33 There are 150 gambling dives, the approaches to which are so barricaded as to defy police detection. 1887 Boston Jrnl. 24 Apr. 2/4 Ordinary saloons and unlicensed dives did a rushing trade. 1892 R. L. Stevenson & L. Osbourne Wrecker viii. 122 I visited Chinese and Mexican gambling-hells, German secret societies, sailors' boarding-houses, and ‘dives’ of every complexion of the disreputable and dangerous. 1897 Daily News 17 Apr. 3/1 From highway into byway they go; now up into tottering garret, then down into dim dive. 1910 Westm. Gaz. 25 Jan. 4/1 This dingy ‘dive’ can boast of many glorious memories. 1940 W. H. Auden Another Time 112 I sit in one of the dives On Fifty-Second Street. 1958 Spectator 4 July 8/3 The degenerate dives of Berlin. Compounds attributive and in other combinations. dive brake n. (see quot. 1962). ΚΠ 1940 C. Gardner A.A.S.F. 238 The 87's, with their dive-brakes on, came down vertically to about 600 feet. 1954 Economist 11 Sept. (Suppl.) 3/1 The Hawker factories producing Hunters contain two or three hundred complete and half-complete machines waiting for their new dive brakes. 1962 Gloss. Aeronaut. Terms (B.S.I.) v. 5 Dive brake, any device primarily used to increase the drag of an aircraft at will. dive-keeper n. U.S. a person who keeps a ‘dive’ (sense 3). ΚΠ 1887 Chicago Tribune 4 May 3/1 Consternation has seized the divekeepers. 1910 S. E. White Rules of Game i. xvi One of the saloon keepers at Twin Falls... This dive-keeper..had offered transportation. Draft additions 1993 In Boxing, Football, etc.: an intentional fall taken to deceive an opponent or official, esp. (in Boxing) a feigned knock-out. Frequently in to take a dive. Also transferred and figurative. slang (originally U.S.). ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > dissimulation, pretence > [noun] > sport: feigned knock-out dive1942 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > dissimulation, pretence > pretend, dissemble [verb (intransitive)] > in movement feignc1386 to false a blow1590 feint1854 to take a dive1942 1942 L. V. Berrey & M. Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §701/10 Dive,..take a dive, take it, throw a fight, to allow an opponent to win by prearrangement. 1951 N.Y. Times Mag. 4 Mar. 58/3 Admittedly the sport still will come up occasionally with its ‘dives’. (A dive is a phantom knockout in which a boxer ‘swoons’ or dives to the canvas under the impact of a light blow or, sometimes, no blow at all.) 1982 Chicago Sun-Times 21 June 5/1 ‘Freddy took a dive six times,’ Time quoted one investigator as saying of Furino's performance on the polygraph. Draft additions June 2016 dive bar n. (a) British a bar located in a basement or cellar (now rare); (b) chiefly U.S. a shabby, cheap, or disreputable bar; cf. sense 3. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > drinking > drinking place > [noun] > tap-room or bar > other bars public bar1654 American bar1856 wine room1865 last chance saloon1869 four-ale1883 private bar1892 saloon bar1902 cocktail bar1908 cocktail lounge1934 porter bar1935 lounge bar1937 wine bar1938 dive bar1940 gay bar1947 open bar1947 piano bar1947 sherry-bar1951 public1957 leather bar1961 private1963 ouzeri1964 karaoke bar1977 the world > food and drink > drink > drinking > drinking place > [noun] > tavern or public house > low drinking-house sot's-hof1532 bousing ken1567 fuddling-school1680 sot-bay1707 night-cellar1729 sot-hole1755 lush-ken1790 lush-crib1819 Tom and Jerry shop1824 Tom and Jerry1836 deadfall1837 jerry1851 shoful1851 cribc1865 bucket-shop1875 barrel-house1883 lushing-ken1883 shebang1901 barrel shop1904 blood house1913 smoke joint1931 shypoo1936 smoke-shop1937 dive bar1974 1940 Motor 28 Aug. 81/3 The next of the impromptu monthly meetings..takes place on Saturday, September 7, venue as usual being the dive bar of St. Stephen's Tavern, Westminster, London. 1973 Sunday Post-Herald (Hong Kong) 19 Aug. 16/5 Tables outside and a dive bar downstairs. 1974 Atlanta Constit. 13 Feb. 8 a/4 Two ‘dive’ bars were closed through the work of the CAP Public Security Task Force. 1985 N. Tennant & C. Lowe West End Girls (song, perf. ‘Pet Shop Boys’) in Please (CD booklet) Running down underground To a dive bar in a West End town. 1991 N.Y. Times (Electronic ed.) 24 Feb. a10 Gone is the overwhelming presence of tacky T-shirt shops and noisy dive bars, although enough remain to let the visitor know that Key West is proud of its checkered past. 2010 Mod. Drummer Jan. 8/1 [They] always put forth their best effort, whether they're playing to a sellout crowd at Madison Square Garden or to two people at the dive bar down the street. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online March 2022). divev. Brit. /dʌɪv/, U.S. /daɪv/ Forms: α. Old English dúfan, Middle English duven; β. Old English dýfan, Middle English duve(n /y/, Middle English diven, Middle English–1500s (1800s dialect) deve, deeve (1500s deave), Middle English–1500s dy(e)ve, 1600s–1800s dieve, 1500s– dive. past tense Old English déaf, Middle English deæf, Middle English def, 1800s North American and English dialect dove; β. Old English dýfde, Middle English defde, 1600s– div'd, 1500s– dived. Etymology: Old English had two verbs: (1) the primary strong verb dúfan , past tense déaf , plural dufon , past participle dofen , intransitive to duck, dive, sink; (2) the derivative causal weak verb dýfan , dýfde , gedýfd to dip, submerge. Already in 12th cent. these had begun to be confounded, the primary dūven (past tense deæf , dêf , past participle doven ) being used also transitive, and the causative dȳven intransitive, so that the two became synonyms, and before 1300 the strong verb became obsolete, dȳven (south-western düven , south-eastern dēven , midland and north dīven ) remaining, chiefly in the intransitive sense of the Old English strong verb Of the compound bedive , the past participle bedove adj. came down to 16th cent. in Scots Only traces of this verb are found in the cognate languages: Old Norse had dýfa to dip (also in same sense deyfa); Middle Dutch had bedûven, past participle bedoven, modern Dutch beduiven = Old English bedúfan. These belong to an Old Germanic ablaut series deuƀ-, dauƀ-, duƀ-, secondary form of deup-, daup-, dup-, to dip, submerge < pre-Germanic stems (weak-grade) dhup-, dhub-, respectively. The south-eastern deven gave the later deeve, deave, dieve; the modern dialect past tense dove is apparently a new formation after drive, drove, or weave, wove. I. intransitive. 1. a. To descend or plunge into or under water or other liquid. (Usually, unless otherwise stated, to plunge head-foremost.) ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > downward motion > move downwards [verb (intransitive)] > dive into water diveOE ducka1400 splunge1839 the world > movement > progressive motion > moving with current of air or water > movement in or on water > move in or on water [verb (intransitive)] > swim underwater diveOE urinate1623 skin-dive1936 goggle-dive1953 aqualung1961 fin1964 scuba1977 scuba-dive1980 OE Riddle 74 4 Ic..fleah mid fuglum ond on flode swom, deaf under yþe dead mid fiscum. c1220 Bestiary 539 Sone he [the whale] diueð dun to grunde, He drepeð hem alle wið-uten wunde. 1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. xii. 163 Þat one hath connynge..and can swymmen and dyuen. ?a1400 Balade in Jyll of Breyntford, &c. (1871) 35 To dompe als deepe as man may dyeve þus holde I bett þan labour as a Reve. c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 124/1 Dyvyn vnder þe weter, subnato. 1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde iii. ii. f. 95^v They durste not aduenture to dyue to the bottome. 1567 J. Maplet Greene Forest f. 102 Those birds that deeuing downe to the waters to ketch fish, drowne themselues. 1660 R. Boyle New Exper. Physico-mechanicall Digress. 375 Those that dive for Pearles in the West Indies. 1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth VI. 69 [The cormorant] from a vast height drops down to dive after its prey. 1834 H. McMurtrie tr. G. Cuvier Animal Kingdom (abridged ed.) 71 These animals..close their nostrils when they dive by a kind of valve. 1855 H. W. Longfellow Hiawatha vii. 96 Straight into the river Kwasind Plunged as if he were an otter, Dove as if he were a beaver. 1857 Canad. Jrnl. Industry Sci. & Art 2 351 In England when a swimmer makes his first leap, head foremost, into the water he is said to dive, and is spoken of as having dived... Not so however, is it with the modern refinements of our Canadian English. In referring to such a feat here, it would be said, not that he dived, but that he dove. 1867 I. I. Hayes Open Polar Sea xxxvi The whole herd..dove down with a tremendous splash. a1940 F. S. Fitzgerald Last Tycoon (1941) v. 100 He dove in and saved her life. b. transferred. To descend with similar motion into the earth, an abyss, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > downward motion > move downwards [verb (intransitive)] > into the earth or an abyss divea1225 abysm1611 a1225 St. Marher. 17 Ah flih sorhfule thing ut of min ehsihðe, ant def thider [into hell]. ?1615 G. Chapman tr. Homer Odysses (new ed.) x. 245 The reason, how the man-enlightning sunne Diues vnder earth. a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) i. ii. 192 I come To answer thy best pleasure; be't..to diue into the fire. View more context for this quotation 1726 A. Pope tr. Homer Odyssey V. xxii. 104 The fierce soul to darkness div'd, and hell. 1882 N.Y. Herald 14 Mar. 4/5 Women dove headlong from the crosstrees into friendly and convenient nets. c. Of a submarine: to submerge. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > action or motion of vessel > [verb (intransitive)] > submerge or travel under water (of submarine) dive1872 submerge1903 crash-dive1928 to do a porpoise1929 snort1953 1872 tr. J. Verne 20,000 Leagues under Sea (1874) ii. iv. 168 I quite approved of the Nautilus entering it [sc. the gulf]. Its speed was lessened: sometimes it kept on the surface, sometimes it dived to avoid a vessel. 1902 Encycl. Brit. XXXII. 575/2 An officer..dived with her [sc. a submarine] in water about 16 ft. deep. 1955 Oxf. Junior Encycl. VIII. 49/2 When a submarine is to dive beneath the surface, its buoyancy is reduced by allowing water to enter large tanks..inside the hull. d. Aviation. To descend or fall precipitously with increasing momentum. ΘΚΠ society > travel > air or space travel > action of flying (in) aircraft > specific flying operations or procedures > [verb (intransitive)] > descend > suddenly and steeply dive1908 volplane1911 nosedive1915 crash-dive1928 power-dive1929 1908 H. G. Wells War in Air iv. §5 He could feel the airship diving down, down, down. 1914 H. Rosher In Royal Naval Air Service (1916) 37 I switched on and off, and dived down through the opening to 1,000 feet. 1916 H. Barber Aeroplane Speaks 136 Dive, to descend so steeply as to produce a speed greater than the normal flying speed. 1959 Chambers's Encycl. I. 115/1 There also exists a diving altitude above which the jet comes into its own. †2. Of things: To sink deeply into water or the like; to penetrate into any body. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming in > go or come in [verb (intransitive)] > penetrate > deeply divea1225 deep?c1225 seize1590 a1225 Juliana 29 Euch dunt defde in hire leofliche lich. a1225 Juliana 76 & wið þat ilke beide & def duuelinge dun to þer eorðe. ?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 207 An bleddre ibollen of wint ne deueð naut into þeose halewinde wettres. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 3243 Þat þet sweord in deæf [c1300 Otho held]. 1567 J. Maplet Greene Forest f. 111 The Spider..of the water. This laste is of such nimblenesse that running vpon the water neuer drowneth nor deaueth. a1616 W. Shakespeare Timon of Athens (1623) iv. i. 2 O thou Wall..diue in the earth, And fence not Athens. View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare King John (1623) v. ii. 139 To diue like Buckets in concealed Welles. View more context for this quotation 3. a. To penetrate with the hand into any recess; to plunge the hand into water, etc., or into a vessel, esp. for the purpose of taking something out. b. slang. To pick pockets. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > picking pockets > pick pockets [verb (intransitive)] figc1555 nip1592 dive1699 file1699 pickpocket1822 wire1853 dip1857 1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Dive, to pick a Pocket. 1716 J. Gay Trivia ii. 27 She'll lead thee with delusive Smiles along, Dive in thy Fob, and drop thee in the Throng. 1823 C. Lamb Old Benchers in Elia 195 He took snuff..diving for it under the mighty flaps of his old-fashioned waistcoat pocket. 1888 A. Jessopp Coming of Friars ii. 53 I at once dived into one of the boxes, and then spent half the night in examining some of its treasures. †c. spec. To plunge a fork into a large pot containing portions of meat, having paid for the privilege of taking whatever the fork brings up. Obsolete. ΚΠ 1748 T. Smollett Roderick Random I. xiii. 101 Diving, practised by those who are..inclined to live frugally... Many creditable people,..dive every day. 4. figurative. To enter deeply or plunge into (a matter); to penetrate. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > enquiry > investigation, inspection > close examination, scrutiny > scrutinize [verb (transitive)] through-seekOE gropea1250 to search outa1382 ensearch1382 boltc1386 examinea1387 ransackc1390 ripea1400 search1409 overreach?a1425 considerc1425 perquirec1460 examec1480 peruse?1520 grounda1529 study1528 oversearch1532 perscrute1536 scrute1536 to go over ——1537 scan1548 examinate1560 rifle1566 to consider of1569 excuss1570 ripe1573 sift1573 sift1577 to pry into ——1581 dive1582 rub1591 explore1596 pervestigate1610 dissecta1631 profound1643 circumspect1667 scrutinize1671 perscrutatea1679 introspect1683 rummage1690 reconnoitre1740 scrutinate1742 to look through1744 scrutiny1755 parse1788 gun1819 cat-haul1840 vivisect1876 scour1882 microscope1888 tooth-comb1893 X-ray1896 comb1904 fine-tooth comb1949 1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis ii. 23 But Capys and oothers diuing more deepelye to bottom..Dyd wish thee woodden monster weare drowned. 1597 W. Shakespeare Richard II i. iv. 24 He did seeme to diue into their harts, With humble and familiar courtesie. View more context for this quotation 1630 W. Prynne Anti-Arminianisme 10 Into the grounds and causes of which euery meane capacity may diue. 1754 Bp. T. Sherlock Disc. (1759) I. iii. 136 The vain Attempts of Men to dive into..the Mysteries of God. 1845 M. Pattison in Christian Remembrancer Jan. 82 The king..had been diving into the collection of the canons. 5. To dart suddenly down or into some place or passage; to dart out of sight, disappear. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > invisibility > be or become invisible [verb (intransitive)] > vanish or disappear > pass out of sight sink1521 submerge1629 disappear1665 dive1748 1748 T. Smollett Roderick Random I. xiii. 102 Walking a few paces, [he] dived into a cellar and disappeared in an instant. 1843 C. Dickens Martin Chuzzlewit (1844) viii. 93 Mr. Pecksniff..dived across the street. 1870 J. H. Burton Hist. Scotl. to 1688 VII. lxxi. 42 The Highlanders..had dived into their mountain recesses. 1891 N. Gould Double Event 27 He dived into the nearest restaurant. 1893 C. King Foes in Ambush 8 He..dove out of sight. 1893 ‘Q’ Delectable Duchy 19 Where a straight pathway dived between hazel-bushes and appeared again twenty feet above. 1970 Toronto Daily Star 24 Sept. 17/4 Forest Hill struck first when Mike Brown dove on a loose ball. II. transitive. [In early use Old English dýfan; from 16th cent. a new construction] . 6. a. To dip, submerge, or plunge (a person or thing) in, or into a liquid, or the like. archaic. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > downward motion > causing to come or go down > cause to come or go down [verb (transitive)] > dip or plunge into liquid > deeply or with force divec900 ayetOE souse1470 douse1566 implunge1590 overplunge1595 sourcec1616 plounce1631 c900 tr. Bede Eccl. Hist. (1891) v. xiii. [xii]. 436 He hine on ðam streame sencte and dyfde. OE Riddle 26 3 Mec feonda sum feore besnyþede, woruldstrenga binom, wætte siþþan, dyfde on wætre. c1200 Trin. Coll. Hom. 43 Louerd ne þaue þu þat storm me duue. c1200 Trin. Coll. Hom. 43 Woreldes richeise wecheð orgel on mannes heorte, and deuð him on helle . alse storm doð þat ship in þe watere. 1593 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie iv. xii. 196 To dyue an infant either thrice or but once in Baptisme. 1605 R. Verstegan Restit. Decayed Intelligence ii. 45 The Germans vsed to take their new born children and to dyue them in riuers. 1662 W. Dugdale Hist. Imbanking & Drayning Fens 231 Thenceforth, neither flax or hemp should be dieved in the said sewers. 1854 S. T. Dobell Balder xxii. 84 Spout thee to Heaven, and dive thee to the deep. b. To plunge (the hand or anything held) into. (A trans. variant of 3.) ΘΚΠ the world > space > place > placing or fact of being placed in (a) position > insertion or putting in > insert or put in [verb (transitive)] > forcibly > specifically the hand or a limb shootc1275 divea1592 poach1856 a1592 R. Greene Frier Bacon (1594) sig. A4 She turnd her smocke ouer her Lilly armes, And diued them into milke to run her cheese. 1878 T. P. Bigg-Wither Pioneering S. Brazil I. 266 The Camaradas dive their own spoons into the bag and commence to eat from it all together. 1891 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Mar. 314 She had ‘dieved’ her kettle into the snow instead of filling it at the pump. 1893 ‘Q’ Delectable Duchy 42 He dived a hand into his tail pocket. †c. transferred and figurative. To plunge, cause to sink. ΚΠ a1649 W. Drummond Hist. James IV in Wks. (1711) 78 By Largesses, Banqueting, and other Magnificence, diving himself in Debt. 1672 A. Marvell Rehearsal Transpros'd i. 55 The River dives it self under ground. 1771 ‘The Trifler’ Muse in Miniature 14 Nurse of nature..Dive me in thy depths profound. 7. To penetrate or traverse by diving; to dive into or through. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > downward motion > descend [verb (transitive)] > dive into > penetrate by diving divec1595 c1595 J. Donne Satyre III 20 Dar'st thou dive seas, and dungeons of the earth? ?1615 G. Chapman tr. Homer Odysses (new ed.) v. 459 She..Turn'd to a cormorant, div'd, past sight, the main. 1669 J. Denham Cato Major iv. 43 The Curtii bravely div'd the Gulph of Flame. 1772 Ann. Reg. 1771 Poetry 224 She fish'd the brook,—she div'd the main. 1813 T. Busby tr. Lucretius Nature of Things i. 1015 To those who seldom dive the well of truth. 1867 R. W. Emerson May-day & Other Pieces 20 He dives the hollow, climbs the steep. 8. slang. To pick (pockets). ΚΠ a1637 B. Jonson Masque of Gypsies 54 in tr. Horace Art of Poetry (1640) Using your nimbles [i.e. fingers] In diving the Pockets. Compounds ˈdive-bomb v. (transitive) to attack with bombs at a low level after diving. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > hostilities in the air > attack with aircraft [verb (transitive)] > drop (bombs) > bomb > type of bombing Zepp1915 zeppelin1915 blitz1939 dive-bomb1940 pattern-bomb1943 atom-bomb1945 atomic-bomb1945 firebomb1945 cluster bomb1967 1940 Times 23 July 2/4 Patrolling off the South Coast, three Hurricane pilots spotted 16 Me. 110s flying line astern to dive-bomb a convoy. 1958 A. Toynbee East to West xxxi. 94 They [sc. hawks] ignored his impertinence and dive-bombed us thick and fast. dive-bomber n. [= German sturzkampfflugzeug] a dive-bombing aircraft. ΘΚΠ society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > aeroplane > [noun] > used in warfare > bomber raider1908 bomber1917 night bomber1918 dart1925 bomb-dropper1928 flying boxcar1932 bombing plane1934 bomber aircraft1935 medium bomber1935 dive-bomber1937 heavy1943 nuisance raider1944 shuttle bomber1944 atomic bomber1945 interdictor1965 stealth1979 1937 Flight 4 Nov. c/1 (caption) Great Lakes dive bombers of the U.S. Marine Corps. 1939 Times 29 Sept. 10/4 The North Sea Attack. Failure of German Dive-Bombers. 1971 P. C. Smith Stuka at War iv. 38 The dive-bombers blasted a coastal gun battery on the Isle of Wight. dive-bombing n. and adj. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > hostilities in the air > [noun] > air operation > bombing raid > dropping of bombs > manner of area bombardment1918 straddling1919 pattern-bombing1933 terror-bombing1933 dive-bombing1935 firebombing1935 blind-bombing1940 blitzing1940 coventrating1940 nuisance bombing1940 scatter bombing1940 coventration1942 carpet bombing1943 obliteration bombing1943 skip-bombing1943 shuttle bombing1944 atom bombing1945 atomic bombing1945 clobbering1948 loft-bombing1956 1935 Evening News 11 July 7/1 In dive-bombing, which is the most accurate form of aerial attack on surface targets yet devised, the aircraft is aimed bodily at the target in the course of an almost vertical dive, which is maintained for several thousands of feet. 1936 Jrnl. Royal Aeronaut. Soc. 40 720 Dive bombing is limited to low altitude and suffers from insufficient penetration, although the aiming is probably good. 1940 Times 8 July 3/4 The aircraft..delivered a dive-bombing attack. 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