diveverb
uk/daɪv/us/daɪv/past tense dived or US also dove, past participle diveddive verb (IN WATER)
B1 to jump into water, especially with your head and arms going in first, or to move down under the water:
B1 [ I ] to swim underwater, usually with breathing equipment
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- As she dived into the pool, the water felt deliciously cool on her skin.
- We were so hot we flung off our clothes and dived into the swimming pool.
- She dived headfirst into the pool.
- She dived into the still water of the lake.
- I dived off the top board today, Dad.
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Swimming
- aquatics
- armband
- backstroke
- bellyflop
- butterfly
- depth
- diving board
- dog paddle
- dove
- frogman
- gala
- pearl diver
- scissor kick
- scuba diving
- shaken
- snorkel
- stroke
- swallow dive
- swan dive
- swimming baths
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dive verb (BECOME LESS)
[ I ] to fall in value suddenly and by a large amount:
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Becoming and making smaller or less
- a nip (here) and a tuck (there) idiom
- attenuate
- axe
- bite
- bite into sth
- drain
- let sth down
- let up
- lower
- make a hole in sth idiom
- miniaturization
- minimize
- nip
- shrink
- slash
- step sth down
- strip sth away
- stripped down
- subside
- tail off
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dive verb (MOVE QUICKLY)
[ I ] to go down very quickly:
[ I usually + adv/prep ] to move quickly, often in order to avoid something:
[ I ] in football, to fall down deliberately without another player causing you to fall, in order to try to win a penalty or a free kick unfairly:
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Moving quickly
- beetle
- belt
- bob
- bowl down/along sth
- careen
- career
- gallop
- gun
- leg
- make off
- outran
- pelt
- rush
- scamper
- scoot
- scrabble
- scramble
- shoot
- stampede
- trot
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Phrasal verb(s)
divenoun
uk/daɪv/us/daɪv/dive noun (INTO WATER)
B2 [ C ] a jump into water with your head going in first:
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General terms used in ball sports
- aggregate score
- assist
- attack
- back pass
- bobble
- center circle
- chip
- goalless
- holding
- layoff
- long ball
- man on! idiom
- man-to-man defense
- man-to-man marking
- overarm
- set piece
- shoot
- sidespin
- unplayable
- wrong-foot
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dive noun (LOSS)
[ S ] a sudden loss in value:
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Becoming and making smaller or less
- a nip (here) and a tuck (there) idiom
- attenuate
- axe
- bite
- bite into sth
- drain
- let sth down
- let up
- lower
- make a hole in sth idiom
- miniaturization
- minimize
- nip
- shrink
- slash
- step sth down
- strip sth away
- stripped down
- subside
- tail off
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dive noun (QUICK MOVEMENT)
[ C ] a movement down onto the ground:
[ C ] in football, the action of falling down deliberately without another player causing you to do so, in order to try to win a penalty or free kick unfairly
[ C ] a sudden quick movement:
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General terms used in ball sports
- aggregate score
- assist
- attack
- back pass
- bobble
- center circle
- chip
- goalless
- holding
- layoff
- long ball
- man on! idiom
- man-to-man defense
- man-to-man marking
- overarm
- set piece
- shoot
- sidespin
- unplayable
- wrong-foot
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dive noun (PLACE)
[ C ] informal a restaurant, hotel, bar, or place for entertainment or social activities that is unpleasant because of the condition of the building or the type of people that go there:
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Unpleasant places
- armpit
- be the armpit of sth idiom
- den
- desert
- eyesore
- fleapit
- hellhole
- hole
- hotbed
- nest
- pigpen
- pigsty
- pit
- sausage machine
- slum
- the Black Hole of Calcutta
- tourist trap
- wasteland
- what's the world coming to? idiom
- world
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