diver
IPA: dˈaɪvɝ
noun
- Someone who dives, especially as a sport.
- Someone who works underwater; a frogman.
- (UK, Ireland) loon (bird)
- The New Zealand sand diver.
- The long-finned sand diver.
- (UK, London, dated) A passenger carrying vehicle using an underground route; specially, a diver tram, one using the former Kingsway tramway subway (1906-1952).
- (slang, obsolete) pickpocket
- (sports) A competitor in certain sports who is known to regularly imitate being fouled, with the purpose of getting his/her opponent penalised.
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Examples of "diver" in Sentences
- The preserve is open to scuba divers.
- A highlight is the interaction of the divers with sharks.
- It allowed the diver to descend to the belly of the ship.
- She was the oldest scuba diver in the world at this time.
- James is an amateur spelunker and a certified scuba diver.
- None of the three divers reached the final in any of their events.
- The clear waters of the headland are also popular with scuba divers.
- Ron, the urchin diver, will run out of luck at some point in his life.
- The divers can stay in the chamber on the support vessel to decompress.
- Jaws will always collide with the boat and release the diver into the water.
- The company experimented with the use of Hydrogen in the divers' breathing gas.
- Usually Journalism, when a diver is devoured by a shark, says that, and it is enough.
- At 30 feet down the pressure on the diver is the same in a swimming pool, lake or ocean.
- At Ajax he was known as a diver whose career in the Eredivisie ended when he bit PSV Eindhoven's Otman Bakkal.
- Several times filling and emptying his lungs in diver fashion, Grief turned over and went down through the water.
- "My father pulled that Sea Hunt character off so well, people thought he was a skin diver who'd been taught to act," Bridges says.
- Ecpad/Abacausa. com A diver from the French military vessel Ventose collected remains of the plane in a recovery operation Monday.
- Clearly enthused at the prospect of seeing Lara Croft – adventurer, archaeologist, skin diver, jet pilot, skilled equestrian, and expert markswoman – leap onto a well-tuned mountain bike and go bombing down a Himalayan mountain.
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