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dive División en sílabas: dive

Definición de dive en inglés:

verbo (past dived or dovedōv; past participle dived)

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1 [with adverbial of direction] Plunge head first into water: she walked to the deep end, then she dived in he dived off the bridge for a bet
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  • Liv raised her arms over her head and then dove swiftly into the water.
plunge, nosedive, jump head first, bellyflop;
plummet, fall, drop, pitch, dive-bomb
1.1(Of a fish, a submarine, or a vessel used for underwater exploration) go to a deeper level in water: the fish dive down to about 1,400 feet and then swim southwest
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  • The fish dived as one for the ocean floor and capsized the boat.
1.2Swim underwater using breathing equipment: he had been diving in the area to test equipment
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  • You should not be swimming or diving if you have recently been drinking alcohol.
swim under water;
snorkel, scuba dive
2(Of an aircraft or bird) plunge steeply downward through the air: the aircraft dove for the ground to avoid the attack
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  • I watched a few birds dive and glide.
2.1Move quickly or suddenly in a specified direction: a bullet passed close to his head, and he dived for cover (as adjective diving) he attempted a diving catch
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2.2(Of prices or profits) drop suddenly: profits before tax dived by 61 percent
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  • The company's chief executive resigned and the share price dived.
  • As a result it was weighed down by debt and its share price dived.
2.3 informal Put one’s hand quickly into something, especially a pocket or purse, in order to find something: she dived into her bag and extracted a card
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  • My first client dove into her bag for her cell phone.
2.4 Soccer & Ice Hockey , informal (Of a player) deliberately fall when challenged in order to deceive the referee into awarding a foul.
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  • Players are trained to dive and manipulate refs to get decisions their way.
  • If he was not fouled and the ball was not won, then he dived.


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1A plunge head first into water: he hit the sea in a shallow dive a high dive
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1.1An instance of swimming or going deeper under water: divers should have a good intake of fluid before each dive
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  • Recorded dives have lasted 22 minutes, and reached depths of 1,800 feet.
2A steep descent by an aircraft or bird: the jumbo jet went into a dive See also nosedive.
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2.1A sudden movement in a specified direction: she made a dive for the fridge to quench her raging thirst
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  • Nick made a dive for the tool on the ground.
  • I took my clothes and made a dive for the bed.
lunge, spring, jump, leap
2.2A sudden and significant fall in prices or profits: an 11 percent dive in profits
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2.3 Soccer & Ice Hockey , informal A deliberate fall by a player, intended to deceive the referee into awarding a foul.
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3 (also dive bar) informal A shabby or sleazy bar or similar establishment: he got into a fight in some dive a detective story set in the smoky clubs and dive bars of 1940s Los Angeles
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  • All the bars looked like right dives, and nowhere had steaks on offer.
  • Hickey's is a small dive of a bar located a block from Madison Square Garden.
sleazy bar/nightclub, seedy bar/nightclub;
informal (drinking) joint, hole


take a dive
Boxing Pretend to be knocked out.
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  • Many observers questioned whether Sonny Liston took a dive in his second fight against Ali.
1.1(Of prices, hopes, fortunes, etc.) fall suddenly: profits could take a dive as easily as they could soar her reputation took a dive from which it has not recovered
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  • On Thursday the share price took a dive to 54p before recovering to 70p.

Verbos con partícula

dive in
Help oneself to food.
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  • She promised that more were coming, but for now, everyone dove in.
dive into
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Old English dūfan 'dive, sink' and dȳfan 'immerse', of Germanic origin; related to deep and dip.

  • deep from Old English:

    The word deep is related to dip (Old English) and dive (Old English), and in Old English could also mean depth (Late Middle English). The phrase in deep water, ‘in trouble or difficulty’, has biblical origins. The writer of one of the Psalms begged, ‘Let me be delivered from them that hate me, and out of the deep waters’. The deep waters of a swimming pool did not become familiar enough to provide linguistic inspiration until the 20th century. If you go off the deep end you have an emotional outburst, especially of anger, and to jump (or be thrown) in at the deep end is to face a difficult undertaking with little or no preparation or experience.

Palabras que riman con dive

alive, arrive, chive, Clive, connive, contrive, deprive, drive, five, gyve, hive, I've, jive, live, MI5, revive, rive, shrive, skive, strive, survive, swive, thrive
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