- One that dives: a high diver who excelled in performing the jackknife.
- One that works under water, especially one equipped with breathing apparatus and weighted clothing.
- Any of several diving water birds, especially the loon.
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Columbia Encyclopedia:
diver,
general term used to refer to many diving birds, e.g., the loon, the grebe, and some ducks, auks, and penguins.
WordNet:
diver
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The noun has 3 meanings:
Meaning #1:
someone who works underwater
Synonyms: frogman, underwater diver
Meaning #2:
someone who dives (into water)
Synonym: plunger
Meaning #3:
large somewhat primitive fish-eating diving bird of the northern hemisphere having webbed feet placed far back; related to the grebes
Synonym: loon
- A diver is a person who practices scuba diving or surface supplied diving.
- A diver in football is a person who falls down without contact to con referee.
- A diver is an athlete who practices diving in the sense of jumping or falling deliberately into water.
- A diver is the European name for a group of aquatic birds of the order Gaviiformes, in North America called loons.
- Diver - British WWII armed forces code name for the German V1 flying bomb.[1] (sometimes called Operation Diver without citation)
- A diver is one of 2 New Zealand fish: New Zealand sand diver or Long-finned sand diver.
- Diver is an Irish surname. (Uí Dhuibhir in Irish, perhaps derived from dubh = "black")
- WWII British code word for "Enemy Flying Bombs"
With an ending S (but not plural):
- divers is an adjective meaning "diverse, various" or "many and varied", in older
English usage including:-
- The Authorized Version of the Bible, including the phrase "divers diseases".
- Francis Bacon's letters in 1679
- In the phrase divers hands.
Diver: A Pop/Rock band from the early 1980s from Northern New Jersey U.S.
References
- ^ Cooksley. (pgs 50,61) (Wing Commander Douglas Kendall at RAF Medmenham was the first to announce a 'Diver' had been observed, although earlier V-1 flying bombs had been seen.)
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Translations:
Translations for:
Diver
Dansk (Danish)
n. - udspringer, dykker, perledykker, dykfugl
Nederlands (Dutch)
duiker, bordenwasser
Français (French)
n. - plongeur
Deutsch (German)
n. - Taucher, Kunstspringer
Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - δύτης, βουτηχτής
Italiano (Italian)
sommozzatore, palombaro
Português (Portuguese)
n. - mergulhador (m)
Español (Spanish)
n. - buzo, buceador, submarinista
Svenska (Swedish)
n. - dykare, zool. dykarfågel
中文（简体） (Chinese (Simplified))
潜水者
中文（繁體） (Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 潛水者
한국어 (Korean)
n. - 잠수부, 급강하 폭격기, 연구자
日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 水に潜る人, 潜水夫, ダイバー, 水に潜る鳥
العربيه (Arabic)
(الاسم) الغطاس, , الغواص
עברית (Hebrew)
n. - צולל, אמודאי
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 | Dictionary. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition Copyright © 2007, 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Updated in 2007. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. Read more |
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