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Definition of Dive

Dive

To plunge into water head foremost; to thrust the body under, or deeply into, water or other fluid.

Fig.: To plunge or to go deeply into any subject, question, business, etc.; to penetrate; to explore.

To plunge (a person or thing) into water; to dip; to duck.

To explore by diving; to plunge into.

A plunge headforemost into water, the act of one who dives, literally or figuratively.

A place of low resort.

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Dive Quotations

If everything had already been done, there would be nothing left for young people to accomplish. There are always going to be people who run faster, jump higher, dive deeper, and come up drier.
Darrell Royal

This life is like a swimming pool. You dive into the water, but you can't see how deep it is.
Dennis Rodman

You have to really dive deep back into yourself and get rid of so much modern analytical categorization. It's one of the great things poetry does.
Robert Morgan

Going on Letterman is like going off the high dive. It's exhilarating, but after a while it wasn't the kind of thrill I enjoyed.
Lynda Barry

He who would search for pearls must dive below.
John Dryden

I try to swim every damn day I can, and I've learned to scuba dive and snorkel.
Nina Simone

I think you have to know who you are. Get to know the monster that lives in your soul, dive deep into your soul and explore it.
Tori Amos

You have to just dive over the edge. You haven't got time to mess about.
Ralph Fiennes

I was taking a nose dive somewhere between eleven and twelve because my sister had died and I was practicing something that siblings do which is follow in their footsteps and die as well.
Leo Kottke

We had doubles for some of the stuff but a lot of it had to do with there's certain hours that you can dive and then you can't dive for another certain, like 12 hours just for the air and stuff.
Ashley Scott

If I have a Sunday free, I'll go up the coast and spend some time on the beach. I scuba dive and swim and sail. A lot of the things I like are around the water.
Parker Stevenson

A lot of the tabloid stories are written so well, they're very clever and very funny. But you have to focus on what's really important and not read them - don't dive into it and don't get caught up in it.
Calista Flockhart

I loved the Little Lulu stories, where she would fantasize that her bedroom rug would turn into a pool of water, and she could dive down into the center of the world.
Lynn Johnston

I'm so excited. I love Peeta so much. I think that over the course of the next couple of books, he has so many interesting places to go to, character-wise. I'm ready to dive full-force into it. When I saw the movie actually, it got me energized. 'Let's go get some cameras! Let's go shoot the second one right now!'
Josh Hutcherson

Dive on them and squash them if you must.
Jeremy Taylor

I swim all the time at night - I've always been a water girl. It's a black-bottom pool and my pool light was out, and as I've done a thousand times I just kind of did a little seal dive. I saw a huge bright light and I literally thought, 'That's it.'
Brooke Burns

I had a few stocks, but stocks took a dive. I never sell my stocks.
Mickey Gilley

I never expected in a million years that I would have the honor to become an advocate of women's health care and education, and I'd dive on a live grenade to get this message out, so thank you for this forum.
Karen Duffy

I sail, scuba dive, play football, basketball.
Casper Van Dien

I was training more learning how to scuba dive which I'd never done which was really, really, really cool.
Ashley Scott

I don't really like to go out to clubs or anything. It's just not my style. I'd much rather go to a dive bar or a local place.
Anna Faris

I dive as much as I can.
Peter Benchley

If he was lost for a moment, he would dive straight back into its honey.
Laurence Olivier

I'll live a lush life in some small dive.
Billy Strayhorn

For years, I've been wondering what could happen to nuclear submarines when they dive and disappear from the surface of the earth for months, without a trace. No one really knows where they are.
Guy Hamilton

The lake at Neverland is right in the very front, and you just want to dive in.
Rick Dees

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Dive Translations

dive in Danish is synke, dykke
dive in Dutch is duiken
dive in French is plongeons, plongez, plonge, plongent, plonger
dive in German is tauchen, tauchen, tauche
dive in Italian is mi tuffo
dive in Norwegian is stupe, stup, dykk, dykke
dive in Portuguese is mergulho
dive in Spanish is bucear
dive in Swedish is dyka

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