dive
English[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
From Middle English diven, duven, from the merger of Old English dȳfan (“to dip, immerse”, transitive weak verb) (from Proto-Germanic *dūbijaną) and dūfan (“to duck, dive, sink, penetrate”, intransitive strong verb) (past participle ġedofen). Cognate with Icelandic dýfa (“to dip, dive”), Low German bedaven (“covered, covered with water”). See also deep, dip.
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Verb[edit]
dive (third-person singular simple present dives, present participle diving, simple past dived or (chiefly U.S. and Canada) dove, past participle dived or (chiefly U.S. and Canada) dove or (dialectal) doven)
- To swim under water.
- To jump into water head-first.
- 1826, Richard Whately, Elements of Logic
- It is not that pearls fetch a high price because men have dived for them.
- 1826, Richard Whately, Elements of Logic
- To jump headfirst toward the ground or into another substance.
- to dive into home plate
- To descend sharply or steeply.
- 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 49:
- [the Hammersmith & City at Paddington]: There it dived underground, eventually enabling its train services to run over, and be entangled with, the easterly extensions of the Metropolitan and the District.
- (especially with in) To undertake with enthusiasm.
- She dove right in and started making improvements.
- (sports) To deliberately fall down after a challenge, imitating being fouled, in the hope of getting one's opponent penalised.
- To cause to descend, dunk; to plunge something into water.
- 1594–1597, Richard Hooker, J[ohn] S[penser], editor, Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie, […], London: […] Will[iam] Stansby [for Matthew Lownes], published 1611, OCLC 931154958, (please specify the page):
- To dive an infant either thrice or but once in Baptism
- (transitive) To explore by diving; to plunge into.
- 1668, John Denham, The Progress of Learning
- The Curtii bravely dived the gulf of flame.
- 1867, Ralph Waldo Emerson, “May-Day”, in May-Day and Other Pieces, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, OCLC 1184564533, page 20:
- The green lane is the school-boy's friend, / Low leaves his quarrel apprehend, / […] / The brimming brook invites a leap, / He dives the hollow, climbs the steep.
- 1668, John Denham, The Progress of Learning
- (figuratively) To plunge or to go deeply into any subject, question, business, etc.; to penetrate; to explore.
- 1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), 6th edition, London: […] J[ames] Bettenham, for Jonah Bowyer, […], published 1727, OCLC 21766567:
- dive into the Concerns of all about them
Usage notes[edit]
The past tense dove is found chiefly in North American English, where it is used alongside the regular (and earlier) dived, with regional variations; in British English dived is the standard past tense, dove existing only in some dialects. Some speakers express uncertainty about what the past participle should be;[1] dove is relatively rare as a past participle. (Compare Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary; The American Heritage Dictionary; The Cambridge Guide to English Usage)
Conjugation[edit]
infinitive | dive | ||||||||||
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present participle | diving | ||||||||||
past participle | dived | ||||||||||
simple | progressive | perfect | perfect progressive | ||||||||
present | I dive | we dive | I am diving | we are diving | I have dived | we have dived | I have been diving | we have been diving | |||
you dive | you dive | you are diving | you are diving | you have dived | you have dived | you have been diving | you have been diving | ||||
he dives | they dive | he is diving | they are diving | he has dived | they have dived | he has been diving | they have been diving | ||||
past | I dived | we dived | I was diving | we were diving | I had dived | we had dived | I had been diving | we had been diving | |||
you dived | you dived | you were diving | you were diving | you had dived | you had dived | you had been diving | you had been diving | ||||
he dived | they dived | he was diving | they were diving | he had dived | they had dived | he had been diving | they had been diving | ||||
future | I will dive | we will dive | I will be diving | we will be diving | I will have dived | we will have dived | I will have been diving | we will have been diving | |||
you will dive | you will dive | you will be diving | you will be diving | you will have dived | you will have dived | you will have been diving | you will have been diving | ||||
he will dive | they will dive | he will be diving | they will be diving | he will have dived | they will have dived | he will have been diving | they will have been diving | ||||
conditional | I would dive | we would dive | I would be diving | we would be diving | I would have dived | we would have dived | I would have been diving | we would have been diving | |||
you would dive | you would dive | you would be diving | you would be diving | you would have dived | you would have dived | you would have been diving | you would have been diving | ||||
he would dive | they would dive | he would be diving | they would be diving | he would have dived | they would have dived | he would have been diving | they would have been diving | ||||
imperative | dive |
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References[edit]
- ^ Albright, Adam, "Lexical and morphological conditioning of paradigm gaps".
Noun[edit]
dive (plural dives)
- A jump or plunge into water.
- the dive of a hawk after prey
- A headfirst jump toward the ground or into another substance.
- 2016 August 16, Kate Samuelson, “Here Are Other Athletes Who Famously Won with a Dive”, in Time[1]:
- The 24-year-old Brazilian hurdler Joao Vitor de Oliveira progressed to the Rio competition’s semi-finals by executing a Superman-style dive headfirst over the finishing line – beating South Africa’s Antonio Alkana by one hundredth of a second.
- A downward swooping motion.
- A swim under water.
- A decline.
- (slang) A seedy bar, nightclub, etc.
- (aviation) Aerial descent with the nose pointed down.
- (sports) A deliberate fall after a challenge.
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Etymology 2[edit]
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dive
Etymology 3[edit]
Noun[edit]
dive (plural dives)
- Obsolete form of daeva.
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dive
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dive f
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dīve
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