I. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a duck dives (= puts its head down under the water )
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A single wild duck was swimming and diving.
dive/fall/jump/plunge head-first
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I fell head-first down the stairs.
diving bell
diving board
Dumpster diving
scuba diving
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
down
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I suddenly noticed that we were diving down again.
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I ignore him and dive down to my furniture underworld to etch the bizarre scene on my mind once more.
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It had been going more and more slowly since diving down from the weathercock.
in
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Smith and Hannaford teaming up again with fly half, Neil Matthews diving in .
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He dives in and helps two children out the open rear window of the car.
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Effie dives in , like a knife in the water, and they start racing each other to the shore.
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Side by side, we dive in .
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So these dare devils have got 6 months to dry out before diving in at the deep end once again.
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Queequeg dives in and soon surfaces with Tashtego in tow.
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Not diving in and all that.
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I just want us to dive in and see where it takes us.
off
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There's Daddy Dyance diving off desks and whacking boys with the cane - it was that kind of school.
■ NOUN
cover
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A man who was in the car park at the time said he was forced to dive for cover .
water
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Once I seen some one dive into the road like diving into water .
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Queequeg quickly fastens the boom and then dives into the freezing water and rescues the bumpkin.
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Steven: He dives in the water .
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Soon Evan had filled his notebook page with memories of diving under the water to get a closer look at the boat.
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I find myself pantomiming a bird with large wings, diving into the water , catching a fish in its beak.
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At summer camp in Vermont they have to dive into dark water from the lip of a granite quarry.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A woman dived in to rescue the boy.
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Evan dived off the rock into the sea.
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Flight 776 from Orlando suddenly lost cabin pressure and dived nearly four miles.
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Ralph dived into the icy water.
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Roger was standing at the edge of the pool ready to dive .
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She stood at the edge of the pool waiting to dive .
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Slowly, the submarine began to dive .
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The dollar dived against the Japanese yen in Tokyo today.
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The engine did not re-start, and the plane dived to the ground.
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The hawk stopped in mid-flight before diving down on its prey.
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The men use scuba gear to dive for abalone.
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The pool was deserted, and Lindsey wasted no time before diving in head-first.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But with the thrust coming from the back the body is nose-heavy and liable to dive downwards.
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I was spoiled by my prime seat as a pilot and remember fondly that view when I dive now as a scientist.
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Queequeg quickly fastens the boom and then dives into the freezing water and rescues the bumpkin.
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The children then dive for them and see how many items of treasure they can catch.
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We dive into the seat, piling on to each other.
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While diving, the menu is inaccessible and all functions are automatic.
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You can really dive into it.
II. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
steep
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Instinctively I went into a steep spiral dive , furiously angry that I had been beaten at my own game.
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This, not his ethical problems, caused the steepest dive in his national popularity, to its current nadir.
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He naturally tried to recover from the steep dive before striking the ground.
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There have been several cases of two-seaters being overstressed by pilots pulling back hard to recover from steep dives after spin recoveries.
vertical
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He then attacked a third which went down in a vertical dive , apparently into the sea.
■ VERB
make
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Bernard looked up and Apricot made a dive to undo his zip.
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It was on this cruise that I made my first dive to the seafloor.
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He made periodic dives at the bowl of cherries poised on a coffee table by the sofa.
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Over the next year and a half I became a competent pilot, making forty-eight dives as pilot-in-command.
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We make a dive into the motel office, two travelling strangers.
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I made my last dive as a pilot in December 1991.
pull
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He pulled out of the dive and cleared the target area, every joint and spar in the aeroplane shuddering under the strain.
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The pilot, who was later court martialled, was unable to pull up from a dive and ploughed into the ground.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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It was a dive , but it was the only place to go that was near the airport.
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She did a perfect dive from the top board.
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That was a perfect dive .
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Two BF109 planes flashed past in a steep dive .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Nobody else in this dive has any money, and for them it will he a long cold evening.
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Optional dives are performed in the quarterfinal, followed by required dives in the semifinal and optionals again in the final.
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We prepared the bell for the dive .