SWAN DIVE

Meaning of SWAN DIVE in English

[swan dive] n (1898): a front dive executed with the head back, back arched, and arms spread sideways and then brought together above the head to form a straight line with the body as the diver enters the water

Merriam-Webster English vocab. Английский словарь Merriam Webster. 2012

SWAN DIVE — noun Date: 1898 a front dive executed with the head back, back arched, and arms spread sideways and then brought …
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
SWAN DIVE — noun : a front dive executed with the trunk extended, head back, back arched, and arms spread sideways at shoulder …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
SWAN-DIVE — /swon"duyv'/ , v.i. , swan-dived, swan-diving . 1. to perform a swan dive. 2. to decrease suddenly and decisively; plummet: …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
SWAN DIVE — Diving. a forward dive in which the diver while in the air assumes a position with the arms outstretched at …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
SWAN DIVE — Date: 1898 : a front dive executed with the head back, back arched, and arms spread sideways and then brought …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
SWAN DIVE — Function: noun Date: 1898 : a front dive executed with the head back, back arched, and arms spread sideways and …
Merriam Webster Collegiate English Dictionary
SWAN DIVE — ■ noun N. Amer. a swallow dive.
Concise Oxford English vocab
SWAN DIVE — noun ( NAmE ) = swallow dive
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
SWAN DIVE — Synonyms and related words : belly buster, belly flop, belly whopper, cannonball, crash dive, dive, drop, fall, gainer, header, jackknife, …
Moby Thesaurus English vocabulary
SWAN DIVE — прыжок ласточкой
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
SWAN-DIVE — (американизм) (спортивное) прыжок в воду ласточкой
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
SWAN-DIVE — амер. = swallow dive
Англо-Русско-Английский словарь общей лексики - Сборник из лучших словарей
SWAN DIVE — (n) прыжок в воду ласточкой
English-Russian Lingvistica'98 dictionary
SWAN-DIVE — амер. = swallow dive
Новый большой Англо-Русский словарь - Апресян, Медникова
SWAN-DIVE — амер. = swallow dive
Большой новый Англо-Русский словарь
SWAN DIVE — сущ. ; амер. прыжок в воду ласточкой
Англо-Русский словарь по общей лексике
SWAN DIVE — сущ.; амер. прыжок в воду ласточкой
Англо-Русский словарь общей лексики
SWAN-DIVE — (американизм) (спортивное) прыжок в воду ласточкой
Новый большой Англо-Русский словарь
SWAN DIVE — прыжок ласточкой
Новый большой Англо-Русский словарь
SWAN — I Long-necked, heavy-bodied, big-footed waterfowl (genus Cygnus , family Anatidae). Among waterfowl, swans are the largest and fastest, both swimming …
Английский словарь Британика
SWAN — I. ˈswän also -wȯn noun ( plural swans also swan ) Usage: often attributive Etymology: Middle English, from Old English; …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
DIVE — I. ˈdīv verb ( dived ˈdīvd ; or dove ˈdōv, substand ˈdəv ; or nonstandard div ˈdiv ; dived ; …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
SWAN — (n.) Fig.: An appellation for a sweet singer, or a poet noted for grace and melody; as Shakespeare is called …
Английский словарь Webster
SWAN — (n.) Any one of numerous species of large aquatic birds belonging to Cygnus, Olor, and allied genera of the subfamily …
Английский словарь Webster
SWAN — ( n. ) Fig.: An appellation for a sweet singer, or a poet noted for grace and melody; as Shakespeare …
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
SWAN — ( n. ) Any one of numerous species of large aquatic birds belonging to Cygnus, Olor, and allied genera of …
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
SWAN — swan 1 — swanlike , adj. /swon/ , n. 1. any of several large, stately aquatic birds of the subfamily …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
DIVE — /duyv/ , v. , dived or dove, dived, diving , n. v.i. 1. to plunge into water, esp. headfirst. 2. …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
SWAN — I. ˈswän noun ( plural swans ) Etymology: Middle English, from Old English; akin to Middle High German swan and …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
DIVE — I. ˈdīv verb ( dived ˈdīvd ; or dove ˈdōv ; dived also dove ; div·ing ) Etymology: Middle English …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
SWAN — noun the constellation cygnus. 2. swan ·noun fig.: an appellation for a sweet singer, or a poet noted for grace …
Webster English vocab
DIVE — noun a place of low resort. 2. dive ·vt to explore by diving; to plunge into. 3. dive ·add. ·pl …
Webster English vocab
SWAN — [swan] n, pl swans [ME, fr. OE; akin to MHG swan and perh. to L sonus sound--more at sound] (bef. …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
DIVE — [dive] vb dived or dove ; dived also dove ; div.ing [ME diven, duven, fr. OE dyfan to dip & …
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SWAN
Britannica English vocabulary
SWAN — swan, Swan BrE AmE swɒn AmE swɑːn ▷ swanned swɒnd AmE swɑːnd ▷ swanning ˈswɒn ɪŋ AmE ˈswɑːn ɪŋ ▷ …
Longman Pronunciation English Dictionary
DIVE — / daɪv; NAmE / verb , noun ■ verb ( dived , dived , NAmE also dove / dəʊv; NAmE …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
SWAN — I. swan 1 /swɒn $ swɑːn/ BrE AmE noun [countable] [ Language: Old English ] a large white bird with …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
DIVE — I. dive 1 /daɪv/ BrE AmE verb ( past tense dived also dove /dəʊv $ doʊv/ American English , past …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
SWAN — n. & v. --n. 1 a large water-bird of the genus Cygnus etc., having a long flexible neck, webbed feet, …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
DIVE — v. & n. --v. (dived or US dove) 1 intr. plunge head first into water, esp. as a sport. 2 …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
SWAN — n. & v. n. 1 a large water-bird of the genus Cygnus etc., having a long flexible neck, webbed feet, …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
DIVE — v. & n. v. (dived or US dove) 1 intr. plunge head first into water, esp. as a sport. 2 …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
SWAN — n. & v. --n. 1. a large water-bird of the genus Cygnus etc., having a long flexible neck, webbed feet, …
Oxford English vocab
DIVE — v. & n. --v. (dived or US dove) 1. intr. plunge head first into water, esp. as a sport. 2 …
Oxford English vocab
DIVE — ( dives, diving, dived) Note: American English sometimes uses the form 'dove', pronounced / doʊv / for the past tense. …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
DIVE — (~s, diving, ~d) 1. If you ~ into some water, you jump in head-first with your arms held straight above …
Collins COBUILD - Толковый словарь английского языка для изучающих язык
SWAN — I. noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Apparently the ballerina Pavlova came here to learn to dance like a swan for …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
DIVE — I. verb COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a duck dives (= puts its head down under the water ) ▪ A …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
SWAN — (BIRD) [noun] [C] - a large usually white bird with a long neck that lives on rivers and lakes. There …
Cambridge English vocab
SWAN — n. Swan River Swan Sir Joseph Wilson trumpeter swan whistling swan
Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
SWAN — n. Long-necked, heavy-bodied, big-footed waterfowl (genus Cygnus , family Anatidae). Among waterfowl, swans are the largest and fastest, both swimming …
Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
DIVE — Synonyms and related words : abate, ablate, acrobatics, aerobatics, alehouse, bagnio, banking, bar, barrel house, barroom, bate, bathe, bawdyhouse, be …
Moby Thesaurus English vocabulary
DIVE — To dive; to pick a pocket. To dive for a dinner; to go down into a cellar to dinner. A …
Slang English vocab
SWAN — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ black , white ▪ beautiful , graceful ▪ dying ( figurative ) SWAN + VERB ▪ float …
Oxford Collocations English Dictionary
DIVE — I. noun 1 of an aircraft ADJECTIVE ▪ steep , vertical ▪ gentle , shallow ▪ spiral VERB + DIVE …
Oxford Collocations English Dictionary
DIVE — n. 25B6; verb they dived into the clear water 007C; the plane was diving towards the ground : PLUNGE, nosedive, …
Concise Oxford Thesaurus English vocabulary
SWAN — сущ. 1) лебедь Syn : cob 2) (Swan) астр. созвездие Лебедя 3) бард, поэт Syn : bard, poet (зоология) лебедь …
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
DIVE
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SWAN — swan.ogg swɒn n ( pl тж. без измен.) 1. зоол. лебедь ( Cygnus ) white swan - белый лебедь black …
Англо-Русско-Английский словарь общей лексики - Сборник из лучших словарей
DIVE — dive.ogg 1. daıv n 1. прыжок в воду ( обыкн. головой); нырок compulsory free dives - обязательные произвольные прыжки в …
Англо-Русско-Английский словарь общей лексики - Сборник из лучших словарей
DIVE — 1) погружение || погружаться 2) пикирование || пикировать • to pull out from dive — выводить из пикирования - brake …
Большой Англо-Русский политехнический словарь
DIVE — 1) погружение || погружаться 2) пикирование || пикировать • to pull out from dive — выводить из пикирования - brake dive - shallow dive - spiral …
Большой Англо-Русский политехнический словарь - РУССО
DIVE — авиац. пикирование || пикировать to go into dive — входить в пикирование to pull out of dive — выводить из пикирования - steep dive - …
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