Meaning

8 senses
  1. Someone who dives, especially as a sport.

    someone who dives (into water)

  2. Someone who works underwater; a frogman.

    Taucher, Taucherin

    ныря́льщикnyrjálʹščik, ныря́льщицаnyrjálʹščica, водола́зvodoláz

    водола́зvodoláz, норе́цьnorécʹ

    someone who works underwater

  3. (Ireland, UK)Loon (Gavia spp.)

  4. A New Zealand sand diver (Tewara cranwellae)

  5. A long-finned sand diver (Limnichthys polyactis)

  6. (London, dated)A passenger carrying vehicle using an underground route; specially, a diver tram, one using the former Kingsway tramway subway (1906-1952).

  7. A competitor in certain sports who is known to regularly imitate being fouled, with the purpose of getting his/her opponent penalised.

  8. (obsolete, slang)A pickpocket.

Examples

59 sentences
  1. Tom is an accomplished diver.

    Том - досвідчений дайвер.

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  2. The divers didn't make it back.

    ruВодолазы не смогли вернуться.

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  3. The divers are running out of air.

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  4. I know Tom is a good diver.

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  5. I know that Tom is a good diver.

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
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Русский
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underwater:
Deutsch
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Forms

plural: divers
Singulardiver
Pluraldivers

regular

Synonyms

4 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • someone who dives (into water):plunger
  • someone who works underwater:underwater diver
  • large somewhat primitive fish-eating diving bird of the Northern Hemisphere having webbed feet placed far back; related to the grebes:loon

Word family

32 related words

See also

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