Usually means: Submerge in water, explore depth.
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General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. dive: Merriam-Webster
  2. dive: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. dive, dive: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. dive: Collins English Dictionary
  5. dive: Vocabulary.com
  6. Dive, dive: Wordnik
  7. dive: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. dive: Wiktionary
  9. dive: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. dive: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. dive: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Dive, dive: Dictionary.com
  13. dive: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. dive: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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  16. Dive: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. dive: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. dive: Rhymezone
  19. dive: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. dive: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. dive: FreeDictionary.org
  22. dive: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. Dive: The Word Detective
  24. dive: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. dive: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  26. dive: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. dive: Legal dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. BABEL: Computer Oriented Abbreviations and Acronyms (No longer online)
  2. dive: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. dive: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. DIVE: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  3. dive: Idioms

Slang (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. dive, dive, dive: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. dive: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. DIVE: Urban Dictionary
  4. Dive: Twists, Slugs and Roscoes: Hardboiled Slang

Sports (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Racquetball Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See dived as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (intransitive) To swim under water.
verb:  (intransitive) To jump into water head-first.
verb:  (intransitive) To jump headfirst toward the ground or into another substance.
verb:  (intransitive) To descend sharply or steeply.
verb:  (intransitive) To lose altitude quickly by pointing downwards, as with a bird or aircraft.
verb:  (intransitive, especially with in) To undertake with enthusiasm.
verb:  (sports) To deliberately fall down after a challenge, imitating being fouled, in the hope of getting one's opponent penalised.
verb:  (transitive) To cause to descend, dunk; to plunge something into water.
verb:  (transitive) To explore by diving; to plunge into.
verb:  (intransitive, figuratively) To plunge or to go deeply into any subject, question, business, etc.; to penetrate; to explore.
noun:  A jump or plunge into water.
noun:  A headfirst jump toward the ground or into another substance.
noun:  A downward swooping motion.
noun:  A swim under water.
noun:  A decline.
noun:  (slang) A seedy bar, nightclub, etc.
noun:  (aviation) Aerial descent with the nose pointed down.
noun:  (sports) A deliberate fall after a challenge.
noun:  Obsolete form of daeva. [(Zoroastrianism) A supernatural entity of disagreeable nature, usually considered as a demon.]

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