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Diver definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

DIVER, n.
1. One who dives; one who plunges head first into water; one who sinks by effort; as a diver in the pearl fishery.
2. One who goes deep into a subject, or enters deep into study.
3. A fowl, so called from diving. The name is given to several species of the genus Colymbus.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: someone who works underwater [syn: diver, frogman, underwater diver]
2: someone who dives (into water) [syn: diver, plunger]
3: large somewhat primitive fish-eating diving bird of the northern hemisphere having webbed feet placed far back; related to the grebes [syn: loon, diver]

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 1506 1. one that dives 2. a. a person who stays underwater for long periods by having air supplied from the surface or by carrying a supply of compressed air b. any of various birds that obtain food by diving in water; especially loon

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. 1 a person who dives. 2 a a person who wears a diving-suit to work under water for long periods. b a pearl-diver etc. 3 any of various diving birds, esp. large water-birds of the family Gaviidae.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Diver Div"er, n. 1. One who, or that which, dives. Divers and fishers for pearls. --Woodward. 2. Fig.: One who goes deeply into a subject, study, or business. ``A diver into causes.'' --Sir H. Wotton. 3. (Zo["o]l.) Any bird of certain genera, as Urinator (formerly Colymbus), or the allied genus Colymbus, or Podiceps, remarkable for their agility in diving. Note: The northern diver (Urinator imber) is the loon; the black diver or velvet scoter (Oidemia fusca) is a sea duck. See Loon, and Scoter.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(divers) A diver is a person who swims under water using special breathing equipment. N-COUNT

1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue

A pickpocket; also one who lives in a cellar.

Moby Thesaurus

bather, bathing beauty, bathing girl, cannon, cutpurse, deep-sea diver, dip, free diver, frogman, jumper, mermaid, merman, natator, parachute jumper, pearl diver, plunger, scuba diver, skin diver, sky diver, snorkel diver, swimmer, wire