diver
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editdiver (plural divers)
- Someone who dives, especially as a sport.
- Synonym: (obsolete) urinator
- 1979 August 25, “Body Found Near the Fenway”, in Gay Community News, volume 7, number 6, page 2:
- A passerby noticed the man's body protruding from the water at about 9 p.m. and Boston and Metropolitan police divers were called to the scene.
- Someone who works underwater; a frogman.
- (UK, Ireland) loon (Gavia)
- The New Zealand sand diver.
- The long-finned sand diver.
- (London, dated) A passenger carrying vehicle using an underground route; specially, a diver tram, one using the former Kingsway tramway subway (1906-1952).
- (slang, obsolete) pickpocket
- (sports) A competitor in certain sports who is known to regularly imitate being fouled, with the purpose of getting his/her opponent penalised.
Derived terms
edit- autem diver
- black-throated diver
- Cartesian diver
- cave diver
- deep diver
- diverless
- dumpster-diver
- dumpster diver
- dun diver
- earth-diver
- free-diver
- graveldiver
- great northern diver
- hell-diver
- muff-diver
- muff diver
- Pacific diver
- paradiver
- pearl diver
- red-throated diver
- ruddy diver
- sand diver
- sat diver
- saturation diver
- scuba diver
- skin-diver
- smoke diver
- spider diver
- sportdiver
- stage diver
- synchronized diver
- web diver
- white-billed diver
Translations
editsomeone who dives
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someone who works underwater
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Gavia — see loon
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editInherited from Proto-Slavic *děverь.
Noun
editdȉver m (Cyrillic spelling ди̏вер)
- (Chakavian, Ikavian) brother-in-law (one's husband's brother)
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