Diver
['daɪvə] or ['daɪvɚ]
Definition
(noun.) someone who dives (into water).
(noun.) someone who works underwater.
Typist: Maura--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) One who, or that which, dives.
(n.) Fig.: One who goes deeply into a subject, study, or business.
(n.) Any bird of certain genera, as Urinator (formerly Colymbus), or the allied genus Colymbus, or Podiceps, remarkable for their agility in diving.
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Examples
- The important feature of this boat was a diver’s compartment, enabling divers to leave the vessel when submerged, for the purpose of operating on wrecks or performing other undersea duties. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- During the experiment in Long Island Sound the pump was stopped for ten minutes, while the diver was at a depth of 100 feet. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- A reservoir containing highly compressed air is fixed on the diver’s back, which supplies him with air by a self-regulating apparatus at a pressure corresponding to his depth. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- So the diver hoisted it up, and was much disappointed on opening it to find no pearls. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- The diver sometimes carries on his back a tank of compressed air, from which the air escapes through a tube to the space between the body and the suit. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- The diver in this invention carries his pump with him and has air supplied to him at atmospheric pressure. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- In the Long Island Sound experiments the diver was hoisted to the surface in eighty-seven seconds. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- DIVER The week passed away. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The great object in all these is to furnish the diver with fresh air, without which he must either make but a short stay under water or perish. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Leaden weights are attached to the diver, and his shoes are weighted, that he may be able to descend a ladder, walk about below, etc. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- According to the British Admiralty regulations, should a diver go down to a depth of 204 feet, the time of his ascent must be not less than one hour and a half. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Without the aid of artificial appliances a skilful diver may remain under water for two, or even three minutes; accounts of longer periods are doubtful or absurd. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- When the air has become foul, the diver opens a valve in his suit and allows it to pass into the water, at the same time admitting a fresh supply from the tank. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- A diver has remained an hour and a half under thirty-five feet of water in this suit. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Another form, known as the Fleuss dress, makes the diver also independent of exterior aid. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The important feature of this boat was a diver’s compartment, enabling divers to leave the vessel when submerged, for the purpose of operating on wrecks or performing other undersea duties. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Divers and men who work under water carry on their backs a tank of compressed air, and take from it, at will, the amount required. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- This vessel and its successors have bottom doors for the use of divers, as previously stated. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The earliest birds seem to have been carnivorous divers and water birds. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Divers young ladies watched them afar off, but ventured not nigh. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Few tombs on earth command the veneration of so many races and men of divers creeds as this of Joseph. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- This is blind work when done by divers from the surface, the returns being largely matters of chance. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Charles Goodyear took this nearly worthless material, and made of it, as Parton said in 1865--not a new material merely, but a new class of materials, applicable to a thousand divers uses. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Pictures are the universal language, not only to those of divers tongues, but to those of every stage of mental development. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- We have shot others of divers nationality. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
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