Divers
['daɪvəz] or ['daɪvɚz]
Definition
(adj.) many and different; 'tourist offices of divers nationalities'; 'a person of diverse talents' .
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Definition
(a.) Different in kind or species; diverse.
(a.) Several; sundry; various; more than one, but not a great number; as, divers philosophers. Also used substantively or pronominally.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Various, several, sundry, numerous, many.
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Definition
adj. sundry: several: more than one: (B.) same as Diverse.
Typist: Ralph
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.
- 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.
Typist: Ralph