Word Meanings - DIVING - Book Publishers vocabulary database
That dives or is used or diving. Diving beetle , any beetle of the family Dytiscidæ, which habitually lives under water; - - called also water tiger. -- Diving bell, a hollow inverted vessel, sometimes bell-shaped, in which men may descend and
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That dives or is used or diving. Diving beetle , any beetle of the family Dytiscidæ, which habitually lives under water; - - called also water tiger. -- Diving bell, a hollow inverted vessel, sometimes bell-shaped, in which men may descend and work under water, respiration being sustained by the compressed air at the top, by fresh air pumped in through a tube from above. -- Diving dress. See Submarine armor, under Submarine. -- Diving stone, a kind of jasper.
Related words: (words related to DIVING)
- UNDERDOER
One who underdoes; a shirk. - HOLLOW-HEARTED
Insincere; deceitful; not sound and true; having a cavity or decayed spot within. Syn. -- Faithless; dishonest; false; treacherous. - UNDERBRED
Not thoroughly bred; ill-bred; as, an underbred fellow. Goldsmith. - WATER-BEARER
The constellation Aquarius. - DIVERSIFORM
Of a different form; of varied forms. - CALLOSUM
The great band commissural fibers which unites the two cerebral hemispheres. See corpus callosum, under Carpus. - UNDERSECRETARY
A secretary who is subordinate to the chief secretary; an assistant secretary; as, an undersecretary of the Treasury. - CALLOW
1. Destitute of feathers; naked; unfledged. An in the leafy summit, spied a nest, Which, o'er the callow young, a sparrow pressed. Dryden. 2. Immature; boyish; "green"; as, a callow youth. I perceive by this, thou art but a callow maid. Old Play . - UNDERPLOT
1. A series of events in a play, proceeding collaterally with the main story, and subservient to it. Dryden. 2. A clandestine scheme; a trick. Addison. - CALLE
A kind of head covering; a caul. Chaucer. - TIGERINE
Tigerish; tigrine. - UNDERNICENESS
A want of niceness; indelicacy; impropriety. - DIVEDAPPER
A water fowl; the didapper. See Dabchick. - UNDERSOIL
The soil beneath the surface; understratum; subsoil. - UNDERDOLVEN
p. p. of Underdelve. - WATERWORT
Any plant of the natural order Elatineæ, consisting of two genera , mostly small annual herbs growing in the edges of ponds. Some have a peppery or acrid taste. - WATER SHREW
Any one of several species of shrews having fringed feet and capable of swimming actively. The two common European species are the best known. The most common American water shrew, or marsh shrew , is rarely seen, owing to its nocturnal habits. - DIVORCEABLE
Capable of being divorced. - DIVESTITURE
The act of stripping, or depriving; the state of being divested; the deprivation, or surrender, of possession of property, rights, etc. - WATER-TIGHT
So tight as to retain, or not to admit, water; not leaky. - GYMNASTICALLY
In a gymnastic manner. - INDIVISIBLY
In an indivisible manner. - MISHAPPEN
To happen ill or unluckily. Spenser. - BARK BEETLE
A small beetle of many species , which in the larval state bores under or in the bark of trees, often doing great damage. - HYPERCRITICALLY
In a hypercritical manner. - UNEMPIRICALLY
Not empirically; without experiment or experience.