English Dictionary

dive

/daɪv/

verb

To swim under water. / To jump into water head-first. / To jump headfirst toward the ground or into another substance. / To descend sharply or steeply.

I love to dive into the deep ocean and explore the underwater world.

意味（1）

To swim under water.

意味（2）

To jump into water head-first.

It is not that pearls fetch a high price because men have dived for them.

意味（3）

To jump headfirst toward the ground or into another substance.

to dive into home plate

意味（4）

To descend sharply or steeply.

[the Hammersmith & City at Paddington]: There it dived underground, eventually enabling its train services to run over, and be entangled with, the easterly extensions of the Metropolitan and the District.

意味（5）

(especially with in) To undertake with enthusiasm.

She dove right in and started making improvements.

意味（6）

(sports) To deliberately fall down after a challenge, imitating being fouled, in the hope of getting one's opponent penalised.

意味（7）

To cause to descend, dunk; to plunge something into water.

To dive an infant either thrice or but once in Baptism

意味（8）

(transitive) To explore by diving; to plunge into.

The Curtii bravely dived the gulf of flame.

意味（9）

(figuratively) To plunge or to go deeply into any subject, question, business, etc.; to penetrate; to explore.

dive into the Concerns of all about them