Crossword clues for aqualung
aqualung
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
aqualung \aqualung\ n. an apparatus containing compressed air or other oxygen-gas mixture, permitting a person to breathe under water; -- also called a scuba.
Syn: scuba
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. A piece of equipment consisting of an oxygen tank and breathing apparatus used by divers to allow them to breathe underwater at depth. vb. To scuba dive.
WordNet
n. a device (trade name Aqua-Lung) that lets divers breathe under water; scuba is an acronym for self-contained underwater breathing apparatus [syn: Aqua-Lung, scuba]
Wikipedia
Aqualung is the fourth studio album by the rock band Jethro Tull. Released in 1971, Aqualung, despite the band's disagreement, is regarded as a concept album featuring a central theme of "the distinction between religion and God". The album's "dour musings on faith and religion" have marked it as "one of the most cerebral albums ever to reach millions of rock listeners". Aqualung success marked a turning point in the band's career, who went on to become a major radio and touring act.
Recorded at Island Records' studio in London, it was their first album with John Evan as a full-time member, their first with new bassist Jeffrey Hammond and last album featuring Clive Bunker on drums. Something of a departure from the band's previous work, the album features more acoustic material than previous releases; and—inspired by photographs of homeless people on the Thames Embankment taken by singer Ian Anderson's wife Jennie—contains a number of recurring themes, addressing religion along with Anderson's own personal experiences.
Aqualung has sold more than seven million units worldwide according to Anderson, and is thus Jethro Tull's best selling album. The album was generally well-received critically, and has been included on several music magazine "best of" lists. The album spawned two singles, "Hymn 43" and " Locomotive Breath".
Aqualung may refer to:
- Aqua-lung, a type of diving equipment
- Aqua Lung/La Spirotechnique, a French manufacturer of diving equipment
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Aqua Lung America, US subsidiary of the French company
- Apeks, subsidiary of Aqua Lung America that produces diving regulators and drysuit valves
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Aqualung (Jethro Tull album)
- "Aqualung" (song), from that album
- Aqualung Live, a 2005 album by Jethro Tull
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Aqualung (musician) (born 1972), stage name of British musician Matt Hales
- Aqualung (Aqualung album), a 2002 album by this musician
- "Aqualung", a song by Deviated Instinct
- "Aqualung", a 2002 song by Morcheeba
Matt Hales (born 17 January 1972) is an English songwriter, musician, and record producer who has been performing professionally under the name Aqualung since the early 2000s. Aqualung is best known in the UK for his song "Strange and Beautiful," which was featured on a television advertisement for the new Volkswagen Beetle during the summer of 2002 and went on to become a Top 10 hit in the UK Singles Chart later that year. In the United States, Aqualung is also known for the song " Brighter Than Sunshine," which had considerable airplay and was used in the film A Lot Like Love and various television spots. Hales has released six albums as Aqualung, the most recent 10 Futures appeared in 2015.
As a songwriter and record producer, Hales has collaborated with Lianne La Havas, The Fray, Leona Lewis, Jason Mraz, Christina Perri, Sara Bareilles, Diane Birch, Paloma Faith, Disclosure, Alex Clare, Birdy, Mikky Ekko and For King & Country.
"Aqualung" is a song by the British progressive rock band Jethro Tull, and the title track from their Aqualung (1971) album. The song was written by the band's frontman, Ian Anderson, and his then-wife Jennie Franks.
While this track was never a single, its eponymous album Aqualung was Jethro Tull's first American Top 10 album, reaching #7 in June 1971.
Aqualung is the eponymous debut album by Aqualung, released on 30 September 2002 on the B-Unique label. It reached #15 in the UK albums chart and went gold in December 2002.
Aqualung is a free and open-source audio player originally targeted at the GNU/Linux operating system, but also running on FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows. It plays audio CDs, internet radio streams and podcasts as well as soundfiles in just about any audio format and has the feature of inserting no gaps between adjacent tracks.
Usage examples of "aqualung".
The parents say that the boy came in, stayed about a quarter of an hour, and then took his aqualung thing and went out saying he wanted to show it to someone.
Van den Bos, tanned still from his damned winter sports, perform the classic aqualung tricks.
Of course, there was still the aqualung in the back of her car, but the coast of Yucatan was too far to come back for spare equipment if anything went wrong.
We learned that another man had been with him, a man carrying an aqualung diving outfit.
Another, wearing an aqualung and mask, and carrying a long spanner, was emerging from the water.
Willie Garvin, scuba mask pushed up on his brow, an aqualung strapped to his back, the mouthpiece hanging free, one hand raised to grip the threshold of the plane, bright blue eyes pitiless and bitter.
He stripped to his underpants quickly, pulled on the aqualung and went on deck.
In the 19405 Cousteau helped invent the first aqualung, enabling humans to breathe underwater.
Then she slipped the aqualung attachment over her mouth, cranked the hatch open, and stepped into the chambered airlock.
She laughed, and struggled to hum along through her mouthpiece and the constant rush of air the aqualung forced on her.
Cave-maker, Wu thought, hearing the same sound, thinking the stream might be traveling upward, carving out an embryonic cave, a living structure with a cycle that ends in death, wondering how much trouble it would be to order a rubber dinghy, neoprene wet suit, aqualung and waterproof spotlight, dismissing the idea on the grounds he would not be here long enough to see it through.
Amsterdam he called at the sports shop and got a handful of literature about aqualungs, and a technical handout in rather difficult French from the makers.
I dropped a line over the side to make the aqualungs fast to when we were ready to come out.
Like aqualungs of death they were, those canisters, if you were a Bee Orchid or a Bluebell.
Like aqualungs of death they were, those canisters, if you were a Bee Orchid or a Bluebell.