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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
diver
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
scuba
▪ I love camping and am an active scuba diver, both of which mean interaction.
▪ Teams of scuba divers have injected thousands of them with copper.
▪ ANTI-NORAS: As in scuba divers.
▪ As the pressure increases, so does the amount of nitrogen forced into the bloodstream of a SCUBA diver.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a deep sea diver
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A major difficulty the divers faced was caused by a lack of valves.
▪ Duck or diver, it had dived, and, though I waited for long minutes, it did not appear again.
▪ I teamed up with peter Cornish who was one of the key divers who master-minded the recovery of Halifax W1048.
▪ I went down like a diver submerging, the floor flowed over my head.
▪ If a scuba diver is bitten by a shark in deep water, what color does the blood look?
▪ So after supper with the Miyako divers I went with Nina to check that he was all right.
▪ They were almost naked; the heavy garments divers always wear to keep warm had been discarded.
▪ Two divers swim through a natural arch at one of the reef's coral heads.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Diver

Diver \Div"er\, n.

  1. One who, or that which, dives.

    Divers and fishers for pearls.
    --Woodward.

  2. Fig.: One who goes deeply into a subject, study, or business. ``A diver into causes.''
    --Sir H. Wotton.

  3. (Zo["o]l.) Any bird of certain genera, as Urinator (formerly Colymbus), or the allied genus Colymbus, or Podiceps, remarkable for their agility in diving.

    Note: The northern diver ( Urinator imber) is the loon; the black diver or velvet scoter ( Oidemia fusca) is a sea duck. See Loon, and Scoter.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
diver

c.1500, agent noun from dive (v.).

Wiktionary
diver

n. 1 someone who dives, especially as a sport 2 someone who works underwater; a frogman 3 (context UK Ireland English) the loon (bird) 4 The New Zealand sand diver 5 The long-finned sand diver

WordNet
diver
  1. n. someone who works underwater [syn: frogman, underwater diver]

  2. someone who dives (into water) [syn: plunger]

  3. large somewhat primitive fish-eating diving bird of the northern hemisphere having webbed feet placed far back; related to the grebes [syn: loon]

Wikipedia
Diver

Diver or divers may refer to:

  • Diving, the sport of performing acrobatics while jumping or falling into water
    • :Category:Divers
  • Underwater diving
    • :Category:Underwater divers
    • Scuba diving, in which a diver uses a scuba set to breathe underwater
    • Surface-supplied diving, in which a diver uses an umbilical to breathe
Diver (United States Navy)

A United States Navy diver or (within the US Navy) navy diver refers to a member of the community of unrestricted line officer (URL officers), civil engineer corps (CEC Officers), Medical Corps officers and enlisted personnel in the United States Navy who are qualified in underwater open/closed circuit breathing apparatus, deep sea type diving apparatus and saturation diving. Personnel in the navy diver (ND rating) are part of the Navy Special Operations (NSO) community. Navy divers serve at several diving platform types including; Navy Expeditionary Combat Command (NECC), Navy Special Operations/Special Warfare commands, Marine Corps dive teams, rescue/salvage and repair diving detachments, saturation diving commands and diving research/development to name a few. Some of the mission areas of the navy diver include; deep sea underwater salvage, harbor clearance operations, in-water ship/submarine repair, demolition operations, submarine rescue, SEAL Delivery Vehicle deployment/recovery, saturation diving, experimental diving, underwater construction/welding as well as serving as diving technical experts at SEAL/ Marine Corps/and United States Navy EOD diving commands. In 2006, the U.S. Navy established a new navy diver rating. Navy divers are considered by some to be the foremost experts in all types of diving operations in the U.S. military and serve as the single resource managers for diving technical knowledge and training across the entire Department of Defense.

Diver (EP)

Diver is a 7" vinyl EP A Wilhelm Scream released in early 2006. The song "Diver" was recorded during the Mute Print sessions, but the song didn't make it to the full length. Later the band decided to release the song on this 7" vinyl EP.

Diver (Transformers)

Diver is the name of several fictional characters in the Transformers series and major characters in their respective anime series. Both are heroic characters who specialize in underwater combat.

Diver (Nico Touches the Walls song)

"Diver" is the eighth single by Japanese rock band Nico Touches the Walls, released on January 12, 2011, from their third studio album " Passenger". The song was featured as the 8th opening of the anime Naruto Shippuden, from October 2010.

Usage examples of "diver".

Meanwhile James addressed a letter to several lords who had been formerly members of his council, as well as to divers ladies of quality and distinction, intimating the pregnancy of his queen, and requiring them to attend as witnesses at the labour.

Zulaika was a little girl, she had read in a book all about ama divers -- Japanese shellfish divers who lived long ago, before scuba was invented.

But now the trumpets blew a fanfare, and forth rode divers gallant knights, who, spurring rearing steeds, charged amain to gore, to smite and batter each other with right good will while the concourse shouted, caps waved and scarves and ribands fluttered.

I seemed as though I were one of the house of Proserpina and of the family of death, insomuch that I could not sufficiently expresse the forme of this new sight, so far was I amased and astonied thereat : for why, the bodies of the three slaine men were no bodies, but three blown bladders mangled in divers places, and they seemed to be wounded in those parts where I remembred I wounded the theeves the night before.

An old chamberlain, who had the control of the mines, after allowing me to exhaust my enthusiasm, began to discuss the question himself, made divers objections, but seemed to approve of many of my remarks.

Juice of Cherries, added to Calamus, will make a green: to sowbread a red: so divers juices of Fruits will show divers colours by the fire.

As soon as I was in my room she came to ask me if I were satisfied, and to make divers arrangements for my comfort.

Citron and Ivory, were richly adorned and spread with cloath of gold, the Cups were garnished pretiously, and there were divers other things of sundry fashion, but of like estimation and price : here stood a glasse gorgeously wrought, there stood another of Christall finely painted.

On the Monday following, Mr Cayenne, who had been some time before appointed a justice of the peace, came over from Wheatrig House to the Cross-Keys, where he sent for me and divers other respectable inhabitants of the clachan, and told us that he was to have a sad business, for a warrant was out to bring before him two democratical weaver lads, on a suspicion of high treason.

From the beginning until now, those who have undertaken to solve the great mystery of the creation of a material universe by an Immaterial Deity, have interposed between the two, and between God and man, divers manifestations of, or emanations from, or personified attributes or agents of, the Great Supreme God, who is coexistent with Time and coextensive with Space.

All around Lin the duckers and divers of Aspic filled the streets on their way to scrape for money, stealing or begging or selling or sifting through the piles of rubbish which punctuated the street.

Lin the duckers and divers of Aspic filled the streets on their way to scrape for money, stealing or begging or selling or sifting through the piles of rubbish which punctuated the street.

A canoe was hollowed out by a dozen men in a few hours, the tender was got ready, the men and divers told off, and Gering took command of the searching-party, while Phips remained on the ship.

Arazon had been joined on the GA by another field agent, a young, bright-looking Oriental guy, and they were to rendezvous at the guyot with a team of divers travelling on a fast-picket Navy launch out of San Diego.

I paid divers small debts he had incurred, and gave him the wherewithal for his journey.