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Dine and Dive Definitions

Dine

To have dinner.

Dive

To plunge, especially headfirst, into water.

Dine

To give dinner to; entertain at dinner
Wined and dined the visiting senators.

Dive

To execute a dive in athletic competition.

Dine

(used with a pl. verb) The Navajo people.
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Dive

To participate in the sport of competitive diving.

Dine

The Navajo language.

Dive

To go toward the bottom of a body of water
We dove down to check the anchor.

Dine

(intransitive) To eat; to eat dinner or supper.

Dive

To engage in the sport of scuba diving.
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Dine

To give a dinner to; to furnish with the chief meal; to feed.

Dive

To submerge under power. Used of a submarine.

Dine

To dine upon; to have to eat.

Dive

To fall head down through the air.

Dine

(obsolete) dinnertime

Dive

To descend nose down at an acceleration usually exceeding that of free fall. Used of an airplane.

Dine

To eat the principal regular meal of the day; to take dinner.
Now can I break my fast, dine, sup, and sleep.

Dive

To engage in the sport of skydiving.

Dine

To give a dinner to; to furnish with the chief meal; to feed; as, to dine a hundred men.
A table massive enough to have dined Johnnie Armstrong and his merry men.

Dive

To drop sharply and rapidly; plummet
Stock prices dove 100 points in a single day of trading.

Dine

To dine upon; to have to eat.

Dive

To rush headlong and vanish into something
The fugitive dove into the crowd and escaped.

Dine

Have supper; eat dinner;
We often dine with friends in this restaurant

Dive

To plunge one's hand into something
Dove into the cookie jar.

Dine

Give dinner to; host for dinner;
I'm wining and dining my friends

Dive

To lunge or leap headfirst
Dove for the loose ball.

Dive

To plunge into an activity or enterprise with vigor and gusto.

Dive

(Sports) To exaggerate a fall in an attempt to induce a referee to call a penalty on an opponent.

Dive

To cause (an aircraft, for example) to dive.

Dive

To go scuba-diving to or along
We dove that reef last week.

Dive

A plunge into water, especially done headfirst and in a way established for athletic competition.

Dive

The act or an instance of going under water, as of a submarine or a skin diver.

Dive

A nearly vertical descent at an accelerated speed through the air.

Dive

A rapid or abrupt decrease
Stock prices took a dive.

Dive

(Slang) A disreputable or run-down bar or nightclub.

Dive

A run-down residence.

Dive

A knockout feigned by a prizefighter
The challenger took a dive.

Dive

An exaggerated fall, especially by a hockey player, intended to draw a penalty against an opponent.

Dive

A lunge or a headlong jump
Made a dive to catch the falling teacup.

Dive

(Football) An offensive play in which the carrier of the ball plunges into the opposing line in order to gain short yardage.

Dive

(intransitive) To swim under water.

Dive

(intransitive) To jump into water head-first.

Dive

(intransitive) To jump headfirst toward the ground or into another substance.
To dive into home plate

Dive

(intransitive) To descend sharply or steeply.

Dive

To undertake with enthusiasm.
She dove right in and started making improvements.

Dive

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

Dive

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

Dive

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

Dive

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

Dive

A jump or plunge into water.
The dive of a hawk after prey

Dive

A headfirst jump toward the ground or into another substance.

Dive

A downward swooping motion.

Dive

A swim under water.

Dive

A decline.

Dive

(slang) A seedy bar, nightclub, etc.

Dive

(aviation) Aerial descent with the nose pointed down.

Dive

(sports) A deliberate fall after a challenge.

Dive

Plural of diva

Dive

To plunge into water head foremost; to thrust the body under, or deeply into, water or other fluid.
It is not that pearls fetch a high price because men have dived for them.
All [the walruses] dove down with a tremendous splash.
When closely pressed it [the loon] dove . . . and left the young bird sitting in the water.

Dive

Fig.: To plunge or to go deeply into any subject, question, business, etc.; to penetrate; to explore.

Dive

To plunge (a person or thing) into water; to dip; to duck.

Dive

To explore by diving; to plunge into.
The Curtii bravely dived the gulf of fame.
He dives the hollow, climbs the steeps.

Dive

A plunge headforemost into water, the act of one who dives, literally or figuratively.

Dive

A place of low resort.
The music halls and dives in the lower part of the city.

Dive

A cheap disreputable nightclub or dance hall

Dive

A headlong plunge into water

Dive

A steep nose-down descent by an aircraft

Dive

Drop steeply;
The stock market plunged

Dive

Plunge into water;
I was afraid to dive from the board into the pool

Dive

Swim under water;
The children enjoyed diving and looking for shells

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