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# diver

«diver» in Mova's school dictionary: **a person who swims underwater, often with special…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a diver, divers)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A diver is a person who swims underwater, often with special breathing equipment, to explore, work or rescue. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/diver/#m1)

2) A diver is a person who jumps into water from a board as a sport. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/diver/#m2)

3) A diver is a kind of diving water bird (called a loon in North America). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/diver/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In science and stories divers explore the sea, coral reefs and wrecks; maths problems use depths below sea level as negative numbers. Phrases: «deep-sea diver», «scuba diver», «high diver».

### examples

- The diver swam down to the coral reef. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/diver/#x1)
- The scuba diver checked her air tank. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/diver/#x2)
- The Olympic diver did a perfect dive. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/diver/#x3)
- A diver at −15 metres goes up 6 metres; where is she now? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/diver/#x4)
- Police divers searched the lake. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/diver/#x5)
- Never dive into shallow water like a diver does into a pool. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/diver/#x6)
- On the seashore and at the mouths of the rivers the divers seek for pearls, and in some valleys diamonds are plentiful. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/diver/#x7)

### note

Countable. Verb: dive (past: dived, or dove in the US). Maths: depth below sea level is written as a negative number. Safety: never dive into water you don't know.

### In the corpora

- [People of all ages knit; the British Olympic diver Tom Daley was filmed knitting between events at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/31-crafts-paper-clay-sewing-knitting-slime/11/)
- [Duikers are small forest antelopes whose name means diver in Afrikaans, because they plunge into thick bushes to escape.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/159-the-congo-rainforest/17/)
- [Every 10 metres of seawater presses as hard as the whole air above us, so divers' ears hurt as they go deeper.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/13-water-safety-and-the-ocean/5/)
- [Divers weights, and divers measures, both of them alike are an abomination to the LORD.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PRO.568/)
- [Nevertheless divers of Asher and Manasseh and of Zebulun humbled themselves, and came to Jerusalem.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/2CH.691/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «diver» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/diver/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.