diver
English
/ˈdaɪ̯vəɹ/
noun
Definitions
- Someone who dives, especially as a sport.
- Someone who works underwater; a frogman.
- (UK) The loon (bird).
- The New Zealand sand diver.
- The long-finned sand diver.
- (UK) A passenger carrying vehicle using an underground route; specially, a diver tram, one using the former Kingsway tramway subway (1906-1952).
- (slang) A pickpocket.
- (sports) A competitor in certain sports who is known to regularly imitate being fouled, with the purpose of getting his/her opponent penalised.
Etymology
Suffix from English dive.
Origin
English
dive
Gloss
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Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- bedoven English
- didapper English
- divable English
- dive English
- diveable English
- divebomb English
- divemaster English
- divewear English
- divey English
- gravel English
- graveldiver English
- nosedive English
- paradiver English
- postdive English
- predive English
- skydive English
- sport English
- sportdiver English
- stagedive English
- updive English
- diven Middle English