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dive

/dahyv/US // daɪv //UK // (daɪv) //

潜水,跳水,俯冲,潜入

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v.无主动词 verb
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    dived or dove, dived, div·ing.

    • : to plunge into water, especially headfirst.
    • : to go below the surface of the water, as a submarine.
    • : to plunge, fall, or descend through the air, into the earth, etc.: The acrobats dived into nets.
    • : Aeronautics. to descend rapidly.
    • : to penetrate suddenly into something, as with the hand: to dive into one's purse.
    • : to dart: to dive into a doorway.
    • : to enter deeply or plunge into a subject, activity, etc.
v.有主动词 verb
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    dived or dove, dived, div·ing.

    • : to cause to plunge, submerge, or descend.
    • : to insert quickly; plunge: He dived his hand into his pocket.
n.名词 noun
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    • : an act or instance of diving.
    • : a jump or plunge into water, especially in a prescribed way from a diving board.
    • : the vertical or nearly vertical descent of an airplane at a speed surpassing the possible speed of the same plane in level flight.
    • : a submerging, as of a submarine or skindiver.
    • : a dash, plunge, or lunge, as if throwing oneself at or into something: He made a dive for the football.
    • : a sudden or sharp decline, as in stock prices.
    • : Informal. a dingy or disreputable bar or nightclub: Grab a beer with some locals at the dive on the corner.
    • : Boxing. a false show of being knocked out, usually in a bout whose result has been prearranged: to take a dive in an early round.
    • : Also called simulated contact .Soccer. a dramatic fall or feigned injury intended to persuade officials to penalize the opposing team: His dive fooled the ref into giving his team a free kick.

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Examples

  • DeJoy recently shared a national chart with Congress showing on-time mail processing rates took a dive in July, though almost 95 percent is still on time or one day late, on average.

  • We already dug into the fact that Bing uses user engagement metrics in its search ranking factors and we did a deeper dive into some of Bing’s ranking factors.

  • The post A deeper dive into more of the Bing Search ranking factors appeared first on Search Engine Land.

  • Looking across a collection of long-standing Tinuiti advertisers, tablet spend growth for Google US paid search started to take a dive in Q4 2019, going from 5% growth last Q3 to 22% decline in the final quarter of the year.

  • The decline has been most acute for whiskey imports, which are down by almost 50%, with cognac and brandies seeing a similar dive.

  • Not even after its parent company, the Soviet Union, took a dive in 1991.

  • When used improperly those encouraging statistics take a nose dive.

  • The young goslings' first major life event is to cliff dive down to their parents, as was captured here by BBC cameras.

  • We wanted to create a dedicated hub where people can dive into it and get all this commentary on the news.

  • They'd never be allowed to take their clothes off and dive in the way boys do.

  • Then came the end: the Titanic, with a low long slanting dive went down and with her Thomas Andrews.

  • He'll immediately throw down his bunch of flowers and dive despairingly into the moat.

  • He proved that one night when we picked up a quartet of drunks at a dive on the south end of our district.

  • I shoved through the door of the dive, Burke following close behind.

  • Despite the speed of his dive, they were gaining on him, coming up fast; one snout that ended in a cupped depression was plain.