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▪ I. ˈnose-dive, n.
Also nose dive, nosedive.
[f. nose n. + dive n.]
1. Aeronaut. A sudden or rapid descent by an aircraft nose first. Also transf.
1912Flight 31 Aug. 787/1 The machine at once started a spiral nose-dive. 1914Hamel & Turner Flying iii. 57 M. Adolphe Pégoud introduced side-slips, tail-dives, and nose-dives into his exhibition repertory of flying. 1917‘I. Hay’ Carrying On i. 17 Next moment she [sc. the aeroplane] lurched again, and then took a ‘nose-dive’ straight into the British trenches. 1922Encycl. Brit. XXX. 21/2 The aeroplane may..drop one wing and pass into a steep spiral glide known as a ‘spinning nose-dive’. a1930D. H. Lawrence Last Poems (1932) 15 The dolphins leap..and flip! they go! with the nose-dive of sheer delight. 1932Auden Orators ii. 52 Nose-dive—Nightmare to nerves And needed by no one And dash toward death. 1952R. S. Porteous in Coast to Coast 1951–1952 146 If this tub rolls over or takes a sudden nose-dive to the bottom. 1955H. Klein Winged Courier viii. 52 It looked as if the ‘Pioneer’ was crashing to its doom in an uncontrolled nose⁓dive. 1975Aeroplane Monthly Nov. 572 When a down⁓draught was encountered or the control column was pushed forward..this resulted in a nose-dive to earth.
2. fig.
1920R. Macaulay Potterism vi. iv. 241 If you chuck the Fact you take away its last chance. It'll do a nose⁓dive now! 1946Sun (Baltimore) 8 Nov. 21 An unexplained nose dive in surplus sales occurred in the July-August-September quarter. 1973Guardian 28 May 6/6 After a really splendid first week, the Festival took a nosedive from which it never recovered.
▪ II. ˈnose-dive, v.
Also nosedive.
[f. prec. n., or dive v.]
1. a. intr. To perform a nose-dive.
1915Sphere 24 July 94/2 Its engines stopped, and it nose-dived to a level of 2,000 ft. 1920Chambers's Jrnl. Mar. 208/1 Checking any tendency [of a motor-boat] to nosedive. 1923Daily Mail 27 Mar. 9 His aeroplane nose⁓dived from a height of about 150 feet and crashed on to the aerodrome. 1930E. Blunden Poems 42 A hundred feet he nose-dives. 1930Daily Express 6 Oct. 3/3 Then with all the lights on the airship nose dived. 1930J. S. Huxley Bird-Watching & Bird Behaviour (1949) ii. 35 They [sc. birds] must be protected against side-slipping and nose-diving. 1968W. Warwick Surfriding in N.Z. 2 He then ran to the front of the board so that it nosedived.
b. trans. To put into a nose-dive.
1919Pippard & Pritchard Aeroplane Structures vi. 55 There is a moment upon the wings tending to nose dive the aeroplane still further. 1928Daily Tel. 16 Oct. 17/5, I have nose-dived this machine at 250 miles an hour.
2. fig. Esp. to drop or decrease abruptly.
1920R. Macaulay Potterism vi. iv. 241, I can't stop it [sc. a newspaper's collapsing]. But I'm jolly well not going to nose-dive with it. I'm clearing out. 1926Spectator 13 Mar. 492/1 We will nose-dive straight into the middle of Mr Cobham's book. 1954Sun (Baltimore) 16 Dec. 24/1 Business..has nosedived since the expressway was opened to intercity traffic. 1958S. Hyland Who goes Hang? xviii. 78 ‘Is that all you wanted to ask me?’ He said it falsetto. ‘Well, as a matter of fact, no.’ ‘Good.’ His voice nose-dived. 1969Daily Tel. 23 Jan. 4/1 Allied Investments nosedived again yesterday. The market pushed the shares down another 2s to 3s 6d.
Hence ˈnose-diving vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1917E. W. Walters Heroic Airmen xii. 102 He was compelled to resort to nose-diving. 1931Handbk. Aeronautics (R. Aeronaut. Soc.) iv. 288 The fuselage must have a load factor the same as for the main planes in nose diving. 1958Engineering 7 Mar. 295/1 Nose diving under hard braking is no more than on more conventional vehicles. 1970T. Hughes Crow 39 The nosediving aircraft concludes with a boom. |