单词 | diver |
释义 | divern. 1. a. A person who dives under water. spec. One who makes a business of diving in order to collect pearl-oysters, to examine sunken vessels, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > downward motion > [noun] > diving into water > one who or that which ducker1483 diver1511 water?1570 plunger1611 header1848 belly flopper1895 the world > movement > progressive motion > moving with current of air or water > movement in or on water > [noun] > underwater swimming > one who diver1511 urinator1648 skin-diver1892 frogman1945 free-diver1951 aqualunger1952 goggle-diver1953 frogwoman1963 scuba-diver1963 snorkeller1963 saturation diver1966 1511 Pylgrymage Richarde Guylforde (Pynson) f. lv The Rother..by suttell crafte of a dyuer was set perfaytly in her place the same nyght. 1511 Pylgrymage Richarde Guylforde (Pynson) f. lv The sayde Dyuer dyde all that busynes beynge vnderneth the water. 1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde i. ii. f. 94v They had certeyne dyuers or fysshers exercised from theyr youthe in swymmynge vnder the water. 1622 R. Hawkins Observ. Voiage South Sea lxiii. 158 Eight Negroes, expert swimmers, and great deevers, whom the Spaniards call Busos. 1695 J. Woodward Ess. Nat. Hist. Earth 25 Dyvers, and Fishers for Pearls. 1893 A. Sinclair & W. Henry Swimming (Badminton Libr. of Sports & Pastimes) 99 If deep diving be often indulged in..a curious disease, known as ‘Diver's paralysis’ is likely to be contracted. b. An animal expert in diving. (Cf. 2.) ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > unspecified and miscellaneous birds > [noun] > miscellaneous night-raveneOE cold-finch1676 crane1678 diver1694 solitary1708 wheat-bird1747 yellow-bill1775 Chinese thrush1781 whidah thrush1781 tomtit1789 solitaire1797 year-bird1798 softbill1830 swift-shrike1841 scissor bird1843 seed finch1862 sea-flyer1869 stalker1872 seven sisters1873 dicky bird1879 baboon bird1883 1694 Acct. Several Late Voy. (1711) ii. 90 This Bird is a Diver. 1735 W. Somervile Chace iv. 445 This artful Diver [the Fox] best can bear the Want of vital Air. 1847 W. B. Carpenter Zool.: Systematic Acct. I. §455 Most of them [Ducks], too, are good divers. c. figurative. One who ‘dives’ into a subject, etc. ΘΚΠ society > education > learning > learner > [noun] > one who studies schoolmanOE studiera1387 studenta1398 estudiant1481 bookman1570 problematary1581 undertaker1605 philomath1611 diver1624 problemista1631 problematist1668 conner1809 1624 H. Wotton Elements Archit. A diver into causes, and into the mysteries of proportion. 1654 W. Montagu Miscellanea Spiritualia: 2nd Pt. iv. §3 (R.) Diuers in the deep of providence. 2. a. Any of various waterbirds noted for their power of diving; esp. (a) a grebe, as the little grebe, Tachybaptus ruficollis; (b) a diving duck, as (more fully black diver) the common scoter, Melanitta nigra, and (more fully dun diver) the female and young of the goosander, Mergus merganser; (c) South African a cormorant (family Phalacrocoracidae). Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > defined by habitat > [noun] > aquatic or swimming bird > diving bird plungeon1480 diver?1518 short-wing1839 the world > animals > birds > freshwater birds > order Anseriformes (geese, etc.) > subfamily Merginae (duck) > [noun] > genus Melanitta > melanitta nigra (scoter) scoter1673 diver1678 whilka1705 sea-duck1753 whitewing1829 sleigh-bell duck1888 Siwash duck1911 the world > animals > birds > order Pelecaniformes > [noun] > family Phalacrocoracidae > member of (cormorant) cormorantc1320 plungeon1480 gormaw?a1513 scart1513 sea-coot1575 sea-crow1579 scrath16.. sea-raven1611 sea-drake1632 storta1661 scarf1668 diver1766 Isle of Wight parson1806 ?1518 A. Barclay tr. D. Mancinus Myrrour Good Maners sig. Giv Whan shall the dyuer leaue, in waters for to be? 1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Diuer byrde. 1678 J. Ray tr. F. Willughby Ornithol. 366 The black Diver or Scoter: Anas niger minor. 1766 T. Pennant Brit. Zool. ii. 147 The dun Diver, or female [Merganser], is less than the male. 1828 J. Stark Elements Nat. Hist. I. 321 Little Auk, or Small Black and White Diver. 1906 Natal Mercury 703 I notice a number of those ugly, useless, and predaceous birds known as divers in the Bay. b. Any of various large, diving waterbirds of northern latitudes constituting the genus Gavia and family Gaviidae, having a sleek black or grey head, a straight pointed bill, and short legs set far back under the body; called loon in North America. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > freshwater birds > [noun] > order Gariidae (divers and loons) > member of ducker?a1500 diver1678 loom1694 1678 J. Ray tr. F. Willughby Ornithol. 341 The greatest speckled Diver or Loon: Colymbus maximus caudatus. 1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth VI. 98 The first of this smaller tribe is the Great Northern Diver. 1778 G. White Let. 7 Aug. in Nat. Hist. Selborne (1789) 239 Divers and auks walk as if fettered. 1862 J. T. Gallienne in D. T. Ansted & R. G. Latham Channel Islands ii. ix. 207 The great northern, the black-throated, and the red-throated divers visit us regularly each winter. 3. A pick-pocket; see also quot. 1608. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > thief > pickpocket or cutpurse > [noun] > pickpocket fig-boyc1555 foister1585 foist1591 pickpocket1591 bung1600 diver1608 pocket-picker1622 pocketeerc1626 bung-nipper1659 file1673 filer1674 shark1707 hoister1708 knuckle1781 knuckler1801 buzzgloak1819 cly-faker1819 fingersmith1819 knuck1819 fogle hunter1821 buzzman1832 nobbler1839 wire1851 gonoph1853 wirer1857 dip1859 moll-tooler1859 buzzer1862 hook1863 snotter1864 tool1865 pocket-cutter1885 dipper1889 pogue-hunter1896 pick1902 finger1925 whizz1925 whizzer1925 prat diggera1931 whizz-boy1931 whizz-man1932 reefer1935 1608 T. Dekker Belman of London sig. G1v The Diuer workes his Iugling feates by ye help of a boy, (called a Figger) whom hee thrusts in at a casement..this Figger deliuers to the Diuer what snappings he findes in the shop or chamber. 1611 T. Middleton & T. Dekker Roaring Girle sig. Lv A diuer with two fingers, a picke-pocket. 1705 E. Ward Hudibras Redivivus I. i. 20 So expert Divers call aloud, Pray mind your Pockets, to the Crowd. 1887 H. Baumann Londinismen p. v Are Smashers and divers..Not sold to the beaks By the coppers an' sneaks? 4. Something made to plunge under water. ΚΠ 1740 G. Smith tr. Laboratory (rev. ed.) App. p. xlvi The water crackers or divers are commonly ramm'd in..cases. 1820 W. Scoresby Acct. Arctic Regions I. 186 This instrument which I called a marine diver..With this..I completed a series of experiments on submarine temperature. Compounds diver's palsy n. paralysis of the heart caused by diving. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disorders of heart > [noun] > other heart disorders regurgitation1683 pneumopericardium1821 concentric hypertrophy1828 hydropericardium1834 stenocardia1842 cardiosclerosis1848 pyopericardium1848 irritable heart1864 pyopneumopericardium1878 tobacco heart1884 akinesis1888 smoker's heart1888 pneumopericarditis1890 cardioptosis1895 soldier's heart1898 diver's palsy1900 cardiomyopathy1901 cigarette heart1908 neurocirculatory asthenia1918 Fallot1922 cor pulmonale1935 Wolff–Parkinson–White syndrome1935 fibroelastosis1943 restenosis1954 akinesia1970 stress cardiomyopathy2005 1900 Westm. Gaz. 22 Nov. 8/1 A man engaged in sinking an artesian well at Merton Abbey has been killed by ‘diver's palsy’—paralysis of the heart caused by the change from high air pressure at a depth of 105 ft. to normal pressure. Derivatives ˈdiver-like adj. and adv. ΚΠ 1791 W. Cowper tr. Homer Iliad in Iliad & Odyssey I. xvi. 906 He, diver-like, from his exalted stand Behind the steeds pitch'd headlong. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † diverv. Obsolete. intransitive. To shake, quake. ΘΠ the world > movement > motion in specific manner > alternating or reciprocating motion > oscillation > vibration > vibrate [verb (intransitive)] > shake quakeeOE bivec888 shakec950 reseOE aquetcha1000 divera1225 quavec1225 quetchc1275 squetchc1330 tremblec1374 waga1398 roga1400 shaga1400 quashc1400 shatter1533 a1225 Leg. Kath. 619 Ha ne schulden nowðer diuerin ne dreden. a1225 St. Marher. 16 Speoken i ne dar nawt, ah diueri ant darie drupest alre þinge. a1240 Wohunge in Cott. Hom. 283 Tu þat al þe world fore mihte drede and diuere. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < n.1511v.a1225 |
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