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单词 diver
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divern.

Brit. /ˈdʌɪvə/, U.S. /ˈdaɪvər/
Etymology: < dive v. + -er suffix1.
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.
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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.)
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
b.1884 R. Holland Gloss. Words County of Chester (1886) Divers, the larger blocks of burr stone used for making river embankments.

Compounds

diver's palsy n. paralysis of the heart caused by diving.
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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.
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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.

Etymology: apparently related to daver v., and Dutch daveren to shake, quake, Low German dæ̂veren, dâveren (Mätz.); but the phonology is obscure.
Obsolete.
intransitive. To shake, quake.
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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).
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