(v. i.) To plunge into water head foremost; to thrust the body under, or deeply into, water or other fluid.
(v. i.) Fig.: To plunge or to go deeply into any subject, question, business, etc.; to penetrate; to explore.
(v. t.) To plunge (a person or thing) into water; to dip; to duck.
(v. t.) To explore by diving; to plunge into.
(n.) A plunge headforemost into water, the act of one who dives, literally or figuratively.
(n.) A place of low resort.
Example Sentences:
(1) Neither the plasma prolactin level nor urinary excretion of aldosterone and ADHshowed any consistent change throughout the dive.
(2) Inner Ear Decompression Sickness (IEDCS)--manifested by tinnitus, vertigo, nausea, vomiting, and hearing loss--is usually associated with deep air or mixed gas dives, and accompanied by other CNS symptoms of decompression sickness (DCS).
(3) Bubbles after N2-He-O2 dives contained substantially more N2 than He (up to 1.9 times more) compared to the dive mixture; bubbles after N2-Ar-O2 dives contained more Ar than N2 (up to 1.8 times more).
(4) Photograph: Amelia Jacobsen A second successive nomination for Long, whose increasing public prominence has coincided with a political awakening that has seen her dive headlong into activism as part of groups like UK Uncut .
(5) Thermal discomfort was reported only after 2 h in Dive 1.
(6) A working knowledge of medical fitness for diving and of diving medical emergencies will assist the nondiving physician in establishing a basic medical history and examination for the student scuba diver.
(7) We lack systematic studies of lung mechanics, gas exchange and respiratory regulation in the different phases of deep dives.
(8) Arterial blood O2 saturation decreased more in ED than in C. ED are characterized by increased anaerobic metabolism likely due to the existence of a diving reflex.
(9) The open-sea dives were carried out with an average speed of descent of 3.95 feet per second and an average rate of ascent of 3.50 feet per second.
(10) This article orients the practicing physician to the physical and physiologic basis for the more common medical problems encountered in diving, discusses the common presenting manifestations for these disorders, and provides a framework for their treatment.
(11) Fourteen patients who experienced inner ear barotrauma (IEBT) while scuba diving were examined shortly after the episode and were followed up until symptoms resolved or stabilized.
(12) Diving for 12 s elicited a pronounced activation of m.s.a., the mean increase from control periods being 360%.
(13) Compared with intact ducks, neither decerebration nor brain stem transection at the rostral mesencephalic (RM) level had any effect on development of diving bradycardia, or heart rate at the end of two-min dives.
(14) In between, I watch a parade of Berliner life: women chain-smoking in the pool’s trademark wicker chairs, fully clothed men sipping a morning beer in the 26C heat, kids jumping off the diving pier and screaming down the large waterslide.
(15) Mean arterial blood pressure in dives was unchanged from pre-dive levels in both naive and trained dabbling ducks.
(16) Intake of marine oils may be beneficial to divers under deep diving and to patients during extracorporeal circulation, because this may reduce the microbubble-induced aggregation.
(17) Years ago the concept of homelessness was drug addicts and bag ladies – now there is a new wave of homelessness since the economy dived – people who are older, had savings and a home, but lost their jobs and their health insurance and finally ran out of money and turned up on our doorstep with a suitcase.
(18) Holland 1-2 Australia (Jedinak 54 pen) Jedinak steps forward confidently and, as Cillessen dives to his left, Jedinak's low shot finds the opposite corner.
(19) The lungs of Xenopus are, however, important sources of stored oxygen during voluntary dives, the rate of use being clearly related to activity levels and dive durations.
(20) Possible physiological role of the regulatory specifics of the cerebral circulation system of birds in diving and flying, is discussed.
Flop
Definition:
(v. t.) To clap or strike, as a bird its wings, a fish its tail, etc.; to flap.
(v. t.) To turn suddenly, as something broad and flat.
(v. i.) To strike about with something broad abd flat, as a fish with its tail, or a bird with its wings; to rise and fall; as, the brim of a hat flops.
(v. i.) To fall, sink, or throw one's self, heavily, clumsily, and unexpectedly on the ground.
(n.) Act of flopping.
Example Sentences:
(1) 3) Just as lipids do not flip-flop, proteins do not rotate across the membrane.
(2) And it was here, several years later, that I came looking for an answer to a question which has baffled many cynical film critics: how did a low-key prison drama, which was considered a box-office flop on its initial release, become one of the most popular movies of all time?
(3) The presence of the flip-flop phenomenon in an I-131 Hippuran renal study suggests the existence of some degree of collecting system obstruction that has persisted long enough to result in renal parenchymal damage.
(4) Peter Travers, film critic at Rolling Stone, offered a simpler explanation: "Why is The Lone Ranger such a huge flop at the box office?"
(5) Telomeres were generated from both arms of the substrate with equal efficiency, and contained the characteristic "flip" and "flop" sequence inversions observed in vivo.
(6) This value is similar to that obtained for the transbilayer "flip-flop" of phosphatidylcholine molecules in a similar system (Kornberg and McConnell, 1971).
(7) This suggests that generalizations on the kinetics of nonmediated flip-flop of membrane-intercalated amphiphiles may not be justified.
(8) Her agony and her rapture stay interior, and they flip-flop like nerves in this beautiful, grave black-and-white movie.
(9) The story of the transfer window is the story of a flip-flop by the English elite – the Premier League was initially the driving force behind the idea of a transfer window, but by the time it was introduced it was firmly in the "no" camp.
(10) He kept smiling, but he let his arm go limp, his hand flopping from the wrist in a clear signal of non-compliance.
(11) It is a plausible claim, judging by the cacophony of trumpets, cymbals, drums and violins erupting from classrooms, corridors and the courtyard: hundreds of children aged six to 19, some in trainers, others in flip-flops, individually and collectively making music.
(12) In April, Quentin Tarantino's revenge western Django Unchained was withdrawn from cinemas minutes into its first screening; it reopened a month later with three of the goriest minutes missing and flopped.
(13) Four models were proposed to analyze the experimental data: (A) two independent and nonequivalent subunits; (B) a single active subunit (subunits presenting absolute "half-of-the-sites reactivity"); (C) alternate functioning of the subunits (flip-flop mechanism); (D) random functioning of the subunits with half-of-the-sites reactivity.
(14) Pharmacokinetics of the depot antipsychotics are unclear and mainly depend on releasing from the depot site (according to a "flip-flop" model).
(15) Many people you talk to will label Twitter Music as a flop: its iPhone app flew high briefly in the App Store, then sank swiftly.
(16) The contrast with the relaxed Holland squad – spotted wandering around upmarket Sandton in flip-flops with their wives as they made their way to the final – was instructive.
(17) Another time I kissed this boy wearing flip-flops, and she said his toenails looked like quavers.
(18) We would love to continue to work with Gordon but it would be on a project-by-project basis.” Ramsay, said to be lining up a project for ITV , was among the C4 talent shoehorned into 2012’s reality flop Hotel GB, along with Gok Wan, Phil Spencer, Mary Portas (unlike Ramsay she remains on an exclusive C4 deal) and others.
(19) And I would have enough confidence in my argument to wait for events to vindicate it, rather than flopping around with each new set of figures.
(20) But Walt Disney has now warned that the film could instead go down as one of the year's biggest flops, predicting losses of almost $200m.