(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.
Swoop
Definition:
(n.) To fall on at once and seize; to catch while on the wing; as, a hawk swoops a chicken.
(n.) To seize; to catch up; to take with a sweep.
(v. i.) To descend with closed wings from a height upon prey, as a hawk; to swoop.
(v. i.) To pass with pomp; to sweep.
(n.) A falling on and seizing, as the prey of a rapacious bird; the act of swooping.
Example Sentences:
(1) Then Obama himself swooped in with a big bear hug around Giffords's tiny frame, grinning widely before climbing to the rostrum for the speech.
(2) Latvian aeroplanes were scrambled five times in 2010; in 2014 that figure was over a hundred, as Russian planes swooped into Baltic airspace.
(3) Osborne's swoop comes on the eve of a heavily anticipated major speech by Ed Miliband on the economy in which he will call for limits on the size of high street banks.
(4) Tim Goldsmith, global mining leader at PwC, believes that amid the current market volatility, companies that are flush with cash will swoop on smaller players, which are more vulnerable to market fluctuations and have difficulty raising capital.
(5) But the spectacularly successful Sri Lanka-born philanthropist built his fortune through lies, according to federal agents who swooped on him for insider trading in New York yesterday.
(6) Yodobashi-Akiba is ideal for shoppers who want to pick up games, electronics and cameras in one fell-swoop.
(7) So it is little surprise that a campaign, led by orators as persuasive as Boris Johnson and Michael Gove, promising to address all these anxieties in one fell geostrategic swoop, should be gaining in popularity.
(8) And that voice like a whip-crack: impish, transgressive, swooping from a mutter to a scream.
(9) The commission said the Belgians forgot to warn the Greek authorities that they were about to swoop until half an hour before the raids.
(10) He was killed as armed police swooped and foiled an attempt to free Izzet Eren as he was being transported from Wormwood Scrubs prison to Wood Green crown court on 11 December.
(11) Since swooping for the Premier League rights last year (fending off the incumbent partnership of ESPN and Fox, as well as a large bid from the Al Jazeera owned beIN Sports channel) NBC have been aggressively promoting the thoroughness of their coverage, which offers subscribers to their sports network channel NBCSN an additional range of channels showing every game live.
(12) The Department for International Development and the Treasury must do more to make sure that their investment in the Horn of Africa is not undone in one fell swoop.
(13) With it would come “the Mother of Planes, which would hover over space for up to a year and then swoop down to rescue righteous black Muslims from the great white wasteland”.
(14) They will make promises and they won’t fulfil them.” Dozens of people were left homeless in 2012 after Lagos authorities swooped and demolished houses and other illegal structures.
(15) On stage 1, the first hill that might split the peloton is Buttertubs Pass, now restyled as Côte de Buttertubs, which rises up out of Hawes in North Yorkshire and swoops down into the gorgeous Swaledale valley.
(16) He created his own title sequence for the new series of Doctor Who , complete with Peter Capaldi, a spinning Tardis, intergalactic vistas, and an eye-catching swoop through the gears of a clock.
(17) Nonetheless, police with dogs swooped on the pub and ordered the supporters on to a coach back to Stoke.
(18) The IRC primarily swoops into the newest crisis zone within 72 hours to deliver medical care and supplies to refugees, before helping them resettle or rebuild.
(19) It’s not going to happen in one fell swoop since there are huge interests and jobs at stake, with livelihoods depending on this industry.
(20) Good-looking and apparently fearless, he would swoop in to visit German troops in Afghanistan looking like an extra from Top Gun in aviator shades, flight suit and desert boots.