dive > define

noun

• A cheap disreputable nightclub or dance hall.
  • synonyms: honkytonk
• A headlong plunge into water.
  • synonyms: diving
• A steep nose-down descent by an aircraft.
  • synonyms: nose dive, nosedive

verb

• Drop steeply.
  • usage: "the stock market plunged"
  • synonyms: plunge, plunk
• Plunge into water.
  • usage: "I was afraid to dive from the board into the pool"
• Swim under water.
  • usage: "the children enjoyed diving and looking for shells"

• (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 explore by diving; to plunge into.
• (n.) A place of low resort.
• (v.t.) To plunge (a person or thing) into water; to dip; to duck.
• (n.) A plunge headforemost into water, the act of one who dives, literally or figuratively.
• (pl.) of Diva.