Diving

Definition

dive /daÇv/ v ( pt, pp dived ; US also pt dove /dǝƱv/ ) ၁။ ~ (from/ off sth) (into sth); ~ (off/ in) ေရထဲသို႔ ဦးစိုက္ ထိုးဆင္းသည္။ ဒိုင္ဗင္ထိုးသည္။ He dived from the bridge to rescue the drowning child. ၂။ ~ (down) (for sth) ေရငုပ္သည္။ ငုပ္ဝင္သည္။ dive for pearls ❍ The whale dived as the harpoon struck it. ❍ The submarine dived to avoid being seen. ၃။ စိုက္ဆင္းသည္။ ထိုးဆင္းသည္။ ၄။ ~ into, under, etc sth လ်င္ျမန္စြာ ငံု႔ဝင္သည္။ လွ်ဳိးဝင္သည္။ dive under the bed ❍ It started to rain, so we dived into a cafe. n ၁။ ဒိုင္ဗင္ထိုးျခင္း။ The goalkeeper made a spectacular dive to catch the ball. ၂။ ( infml ) အဆင့္အတန္းနိမ့္ေသာ၊ စုတ္ခ်ာေသာ အရက္ဆိုင္၊ ေလာင္းကစား႐ံု စသည္။ ❏ dive-bomb v ေလယာဥ္ ထိုးစိုက္၍ ဗံုးခ်သည္။ ❏ dive for sth [ PHRV ] အေျပးအလႊား၊ အသည္းအသန္ ရွာသည္။ dive for the phone/ the gun ❍ We had to dive for cover when the storm started. ❏ diving /'daÇvÇŋ/ n [U] ဒိုင္ဗင္ထိုးျခင္း။ ေရေအာက္ စူးစမ္း ျခင္း အားကစား။ go diving ❍ a diving-suit ❍ diving lessons. See also SKIN-DIVING ❏ diving-board n ဒိုင္ဗင္ထိုးသည့္ ပ်ဥ္ျပား။ ❏ dive into sth [ PHRV ] ( infml ) ဆတ္ခနဲ ႏိႈက္သည္။ dive into one's pocket/ briefcase. ❏ diver n ေရငုပ္သမား။

Examples

1. He hesitated for a second and then dived.
2. [dive into/in] : Paul dived into the pool.
3. Don’t dive in without looking!
4. [dive off] : She dived off the top board.
5. [go diving] : We both went diving when we were on holiday.
6. [dive for] : Young men diving for pearls
7. She dived down to the floor of the pool.
8. The plane dived to the ground.
9. Earnings per share dived from 24.5p to 14.6p.
10. Jones dived on the ball a metre from the line.
11. He dived out of the way
12. reaching for his gun.
13. They dived into a doorway.