dive | (noun) a steep nose-down descent by an aircraft | Synonyms: nose dive, nosedive |
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(noun) a headlong plunge into water | Synonyms: diving |
(noun) a cheap disreputable nightclub or dance hall | Synonyms: honkytonk |
diver | (noun) large somewhat primitive fish-eating diving bird of the Northern Hemisphere having webbed feet placed far back; related to the grebes | Synonyms: loon |
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(noun) someone who dives (into water) | Synonyms: plunger |
(noun) someone who works underwater | Synonyms: frogman, underwater diver |
divergence | (noun) the act of moving away in different direction from a common point | Synonyms: divergency |
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(noun) a difference between conflicting facts or claims or opinions | Synonyms: disagreement, discrepancy, variance |
(noun) an infinite series that has no limit | Synonyms: divergency |
(noun) a variation that deviates from the standard or norm | Synonyms: departure, deviation, difference |
divergency | (noun) the act of moving away in different direction from a common point | Synonyms: divergence |
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(noun) an infinite series that has no limit | Synonyms: divergence |
diverseness | (noun) noticeable heterogeneity | Synonyms: diversity, multifariousness, variety |
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diversification | (noun) the act of introducing variety (especially in investments or in the variety of goods and services offered) | Synonyms: variegation |
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(noun) the condition of being varied | - |
diversion | (noun) an activity that diverts or amuses or stimulates | Synonyms: recreation |
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(noun) a turning aside (of your course or attention or concern) | Synonyms: deflection, deflexion, deviation, digression, divagation |
(noun) an attack calculated to draw enemy defense away from the point of the principal attack | Synonyms: diversionary attack |
diversionist | (noun) someone who commits sabotage or deliberately causes wrecks | Synonyms: saboteur, wrecker |
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diversity | (noun) the condition or result of being changeable | - |
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(noun) noticeable heterogeneity | Synonyms: diverseness, multifariousness, variety |
diverticulitis | (noun) inflammation of a diverticulum in the digestive tract (especially the colon); characterized by painful abdominal cramping and fever and constipation | - |
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diverticulosis | (noun) presence of multiple diverticula in the walls of the colon | - |
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diverticulum | (noun) a herniation through the muscular wall of a tubular organ (especially the colon) | - |
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divertimento | (noun) a musical composition in several movements; has no fixed form | Synonyms: serenade |
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divestiture | (noun) the sale by a company of a product line or a subsidiary or a division | - |
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(noun) an order to an offending party to rid itself of property; it has the purpose of depriving the defendant of the gains of wrongful behavior | - |