| 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 |
| (verb) drop steeply | Synonyms: plunge, plunk |
| (verb) swim under water | - |
| (verb) plunge into water | - |
| 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 |
| diverge | (verb) move or draw apart | - |
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| (verb) extend in a different direction | - |
| (verb) be at variance with; be out of line with | Synonyms: depart, deviate, vary |
| (verb) have no limits as a mathematical series | - |
| 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 |
| divergent | (adjective) tending to move apart in different directions | Synonyms: diverging |
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| (adjective) diverging from another or from a standard | - |
| diverging | (adjective) tending to move apart in different directions | Synonyms: divergent |
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| divers | (adjective) many and different | Synonyms: diverse |
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| diverse | (adjective) distinctly dissimilar or unlike | Synonyms: various |
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| (adjective) many and different | Synonyms: divers |
| diversely | (adverb) in diverse ways | Synonyms: multifariously, variously |
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| 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 | - |
| diversified | (adjective) having variety of character or form or components; or having increased variety | - |
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| diversify | (verb) vary in order to spread risk or to expand | Synonyms: branch out, broaden |
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| (verb) make (more) diverse | - |
| (verb) spread into new habitats and produce variety or variegate | Synonyms: radiate |
| 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 |
| diversionary | (adjective) (of tactics e.g.) likely or designed to confuse or deceive | - |
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| 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 |
| divert | (verb) turn aside; turn away from | Synonyms: deviate |
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| (verb) send on a course or in a direction different from the planned or intended one | - |
| (verb) withdraw (money) and move into a different location, often secretly and with dishonest intentions | Synonyms: hive off |
| (verb) occupy in an agreeable, entertaining or pleasant fashion | Synonyms: amuse, disport |
| diverted | (adjective) pleasantly occupied | Synonyms: amused, entertained |
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| 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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| diverting | (adjective) providing enjoyment; pleasantly entertaining | Synonyms: amusing, amusive |
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| divertingly | (adverb) in an entertaining and amusing manner | Synonyms: amusingly |
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| divest | (verb) remove (someone's or one's own) clothes | Synonyms: disinvest, strip, undress |
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| (verb) reduce or dispose of; cease to hold (an investment) | Synonyms: disinvest |
| (verb) take away possessions from someone | Synonyms: deprive, strip |
| (verb) deprive of status or authority | Synonyms: disinvest |
| 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 | - |