diver

diver

See also: díver

English

Etymology

dive +‎ -er

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdaɪ̯vəɹ/

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• Rhymes: -aɪvə(ɹ)

Noun

diver (plural divers)

1. Someone who dives, especially as a sport.

   Synonym: (obsolete) urinator

2. Someone who works underwater; a frogman.
3. (UK, Ireland) loon (bird)
4. The New Zealand sand diver.
5. The long-finned sand diver.
6. (UK, London, dated) A passenger carrying vehicle using an underground route; specially, a diver tram, one using the former Kingsway tramway subway (1906-1952).
7. (slang, obsolete) pickpocket
8. (sports) A competitor in certain sports who is known to regularly imitate being fouled, with the purpose of getting his/her opponent penalised.

Derived terms

• autem diver
• black-throated diver
• Cartesian diver
• cave diver
• dumpster diver
• dumpster-diver
• dun diver
• earth-diver
• free-diver
• great northern diver
• hell-diver
• muff diver
• muff-diver
• Pacific diver
• pearl diver
• red-throated diver
• ruddy diver
• sand diver
• scuba diver
• skin-diver
• spider diver
• synchronized diver
• web diver
• white-billed diver

 

Translations

someone who dives

Arabic: غَطَّاسٌ‎ m (ḡaṭṭāsun), غَوَّاصٌ‎ m (ḡawwāṣun) Armenian: ջրասուզակ (hy) (ǰrasuzak) Assamese: ডুবাৰু (dubaru) Azerbaijani: dalğıc (az) Bulgarian: гмуркач m (gmurkač) Catalan: bus (ca) m or f Chinese: Mandarin: 潛水員／潜水员 (zh) (qiánshuǐyuán) Czech: potápěč (cs) m, potápěčka f Danish: dykker (da) c Dutch: duiker (nl) m, duikster (nl) f Esperanto: plonĝanto, plonĝantino (female), plonĝisto, plonĝistino (female), subakvisto, subakvistino (female) Estonian: sukelduja Faroese: kavari m Finnish: sukeltaja (fi) French: plongeur (fr) m, plongeuse (fr) f Galician: mergullador (gl) m, mergulladora f German: Taucher (de) m, Taucherin (de) f (underwater) Greek: δύτης (el) m (dýtis) Hebrew: צוֹלֵל‎ (he) m (tolel) Hindi: ग़ोताख़ोर m (ġotāxor), गोताखोर (hi) m (gotākhor) Hungarian: búvár (hu) Icelandic: kafari (is) m Italian: tuffatore (it) m, tuffatrice (it) f, tuffista m or f, palombaro (it) m, palombara (it) f, sommozzatore (it) m, sommozzatrice (it) f Japanese: 潜水夫 (ja) (せんすいふ, sensuifu), 潜り (もぐり, moguri), ダイバー (ja) (daibā) Kalmyk: булхач (bulhach) Korean: 잠수부(潜水夫) (ko) (jamsubu) (underwater) Latin: ūrīnātor m, ūrīnātrīx f Luxembourgish: Daucher m Norwegian: Bokmål: stuper m (in sport), dykker m (underwater) Nynorsk: stupar m (in sport), dukkar m, dykkar (nn) m (underwater) Polish: nurek (pl) m Portuguese: mergulhador (pt) m, mergulhadora f Romanian: scufundător (ro) m, scafandru (ro) m, scafandrier (ro) m Russian: ныря́льщик (ru) m (nyrjálʹščik), ныря́льщица (ru) f (nyrjálʹščica), водола́з (ru) m (vodoláz), водола́зка (ru) f (vodolázka) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: ро̀нилац m, гњу́рац m Latin: rònilac (sh) m, gnjúrac (sh) m Spanish: saltador m, saltadora (es) f (jumping), buzo (es) m (underwater), submarinista (es) m or f Swedish: dykare (sv) c Tagalog: maninisid Thai: นักกระโดดน้ำ (nák-grà-dòot-náam) Turkish: dalgıç (tr) Ukrainian: водола́з m (vodoláz), норе́ць m (norécʹ)

someone who works underwater

Armenian: ջրասուզակ (hy) (ǰrasuzak) Bulgarian: водолаз (bg) m (vodolaz) Catalan: bus (ca) m or f, bussejador m, bussejadora f Esperanto: subakvisto, subakvistino (female), plonĝisto, plonĝistino (female) Estonian: tuuker Finnish: sukeltaja (fi) Galician: mergullador (gl) m, mergulladora f Hebrew: אָמוֹדַאי‎ (he) m (amodai), צוֹלֵל‎ (he) m (tsolel) Hindi: ग़ोताख़ोर m (ġotāxor), गोताखोर (hi) m (gotākhor) Norwegian: Bokmål: dykker m Nynorsk: dukkar m, dykkar (nn) m Russian: водола́з (ru) m (vodoláz), водола́зка (ru) f (vodolázka)

loon (bird) — see loon

sports: player who pretends fouls

Spanish: piscinero m, piscinera f

See also

• diving
• scuba

Anagrams

• Verdi, deriv., drive, rived, vired

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Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• dȅver (Ekavian)
• djȅver (Ijekavian)
• đȅver (Montenegro)

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *děverь.

Noun

dȉver m (Cyrillic spelling ди̏вер)

1. (Chakavian, Ikavian) brother-in-law (one's husband's brother)