diver
part of speech
noun (a diver, divers)
meaning for a pupil
1) A diver is a person who swims underwater, often with special breathing equipment, to explore, work or rescue. tree →
2) A diver is a person who jumps into water from a board as a sport. tree →
3) A diver is a kind of diving water bird (called a loon in North America). tree →
sense in the lessons
In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: In the King James-style language it means various or different, not a swimmer. It is an old word for several. Interpretation: Proverbs condemns using different weights for buying and selling, as God demands honest business dealings. In the primary lessons: In science and stories divers explore the sea, coral reefs and wrecks; maths problems use depths below sea level as negative numbers. Phrases: «deep-sea diver», «scuba diver», «high diver».
examples
- Nevertheless divers of Asher and Manasseh and of Zebulun humbled themselves, and came to Jerusalem. (Writings 2CH.30.11, JPS 1917) tree →
- Divers weights, and divers measures, both of them alike are an abomination to the LORD. (Writings PRO.20.10, JPS 1917) tree →
- Divers weights are an abomination to the LORD; and a false balance is not good. (Writings PRO.20.23, JPS 1917) tree →
- The diver swam down to the coral reef. tree →
- The scuba diver checked her air tank. tree →
- The Olympic diver did a perfect dive. tree →
- A diver at −15 metres goes up 6 metres; where is she now? tree →
- Police divers searched the lake. tree →
- Never dive into shallow water like a diver does into a pool. tree →
- On the seashore and at the mouths of the rivers the divers seek for pearls, and in some valleys diamonds are plentiful. tree →
note
Countable. Verb: dive (past: dived, or dove in the US). Maths: depth below sea level is written as a negative number. Safety: never dive into water you don't know.
In the corpora
- Divers weights, and divers measures, both of them alike are an abomination to the LORD.
- Nevertheless divers of Asher and Manasseh and of Zebulun humbled themselves, and came to Jerusalem.
- People of all ages knit; the British Olympic diver Tom Daley was filmed knitting between events at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021.
- Duikers are small forest antelopes whose name means diver in Afrikaans, because they plunge into thick bushes to escape.
- Every 10 metres of seawater presses as hard as the whole air above us, so divers' ears hurt as they go deeper.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «diver» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.