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{
"term": "dive",
"partOfSpeech": "verb",
"ox5000": true,
"cefr": "b2",
"verbForms": {
"presentSimple": {
"iYouWeThey": "dive",
"heSheIt": "dives"
},
"pastSimple": "dived",
"pastParticiple": "dived",
"ingForm": "diving"
},
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "to jump into water with your head and arms going in first",
"sensetop": "dive (from/off something) (into something)dive off somethingdive in",
"cefr": "b2",
"examples": [
{
"text": "We dived into the river to cool off.",
"contextForm": "dive (from/off something) (into something)"
},
{
"text": "He dived off the bridge.",
"contextForm": "dive off something"
},
{
"text": "Sam walked to the deep end of the pool and dived in.",
"contextForm": "dive in"
},
{
"text": "He dived head first into the water."
},
{
"text": "She dived from the top diving board."
}
],
"topics": ["Sports: water sports"],
"collocations": {
"adverb": ["deep", "head first", "down"],
"preposition": ["for", "from", "into"],
"phrases": ["go diving"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "to swim underwater wearing breathing equipment, collecting or looking at things",
"cefr": "b2",
"examples": [
{
"text": "to dive for pearls"
},
{
"text": "The main purpose of his holiday to Greece was to go diving."
}
],
"topics": ["Hobbies"],
"collocations": {
"adverb": ["deep", "head first", "down"],
"preposition": ["for", "from", "into"],
"phrases": ["go diving"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 3,
"definition": "to go to a deeper level underwater",
"cefr": "b2",
"examples": [
{
"text": "The submarine dived to avoid being seen."
},
{
"text": "The whale dived as the harpoon struck it."
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": 4,
"definition": "to go steeply down through the air",
"cefr": "b2",
"examples": [
{
"text": "The seagulls soared then dived."
},
{
"text": "The plane dived down to attack."
},
{
"text": "The plane suddenly dived from 10 000 feet to 5 000."
},
{
"text": "Unlike some birds, it does not dive vertically."
}
],
"topics": ["Transport by air", "Birds"],
"collocations": {
"adverb": ["suddenly", "vertically"],
"preposition": ["from", "to"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 5,
"definition": "to move or jump quickly in a particular direction, especially to avoid something, to try to catch a ball, etc.",
"sensetop": "dive for something+ adv./prep.",
"labels": "(informal)",
"cefr": "b2",
"examples": [
{
"text": "We heard an explosion and **dived for cover** *(= got into a place where we would be protected)*.",
"contextForm": "dive for something"
},
{
"text": "The goalie dived for the ball, but missed it."
},
{
"text": "It started to rain so we dived into the nearest cafe.",
"contextForm": "+ adv./prep."
},
{
"text": "He dived headlong into the ditch."
}
],
"collocations": {
"adverb": ["head first", "headlong", "back"],
"preposition": ["beneath", "into", "through"],
"phrases": ["dive for cover"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 6,
"definition": "to fall deliberately when somebody tackles you",
"cefr": "c1",
"examples": [],
"topics": ["Sports: ball and racket sports"],
"collocations": {
"adverb": ["deep", "head first", "down"],
"preposition": ["for", "from", "into"],
"phrases": ["go diving"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 7,
"definition": "to fall suddenly",
"cefr": "c1",
"examples": [
{
"text": "The share price dived from 75p to an all-time low of 50p."
}
],
"synonyms": "plunge",
"topics": ["Money"]
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/daɪv/",
"audio": "di/dive/dive__gb_2.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/daɪvz/",
"audio": "di/dive/dives__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/daɪvd/",
"audio": "di/dive/dived__gb_2.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/dəʊv/",
"audio": "do/dive/dove__gb_3.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈdaɪvɪŋ/",
"audio": "di/dive/diving__gb_1.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/daɪv/",
"audio": "di/dive/dive__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/daɪvz/",
"audio": "di/dive/dives__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/daɪvd/",
"audio": "di/dive/dived__us_2.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/dəʊv/",
"audio": "do/dive/dove__us_3.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈdaɪvɪŋ/",
"audio": "di/dive/diving__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "Old English dūfan ‘dive, sink’ and dȳfan ‘immerse’, of Germanic origin; related to deep and dip."
}