Noun:

हवा में नीचे की ओर झपट्टा, पानी के नीचे पैठ, ग़ोता, डुबकी,

Verb:

डुबकी लगाना, नीचे स्तर पर आ जाना, पानी के नीचे जाना, ग़ोता मारना, ग़ोता लगाना,

dives's Usage Examples:

It swims with most of the body submerged, and dives with perfect ease, remaining long without coming to the surface to breathe.

Consequently when the insect dives, an air-bubble forms around it, a supply of oxygen is thus secured for breathing and the water is kept away from the spiracles.

upon the track by which the otter passed to his "couch," which is generally a hole communicating with the river, into which the otter often dives on first hearing the hounds.

treetop level with shallow dives.

When Hydrophilus dives it carries a supply of air between the elytra and the dorsal surface of the abdomen, while air is FIG.

Dives is celebrated as the harbour whence William the Conqueror sailed to England in 1066.

Publius Licinius Crassus, called Dives, father of the triumvir.

Comparatively only a few species are, for part of their lives, denizens of fresh water; these, as larvae, are parasitic on the eggs or larvae of other aquatic insects, the little hymenopteron, Polynema natans, one of the " fairy-flies " - swims through the water by strokes of her delicate wings in search of a dragon-fly's egg in which to lay her own egg, while the rare Agriotypus dives after the case of a caddis-worm.

Again, the contrast between Lazarus and Dives in the future state pictures vividly the reversals that are in store; but it is unreasonable to take it as implying that every poor man, whatever his moral character, will be blessed.

The Cyperus dives is still become that it is reported that in the reign of Tiberius, owing to the scarcity and dearness of the material caused by a failure of the papyrus crop, there was a danger of the ordinary business of life being deranged (Pliny, N.H.

Synonyms:

plunge, fall, nosedive, descend, duck, jump, chute, power-dive, go down, plunk, parachute, come down, dump, crash-dive,

Antonyms:

refrain, confront, diving duck, ascend, rise,