Dive vs Ducking - What's the difference?
dive | ducking |
To swim under water.
To jump into water head-first.
* Whately
To descend sharply or steeply.
(especially with in ) To undertake with enthusiasm.
(sports) To deliberately fall down after a challenge, imitating being fouled, in the hope of getting one's opponent penalised.
To cause to descend, dunk; to plunge something into water.
To explore by diving; to plunge into.
* Denham
* Emerson
(figurative) To plunge or to go deeply into any subject, question, business, etc.; to penetrate; to explore.
A jump or plunge into water.
A swim under water.
A decline.
(slang) A seedy bar, nightclub, etc.
(aviation) Aerial descend with the nose pointed down.
(sports) A deliberate fall after a challenge.
(uncountable) The action of the verb to duck .
(countable) An instance of ducking (a person in water, etc).
As nouns the difference between dive and ducking
is that dive is while ducking is (uncountable) the action of the verb to duck .As a verb ducking is
.dive
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) diven, duven, from the merger of (etyl) . See also (l), (l).Verb
- It is not that pearls fetch a high price because men have dived for them.
- She dove right in and started making improvements.
- (Hooker)
- The Curtii bravely dived the gulf of fame.
- He dives the hollow, climbs the steeps.
- (South)
Usage notes
The past tense dove'' is found chiefly in North American English, where it is used alongside the regular (and earlier) ''dived'', with regional variations; in British English ''dived'' is the standard past tense, ''dove'' existing only in some dialects. As a past participle, ''dove'' is relatively rare. (Compare ''Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary''; ''The American Heritage Dictionary''; ''The Cambridge Guide to English Usage )Noun
(en noun)Etymology 2
From (etyl); see diva.Noun
(head)Anagrams
* English irregular verbs ----ducking
English
Verb
(head)Noun
- They gave him a ducking in the river as a punishment.