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Diver vs Scuba - What's the difference?

diver | scuba |

Scuba is a see also of diver.


As nouns the difference between diver and scuba

is that diver is someone who dives, especially as a sport while scuba is an apparatus carried by a diver, which includes a tank holding a mixture of oxygen and other gases, used for breathing underwater.

As a verb scuba is

(rare) to perform scuba diving.

diver

English

(wikipedia diver)

Noun

(en noun)
  • someone who dives, especially as a sport
  • someone who works underwater; a frogman
  • (UK, Ireland) the loon (bird)
  • The New Zealand sand diver
  • The long-finned sand diver

    • Derived terms

    * free-diver * pearl diver * scuba diver

    See also

    * diving * scuba

    Anagrams

    * * English agent nouns ---- ==Serbo-Croatian==

    Alternative forms

    * (Ekavian ): * (Ijekavian ): * (Montenegrin ):

    Noun

  • brother-in-law (one's husband's brother)
    • ----

    scuba

    English

    (wikipedia scuba)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An apparatus carried by a diver, which includes a tank holding compressed, filtered air and a regulator which delivers the air to the diver at ambient pressure which can be used underwater.

    • Derived terms

    * scuba diver * scuba diving * scuba set

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (rare) To perform scuba diving.