Plunging vs Diving - What's the difference?
plunging | diving |
An occurrence in which something or someone plunges
* {{quote-book, year=1851, author=Herman Melville, title=Moby Dick; or The Whale, chapter=, edition=
, passage=Like one who after a night of drunken revelry hies to his bed, still reeling, but with conscience yet pricking him, as the plungings of the Roman race-horse but so much the more strike his steel tags into him;
* {{quote-book, year=1881, author=Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), title=The Prince and The Pauper, Complete, chapter=, edition=
, passage=Then followed a confusion of kicks, cuffs, tramplings and plungings , accompanied by a thunderous intermingling of volleyed curses, and finally a bitter apostrophe to the mule, which must have broken its spirit, for hostilities seemed to cease from that moment. }}
The action of the verb to dive in any sense.
The sport of jumping head first into water.
The practice of swimming underwater, especially using a scuba system, and especially for recreation.
That or who dives or dive.
As verbs the difference between plunging and diving
is that plunging is present participle of lang=en while diving is present participle of lang=en.As nouns the difference between plunging and diving
is that plunging is an occurrence in which something or someone plunges while diving is the action of the verb to dive in any sense.As an adjective diving is
that or who dives or dive.plunging
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