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Plunging vs Diving - What's the difference?

plunging | diving |

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

English

Verb

(head)
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • An occurrence in which something or someone plunges
  • * {{quote-book, year=1851, author=Herman Melville, title=Moby Dick; or The Whale, chapter=, edition= citation
  • , 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= citation
  • , 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. }}

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    diving

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • Noun

    (wikipedia diving)
  • 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.
  • Derived terms

    * altitude diving * buddy diving * cage diving, cage-diving * cave diving, cave-diving * clearance diving * cliff diving, cliff-diving * deep diving * deep-sea diving * diving bell, diving-bell * diving board, diving-board * diving boat * diving chamber * diving cylinder * diving dress, diving-dress * diving event * diving helmet * diving mask * diving medicine * diving plane, diving-plane * diving platform * diving reel * diving reflex * diving regulator * diving shot * diving suit, diving-suit * diving support vessel * drift diving * ducking and diving * dumpster diving, dumpster-diving * fancy diving * fire diving * free diving, free-diving, freediving * group diving * ice diving * kayak diving * mammalian diving reflex * mud diving * muff diving, muff-diving * naval diving * night diving * no clear surface diving * Olympic diving * open-water diving * pearl diving, pearl-diving * penetration diving * plunge diving * police diving * professional diving * recreational diving * saturation diving * scuba diving, scuba-diving * skin diving, skin-diving, skindiving * skip diving * sky diving, sky-diving, skydiving * snorkel diving * solo diving * sport diving * stage diving, stage-diving * surface supplied diving * synchronised diving, synchronized diving * technical diving * trash diving * wreck diving

    Adjective

    (-)
  • That or who dives or dive.
  • Derived terms

    * coastal diving bird * diving beetle * diving duck * diving goiter, diving goitre * diving header * diving loop * diving petrel, diving-petrel * diving-pigeon * the Diving Saucer * diving spider, diving-spider * Law's diving-goose

    See also

    * diving stone

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