Snorkel vs Dive - What's the difference?
snorkel | dive |
A hollow tube, held in the mouth, used by swimmers for breathing underwater.
A retractable tube fitted in diesel-engine submarines to allow sufficient ventilation that the engines may be used at periscope depth.
To use a snorkel.
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.
As nouns the difference between snorkel and dive
is that snorkel is a hollow tube, held in the mouth, used by swimmers for breathing underwater while dive is .As a verb snorkel
is to use a snorkel.snorkel
English
(wikipedia snorkel)Noun
(en noun)Verb
Derived terms
* snorkeler/snorkellerdive
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)
