Soar vs Dive - What's the difference?
soar | dive |
to fly aloft with little effort, as a bird.
to mount upward on wings, or as on wings.
to remain aloft by means of a glider or other unpowered aircraft.
to rise, especially rapidly or unusually high.
(figuratively) To rise in thought, spirits, or imagination; to be exalted in mood.
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 a proper noun soar
is (label) a river in england tributary to the trent.As a noun dive is
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Verb
(en verb)- When soars Gaul's vulture with his wings unfurled. .
- The pump prices soared into new heights as the strike continued.
- Where the deep transported mind may soar . .
- Valor soars above What the world calls misfortune.
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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)