Definition of "diver" []

• One that dives: a high diver who excelled in performing the jackknife. (noun)
• One that works under water, especially one equipped with breathing apparatus and weighted clothing. (noun)
• Any of several diving water birds, especially the loon. (noun)

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• "At 30 feet down the pressure on the diver is the same in a swimming pool, lake or ocean."
• "At Ajax he was known as a diver whose career in the Eredivisie ended when he bit PSV Eindhoven's Otman Bakkal."
• "Several times filling and emptying his lungs in diver fashion, Grief turned over and went down through the water."